• iBid2Save

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iBid2Save has a rating of 2.3 stars from 37 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about iBid2Save most frequently mention auction fee, customer service, and promo bids problems. iBid2Save ranks 114th among Penny Auction sites.

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  • Auction fee $20 there is no mentioning of auction fees before purchasing bids.
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Top Positive Review

“The site is great”

David A.
4/21/14

The site is great. The people below with all of the negative reviews do not know that you can just click on the image of the auction and it gives you a description and all costs upfront! They have weekly coupons for free bids! I like to stock up the free bids and then bid on the $20 gift cards.

Top Critical Review

“Fraud company!”

Yolanda S.
8/1/17

I have an order with this company and never got my order. I was told that is was not ready to be shipped. I want to get my stuff or money. When I called every time not ready. Scammed people out of money.

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Thumbnail of user yolandas22
1 review
1 helpful vote
August 1st, 2017

I have an order with this company and never got my order. I was told that is was not ready to be shipped. I want to get my stuff or money. When I called every time not ready. Scammed people out of money.

Thumbnail of user jackj41
1 review
1 helpful vote
May 25th, 2014

Total scam on every level. Trust me. Before bidding do a search for the items. Most of the items that you are "lucky enough to win" are on Amazon or other sites at the "Auction fee".

For example a Gold Digger Metal Detector, is valued at $350.00 on ibid2save with a $64.00 auction fee. Search for that in google and you can find the SAME item, same exact screenshot on amazon.com for $56.00. Its cheaper to buy it directly from Amazon rather than waste you time and money bidding on inferior products.

Total Scam.

Thumbnail of user davida103
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 21st, 2014

The site is great. The people below with all of the negative reviews do not know that you can just click on the image of the auction and it gives you a description and all costs upfront!

They have weekly coupons for free bids!

I like to stock up the free bids and then bid on the $20 gift cards.

Thumbnail of user gailc1
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
April 15th, 2014

Is there less than 1 star! This is the WORST of the worst. I lie to you not. I'm lucky as I spent only about $7 for some bids. Then they gave me 300 and 350. So I gather they're giving everybody else "free" bids too. You NEVER win. I see people bidding over $17 on a $20 gift card and when they add in auction/shipping fee, they pay over $20 for a $20 gift card? Why do they do that? Gift cards are about the only interesting thing I see plus a few computer type items. I can't imagine this site will survive.

Thumbnail of user jimmym43
13 reviews
57 helpful votes
May 14th, 2014

One of the newer sites which always makes me proceed with caution. I love these types of sites, you can get great deals. People post reviews and don't really understand the industry and how these sites work. I suggest you go to sites that have been around for a few years like Quibids, beezid and Happybidday.

Thumbnail of user dixies1
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 5th, 2014

I won an auction on Jan 12th. For one cent... I knew there would be an auction fee and shipping. That's not the problem, the problem is I never received anything. I have contacted them 4 times (2 calls, 1 email, and once on facebook) and nothing. They won't even return any of my messages. I guess I now contact my credit card company to dispute the charges... BEWARE OF THIS COMPANY!

Thumbnail of user js106
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 21st, 2014

Honestly, it's too bad you can't rate any lower than one star. They are unclear about what you're buying, and the customer service is unreasonable. Ibid2SAVE? More like ibid2LOSE.

Thumbnail of user brentb26
Brent B. – iBid2Save Rep

I am very sorry your experience with ibid2SAVE was not up to your satisfaction. We do everything we can to provide a great environment for our bidders to have fun and get great deals. Details about every auction can be found on our detailed auction page. Just click on the title to any auction to read the description of the product you are bidding on, along with all fees, so you can see what you would need to pay before using any of your bids. If you send me the details about your account, I can look into your customer support issue further and see if I can do something further for you.

Thumbnail of user danielc60
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 22nd, 2014

Ibid2Save makes finding out about the auction fee and other fees associated with the bids you win! They know they scam people and always have their scripted replies ready. "We always try..." to make money! Indeed! Even if you win a bid at a small percentage of the value-odds are there's a Catch-22. And most of their items are not actual tangible products but redemption codes. Wanna guess why? The third party site charges you another fee! Also, you can forget help from BBB or PAYPAL because the item will be considered "intangible" and therefore not covered by buyer protection or is it easy to dispute. IBid2Save's a penny auction scam-way worse than Quibids! Stick to ebay auctions and web deals- they are much more safe!

Thumbnail of user lilym7
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
February 24th, 2014

I bid, I won, I got scammed. Auction fees plus (PROMO BID charges) which they don't tell you about end up costing you 20 dollars for a. 01 penny bid. I was mortified.
BEWARE -- Customer service sucks as well. NEVER AGAIN!... and I don't ever review stuff, I was so angry that I searched for a review site just to write this.

