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I wouldn't wish Haggle on my worst enemy.

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SCAM, DO NOT FALL VICTIM TO THIS CHEATING LIE!

I stumbled across haggle early December. Needless to say, I have been a loyal haggler since. I have won well over 60 auctions on the website and most were excellent deals. I have also had my share of losses on the site as well. The positve far outweighs the negative for me. I can tell you that I watched for several days before I decided to bid. My first win was a Nintendo DSi that ended around $50 plus my bids which I had used about 60 for. That same day I bid on a second DSi (it was for my two daughters as Christmas presents) and I won it for $9 with about 19 bids. I have won items with as little as 2 bids and I have won items with as many as 300+ bids. I've gotten small things like a hand blender to ipod touches, nanos and shuffle on up to laptops, cameras, wii, xbox, lots of gift cards and even a super nice home theatre system. Haggle is one of my favorite sites. I've spent lots of time and money on it and I've won some great stuff. As a successful bidder, I can tell you that most of us that are invested in an item do not like to see late comers come into an auction when we have lots of time and money in it already. We call that sniping an auction. Most of us will suffer a loss on an item just to show those type of bidders that we don't appreciate their stategy of bidding. If you go to Haggle's Facebook page, you will find lots of real people sharing their strategies for being successful in order to help newcomers be successful as well. Just because you go on there and deal with an aggressive bidder doesn't mean the site is rigged. You should watch and see who are the aggressive bidders and determine if you want to spend x amount of bids to take them on. Everyone has equal opportunity to win. If I see someone dominating certain items, I either stock up on bids or wait until they are locked out (3 wins in 24 hour period locks them out of bidding or 20 wins in 30 days) and bid for the item. I make that decision to bid or not to bid. I usually get on an item from the beginning and defend it until the last few minutes when the "real" bidding begins. It's worked out well for me. I don't snipe others and I decide if, when and how long I'm gonna bid on something. Basically it is a gamle as you are waiting for the others to either give up or make a mistake while you are the top bidder. Bidding the last 3 seconds or less has never been successful for me. That just wastes my bids.
All items I have received have been shipped brand new and in many cases straight from Amazon, Best Buy, and other big retailers. The customer support has always responded quickly and courteously when I've had any issues. To give a for instance, at the end of February I won a Playstation 3. Due to most all retailers being out of stock, Haggle contacted me about not being able to fill the order for the PS3 and offered a $350 Gift Card and 50 Free Bids instead. I could have waited till April to get the Playstation when most say they will have them back in stock but I appreciated Haggle's customer service and took the card and bids instead. I hope this helps some of you that venture to the site in the future. Good luck to you if you do. It's not a scam but there are lots of aggressive bidders on there. Watch and learn about them before you jump and cry foul. :D

Haggle.com was my first penny auction site to play & looked 'sexy'@ $0.75. But Haggle turned out to be the most 'frustrating', to say the least.

I played 110 bids: 10 free bids from coupons to start then purchased two 40 bid pacs@ $29.00 each & one@ 20 bid pac@ 15.00. I did my homework for the items I would bid on. I do think there are bid bots involved, whether it be from Haggle itself or from bidders, I honestly can't say. But I can tell you I thought it odd (& this happened to me 7xs on different auctions, 24/7) that when I tried to bid during the last 5 seconds on the timer, the screen plus the tally & timer would freeze. Within seconds another bidder, always a 'regular', would win that very same item, as if my bid didn't count somehow. What's odd: this happened consistently. Each time it looked like I was just about to win the screen froze an a 'regular' won PLUS that last bid I placed somehow was deducted from my account. Even odder: the timer is supposed to go back a few seconds, anywhere from 5-15 seconds on average, with each bid placed. Never happened. In each of these instances, the clock was never reset to reflect my bid &/or the winners bid (whose ever bid came last).

Now the items I bid on were not even high end-no computers or HDTVs, just gift cards ($50-$250), Godiva chocolates (up to $32), pots & pans ($149), etc... The most expensive retail selling item I bid on: PS3 Playstation ($349) & an iPod 32GB ($299). I suspect alot of tag team bidding goes on too, at Haggle. Come On, with user names like MrKrab & MrsKrab, it's a bit obvious. Also, the same user names keep bidding & winning the same items over & over. For example: Tuffnuttz is always on & always has multiple wins. Beware, as well: Doreamon, glazer56, jaks1, mattmc, jeremaic, larrylnelson, mikejak3, DESTROYER... these are only a few users always bidding & winning, Plus certain of these users only go after certain type items like electronics. Like these guys aren't reselling on EBay? Check it out for yourself & see what I mean. & if there are restrictions about how many wins you are allowed each month, I don't see anything being enforced. On other sites, you can't even bid if you have already exceeded your winning allowance for the month.

I have contacted Haggle customer service 7xs about the screen freeze thing & was told it was a server issue on my end. Period. They would not credit back any bids either, not even just the last bid were the screen froze! The 8th time I contacted them was about the possibility of bots & same win bidders, I was told I was just a sorry loser. Whatever. So much for customer support!

