BidFireReviews 62

I believe Bidfire uses bot bidders. If the "bot" wins, then they do not lose the money on the item auctioned. It is simply never sent out! Therefore every legitimate bid on the auction is pure profit.

I recently bid on item, watched the clock end on zero with my bid as the top bid, and as the winner was announced, it showed the only other bidder as the winner! The clock did not reset to 30 seconds as it was supposed to. Very fishy indeed, so I am suspecting the "bot" algorithm had an error. Even if the other bidder was legitimate and not a bot, the fact that the auction ended with my bid as the top, and yet the auction was given to the other bidder is not right. I am extremely suspicious. In addition, they acknowledged the error, but did not honor my win, instead refunding me some bids. I feel they should honor the win, but I'm not holding my breath. I will update this review if they do.

Yes, you CAN win items, but if they are really using bots, which I suspect they are, you are nearly assured of losing money or losing the auction.

This site has fraud written all over it! It claims huge saving by showing you that the customer has just won an item for $9.50, in fact the bid was $950.00 US dollars. Each bid is ONE US DOLLAR not one cent as it shows on there website. Also the "30 second rule", you'll love this. Just watch the bidding get down to the last 30 seconds or so. This could go on for hours. My advise to ALL, this site is very misleading and almost criminal

I have bid for and won an ipod nano, 25 bids, and a fuji film digital camera for all under $100 including the amount I payed for the bids! This site has saved me a ton of money. There is no way I could have gotten these items new for that price. You just have to pic your items wisely. If you don't have a lot of money or bids, don't bid on the expensive stuff, just pick the smaller items. But if you have a couple hundred dollars to spend on bids there is a good chance you could get a $500 Ipad for $200.

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.

The only winner is the people running the site. I think it is a loophole for getting away with gambling and it should be stopped. Yeah one person wins an item, but here is how it goes. I'm watching a bidding right now for an Nintendo Wii valued at $199.99. The current bid right now is $33.00 and has not stopped yet. Now $33.00 in. 05 cent bids is 660 bids. Lets say it ended here right now. For the last half hour I only seen 3 people bidding. It also was pretty consistent that all 3 people were bidding at the same time equally bidding. That means each bidder had to bid 220 bids. In order to do that each person would have had to purchase the 100 bid package that gets you 15 free bids for $100.00 and they would have had to purchase 2 packages. That cost each person $200.00 right for 230 bids. Now that the bidding has ended the last person supposedly won a Nintendo Wii. Wow isn't that great it only cost them $200.00 in bids, plus the $33.00 for the item for a total of $233.00. Remember earlier I told you the item only cost $199.99. Now they paid $33.01 more than the item cost. Now back to the people who run the site. Each person paid $200.00 for the bids. $200.00@ 3 people is $600.00 + the $33.00 for the Nintendo Wii. They made $633.00 less their cost for the Nintendo Wii which is probably about $100.00 plus lets say $20.00 in shipping cost to the winner. That is a profit of $513.00 for them. It look to me it would be better to start your own site. Happy gambling, I mean happy betting. I hope you win something far less than what it is worth.

I discovered this website before Christmas on a link from eBay. I decided to purchase bids (for $25 I got 27 bids). I decided to play around on the site - I figured the worst that could happen was I'd lose $25. To my delight I won a Kindle DX for $42.15 (+ $9.99 shipping). At the time, I had only used 2 of the bids I had bought. I had them send me the shipping info. I saw that they received my Bidfire payment, then someone from their company went to amazon.com and bought a Kindle DX, which they paid for with an American Express credit card. They then listed my shipping address as the "Ship To" address. They also sent the tracking information. I received the Kindle DX about 10 days later directly from amazon.com, in its original packaging. The following week, I won another Kindle DX for $1.55, which I gave to a friend for Christmas. Since that time, I have won 50 bid packages on two separate occasions (for approximately $8.00 and $6.00, respectively). They also gave me 25 bids for submitting a video of myself with my product. If you become a fan of them on facebook, they play games where you can win free bids for guessing the price an item will sell for. I won 25 bids that way, as well. Plus, if you follow them on twitter, they give you 3 free bids! This site is great. Yes, there is some risk involved; you could use all your bids and never win anything. But I figure I'm around $1000 ahead thus far. Also, they have rules in place to make it more fair for everyone - you can't use autobidders and you can only win 3 auctions per week (people do report if you go over). It is definitely not a scam. My user name is ddavis13 if you want to check to see if I'm legit.
Thanks, Bidfire,
Deb

BAIT AND SWITCH CON...

The administrators claim that they don't use bot bidders or software to ensure that ON CERTAIN AUCTIONS, no human bidder can ever win (us the customers). But because there's NO TRANSPARENCY, there's no way of backing up their claim other than their own word.
HERE'S THE KICKER... THEY LET HUMANS WIN SOME OF THE TIME IN ORDER TO KEEP CUSTOMERS COMING BACK, BUT THEY ARE KEEPING RECORD OF THEIR LOSSES AND REVENUE AND WHEN THEY NEED MORE REVENUE, THEY USE THEIR OWN BOT BIDDERS WHICH THEY "SAY" THEY NEVER USE.
Sure, they do let human beings (us the customers) win SOMETIMES (I myself have won a few items), BUT just enough to keep Bidfire's bottom line in the black. But then when they need some more money, they make sure that their computer bidder always has the last bid.

This goes directly against their claim that they NEVER use their own Bidfire bot bidders. They do. Just watch an expensive item being auctioned, and you'll notice some very fishy bid patterns and VERY suspicious delays in the clock when the time expires, and *presto*, literally 3-4 seconds after the clock hits 1 second left, and the auction is seemingly over with a winner, the auction mysteriously continues conveniently with a bot bidder suddenly bidding that had stopped bidding several hours prior. Of course there's no way to prove this unless the federal authorities get involved, but SEE FOR YOURSELF re: the strange bidding patterns and mysterious auction extensions.

Again, yes, some humans do win, but only enough for Bidfire to point to them and say, "see? We are legit." Bidfire, you are not legit because you claim you NEVER use bot bidders, yet, you don't provide ANY bidder identity transparency at all for your paying customers to verify your claim.