BidFun

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE... STAY AWAY FROM THEM!

I joined and I stayed up all night to check their dealings, and I can prove that they are 100% scam. Absolute scam run by scumbags.

You bid and bid, you NEVER win. I then check the winner's details and the final bid amount, they actually put it lower. They are the biggest scammers and I feel sick for letting these bastards part with my money. Worse of all, I contacted them for an explanation and I got no response back.

THIS IS THEIR DETAILS, PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THEM!
Naxopresence UK Ltd
*******@bidfun.com
*******725

This site should be renamed"bid torture", if you can actually win the item. I was trying to win a canon t2i camera on this site, sold out in canada in all the stores at x-mas. I seen this site while browsing the net,"recently sold for $8.62", after "bidding" $100 myself, losing, apparently someone else paid over $500 for this item. After doing the math,"bid torture" made approx.$******* on a camera, which took a week to "auction" off with their "robots". Within a couple of minutes they had another one up for "auction"; Did someone actually win this? After observing this site for awhile, I noticed the same names kept winning the more valuable items,"jazzduval", must be a millonaire for what he/she spent on the"robots" for all the items he/she won in "auctions", just to mention 1 name that keeps on winning the "auctions", because there are about 5 names that seem to win everything, and by the way, there have been several t2i cameras up for "auction" within minutes of one being "won". We're any of these actually won? We're any actually delivered?..."Bid-torture" or BIDFUN sure seems like a well thought out SCAM!

AUCTION GOERS BEWARE!

Maybe a scam, definetly shady. The concept is a good one for all parties involved if the site actually did what it said. They obviously have people/ a program that bids on items to steal them away from actual customers. I saw the same user name bidding on an Ipod Touch, Nintendo DS, Wii, Laptop, and Flashdrive at the same time. They don't even try to hide it, they display other items for bid on the same page you are watching your item. I counted and in just a matter of a few hours here and there 3 users putting a couple hundred bids on various items. Come on, who is really going to do that on the off chance they might not even win? And then pay more for items then they retail in stores. And why would you auto-bid 9 hours before something expires when someone can come in a few seconds before it ends and steal it? This site is ridiculous. I guarantee they would make the same amount of money doing things legitametly, and getting both new and RETURN customers. Save your money and listen to all of the negative reviews, I should have.

This is a terrible site! Can't believe I was sucked in! Spent $50 - I still have 17 credits remaining (don't know if I can get this back yet). But I was on till 2am couldn't believe that the number of users kept increasing at that hour of the morning! I read the terms & conditions & thought I would just give it a go... after spending hours and hours on it I realised that there was no way I was ever going to win anything! I was putting bids on at the very last second & sometimes my username came up last - but the price would go up by more than 20c which would equate to 10bids in that last second - but looking at the bidding history it was clear that these other people bit bids on way before the last second but we're not shown this - we're just shown "checking"! If I saw these other bids going on I would have waited! There is definitely something fishy going on with this website. They don't show all the bids that are being placed until after the very last second - if my bid was the last bid as I put it on at the last second how is it that I didn't see any bids put on before my bid and at least 5-10 people bid before me?!?! Stay away from this site - there is definitely something very wrong with it!

Waste of money, time! But most of all getting sick by wanting more and more spending money, money seems like just a number, you do not realise how much you spend, untill you find yourself with empty credits! It is like gambling, the only difference is that with gambing there is a posibility you win OR loose, whie with this biddings you ONLY LOOSE and waste other's money by getting them also excited. I have spent 50 dollars- STUPID should have read this site first to get others review of the site, anyway I saw some were autobidding same user for over 100 bids - me incuded, and at the end we both lost and the user who was bidding many items with autobidding won the auction. I am pretty sure it is a non existing user, as no one would add autobid for more then 100 bids per item!

