Poor experience.

I feel this site is legitimate, but bidder beware... nothing in life is free and there are power house bidders--to name a few ROSEMARE, SORRY BUT I'M NOT STOPPING, I'M NOT MIKE, KRAZYBIDDER, STOMPINGYOURBIDS and other usernames that are quite intimidating like WASTINGYOURBIDS, etc.
I signed up 10 months ago with MIKE & MIKE's promo with free bids. After only 4 bids I won a KINDLE for just under $5.00. Somehow blind luck, kept me winning. I discovered that only 3 wins in a 24 hour timeframe and only 12 wins in a month. And you wait exactly 28 days before you have accesss to bid. I Only bid on one BID PACK thinking it was a waste of time... why spend lots of bids to win bids, which counts as a "win". The first month I won a 10mega pixal digital camera, the KINDLE, the 480 bid pack and $100.00, $200.00 and $250.00 either VISA's or American Express gift cards. It seems no one was going after the American Express gift cards at that time. I discovered I couldn't even come close to a Wal-Mart card (any denomination) which seems to be a favorite.
After the 28 days, I was able to bid and win $500.00 and $1,000.00 gift cards either VISA, AMERICAN EXPRESS, and I even won a WAL-MART card or two--twelve in total. I did overpay on at least one maybe two. And if anyone accessed my account history that might have prompted them to not go up against me. After my third month (28 holding period) I was lucky to get a $100.00 card or even a $200.00 card. I think I won one $500.00 card and after 19 bids against a power bidder, I won a $1000. 00 gift card for $19.79. Thankfully, that I did as it paid my property taxes. I would imagine that I had beat that power bidder in earlier months when I was more successful.

Now, I rarely play or bid, because I seem to always loose or experience the same person (bid agent) placing bids back to back and as much as I have won, I have probably lost... So, I am lucky if I broke even. I realize now that I was fortunate enough to be bidding when the MAJOR power bidders were frozen out on their 28 days hold or my luck would have been bad luck.

And as a footnote, since SKOREIT has their own VISA Card imprinted with the winner's name, more people are going for the AMERICAN EXPRESS gift cards and the WAL-MART gift cards. ALSO, the newest strategy for the power bidders is to only bid on "BID PACK" either 480,240, or 120 and after outspending on a few of these pack, they can win the others for a few bids. With twelve 120 bid packs = 1440 bids, or twelve 240 bid packs = 2880 bids, or twelve 480 bid packs = 5760 bids; these power bidders are able to outbid anyone and get almost anything for very little cost.

So, to sum it up in a nutshell... if you don't have mega bids, are new to SKORE IT, don't know whom to go up against and whom to avoid (power bidders), don't have an endless supply of credit available, or don't have a workable system that gives you a chance to win... you would be better off flushing your money down the toilet.

So bidder beware, why would someone pay more than the retail value of the item? So, other bidder can see the amount of bids they will place to get the item--no holds barred--then they can get the same item, say a $500.00 gift card for. 34 cents or another $500.00 gift card for $1.74. Trust me, only the new comers would risk going up against a power bidder.

A SCAM!

I heard about skoreit.com on Mike & Mike and thus far have purchased 120 bids for $75 and 60 bids for $38. Twice I have won bid packs, a 60 bid pack and a 15 bid pack. If you don't know, there are two ways to bid. One, you can manually place a bid by clicking a button whenever you choose - this is called a 'single bid'. The other way is to set up something called a 'bid agent' where you set the parameters for what dollar amount at which to enter the bidding, what amount at which to quit bidding, the maximum number of bids to place, and with what number of seconds remaining you'd like the system to automatically place your bids for you (i. E. 5 seconds left, 10 seconds left, anytime, etc.) Over the past several weeks I have probably put in something like a dozen hours just watching and, at times, bidding on various prizes. I have yet to witness anyone using the manual process of bidding (single bid) win an auction. I'm not saying it never happens, just that I haven't seen it yet - EVER. Every auction I've watched to the end (including the two I've won) were won by people using the automated bid agent.

The problem with the site for regular users like myself are the power users, who set up these automated bid agents and continue to bid and bid and bid as if bids grew on trees. Actually, what they do is bid on bid packs (bid packs ranging anywhere from 15 bids to 480 bids). Sometimes they win these bid packs by placing only a small fraction of the size of the bid pack (i. E. 87 bids to win a 240 bid pack), other times they over bid, but for these power users, overbidding once in a while is okay, because so many times they win with just a few bids (i. E. 20 bids to win a 120 bid pack).

