SwipebidsReviews 54

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

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.

I too was scammed by swipebids.com yesterday 9/1/2010. They ask for your credit card to begin bidding. Instead it is undisclosed that they charge you $159 to become a member? I then contacted the online live chat. What aj joke! He wanted me to download this paper form to fill out and then sign with my signature to have the charge removed. I stopped at that point... they will have your credit card and signature so they can forge future charges. They would not refund my money less than 5 mins after being billed for this scam.

I have filled out a complaint to the Colorado Better Business Bureau.(Colorado is supposedly where they are located). I am also disputing this charge with my credit card company as well. I will also contact the Attorney General today to further get this scam exposed.

Wish I had gone to this website much sooner to have avoided these headaches and hassles..

Scammed me out of $150. I called my bank they said to contact the site and see if you can retrieve your cash. Well I talked to the online rep via Chat she told me there will be a 10 day turnaroudn to refund my cash. Im still waitng. I havent read anything thats been posted baout anyone actually getting a refund but on day ten I will call back my bank and dispute the charges and if need be I hate to say it but Lie and say my CC was stollen adn used to make this purchase. Otherwise Im out $150 and thats njust not going to happen.

I like the post that puts a name to this low life scam artist. Jesse Willms. P. O. S. I hope you scam a real prick and they come for you Jesse. You deserve to have both knee caps broken to crawl the earth on your belly like the worm you are. God help you if we ever should cross paths. On behalf of all who have been scammed... Lesson learned.

I was going to join this website today but decided to google this site first and read reviews! Im so glad that i didnt sign up for it! I did see the 159 dollars sign up fee because i read everything before giving my cc# to any site. The thing that got me thinking more is that when you see the video that is on the sign up page about the police station auctioning off those items they say that those stuff are not brand new they are evidence and are used. On the swipebid site they say their items are brand new and manufactures warrenty. That clicked in my head and didnt match the video and the sites video. But im sad for all the people that got scammed but im also glad i didnt fall for it beause 150 dollars for me is a lot of money. Hopefully this website and whoever created gets what they deserve and let people know about this site your relatives friends coworkers everyone and by posting their reviews about these kind of company is helping other people not fall for it like me so i thank everyone for their review and im sorry for everyone that got scammed!

Swipebids.com! It's real scam, like a Monster. Easily you can spend 1000 bucks easily without merchandise.

Ex. When you participate this auction, they took out member fee $159 from your VISA automatically. And If they $ 1000 LCD TV put on auction, they robbed maybe $ 500 easy until auction finished from you and other customers individually, win or not. Because you should buy bid money minimum $150.00.
Never start this dangerous game, it's really crook. Never! Never!

Hello. I am just copy-pasting this info for a class action lawsuit against this company, if anyone is interested:

"Join the Class Action against Swipebids.com

You can contact the lawfirm at the email address that is listed below if you want to see justice done about SWIPEBIDS.COM. Information is below. Please put in the header SWIPEBIDS CLASS ACTION.

Will Haselden | Edelson McGuire LLC
350 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1300
Chicago, Illinois *******
*******211 (direct) | *******370 (firm) | *******351 (fax)
*******@edelson.com | http://www.edelson.com"

I was browsing my windows and then i noticed this websites ads. I click to see for my self. They ask me to sign up and ask for my credit card. I thought that that was just for verification or something like the usual credible website like ebay that won't charge you unless you purchase something. And so i did enter my credit card number after clicking the "submit button i received a text message from my bank about the fee which was $159.00 from swipe-bid.com. I was completely shock. How could they charge you that instantly when you were just signing up. There was nothing in the form that says they will charge you with $159.00 whether you buy/bid on something. I tried to talk to them through their live chat and the person named shalyn but she only showed me this link to a refund from which was a comlete rip-off. I contacted my bank and still waiting for them to cancel that charge. PEOPLE LETS REPORT THIS SCUMBAG WEBSITE SO THEY WILL BE PUNISHED AND BE IMPRISONED FOR THEIR EVIL DOING!