BidFun

Everything that i have read about this site is bad, If it sounds to good to be true then it probly is 99.99% of the time. I will stick to ebay and I don't click on any ads there either just in case. I have been watching bidfun.com for a while now and it looks very suspicious and it does look like they are using bid bots to outbid you. I will never, ever bid there and i will stay on sites like ebay, i have been on ebay since 2001 and i have bought a lot of items there but i have got burned 1 time there but i got is straighted out.

First of all, let me say that I'm DEFINITELY NOT connected to the bid fun site in any way. I actually won the iPad 2 (16 GB / 3G+wifi model) that I'm writing on right now, won when I was home in France where I live but using it right now while visiting my family in sunny California. Basically I stumbled upon on that site at some ungodly hour on a Sunday morning, and "feeling lucky" I decided to try it since I had never gambled in my life. After reading the rules carefully, I first spent 37.50 Euros for 50 points. But when my points began to run out I spent another 75 Euros for 100 points. Lo and behold, I actually won it maybe an hour later, using up 98 points with the final 'price' of only 3.31 Euros. And the iPad was shipped to me from the Apple Store some 3 weeks later as had been clearly indicated at the website, as opposed to faster delivery for less 'popular' or older items. (The iPad 2 had just been released at least in Europe at that time hence the backlog.) The long and the short of it is, even if I never bid on another item again (thereby forfeiting my remaining points), my iPad 2 cost me a total of 37.5 + 75 + 3.31 = 115.81 Euros, or $169.31 USD at today's exchange rates. A real bargain as the same iPad sells for $629 + local tax(es) in a US Apple Store, or 609 Euros in the French Apple Store, or 379 Euros at Orange France WITH a two-year contract.

SO, I for one can't say that this website is a scam, though I'd probably not go back there because I wouldn't dare count on beginner's luck or dumb luck again!

What a joke. You are bidding against no one. It's a computer that never lets you win but people just keep buying bids. That's probably why they offer free shipping! They have never had to ship anything. I bought 100 bids to prove my point. I just kept bidding on an item and the "other bidder" would bid higher than me less than a second later. I took an item that was very high priced already by "bid fun" standards with 1 second left and bid it all the way up about 70 times in a row. I bid 2, 8, 10 times in a row as fast as i could slap the enter key and each time i would be outbid by the time all my bids cycled by one penny by the same dude. Even though there was 20 minutes left on the timer towards the end he would keep bidding each time. I spent al little over 100 bucks to prove this site was b. S. so you won't have to. Do not condone any of these type of sites by even getting involved. You can't win. No one ever wins. The end. My only consolation will be my involvement in a hopefully future class action lawsuit. Lol

This site is a complete rip off. I just can't imagine how they can still legally host this site. I had reviewed the other posts and agree 100% on their assessment. I thought that something was fishy with this site from the beginning. So I was very cautious. I spent $50 through PayPal, thinking that I will be protected if something goes wrong. But the sad truth is that I was not. PayPal did not want to get involved as according to them, they can only do so if physical goods were purchased. I then fought the charge through the credit card company giving all the proof I could but was just informed a couple of days ago that they did not see any issues with the transaction. As a matter of fact, there was a subliminal message that if I chose not to pay the charge, my credit rating may get affected. This site lures people advertising that people save unbelievable money by bidding on items. Something like 90 - 95%. But the trick is, when you buy your chips, they convert your dollar to a penny. So if you spend $50 you get 50 cents to play with. So a $10 item that was bid and won at $1 is advertised at being won at a 90% savings when in reality, the $1 is in fact 100 cents that were purchased with $100. So the $10 item was sold for $100 by the site. This site needs to be shut down to protect unsuspecting consumers. I pity those folks that have lost their hard earned money at this site.

Its not a scam per sea, but its NOT WORTH YOUR TIME AND MONEY! Bidfun.com should be considered a very clever way to auction high end products at a low cost, SO it seems... What you don't realize at first, is that you pay upfront to receive a certain # of bids. Each bid costs anywhere from $0.80-$1.00. Each time you or someone bids, you lose the $0.80-$1.00 that you spent on the bid and the price goes up by $0.01 and the countdown timer gets 20 more seconds every time a bid is placed to allow bidders (including you) time to react and place another bid. This is like in an auction house where the auctioneer asks for any more bids before stopping an auction. This continuously happens where you can bid 50 times, losing $50, and the auction price only goes up by $0.50. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS, IF YOU WANT TO BID ON SOMETHING, MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THE BIDS AND THAT YOU ARE GOING TO RECEIVE SOMETHING IN RETURN!

I spent $100 dollars in bids and actually won an ipod to my surprise, then I waited and waited for it to come in the mail/or courier and it never arrived, so I sent numerous emails to bidfun, not one was answered so then I went to paypal and made a complaint about the company bidfun and again to my surprise, I was suddenly getting a response from bidfun, and they assured me it was apples fault, anyway 7 days later and I have my brand new ipod and very happy with it, but don't think I would play on bidfun ever again, I think this was a fluke, but had to post this just to let people know that on occasion you can win something..

Interesting website, i have been wathcing the website for a month and think it is wuite genius for them to think of. I understand the frustration of bidders who feel they are being taken. Although $1 a bid is a bit much considering the fortune they are making on the items, it is the bidder who become addicted. It is like some addicting game at a chucky cheese or dave and busters, a slot machine, etc. you start in hopes to win, but there is no real garauntee you win. Unless you happen to be the LAST bidder. Bidding at this auction is a GAMBLE but is it a gamble you are willing to risk. They may want to think about entertaining the idea of possibly changing the format mildly to accomadate consumers. (add 10 sec. Up to 1 min. And maybe. 50 bids.)

Its a complete and total scam.

1. The statement "Recently sold for $xx. Xx" is a lie. They should mention the total amount that the user who won the item paid. This will include the amount they charge for the bids. At $1.00 a bid and 0.02 increments, a user can easily pay $200/- for an item which they say sold for $20/-. Even if you don't include what the users who lost the auction paid to bid, the fact that the eventual winner paid a much larger amount for the process of winning and paying for the item means that the statement is a lie. They should put the total amount in there. ( Cost of bidding for the item by the winner + cost paying for the item and winning amount).

2. They do not provide your own bid history.

3. They do not provide the item bidding history.

4. At the last second, on some items you can see a number of automatic bids which the system automatically subtracts from (completely fleece). It is difficult to put in an auto bid at the last second, so it must be an auto bid an user placed earlier. But if you notice closely, the same auto bid would have kicked in earlier by definition of the auto bid. So it has to be done by a fake user created by the system in order to prop up the price.