Despite my initial optimism that I could create a strategy, study how auctions work, what times they tend to go for lower number of bids, study other users, etc, I have now relegated myself to the fact that unless I plan on making a 'business' out of it, there's no point in trying to compete with these power users who are willing to bid two, three, even four times the number of bids in a given bid pack. For example, one user I was competing with tonight had won two 120 bid packs for 63 and 72 bids respectively. That's 240 bids at the cost of 135 bids for a net of 105 bids gained. However, he had previously place 187 bids on a 120 bid pack as well for a loss of 67 bids. In the end he's still ahead even though he over spends from time to time. The point is, these power users are willing to overspend every time, and if you're not, then you have no chance. I've seen people place 33 bids just to win a 15 bid pack, then win a 60 bid pack with just 7 bids. And these power users almost always make their profile partially public so that you can see how many bid packs they've recently won as a tactic to scare off other bidders. I mean why would you go into a bidding war with somebody who has recently won a combined 975 bids on 410 bids placed. That person is obviously locked and loaded and ready to go the distance should you dare to even think about over bidding in a bidding war with them.

In the end, this site is designed for power users who primarily bid on bid packs, then parlay them into more bid packs, stocking up bids to overbid for something they really want like an iPad or MacBook. If you decide though that you want to still dance with these established power users, you need to win the bid packs, that is key. But don't be fooled when you see that these power users are winning 120 bids on just 23 bids placed. The fact of the matter is that had you gone toe to toe with them on said auction, they most likely would have spent and spent and spent to outbid you even if took placing 300 bids just to win the auction for 120 bids. Hence the problem with this site.

Here's my story thus far- because I've blown $1000 & have nothing to show for it.
I started over Christmas break, which spans 3 weeks due to a sick child & school break. For at least 10 of those days, I spent about 6 hours surveying auctions, reading guidelines to the letter, researching closed auctions, what days & times a macbook or ipad sold for the least amount. I actually put tally marks on a calendar & wrote the winning times. I invested so much time into it. I blew $150. I realised later that you can see a gambler's (let's face it) profile when you click their name. Their bid history, items they were watching, items they'd won. You can also hide that info from the public, which I realised against a competitor who's only info was that he'd had an account since october.
I did more research, stuck with the times I'd agreed were best. Turns out, there is no real "best time"- I'm american military in italy, so I thought I had an advantage. Turns out 3am on the east coast means it's only midnight on the west coast, & I'm sure there are a lot of people who have figured out how to handle that problem (ie bidpaks, bidpaks, bidpaks). You can see the cost to the bidder, btw, when the auction is closed. There is a cost next to their bid amount- when I saw one guy had one a macbook with 1500 bids & his "bid cost" (apart from the "final winning cost") was under $5, I was incredulous but realised he bid on bidpaks
& won that way. So. They DO give a final cost to the bidder. I backed away from an auction that was on autopilot by a bidder called WHATEVER2, because I'd witnessed WHATEVER1 steamroll another auction- don't tell me that's a coincidence, that person is bidding on the same thing, bidpaks & ipads.
My big beef is with Skoreit not putting a cap on auctions. They make a ton of money, but buyer beware. Eventually people will see through that & the business will falter, but I guess that's the point- they're making profits while they can. Lowering the bid price doesn't help either because that just leads to more bids being placed & drives the "final auction price" up, which is how they lure people in.
So I bought $150 in bids & added them to my remaining 22 bids from december (I can't use promo codes, my phone number is italian). I watched a macbook for 3 hours & jumped in when the power bidders bidding agent quit, when the auction reached $67ish. I threw in 20 bids with the bid agent, hoping to scare off competition. I held back & watched how many pounced when my bid agent stopped. I watched for another hour. When I thought the time was right, I threw in some more. Looking at the closed auction history I can see it was a freak circumstance- that auction closed at the third highest price for a stinkin 11 inch macbook, at $155ish. I'm still sore because I watched for a sum total of 7 hours while one woman who actually paid for her bids blew over 5000 bids for nothing. She (Rosemare) went on a bidding war with EnergizerBunny- who also threw in at least 4500 bids (I stopped looking at his pop up profile when he dropped out, but he resurfaced when my streaks ended). At hour 5, it was looking in my favour- plus, I'd already invested $300 in bids & wanted that macbook. When I finally think I'm winning, around $120 (doesn't get that high too often), WHATEVER1 rolls in & just blasts me. I ended up buying more bids in hopes of not losing the auction & therefore losing all that money. That guy won with under 200 bids, & while I sure didn't invest 5000+ bids, I threw in about 800. I'm still pissed. If you see that auction now, it shows he won with under 200 bids, sure, but his "bid cost" was less than $10. If you paid for those bids, that would cost about $130. The next night I just watched. I followed another auction with high hopes (my husband is away for work & I can't imagine how he'll respond to "high honey I blew $700 & have nothing to show for it), and I have a lot of bids remaining- enough that I could actually win a macbook. Rosemare finally won, & good for her (unless it really is rigged)- the final price for a 13 inch macbook was $91.52. However, she used 3136 bids that cost her (supposedly, but an fyi for any real people bidding out there) $1885. 60, with the total cost to bidder being $1977. 12. She alone paid twice the value. Plus, that's 9152 bids, or $5,675 (even if people used bidpaks that they'd won, they still got paid for them). Minus $1000 for the macbook. That's $4675 in profit. Not many companies survive when their customers catch on that they're making a 500% profit. Honest suckers will drop out, the ones who bid just to turn the product for profit will win bidpaks for nothing, & they will bid with free bids. The only way this company can sustain is to capitalise on the suckers now, while they can. Unless they cap their auctions or come up with another scheme, it's a failure based business venture. Why it's even legal is beyond me, because the BBB should insist to capped auctions- that way, they still make a buttload of profit & keep business flowing. When I look at the auction that I was stupid for & got screwed over in, alongside others, with the final price at $155.57, that's 15,557 bids. Or $9,645.10 freaking mackbooks. 20 ipads. Think about it. $8,645 in profits, more than 800%. The winner, WHATEVER1, had won 8 of the 240 count bid paks, 2 of the 120 paks, and a 60 pak before that auction. That's 2,220 bids, & he bid 900 to get those, which gives him 1320 in free bids. That's why people get the screenname BIDS2BURN or NOTHINGTOLOSE. They make their own business off it. I'm ALL about getting a good deal- I've scored (& been screwed) on Ebay. But at least there you don't have to pay out BEFORE an auction starts. That's why Ebay has been around for so long. It works, & it's customer friendly to all customers & not just the lucky few (very few, on skoreit) who happen to win & don't have to deal with the guys who have endless bids (another screen name). It's also a major time investment, because the reason most people go on skoreit is to score a deal, not because they have money to burn. If that were the case, we'd all hop along to the Apple store & spend $2500 on a macbook pro.