Ya it's a scam. When they sell a wii for say 60 us dollars they're making $4,800.00 based on a minimum of 80 cents a bid. Looking at various auctions they ALL have 1 thing in common even on the dead low demand auctions there is always at least 2 people out bidding each other. I would be shocked if there weren't partners in crime on the other side out bidding you just so you bid back thus jacking up the number of bids. Also, when they win the auction (which again i would be shocked if they didn't win every one of them) then they don't even have to forfill the auction.

Remember people: when something looks too good to be true 99% of the time it is.

To Shauna R.: What makes it a scam is the constant after 0 bids which they call server delays, the auto bidding which when 2 people are on that they both can run out of all their tokens in seconds. And the fact that they can and probably do have a program and/or partners in crime set out to jack up bids. I've seen some really suspicious activity on several auctions namely by a someone by the name of "nothing4u"--Impossible to prove without server logs and they're counting on that.

It may very well be a legal scam but it's still a scam.

I didnt fall for this scam but I am fascinated by it.

I came upon the. Com site late one night and when I went to enter was directed to the. com.au, local site. I decided to purchase $50 worth of bids on the Australian site and have a go. I started by looking closely at the bidding process and watching how this worked which in hind site I should have done first.
I was amazed at the speed and placing of the bids. Also, how once the counter reached "zero", the counter went into "checking" mode. In every "checking" situation I observed, other bids were then accepted. This is explained in the FAQs as checking different servers for bids.
After further checking I discovered that the three sites,. Uk,. Com and. com.au are actually all the same site, auctioning the same items. This means you are actually bidding against the rest of the world for any one item.
I didn't like what I had seen and decided to take my money out of the site before I had even placed a bid. This didn't happen as the site refused to refund. I then noticed that the site is "certified" by Paypal and opened a dispute through them. The reasons I gave for claiming a refund was the deceptive and misleading way in which the site infers it is a seperate Australian site by taking you to the. com.au site when in fact it is all the same site. This also went nowhere and I suspect there may be a closer relationship then obvious.
As others have observed the money this site is making is huge. The Australian site costs $1 for a bid which increases the item cost by 2 cents and the countdown timer by 20 seconds. Individuals may end up paying $20 to $100 for a "$700" item. Remember the price quoted is "recommended retail" and at $50 made for each $1 in auction price, the actual amount paid is $1020 to $5,100. The amount of bids plus the amount actually bid. I recently saw an "$820" IPad sold for $368.34. This equates to $18,417 for the bids placed plus $368.34, equalling $18,785.34. Unbelievable. When you have a worldwide auction audience there is no such thing as a "quite time" or "slow time" due to the different time zones.
Is it legal? - Possibly
Is it deceptive and misleading? - I believe, definitely

Well I have been reading all these comments on BidFun and that it isn't a scam or you should read the disclaimers before conducting business.

When I looked at the site my immediate reaction was theres a catch, $20.03 for a Wii console, what tha %^^@#?

I did a quick read and yes, you give them your money to open an account, you then give them your money for every bid you make and at the end of the day, if they don't make a margin on the item you loose all that money to them which they keep. They put the item back into the auction and after enough fools bid on it to get their margin of what ever that may be, you have a winner (maybe some lucky newcommer). The fact that people eventually win the item would allow them to remain in business but I would not classify this web site as an auction house but as a lottery or raffle. Hell, I could put my house on it that they don't even have any of the items they are selling. Just some fat guy sitting in a chair waiting for a winner to emerge, he then rings up Amazon.com or eBay and orders the item for you. All margin for them, 0 overheads.

Its like that scam where guys drive around in vans saying they have over supplied audio equipment and their boss is going to fire them if they don't sell it. You do actually get an audio system but twice the price of what they payed for it and if you are lucky it will work. This is illegal and if they are caught they do face criminal charges. This site is really no different to this but in 1 detail that no one is pushing their wares on you. You came to them, you gave them your money.

Simple, you see something brand new thats really stupidly cheap, don't buy it because it is a scam and someone is loosing their money over it.

If no one buys, they will go out of business.