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Overview

eXcite has a rating of 1.79 stars from 97 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about eXcite most frequently mention ipod touch, bidding war, and good deals problems. eXcite ranks 130th among Penny Auction sites.

What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • I've spent lots of time and money on it and I've won some great stuff.
  • About the B-School professor who, staged a bidding war over a twenty-dollar bill...

Critical highlights

  • This person probably had like 100 bids which is more than the kindle was worth.
  • BUY BIDS (SPEND $20, $50, $100, $300) JUST TO BID ON AN ITEM.
How would you rate eXcite?
Top Positive Review

“I don't know what the other posts have a problem with”

joe m.
4/28/11

I don't know what the other posts have a problem with. Haggle.com is NOT a scam. If you want to get a good deal Go to Haggle.com. I got an ipad 2 for $20.21. Only cost me 20 bids. And $40 dollars what a steal. This site is the best I've been to EVER!. Long live the Auctions. The only people whom may feel ripped off this the losers who don't know how to bid right. LOL SUCKERS!

Top Critical Review

“This site is a rip off and/or the biggest waist of...”

joseph m.
4/13/10

This site is a rip off and/or the biggest waist of time in your life! I hope as many people as possible report them to the BBC as I am, they are basicly a gambling site. The one person on here you says they have won any thing, has gotten any of the items yet, scam scam scam! Dont do it, waste of money, after checking it out there are a million of these types of sites out there, work the same way, all ripping people off leagaly for now.

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Thumbnail of user josephm6
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 13th, 2010

This site is a rip off and/or the biggest waist of time in your life! I hope as many people as possible report them to the BBC as I am, they are basicly a gambling site. The one person on here you says they have won any thing, has gotten any of the items yet, scam scam scam! Dont do it, waste of money, after checking it out there are a million of these types of sites out there, work the same way, all ripping people off leagaly for now.

Thumbnail of user ralphs1
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 26th, 2010

Totall scam... spent 40 dollars on bids... spent all day on it to win ps3, never got one and i noticed same bidders winning every ps3 for like 9.00 or 14.00 dollars. People get real you can't win or buy a ps3 for 9.00 or 14.00. You talk of all these winning bidders with savings of 93% or 97%. Ya. There in your haggle office collecting a check from haggle.com. Total bs won't be spending my cash there ever again... beware

Thumbnail of user rayz
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 8th, 2010

The problem here is you've got people set up side by side, or not, with the main focus of becoming the last two putting bids in - scares everyone else off - they both look like they are not giving up - then one lets the other get the win - sell the stuff and split the profit. Each gets twenty wins a month - between the two thats forty - or if three working together then sixty - the profit THEY are making is just as great as Haggles.

Thumbnail of user kb4
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 28th, 2010

I have won 3 laptops, 2 cameras, gps, video camera, ipod, Haggle sweatshirt and kindle reader. I am a grandmother who has spent too much time on this website. I have received all 3 laptops and the retail $629.99 camera. I paid 65.00 (including bids & s/h) for 1 computer and 75.00 (including bids & s/h). I got the ipod for. 88cents. I won the last 5 items in the past 2 days. Can't wait to get them. I have spent some money on this site but way ahead in winning cost vs retail cost. Very addictive! Looking forward to wearing my Haggle sweatshirt!

Thumbnail of user bobbyk
83 reviews
373 helpful votes
January 8th, 2010

Competitive shopping?!?!? What type of tag line is that for a website? I mean really... let's make shopping a game (ie gambling) and let's see how many victims we can collect and make money off them. They should just be honest and call it blackjack shopping but that I guess that is too fair as with black jack you have a 49% chance of winning.

Thumbnail of user joem20
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 28th, 2011

I don't know what the other posts have a problem with. Haggle.com is NOT a scam. If you want to get a good deal Go to Haggle.com. I got an ipad 2 for $20.21. Only cost me 20 bids. And $40 dollars what a steal. This site is the best I've been to EVER!. Long live the Auctions. The only people whom may feel ripped off this the losers who don't know how to bid right. LOL SUCKERS!

