BidFun

Don't let the lure of cheap electronics and products draw you in. The credits you buy on the site are for the right to bid. $1 per bid. The price of the item increases by a penny each time a bid is placed. So, even if a ps3 does sell for $50, they made $5000. Since each bid extends the auction time by 20 seconds, hours can go by until you either run out of time or money. Hard to know if the competing bidders are even real. STAY AWAY.

RE: The point made by Shauna R about losing your money in a raffle and not complaining, is that people who run 'raffles' call them 'raffles'. The punters know from the outset where they stand. Bidfun runs a raffle and calls it an 'auction' so there is quite deliberate trickery and deceit going on here. When I told Bidfun it was a disgrace they were running a raffle under the guise of an auction, they said that according to Wikipedia there are 'many kinds of auction'. Just a big smokescreen to cover themselves. Just the name 'Bidfun' gives it away. People buy lottery tickets, play poker machines and roulette for 'fun'. Their claim to be an auction is a joke, and PayPal should wake up to themselves for facilitating payments to these shonks.

This site is a scam, first you pay for your bids, so it looks like your getting a deal until you see how it works. Ou end up paying more for th product than you would if you bought it outright. If you look at what there doing you'll notice if a product is bought off the auction for lets say $32.01. The company just sold that for $3,201.00 each bid takes the price up. 01 cents. But each bid costs the bider appox. 1.00 each bid. This is a huge scam. Stay AWAY!

Just an update to my previous post. I did receive a brand new PS3. And interestingly enough, it came from Amazon.com.

In my opinion, this site is NOT a scam, and it is LEGIT. You just have to understand their (very smart) business model and you will understand how someone like me can get a brand new PS3 for $24.

Take my bid for an example: say if the bidding started at $10. And I got it for $24, do the math and you see that at "one cent increase each bid", this item got over 1,400 bids, from people all over the world. At $1 a bid, BIDFUN got over $1,400 for something that sells for $299. There is no reason why they don't ship you the item. So I was the lucky guy who benefited from it.

Of course I only did this once so I am not sure if I will win again, but i will try again should i see something else i need there.

This sight looks good from the outside, but once you have been drawn into the bidding you soon realise that it is one of the greatest scams out. I purchased $150 worth of bids but with these bids each dollar generated $0.02 onto the best buying price. So everytime you made a bid the price went up 2 cents but it cost you $1. If you are lucky enough to win the it you then have to pay the price you had bidded aswell.
So if I were to win an ipod touch 3 gen which usually costs around $400 but I win at $86.00, I use all my bid points which is $150 which gave me just over 150 bid points.
Add the $150 plus the $86 which in actual fact I pay $230.00 for the item.

But thats not all if you caculate that each $1 adds $0.02 to the bid then work out how many $0.02 go into $86 then you have the amount the Bidfun company are really making on this item or any item. $86 divided by 0.02 = $4300. Not a bad scam if you ask me. Remembering that each $0.02 cost $1.

Well I guess i am not that smart after all! II have 19 credits left, started with 50! Really didn't think enough before giving them $50, now i release that every time i click i lose $1 if someone else bids after me. They have the $#*!en thing rigged, they must have some type of bench mark and when its reached they allow some VERY VERY VERY lucky person to win that item, just to keep others interested and to suck in new suckers, like me! And Yah they have programed up automatic bidder agents, I am a programmer myself, not to hard to do, IT bids after you and keeps doing it until it leaves you dry. This is the first and last scam I'll be sucked in, I hope others do there research first before giving them low life scum bags a cent. They should get a kick up the $#*!, maybe I'll get some hackers onto them to bring their hell hole down once and for all. Thanks BidFUn.com I really had fun at your site with your cool javascript, and ajax, maybe we should inject U.
Merry Xmas,

This is a scam - I can't belive they don't put these scum bags in jail. My son has been saving for a Nintendo DS and only had $60 saved. We allowed him to search the internet for a used or bargain DS and he came across this site. We are tying to instill trust so we didn't look over his shoulder and let him used our credit card only to find out he was scammed out of $50. That the $50 was just to bid. My son did learn a lesson. Unfortunately the lesson was that there are bad people in the world who don't have a soul and feel just fine taking advantage of children. He just couldn't understand why someone would do that. I hope the low life who came up with idea gets his own one day.

DO NOT USE BIDFUN.COM! I won an item, chose the Paypal credit, and never recieved ANYTHING! It's been about a month since I won the auction and I have not recieved anything in the mail or in my Paypal account... I've emailed them multiple times and recived no response... I spent $20.00 on bids. Theres a 20 dollar bill I'll never see again... YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! I'm sticking with Quibids... atleast I recieve my stuff when I win...

I decided to check out eBay for a Nintendo DSI as my 10 year old daughters one she got for Christmas was stolen (her fault), and thought I could replace it cheaper for her birthday, when on the eBay site a flashing sign came up saying 'cheap Nintendo DSI's available to bid on at bidfun.' Since this was advertised on eBay, i thought they were connected and decided to buy 50 credits and bid. Thought that if I lost out, I would still have the 50 credits to try and bid again, which is obviously what they want people to think. I'm annoyed that I was able to access this site through eBay, and they don't make it clear that you will loose your money if you don't win. Now I'm down the dsi and 50 bucks. :(