BigDeal

I believe that this site can be great if you know what you are doing and you are VERY patient. I had success the first day that I signed up. I only bought 50 bids ( $37.50) and after watching an Ipad 64g wifi for 7 hours... (Yes I have to much time on my hands) I was able to come in at the end and win it for only $77.93( including 9.99 shipping). I used only 7 bids which costed $5.25. Winning auctions is simply a matter of luck and like I said EXTREME patience. That said... my chances of lucking out like that again are probably very unlikely.

I was shopping for a laptop for trips and bid on one. I didn't win it but I bought it anyway since they let you use your bids you lost towards the purchase price. I got it for what I would paid for it anyway and then used some of the loyaltybucks to buy my mom a thermal coffee maker for Mother's Day. It does take a long time, I'll give you that, but its fun. If your looking for something for nothing then you won't like this site. I liked it!

Well GEORGE...

Why did it take all sorts of complaints for you to come to THIS forum to apologize to Glenda and offer assistance? Shouldn't that be your normal course of business?

Don't even think that putting that post here will improve your image, nor will it erase all the previous posts savaging your website and service. Thankfully, this site does NOT remove reviews and is protected from any action you might consider taking (although I doubt you would have any recourse whatsoever, here or anywhere else). Your post is an embarrassment and insults my intelligence.

Do the civilized world a favor... SHUT DOWN your bogus website, refund everybody's money (unless you already blew it at the track) and go away. What you have done here does NOT qualify as contrition.

The site isn't a scam. They were featured in a New York Times article and is indeed legit.

What so many people fail to realize is that this type of site (Penny Auctions) are flat out gambling. If you aren't prepared to lose money, don't play the game. People that pay more are not bots, they're just hardcore. They have a lot of money and are willing to pay more to make a point. I am a frequent bidder on more than one Penny Auction site, and a frequent watcher of others, and there are people like this on ALL OF THEM.

As far as Penny Auction sites go, Big Deal is a pretty good one with much lower risk than many.

Total bull$#*! site. A pure scam/lie. They misinform the consumer by mis-stating the discount percentages when each bid token cost $0.75 cents. Example: Product retails for $10, you bid 10 times and got lucky and won, total number of bids was 20. The site will say you paid ($0.20 cents for the auction price + $0.10 cents for the bid price) = $0.30 for the $10 saving you 97% when in reality you paid 0.75 x 10 = $7.50 + 0.20 auction price = $7.70 which is a savings of 23%! Check the math on the site. The site needs to be shut down!

I flatly was ripped off! Nowhere does it tell you that your "bids" are not worth the money you spend, nor that your money the you do spend to buy the "bids" is just plain gone. I wish I had read and known before I spent $75 trying to bid on an ipad that the auction could go on for 48 hrs. Or more, that their "BidBuddy" (my bid helper so I didn't have to sit at my computer for 3 days) was going to just help them rip me off... and it only took a little over an hour, at 1 cent increments, for BidBuddy to spend my $75. I "authorized" BidBuddy to start bidding at $42 and stop at $75 but when I checked an hour later all my "bids" and money were gone and the price of the item was only at $46! I will do whatever I can to help get this site shut down. I am disputing with my credit card company payment to them as well and hope that I get results. I wish that there was somewhere else I could post that would clue others to how they are scamming and stealing money from consumers.

Please do not get carried away by the winning bidders.

I bought 30 bids, watched and attempted bidding on some items that I might consider buying. After a while, I realized that it's next to impossible to get those "as advertised" great deals.

In addition, this site is purely taking advantage of vulnerable human psycology from the large pool of people dreaming to get a great deal. If you look at the bidding history, for an iPad, the bidding history goes as long as 4000 bids, with $0.75 per bid, they are getting way more than the retail price to pay for the product.

It's a smart business model. However, it is deceptive, manupulative and dishonest in nature.

I urge people to pass the words for this site to your friends and families, and warn them about the facts of the site. I also sincererly advise the owners / founders / investors to close out this site immediately, to avoid more social and moral disturbance. Be aware of the consequence and do no evil!

A very disappointed citizen

I thought I was smarter than everyone else when I bought my $150.00 worth of bids. I was wrong. I'm a bigdeal idiot! Don't be scammed the way I was. All I was trying to do was win an xbox360 at a decent price. My strategy was simple wait till the last second and bid. I did this very patiently for about three hours and was outbid in the end by what I now think were BOTS! Toward the end of the bidding (when I was running out of bids) I started bidding as fast as I could (about 25 bids) and the person or BOT I was bidding against bid just as fast as me. That bidder ended up paying more for the item than it was worth! I havent read about anyone winning at a big margin on any forums about this site. When you look at the history of winning bids its very enticing, but what really happens to the average joe is you end up paying retail or more for it anyway. DONT BE SCAMMED!

I can't believe I could be this stupid! Calculating it out, the site gets $6,000.00 for an $80.00 bid on their "one cent" items and the "lucky" winner gets to pay that $80.00 also. So I guess the site actually gets $6,080.
I am not exagerating. For every bid you pay 75 cents to increase the bid price by one cent. Where does that 75 cents go? You guessed it. Gone away to BigDeal heaven never to be heard from again. Please please stay away from this site.

As I read all of the above complaints about this site, I was screaming at my computer until I came to Camile's review. She hit the nail on the head. You have to know how to use the site to be successful. You should not bid on anything you are not willing to buy at full price. If you're not willing to pay the full price and you bid on the item, you are gambling and if you loose money that way then, shame on you. You can't jump around from one auction to another trying to win an item. You're just spreading your bid money around and it become useless unless you buy all the items you bid on. It takes a lot of patience, a little bit of luck and a good strategy to get a heavily discounted item. I think the creators of this site are brilliant! And yes, they are probably making a ton of money. It's called CAPITALISM my friends and I say, "Good for them!"