Thumbnail of user suzannee3
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 13th, 2014

I bid on a "Treasure Chest" and expected a box full of stuff - maybe just little junky items, but something. Instead I got a tiny box with a real cheap USB hub (maybe worth about $5) and two pieces of paper giving me a discount for some NASCAR thing - not a free thing, just a discount - and another piece of paper for a vacation package. I'm not a NASCAR fan and I don't travel, so these things are useless to me. This was supposed to be a Treasure Chest worth over $500, but it's not. It's crap. I don't know about the physical prizes, but DO NOT bid on the Treasure Chests.

Thumbnail of user jessen11
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 1st, 2014

Real high shipping and handling cost and the product is cheap junk! DON'T DO IT!

Thumbnail of user walterd13
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 7th, 2014

When I 1st signed up, I won several bids for 1 cent. A mystery bag full of cheap junk, a treasure chest also filled with cheap junk. Then a $100 e-card that I am unable to access, a $500 restaurant card with not one single restaurant in my vicinity. All were on a 1 cent bid, plus auction fee and shipping charges. I have also had to call them multiple times to get my items. One clue, if they say the mailbox is full for inquiries about a prize won, select the customer service option. You will get to talk to a real person. All of the items that go for 1 cent are junk, some of the others that sound good are really ripoffs, and the electronic stuff can be purchased online or in a brick and morter store for much, much less that the value they put on the items.

Thumbnail of user gregj22
1 review
1 helpful vote
June 13th, 2014

All the positive comments on this website are placed by someone working for the company. It is the worst company I have ever worked with. I won three gift cards one for 20, one for 200 and one for 500. All of the winning bids were cancelled and they said their site had a malfunction and I wasn't supposed to win. I did howerver have to pay for the 500 dinning which is paying for coupons. And the 200 hotel which is only good if you stay for 7 nights. This is litterally the worst site you could go to.

Thumbnail of user martyp7
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 6th, 2014

I won a bid for a penny, i checked ebay and it was cheaper on ebay with free shipping for same item, they inflate the auction fee and shipping and handling fee, before i buy next time ill check other places 1st, major rip off

Thumbnail of user tedv3
1 review
1 helpful vote
June 2nd, 2014

I was worried that auction sites are extinct so I was a bit skeptic at the thought of trying "my luck". After seeing my cousin win his first macbook I just had to give it a go. In less than a week I won an iphone 5.
Thanks guys, you are amazing, I hope others can enjoy my experience!

Thumbnail of user lucyb8
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
May 29th, 2014

So many great deals. I was a bit skeptical but man I have made out at this site! There is some stuff that is up really just for the bids but there is tons of great vacations, cruises, jewelry, and gift cards that I won! I made a ton of purchases to get deals and bids that they attach to auctions to win more gift cards. This site is so easy to win, and way better than those other sites. They do things differently I'll give some of the reviews that much, but they just are not getting it I guess. Don't pay attention to them, ibid2save is the best site I've seen in awile!

Thumbnail of user andrewp54
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 13th, 2014

This site eat your money out and you never win it just rip you off i see the close the site down?

Thumbnail of user prenticew
9 reviews
90 helpful votes
October 20th, 2013

Well, I was just curious to see how easy it was to win on ibid2save.com To my surpise the my the fouth auction I bid on, I was able to win. I bid on a bid pack, I won it for $0.25 I was really happy! Then when I checked out the site told me I was getting charged a 8.99% auction fee! I said AUCTION FEE! So the site explained to me in there term what the fee was for! So I just wanted to let everyone know that the ibid2save.com is great, but the AUCTION FEE hits you below the belt a little!

Thumbnail of user jtt4
1 review
1 helpful vote
August 11th, 2014

Wtf. Auction fee $20 there is no mentioning of auction fees before purchasing bids. Seems extremely odd how auctions ends every second with no bids. As soon as you win it shows auction fees (they collect these fees and doesn't ship squat).

Thumbnail of user ab2140
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 13th, 2014

I purchased a treasure chest valued at $375, and the shipping was a whopping $15.99 on top of the auction fee of $18.71. I received my treasure chest today. Want to know what I got? A very LIGHT, TINY box containing a usb car charger (by the way, shipping for this alone in other auctions is only $2.99), and a SINGLE piece of paper that says I can take time off work, pay someone to watch my kids, pay for a ride to the airport, pay for a flight to Florida, pay for a hotel, pay for transportation to get to the cruise site, pay $59 per person for charges and taxes, and somehow enjoy a 2-night "free" cruise. Last I checked, it didn't cost $13 to mail a piece of paper either. I was also very upset that the "treasure chest" didn't contain anything I could actually use. This extremely expensive piece of paper that calls for a lot more money that I don't have to be spent to actually get anything out of it is going in the trash. I suppose I could regift the car charger to someone who actually has a car, but was it worth me paying the auction fee of $18.71 plus $15.99 shipping and handling? No way. I did a test-run, and I will not be using this site any longer. They got me, but they won't get me anymore.