Thumbnail of user carlm1
1 review
1 helpful vote
August 5th, 2010

This website is a complete scam. They've got auto bidders to outbid any real bidders for product that they probably don't even have. They add more time each time a bid is made to give the auto bidder a chance to outbid you. What a crock. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SITE OR DON'T SPEND ANY MONEY ON BIDS! Seriously, what kind of auction site makes you pay per bid. That is CRAZY, but a very good hustle and scam.

Thumbnail of user lynnt
1 review
3 helpful votes
January 1st, 2010

They must have shill bidders. Every time I put in a bid, the same bidder outbids me along with some more new bidders. Then when I do something else while other people bid up the auction, that same bidder wins for 93 to 99% off price. Give me a break! They are setting up shill bidders to buy back their auctions while getting suckers to buy bids and never get anything. DON'T DO IT!

Thumbnail of user ng3
1 review
1 helpful vote
September 4th, 2010

I watched this website for several hours one night while I was working the graveyard shift. In one auction a particular bidder bid at exactly 18 sec left every time. This went on for hours. NO doubt it was automated bidding. This "bidder" eventually won, only after many others wore themselves and the bid accounts out. I did actually win a $50 gift card under the "beginner" category. I wonder if this is just to lure in the novice bidders to spent more on bids to throw away in auctions with the automated bidders. Hmm, casinos have been "letting" people win pocket change only to entice them to lay down more money.

Thumbnail of user joer3
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 22nd, 2010

I watched site for 6 hours. There was an ipod touch 32 gig $ 300 retail with a penny a bid. It is still going on. The bid is now at 16.20. That means there have been 1620 bids at $. 70 a bid. That means haggle has made over $1000 already. Someone with a name of dirtyjerz has made over $ 400 worth of bids and may not win. This is like trying to knock over the metal milk bottles at coney island or make a basket at the carnival with the hoop being just a tiny bit large than the basketball.

Thumbnail of user anthonyv1
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 27th, 2010

Another reviewer on this site had exposed this secret but I'd thought I'd check it out myself. YES there are certain bidders who dominate all auctions and when no one challenges them for an item, they OUTBID THEMSELVES! Nuff said?!

Thumbnail of user sharono3
1 review
1 helpful vote
August 4th, 2010

I feel really stupid... four different times (not three) I got down to the winning 0 seconds and It displayed, "Haggle has encountered an error processing you bid-Please refresh this page". Lets review the possibilites of this happening... not any possibilities. My computer is four months old and I have never seen this response on any page. I am on high speed broad band and have never seen an error message asking me to refresh my page. I didn't even know where the refresh button was. This is a glorified slot machine, that is electronically controlled by the webmaster. BE WARNED

Thumbnail of user reneee
1 review
6 helpful votes
April 19th, 2010

I will suggest that everyone here go to RipOffReport.com and file a complaint against Haggle.com. I did.
I think we all know that the Haggle owners are making piles of money without giving the REAL users a chance to ever win. In the auctions, you can sit back and watch as, time after time, "winners" take home winning items from 80 to 90 per cent off. It looks tempting to throw in your bid until and, when you do, you will find that the price goes up until you run out of bids or until, at the last minute, the computer "mysteriously" freezes when you click the one second bid.
This site is definitely a scam.
Along with this site, go to RipOffReport.com and file a complaint. In the event that they have enough complaints, there may be a class-action law-suit after the investigation and you could be compensated.
I am not sure if compensation will ever happen for me, but it will bring me great joy to see Haggle and other rip-off sites brought to justice.
Good luck and I hope you get back what they stole.
They are thieves!

