SwipebidsReviews 135

CAN SOME ONE TELL ME HOW SO CALLED REAL SHOPPERS ON AUCTION SITES AND SHOPPING ADS SHOWN ON TV SHOWING REAL CUSTMERS SAYING HOW MUCH MONEY THEY MADE JUST BY SHOPPING?$$ HOW CAN THAT BE? SOUNDS LIKE FREE MONEY---? IM SURE ITS NOT THAT EASY!$ I KNOW THERES LOTS SCAMS. IV BEEN A VICTIM FROM SCAMS AT TIMES- SO HOW CAN THEY CLAIM THIS LEGALY? I STAY AWAY FROM AUCTION WEB SITES. ANY BODY KNOW HOW THEY SAY THEY GOT BACK SO MUCH MONEY JUST BY SHOPPING?

This is a 100% rip off, they say that if you don't win something on your initial buy in of 250.00 dollars you get more bids. But... be careful because if you buy a bid package of let's say 40 bids they consider that winning. ALSO, by error another 250 dollar bid package was purchased (clicked too many times) when I called them they wouldn't even consider giving it back. Now out 450.00 and no products! STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY! RIPE OFF FOR SURE

I am sorry to say but I was one of the sucker who also fell for swipebids.com. I wasn't aware of the $150 charge for membership until I saw it on my bank account. I contacted them through live chat and told me what i need to do for a refund. I used up all my 300 bids plus i didn't win any bids plus i wasn't satisfied with the service. I contacted them again and told me i qualified for the refund and so I printed out the refund request form filled it out, attached all paper work required made copies of everything sent them, mailed it out certified. I called their customer service number and talked to them and told them that i had mailed out the form via certified and that they had received the letters. The customer rep told me that i did qualify and that i was getting my refund through check in two weeks because they were having technical dificulties and they couldn't refund my money back to my account. Two weeks passed, then a month passed, I called them back and asked them about my refund check and those S. O. B told me i didn't qualify for the refund and therefore were not giving me back my money. I was super upset that I told the lady off with every bad word i could think of and what i thought of their website. DO NOT GET SUCKERED LIKE I DID. I am so ready for a legal suite.

Yes I was skillfully conned out of $180 for a one year subscription. I tried to get my money back and had to give up trying, so I decided to cut my losses and just play to win instead. After less than 6 weeks into my one year subscription they started to make it impossible for me to access into my account so I could continue playing even though my subscription is agreed for a year and I have bids to play with? So now I have spent $181 simply to be robbed. I am disabled with no job prospects too so I sincerely hope the crooked owner gets whats coming to him in this life. And why hasn't some authority done something about this site already. How can a US/UK based company get away with this pile of... THE PROPRIETER IS: FREDDY GOMES and a UK contact address is: Circle Media Bids Ltd, 72 High Street, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 2LA... other contact info worth trying is: http://graymobi.com/C/*******/******* and *******870 (phone No. I think -Mon - Sat 8am to 9pm and Sun 10am to 6pm)

SwipeBids did the same to me. I registered and then saw they took $150.00 from my PayPal account. I went back and saw the charge of $150.00 off to the left of the form I was filling out. It was not on the form at all. I went through there "Grantee" procedure to get my money back and at first they said I won something so I can't get my money back. I did not win anything. Then they said that was their mistake and I should expect my money in about 4 weeks. Well I did not see my money and contacted them again. Now they say I have to get my money from my credit card company. On and on this went, finally PayPal being the best to me investigated this situation and refunded me my money, but they never did get their money from SwipeBids. SwipeBids will NOT refund your money no matter what! So consider whatever you give them it is theirs now and you will not get it back no matter what guarantee they have and how precisely you follow the instructions. Mark