My biggest gripe right now is that I was expecting to get an offer with skoreit overtime- supposedly, you can get an offer for the item you want minus the difference in the cost of the bids you put in, but fat chance of that happening. If that were the case, EnergizerBunny would be offered 5 FREE macbooks, & I could get one for under $500.
I still have a load of bids remaining, and I'm going to sock em into bidpaks- enough that I can eventually make up for the loss & "win" a stinkin macbook. All things considered, I invested a lot of time & money researching strategies when I could have just ordered the macbook for the same total cost, which I hope to recover in spite of the irrecoverable time lost. I'll just consider that a learning lesson.

So I've read a lot of posts so far on Scoreit.com. Only reason for me to be on these forms is to find out if anyone else understand why it takes so long for them to ship out auctions that were won. I'll get in to that in a bit, because I also noticed few other things that needs to be discussed. There are 3 major things I've noticed over all the posts I've read and I just want to help by shedding some light on the subject "Objectively" because most post have a lot of subjective responses.

01) Shipping Costs. Few users say there other sites that have lower shipping cost and items like an iPod Shuffle ships for free off of Apple.com or Ebay costs 11.50 on Skoreit.com And that is true, but you can also choose to do USPS for around $4. UPS charges a lot and I don't see it to be Skoreit.com's fault. Take in to account the fact they have to pay for shipping of the item to arrive at their warehouse on items that are not free, they have to spend money on packaging the items to ship to you and the cost of shipping with UPS is just that much. I send CDs and DVDs to clients all the time from DC to NJ using UPS and it cost $10.00 going ground… and I pay another $1 or so for packaging. (I'm a photographer by the way… and have to ship a lot of DVDs to clients for review and archiving).