Thumbnail of user jessicac1
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 24th, 2010

Loss aversion (a bidders tendency to go to great lengths to avoid perceived losses) applied to an auction... clever. (read: Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
By Ori & Rom Brafman) specifically the chap. About the B-School professor who, staged a bidding war over a twenty-dollar bill... bidding got so aggressive, that a student, unwilling to cut their losses, eventually paid 208 dollars for it (guess the real owner was the kid who paid $207). And yes... the professor did collect, and donated the money to charity.

Thumbnail of user gracem
1 review
2 helpful votes
December 26th, 2009

I agree, this site uses bots or have people up the bids for them! I was feeling frustrated with one auction so I just looked at the others, and guess what! The same few people were bidding on like 10 different auctions at the same time over and over again! They must have bought 1,000s of bids or they're bots. Also, I've noticed several auctions have the "bot" bid right after the other person bids. I've wasted money here and totally agree it's NOT WORTH IT!

Thumbnail of user jamesf6
1 review
1 helpful vote
Thumbnail of user joshw2
1 review
1 helpful vote
December 9th, 2009

The thing you don't realize when you buy bids is... it gets down to the last seconds on an item and then you bid... the time goes back up. Don't count on being able to hit it quickly at the end of the time limit. You can spend all your bids on an item very quickly as the price escalates 10 cents at a time.

I think some people get good deals by chance on here, but you have to be really lucky. I am not willing to waste my time on luck.

Thumbnail of user flyingf
1 review
5 helpful votes
November 27th, 2009

This site benefits no one but its owners. The bid process is rigged so that a typical user will never actually get any of the best deals. I hate it.

Thumbnail of user xinj
1 review
2 helpful votes
November 30th, 2009

The website is definitely a waste of time, anyone who can do a little probability calculation will know the expecting profit is below zero, unless you don't know how to use your money wisely and are willing to put your time and energy in such a stupid slot game, I recommend those who are looking for a decent deal go for normal websites such as Ebay or Amazon.

Thumbnail of user slbb
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
April 21st, 2010

Haggle.com is not a scam. Do your homework, get a strategy, buy some bids and rock on. Watch the board before bidding. My household has won 18 items, all new, including a 32 GB IPOD for $15.30. I have lost bids as well, but quickly learned HOW to play the game. I LOVE IT!

Thumbnail of user adrianp
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
December 10th, 2009

I think this site is an absolute scam. Really... an I Pod for. 90 cents, no way, a Kindle for $40, double no way. I see the same people all over the place bidding on everything and winning. What a rip off! Look we should just go the casino and gamble. What a shame someones making money this way. That's all from the wife.
Now from the Husband, who found the site and bought $52 worth of (useless) bids... he is very disappointed (Ithink wife told him so... LOL). They advertise low prices in this economy to sucker people in and then take advantage. They #$%^)^ suck.

Thumbnail of user rodneys1
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 30th, 2010

First of all I won the first item I bid on, that was 01/26/10 still waiting on item to be shipped. I noticed that some of the bidding is computer generated, I watched the lead bidder keep bidding on a item even though they were the high bidder at that time. I keep track of the number bids that he/she used 218 just to raise the price. If you watch the lead bidder, and you bid they out bid you again in less then 1 second that has to be computer generated.

Thumbnail of user samm8
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 17th, 2010

This website is a great way to get electronics and other items on the cheap if you are smart. Anyone saying it is a scam or that they have bots bidding either didn't know the rules before bidding or doesn't understand how the site works. I have invested about $150 for bids and have won a $100 gift card and $50 worth of microsoft points. I still have over 100 bids left too. If you expect to get a laptop by buying $20 worth of bids you will lose a majority of the time. However if you take the time to study how auctions work you can usually come out on top. This is a great alternative to ebay and I am a satisfied customer.

Thumbnail of user musicalmindym
1 review
1 helpful vote
January 30th, 2010

DON'T GET ON THIS WEBSITE! Whether it is a scam or not, it is not worth it. You will spend money just to lose hours of your time and energy, and eventually just lose a lot of money. I wish someone had warned me. Don't do it! You'll regret it!

Thumbnail of user stephena2
1 review
2 helpful votes

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