I would not recommend this site at all. We are all adults & we all understand the gambling aspect of 'entertainment shopping' but this site seems to cater to users who always bid & win on the same stuff. How they do it? Who knows. Could be they win a gazzilion 'free' bids (which would explain why these regulars have no fear of bids going over the actual retail value of the item). Advice: Stay away from Haggle.com. There are plenty more out there (on which I've gotten really good buys btw). Bottom line: do your homework before joining any penny auction site! If you're new to the game, try sites which include chat rooms Talk to the other bidders. It's fun & you just may be able to get more clues about good & bad auction sites, doing hw, & lots more!

Be very carefull with this site. It is not for the faint of heart, that's for sure. I have been watching it for over a week and burned through $15.00 in a matter of seconds. The business model that this site is built on is GREED. This is a very caniving way of legal gambling that will burn up your resources if you fall prey to the power bidders, or the bidders that have an escalation of commitment, even if they go upside down on the bid. Here is my take on it: I have followed the bidding trends of several bidders and have identified this technique: If the bidders are legitimate, they mostlikely started using the site during its early stages, making out with several good deals and now they have made it their first of secondary professions due to positive results that they received. For example they purchased 600 bids for $330.00 back in the day, and they won good deals with bid packages and gift cards, and high value items that they turn around and sell for a profit, this recouperates their initial investment and also has built equity in their minds that they can afford to bid more than you no matter what since they are already on the plus side. Now they have the confidence to come in at the right time as they know when the newbies start to slow down their bids and dominate that auction no matter what, to you and me it seems incomprehendable the way they waste bids, however, they feal that they are already several hundreds to thousands in the plus, and they can afford to waste bids that cost the regular joes that work for a living and don't have hours upon hours to invest in this operation 0.55 - 0.75 a pop, as we reach and surpass the break even point and stop, they keep going until they intimidate you out of the bid, I'm sure that you also have the organized groups that get together and do this as a team effort to intimidate the individual bidder out of the way and if it is one of their members on that bid, they leave it alone during the final seconds once the individual bidder have either moved to a different bid or left all together. All of this benefits the site tremendously as they allow each user to purchase up to 3 items within 24 hours and up to 20 items every 30 days! What else are they promoting than to make this a profesion to those that started early and have greed fuel their business model. Save your money, time and blood presure if you are not going to make this your hobby, as it is perfectly designed to take as much in as we are willing to give. Example: a bid for a $250.00 visa gift card is going on right now and for each bid, it goes up one cent $0.01, right now the price is up to $13.76 and it is still going strong, this means that at the very lease if each bid represents $0.55, haggle.com has already collected 1376 x $0.55= $756.80! Now you are the first timer user thinking, wow this is great, a $250.00 gift card for only $13.76, yeah, I will give it a try, next thing you know your money is gone, and due to escalation of commitment and greed, other's fuel the fire and you might even come back for another try and lose more.

I found out about Haggle on a Friday and between Friday and Saturday my boss and I spend $600-$700 on bids. Twice I was bidding on an Ipod Touch and with 2-3 seconds left I hib bid and it went straight to Auction Over... Final Price was... I didn't get too upset at the time because I didn't have much time and/or money invested at this point. HOWEVER... We have been looking to buy a MacBook Pro and we seen that one was coming up in an auction. So, we purchased a ton of bids so we would have enough to make it through the auction and win. I sat at my computer for 3 hours, invested an additional $600, and when the clock got to 3 seconds I hit bid... GUESS WHAT... AUCTION ENDED FINAL PRICE... I DIDN"T WIN... I am furious. Not only did that happen but during the auction haggler "joemens" bid on this item from about $50.00 to about $320.00. Everytime anyone else would bid he would out bid them. Then when the price got up high enough, he just quit. Sounds like someone working for Haggle, driving up the price so they can make a hefty profit. I have emailed the company because of Haggle not accepting my bid, and I am hoping that they can fix the problem and possibly reimberse the bid I lost on this item. I had PLENTY of bids to keep going, because this item is why I bought the bids. As of now I would say stay away from this site at all cost, if they do the right thing by me I will repost and let everyone know but as of now... DON"T WASTE YOUR MONEY
Just wanted everyone to know that Haggle answered my Email and I am very pleased with the way they handled this. I will use the remaining bids to see if I am able to win anything!

I don't think its a scam but I do think there are a few people making a living buying stuff here and selling it on ebay. Whether they use automated bidding or not... who knows?

It seems impossible to win anything... the same names always dominate the bidding. They must buy the $330 bid package and then spend the next week dominating the bids for more bids. When they have a gazillion or so bids, they clean up!

I think the main technique is to throw endless bids at things until everyone else just avoids any item where they see your screen name active. I wasted $100 on here for nothing... a total waste of time and an ulcer-inducing frustration.

Maybe if I used a screen name like "DontF**KwithMe" or "Iwillhuntyoudownandkillyou" I would have been more intimidating.

Basically, the same users win over and over and over and over... I'll never go back.