BidCactus

This site is a SCAM SITE! I would recommend everyone to contact the BBB of Connecticut to report this company if you have lost money to this company. I purchased a "bid pack" from this company and still have not recieved anything. They have charged my card and when I tried to contact them through email, they will not respond to me, when I call there are two messages that I get: "This number has been disconnected" and "You can not call this number from your calling area."

AGAIN THIS IS A SITE THAT WILL SCAM YOU AND THEY DO NOT CARE! REPORT THEM IF YOU HAVE LOST MONEY TO THEM!

That's for real a scam. I was looking for an iphone 4 on craigslist then I found that good deal. The guy had 2 iphones for a great price, phones look like new on the pictures. I emailed him and asked where they are in Queens, NY and if they still have those phones. Couple of minutes later I got an email saying that someone just bought them... but they can tell me where I can get one and how to win the bidding on bidcactus.com. I wanted to test them and I replayed to their email by asking them if that someone had bought the two refrigerators and why aomeone needs two refrigerators for. Remember the announce was about iphone4. I never got an answer after that. That automated email system sends only one email to the same email address. If you email them back, no response. Tried to email them from an other email account with a message that has nothing to do with a purchase and surprise, I got for answer the same email I received earlier about someone just bought them from me... blah blah
SO STAY AWAY FROM THIS WEBSITE

Revised on Jan. 8th; I already wrote about this site but I wanted to report back to everyone that I DID NOT get my money refunded, even though it was charged with a credit card that is supposed to take the customer's side. bidcactus.com is a ripoff and I advise everyone to avoid it and PLEASE spread the word so they can be shut down... I'm adding this comment at a later date, just in case anybody is wondering. I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who got scammed but I agree we should notify "My Points" about this site. Also, I'm following everyone who agrees with me so don't feel like you're being stalked :) I'm just trying to keep track of the # of people and please don't be offended if I don't respond to a message; I've gotten a lot of response and that's great but I'm on disability so I can't handle long periods of time at my computer these days, especially with this COLD weather and no laptop to curl up with. Thank you all for making me feel better about being scammed. It was tempting and they got us but it doesn't mean we have to stop spreading the word. If anyone is interested in starting a class action suit or trying to help shut the site down, I'm in.

I tried bidactus and we lost more than we liked but we also won a brain age for nintendo dsi for 11 cents and probably only used 5 bids total +$5.00 and something in shipping and got it before Christmas like they said. I`ve recomended it to friends also. Also, you can win 3 items and 3 bidpacks per day not month for a total of 30 items per month. Also, people bid alot of bids on certain things because they get bidpacks really cheap and are able to. I saw a 250 bidpack go for I believe like 5 cents. It is alot of the same people but this site just opened so they like it and keep using it. But every day I see new people. I don`t believe there are bots behind it and i will keep using it. Also, richboy is new and he won some bidpacks for less than retail so he likes to raise prices on things so he can win just wait to alater time to bid for the same thing because he is out to win.

Receive the same email too... when I was looking into a stove posted on craigslist. The email it came from was not the email I sent it to... I replied per ad to *******@gmail

Here is the CL ad which also had photos:
NEW
BRAND NAME: G. E.
$180
30" W 45" H 26" D
35 1/2" H FROM GROUND TO COOKING SURFACE
MODL# JB620GRBB
You may email me at *******@gmail...

Auto response to my CL inquiry:
James Dean <*******@pennycommandasap.com>

Hey (auto fill name),

I just sold out this to someone, but I can tell you where I got it from.
I just picked up 3 of these from www.productforsell.com and I resold them on here for some extra money.

The trick is to watch for bidding to slow down and then put in a bid. That's what I do and I win all the time.

Regards

James Dean

Sent from my iPod

My experience on Bidcactus was basically consistent with the majority on here, but I'm not convinced that there are Bid Bots. Clearly it is gambling and clearly there are a handful of users (screen names) that win the majority of items. Yes they sometimes do pay outragious over-bids (bidding 240 times at $. 75 each time to win 100 bids back essentially paying $180 to win back $75). The question is, are there a handful of "PRO's" who drive up the price to intimidate others and reduce competition of future auction bids or is the site creating BidBots to defraud consumers. I did win some smaller auctions but ultimately flushed about $150 down the toilet (the majority of which was prior to spending several hours observing the action). I participated in appx. 10 different auctions and observed close to 100. I'd say about 10% of the auctions are driven to 2x and even 3x the actual value of the item however about 70% of the time, the winner of the auction appears to save about 50-60% from retail. I watched someone (presumably a real person) win an Apple Ipad today for $6.81 (which equals 681 bids of which no more than half could have been placed by the winner - conservatively 340 bids for a grand total of $261.81). In conclusion, if your willing to take a chance, do your homework! Observe the action, find out where the site is based out of, continue reading reviews, but keep an open mind.

I wish i would have read this before i spend over $1000 for a computer that was worth only $600.00 at the end i give up because if i win it i would still have to pay $400.00 more. I wait for a couple of days and saw that there where people wining with only a few bids, so i decided to bid again this time i had only around 200 bids on a tv, and it finally say DONE, for my surprise suddenly DONE dissapear and people was still biding on it, thinking it was my internet connection i keep biding like 50 times more and i finally won it. But later i realise that i could not be my internet connection because it would have only stopped, there is not way that the words DONE would have appeared. What i am trying to say is that i think sometimes the site does does tricks to keep people interrested and thats just not fair thats called SCAM. AT the end i only get back half of what i invested. And it is true it is gambling so what can you expect. I would not recomended, you may feel you are having fun, but believe me that after you see your bank account you would not be happy at all.

With hundreds of complaints on multiple sites http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/bidcactus-c*******.html, Bidcactus.com has to be one of the biggest and most proliferated auction scams in existence today. Upon Closer review and examination it has been determined that Bidcactus.com is indeed utilizing the 7 dollar swoopo clone script that was readily available from ebay.com. That script has, an autobidder built in to bid against flesh and blood players so anyone bidding on bidcactus.com is actually bidding against the computer. This would only make sense as there are hundreds if not thousands of complaints littered across the web attesting to this fact, from people spending hundreds of dollars and couldn't even win a curling iron to savvy bidders who quickly realized, something just wasn't right with the auctions being operated by bidcactus.com. We would warn any and all bidders to steer clear of this site and if anyone tells you that it is because of the amount of traffic to the site as to why it is difficult to win, they are just flat out lieing to you. You can't win because there is an autobidder installed in there script, it is common knowledge in the auction community and it is not disclosed anywhere on there site. Bidcactus is about as dishonest as they come and anyone who supports them is in league with them and this is a fact.

I saw an ad in Craig's List for in iPhone 5, listed at $200! There was no reply email registered with Craig's list and the seller had put her gmail ID and requested the people interested to contact manually through that. I received a reply from Diana Cyrus to my enquiry. Here's the reply, copied and pasted without changing a word: Hello A guy just purched this from me, but I can tell you where I got it from. I just got 4 of these from here retailbidday.com and I resold them for some extra money. The trick is to watch for bidding to slow down and then jump in. That's what I do and I win all the time. All the best Diana Sent from my iPhone.
When I clicked on http://retailbidday.com/ link, it took me to bidcactus.com. Looking at the warnings everyone has posted here, the answer I received's off a template as it's identical to the reply others have received. The site retailbidday.com is also a redirected site that tells me since bidcactus is well known to be a scam, they are using a different new site name now. But because it takes a lot to set up an auction site they just simply have the new site redirecting to the old bidcactus. I've read the warnings about this site. I've also read the good feedback. My questions are: why is someone from this bidcactus and not a customer, posing as a buyer from bidcactus.com? Why the same identical reply to so many interested people if the reply is real? Bidcactus.com is obviously posing as a buyer of an item from bidcactus.com selling what she or he bought there in Craig's list. If the site is proper and good, why lie pose as a buyer in craigslist to gain customers? Why not advertise free in Craig's list and many other sites, like very many real vendors on the internet? Why use a template, create so many emails to do the posing as a buyer? Why not register properly on Craig's List with forwarding email address through Craig's list and bypass Craig's list so they can't be traced? Why does www.retailbidday.com forward to www.bidcactus.com which has so many bad reviews? So, I choose not to go to bidcactus.com and retailbidday.com and warn everyone I know about these sites everywhere. Thank you for this site, and thank you everyone for your feedback!