Before anything else, let me say that I had to learn things the hard way and I'm here to warn people not make the same mistake I did. This site is definitely a gambling site and the chances of winning are slim to none. Sure, there's some people who win. Some may say that they were lucky but it kinda makes you think how much luck does someone have that they keep winning all the time?

Anyway, here's my story. I found bidfire through facebook advertising switchfoot. I was curious so I went on their site and bought $50 bids +5 free. I was so excited and started bidding on a gift card. I placed my bid and waited for the clock to run out. Unfortunately, the time never ran out. Every time a new bid is in place, the clock resets. So, I kept on bidding and another player kept outbidding me. The bidding war went on for a while until I realized that I was completely out of money. I lost $55 on that one bid and I do blame myself for not doing my homework before I started the bid.

Moving on... I believe in second chances so I thought I'd give bidfire another shot. I told myself that this time I would do my research and bid wisely. I went on different sites (including this one) to checkout people's comments and experiences and majority of them seemed to be positive. I read about how people won and lost and watched a few bids before I started bidding again.

I bought another $100 bids and started bidding on different things. I allowed myself to use 15-25 bids per item. I did not win but I came close and that gave me a lot of hope. Over the next few days, I saw that they were giving away a MacBook Pro. I have been saving up for one for quite a while and I thought I'd take my chances on bidding. I took $250 and bought some bids. Again, I did my homework. Looked at past winner's history and the last bid for the item. So, the day of the bid. I prepared for it, I got my bids ready and I was willing to take my chances. I did not bid right away, my strategy was to wait for people to use up their bids and then start bidding, wait again and bid again. I really thought I came close until more and more bidders showed up. Few hours went by and it was just impossible to win so I gave up. I checked on the winner the following day and the bid for the Mac Book Pro was still going! I placed a few more bids but did not win.

After this whole mess, I still bought another $100 bids to bid on small items. Many people claim to win a lot on small things so I did it just to see if my chances of winning would be higher. Again, this was a big mistake. Lost the last of my $100 for nothing.

But yea, I know most people would say, you got to learn when to stop and yes, I'm aware of this. I am not a gambling addict and this is the first time I've lost a lot of money. I took my chances on winning and I'm done. I got sucked into betting in hope that I will win something I needed for cheap. It was a big lesson learn. Proceed to this site with caution.

Well Bidfire advertises it's site as being an auction site. Ok sounds cool have been to many auctions both online(like Ebay as an example) and live auctions.

Well get there and start filling out the profile. Then start looking around, well try to as their search software at the best leaves a lot to be desired(as you will see in the email I got after sending comments to them). Found out in order to make a bid you have to buy bids. Thought that a bid strange as I have never been to an auction where you have to pay or at least until you have bought something. Some auctions the seller pays and some the purchaser. Any who, also read that when you make a bid and lose the auction either way you have lost your bid and have to purchase more. At this point sort of got disgusted with it all and send a few comments. Never did read enough to see if the seller has to pay a fee as in 99% of all auctions. Comments are below as is their response:

Milton lane, Feb 16 10:01 am (PST):
Hello,
Just a comment concerning Bidfire in general. I registered actually had to several times as it seems it kept losing my information for some unknown reason.

This will probably be of no interest as it has to do with the way you obtain your funds. By not re-distributing the bids back to the losers you have to potential to make a ton of money while everyone in actuality has to pay to do anything on Bidfire.

Unlike the true auction sites yours appears to be nothing more than a money grab.

Searches for anything on there is a joke. I did a search for hard drives and got a monitor and a laptop in turn I did a search for desktops and got a vacumin cleaner.

Sadly I will not be able to recommend your site to anyone at this time, not that I am anyone of importance, but the net does have the history of passing problems and comments quite fast.

The thought of paying to play on here is a bit to much as there are way to many up front true auction sites eager to have users without nickel and dime them to death for nothing other than to use your site.

If you believe me to just be a lone disappointed user please check this site:

http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.bidfire.com I think you will find I am far from alone.

Milt Lane
Moyock, NC US

The following is their response:

Eric, Feb 16 10:17 am (PST):
Hi Milt, we understand that we are not like every other auction site on the internet, that's why bidfire was born, to be something different. We have hundreds of happy winners who come back time and time again to enjoy our high adrenaline shopping atmosphere. We do make money sometimes but sometimes we lose. I'm sorry you are not happy and as for the ability to easily navigate the site, we are working on and unleashing bidfire 2.0 in the coming months that will vastly improve it's functionality. There are also a few features in it that will make people want to stick around, I promise you that:-)

Yours to decide but they at this point appear to be as way to many companies are... Give me the all mighty dollar and be dammed with the user.

Just my thoughts and what I have been told by Bidfire rep.

Milt Lane
Moyock, NC