Well, I watched several auctions and bid a lot. I often found that when I put in a bid and the counter reached Going – GOING, it would just stay there for 8 – 10 seconds and then get other bids on it! While it was stuck on GOING, other auctions continued to count down and get bids on them (proving that it wasn’t just network congestion). Yet other ending auctions I was watching would say GOING and then end straight away. I also had several occasions when I bid while it still had 2 seconds showing and yet when I bid, it instantly came back saying the auction had closed. It was very frustrating.

I started to get suspicious and did what I should have done in the first place – Google research – and it just confirmed what I suspected. Oh well, what a waste of money.

Please, anybody reading this, don’t get caught by these conmen!

You can try complaining to VISA but I don't think they can do anything about it. The company which provides the credit card transaction service is Plimus and as you've read above, they don't want to look into the issue of bidpax being a scam. They rather processed this fradulent company's transactions and earn from it. