Swipebids

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..

DO NOT do business with this company. A quick search on google will tell you everythig you need to know. Also go to www.swipebids-warning.info for a condensed report. The Better Business Bureau gives them an F rating and "Strongly recommends" contacting the FBI Internet Crimes Division, the FTC and Two Canadian Government Agencies (This is a Canadian company).

Do not expect to get your money back from them after they trick you ito spending $150. See some actually "customer service" chats to get a peak at what to expect - or not - in customer service. www.swipebids-warning.info

I've had nothing but good experiences with SwipeBids. I'd tried BidCactus before but it was getting to be too complicated. SwipeBids is much easier to use. It's true you have to pay $150 up front which seems like a lot, but for the experience it was worth it for me. Once I had won a bunch of bid packs I was able to deal with the bigger auctions fairly well. Obviously you have to pay attention to the bidding process but once you get the hang of it, it's a lot of fun. I know I've saved more money overall then I've paid for my bids, so I'm happy.

Swipe seems an accurate description. The fraudsters behind this website swipe advertising space everywhere on the web, and swipe money from subscribers in return for nothing through a clever variation on the bid site that incorporates an element of gambling. Their click-me ads are often disguised with large print such as "CRAZY PRICES", "LAPTOP FOR $14.35!", and fake surveys that entice you to casually click for "My favorite laptop". The avalanche of spy-bots that follows is something to wonder at. I was curious enough (as a student of criminal psychology) to put a question on their impressively customer-friendly "talk to a customer service person" messaging service, and was informed that the postage cost on any item to anywhere in the world was $9.50. A Sony Vaio for $14.35 and postage from USA to Australia $9.30? Seems too good to be true. It is. I didn't believe it.

I never even got to actual bidding scam and they ripped me off! I was stupidly signing up for this before reading up, and when it came to the credit card info part it kept telling me that it was not accepting my card, to re enter my information or try a different card. I tried a few times to still have it not work next thing you know i check my debit account and i have 5 $150 charges on one account and 1 $150 charge on another! These ripoff artists have nabbed $900 USD. I contacted their "on line support" which only feeds back to you programmed answers, however they did give me a contact number and tell me that the money would be refunded in 5-10 days. I froze my accounts and contacted the phone number only for them to say that the charges had not gone through, they gave me an email to send my dispute to and proof of my account postings. Guess we will see how much I've lost in the next 10 days.

-- Pissed Off Marine

I also was taken for $159.00 because I never noticed anything about a registration fee and when I hit submit no prompt was given for me to verify the amount that would be taken. I thought the information was only for purchasing purposes should I bid on something. I was looking at a camera for my daughter. I cannot afford the amount taken and all that was offered to me was a refund form to MAIL back in. After they receive it, they review it and make a decision as to whether or not I should get my money back. I am sick over this.

Complete Scam. Anyone seeing a positive News report on their TV should now contact that same news organization and report the big scam that is going on to encourage them to rebroadcast what is really happening to unsuspecting people. Maybe enough people doing this will make it public faster that these people are complete crooks. And, hopefully some Federal organization will throw their asses in jail and ban the site immediately.

As many of you I signed up in the idea that my credit card would be used in case I won a bid. Oh no, my card got charged with $150.00 immediately and I was not aware of this. The only way you can get your money back is to bid and not win and than you still have to wait 2weeks. After the 2 weeks you get nothing back. This is the biggest scam ever. They claim that the $150.00 charge is on the website (that is after you gave them your credit card info and the money has been taken out already).
Take a look at their site and keep an eye on the timer it goes to 2 seconds and than back up to whatever they seem good for them. This goes on for hours!

This website is very misleading and is totally designed to to just suck money out of bidders and to deliver nothing., by the time you figure out what they are up to you have lost many, many, many dollars and when you complain about it to them they refund your sign up charge and refuse to refund any other charges. This site should be stopped immediately. If you have been ripped off by this company please report it and lets stop this!

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

I joined this site with the expectation that I was going to pay $1 for the sample bids to try it out. By the time I got done entering my credit card information I realized they took me for $150! It is impossible to change the package to the $1 package. And they won't give me a refund. They keep giving me the run around. I believe this is also a scam in the fact that you can bid and bid but never really win. There are bidders that are on every single auction. Why is that fair? They should limit people to a few auctions at a time. They apparantly have a way that the site will just bid for you every so often. This site needs to be closed down! Don't fall for it! They are ripping people off!