Thumbnail of user stacyl26
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
June 28th, 2014

Just found a ton of cute stuff on this site! I'm addicted, and also got some cool stuff for my boyfriend. I can't believe some of the prices I'm getting this stuff for. Their customer service is so nice too when I had questions. Telling my friends for sure about this find

Thumbnail of user unhappyc14
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 15th, 2014

Would give less than one star if possible! I "won" a vacation package. Was not told about all the other fees in advance, but even so, the $29.95 sounded like a good deal... I was charged shipping for an email! Yep I received my prize through email and they charged me for it! The email contained a link to a third party website where I could choose which package I wanted, ok fine, not happy but still sounded like a deal. It was through the 3rd party website that I discovered sooooo many things that was left out of the details of what I had bid on, things that IF I would have known, I never would have bid. First off, vacation package was for 4 people, turns out it was for 2 adults and 2 kids, but you could leave kids off if you didn't have kids, however the 2 adults MUST live in the same household... I live alone, making me ineligible. Sent email to ibid2save, explaining situation and asking for money back... their answer was that only one person per household could use the prize... which contradicts the 3rd party website. Emailed them back, told them this, they then sent me another email, contradicting themselves! I have contacted the BBB and am waiting on them now to take care of this. If not resolved by them I will sue. One more thing, the 3rd party website grandnavigator.com charges an extra $50 on top of everything else, ALSO left out of the details given by ibid2save before I bid! I have talked to a lawyer and a judge about this, they have told me I have a clear case of consumer fraud... I showed the lawyer both websites along with all emails back and forth. He said I'll have no problem getting more than my money back since this is out and out fraud!

Thumbnail of user brentb26
Brent B. – iBid2Save Rep

I am very sorry you did not enjoy your experience at ibid2SAVE. We try very hard to get the best products available for auctions. Some products such as our vacation auctions do have a significant amount of details. We list an overview of these terms as well as a link to view the complete terms of the vacation that are available before you even bid on the auction. You can find these details on our "Detailed Auction Page." Just click on the title of any auction on our home page to view the additional details. On this page, it shows any fees associated with winning the particular auction including auction fees and shipping & handling. The amount you paid was actually an auction fee, which is attached to every auction on the site. Vacation auctions do not have shipping & handling since they are sent via email. The $50 required to book your vacation is a refundable deposit which is mentioned on the detailed auction page. This is to cover costs in the event you book your vacation but do not show up. Once your vacation is over, that amount is refunded to you. If there is anything further we can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact our customer support at 1-888-240-5288, 10am-6pm eastern, Monday-Friday or email us at support@ibid2save.zendesk.com.

Thumbnail of user raymondb22
1 review
1 helpful vote
May 22nd, 2014

Do Not Use this site total scam...

Thumbnail of user danv3
1 review
1 helpful vote
May 23rd, 2014

We all know the saying "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"... Well, in this case, it turned out I was wrong. My experience with ibid2save has been a realistic one. At first, I was really skeptical about any penny auctions website, until i came across this one, from which I've really easily won an Apple iPad. Truth is, if you are not rational about things, you can have a bad experience with anything, but if you are calculated, and know how to keep your mind "cool", your overall internet experience overall will improve. I, personally understand that, as ANY business model, this needs to be sustainable, they can't give their products away easily (although i wish they did). I hope you guys have at least the experiece I've had with them. It was pretty damn good!

Cheers!

Thumbnail of user jent15
15 reviews
79 helpful votes
April 23rd, 2013

Keep in mind, I'm not a real big fan of these penny auction sites to begin with. BUT, Ibid2save has got to be the WORST one I've come across so far. Sure they entice you with a few hundred "free" promo bids every once in awhile. But, in the end, you pay dearly out of pocket. Win an auction... you're out the bids you bought + pay the winning bid amount + pay an auction fee + pay handling fee = I paid too much. It really hits home when you win on specific items (other than gift cards) AND if you win bid packs/promo bids. I won a cheaply made hello kitty necklace for 17 cents but the auction fee was $11.99 plus handling fee of $1.99. I was so excited to win a 1000 bid promo pack for $1.13 but the auction fee was $54.99 plus a handling fee. Kinda rains all over your parade when you think you've just gotten the best deal ever. My honest opinion is to just stay away... it's not worth the effort OR the money.

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