02) ESPN / Mike & Mike: I don't blame Mike and Mike for anything. They are just announcing ads that are written for them with some acting on their part. I can blame ESPN for not be responsible for doing their research on advertiser that come to them. Yet I'm pretty sure they have done their research and didn't find anything wrong. So please don't blame Mike & Mike… they are doing what their bosses put on their table. Write a letter to ESPN if you feel you have been scammed.

03) Is it a Scam?: A lot of people feel there are users that bid so heavily on items that can be bought for a lot less or lot less for the amount of bids they used. I'm not going to get into how each bids cost. Mainly because you have to understand there are a lot of stupid people out there that can't do their math properly… and also I was a chronic gambler in my past and I can tell you a lot of time when you are down you will gamble more to get back to even…. So maybe these "power users" are just down so much that they can't help trying to bid heavily to get back out.

Here is my experience with skoreit.com. I personally have 2 screen names. I've put in $1,100. I've won bid packs, gift cards, apple laptop, a camera and an apple tv. If were to sell all my winnings I would be up $300, but I don't plan on selling any of it, because I only bid on things I wanted. I stayed away from power users, because I rather waste my bids on things and times I know I can win with ease. I don't get emotional and bid on things like laptops unless I know many people have already bid enough and there are no more bid agents left (it took me 600 bids to win the laptop = $360 in bids and $128 of the auction plus $11 for shipping).

I just don't' understand why it is taking so long for the items to ship, but other than that I have no problem with this site, because I try to bid smart. My suggestions:
01) Don't bid on more than one auction at a time. Bid on things you really want to lose you bids on. People keep bidding on 3-4 things a time, which will surely make you lose your bids quicker.

02) Do your research on when certain items end, what price they end at, how many bids it took for the item to end and so on.

03) Stay away from aggressive bidders. If they win … oh well… at least you didn't lose your shirts in the process.

04) Bid on smaller items… try to win some bid paks will help you. Bid on the smaller bid packs at the right time, so you can get it for cheap.

05) Don't go in believing you can win something the same day you start. Be committed to stay longer and do research before you bid.

06) Only start bidding after you know done the 5 things above.

These are the first things I came up with after losing my first 50 bids… and followed it to a T …. Now I'm happy with I've won with these rules. Not sure if this site is a scam, but I don't care since i've won what I wanted. For people that haven't won… maybe you should try to come up with your own rules or use mine and maybe you will come to see that it maybe a scam, but you won't care since you've won.

Good luck everyone… I hope my LONG post helps.

This post is especially for the person with the long post.

Your rules maybe grand in fact it's almost like the response I received from my email sent out earlier. That's fine but though it works for you it may not work for others. As far as shipping goes, I work in sales and shipping is never an issue with efficient reputable companies unless stock itself is an issue. It may be that the reason shipping takes so long is that the items won ARE NOT ON HAND when won. It never should be because of company problems. A good, reputable company will get products shipped promptly and take care of the customer so if shipping is a problem then that's not a good thing. There is no reason not to receive your goods within 7 days. NONE, unless stocking is an issue and if they are auctioning products off that are NOT on hand and ready to go. That's a problem.

My main concern is this. Having watched many many auctions I've discovered the real greed here. I'm all for making money but this is outrageous.

Let's look at just a few past auctions:

Apple Macbook 11.6 laptop retail $999.99 sold to a winning bidder who used 1,356.00 bids so that person paid roughly $896.95 dollars BUT the real kicker is that skoreit go $3,665.34 in bids and money.

Apple IPAD 16GB retailing for $499.00 went to a winning bidder for $232.94 BUT skoreit collected $6,711.39... not bad profit HUH?

Here's a person that played right into skoreit's good will... A $50.00 gift card a bidder won for 4.96 - good deal huh? - Not really - he used 103 bids to get it so in the end it cost him $69.34 for a 50 gift card and he still has to wait and pay shipping costs to get it. By the way... skoreit score big here to collecting over $313.00 for that card.

The list goes on and on... these are just 'rare' happenin's... it is a fairly regular thing.

And no where on the site does it give you the total collection amount for an item... you can find it if you dig in history and want to do a bit of math but you shouldn't have to.

There is something here... it's not just a SIMPLE auction site...

Beware... if you like playing the slot machines you'll probably like this too because it's just about the same thing. Put you money in and pull the lever. If the 7's all align just right you might win. The house is hoping a ton of people put money in and fill that coin bin.

TOTAL WASTE OF TIME... SAVE YOUR MONEY...