DO NOT ENTER YOUR PAYMENT INFO UNTIL YOU HAVE READ REVIEWS ABOUT THIS SITE. I had no experience with auction sites. Our nightly news featured a story of how they worked and if you were nimble and understood them you could really win something nice. After seeing this on my respectable local news I searched auctions and swipebids popped up. Typically I never enter payment info but it looked harmless. They mentioned their 159.00 fee but I didn't expect my card would be instantly charged. As this was happening our credit card company was calling. There's a red flag! The card company had lots of experience with swipebids. They instructed me to send in swipe's guaranteed refund form via registered mail and if swipe didn't come through our credit card company would help us. Thus I brought up a chat window, requested the form and followed all instructions to the tee. I politely insisted the swipe rep tell me it was not required that I do any bidding to get my refund. I printed the chat and saved it and mailed in the form via registered mail. You have to then wait two weeks and contact swipe again. Another chat session. I inquired to my refund status and the rep told me it was done but may not show up on my card for six days. I requested she tell me the last four digits of the card that swipe credited. It was the right one. Again I printed the chat. True to their word, in six days I saw the refund on my card. I've heard stories of others who didn't get it. I'm not sure if they called their card or sent in the refund form via registered. I suspect that makes a difference. I'm out about 7.50 for the registered letter and pricelessly smarter for the experience. This was our first and now last rip off of this type.

This site is a site of criminals. Before I understand what has happened they have charged my credit card $150.00. I called my credit card company immediatly, not to transfer any money to them. Swipebids listen to my conversation and tried to interupt the conversation. I have Comcast and Swipebids were able to overhear and spy my conversation. Please don't get into the trap of loosing your money. Can you imagine how much money they make on the peoples sufferings? The prison is eager to have these thiefs locked up.We all need to report to the police as soon as possible!

I am disgusted. I almost entered my credit card number and then decided to google it first and came across this site. I could not believe the stories I read on here and am thankful I did not enter my credit card number. However, for all the people that were not as lucky as I was to not get scammed, I filed an online complaint with the Better Business Bureau on all of your behalfs. If you happen to read this and you got scammed by swipebids, I encourage you to file with the better business bureau, just as I did, and maybe we can stop these low lifes from scamming anyone else and I enough people file, maybe they can caught and have to pay for what they have done by having to refund money and some jail time.

There is absolutely "nothing" penny about the whole process. BECAUSE IT COST YOU to just bid on the auctions. You can spend dozens of hours and hundreds of $$$ without ever winning anything!
I will list out the following facts
1) $150 minimum join in, non refundable. Comes with 300 "bids" which will last you may be 5 minutes on a popular item like the Macbook ( without winning it of course)
2) Must buy more "bids" to bid for future items. Or spend your "bids" bidding for
More bids in hope of buying them at a lower rate. Bottom line, each bid carries a cost of $0.025-$0.005
3) Each $0.01 increase in the price displayed on the item being bid on represents 1-50 "bids" spent by some bidder.
4) Example, the Macbook might display a winning bid price of $350. BUT, that is the equivalent of approx. 300,000 individual "bids" all the bidders spend collectively.
5) Assume the winner spent just 20% of that by coming in late and monitoring the auction carefully and diligently without using the automatic bid, he/she would have to spend approx. 3-4 hours of time and anywhere between $600-1,200 (for accumulating 60,000 "bids") before forking up the $350 "winning bid" real money
6) You do the math.

Still think it is a deal?

Additional fact, the last listed top bidder spent over 30 million "bids" on various auctions to win the 2010 Honda Civic listed. Thats like somebody spending over at least $30,000 in buying "bids" and spending them in bidding for various items with an unknown % of successful winning bids plus the price of the winning bids spent for the winning items.
The MSRP for the same car is approx. $16,000

This is an absolute scam. When yo register there i no information that you credit card will be charged $139.00. Try to cancel and you must send it in on their form. Suggest that you challenge the credit card and file a formal complaint with both the FTC and your state consumer division.

They are purportedly a British based company. I tried asking them for their corporate name and they refused to give it to me or even what state they were registered in.

William R. Martin
Venice, FL *******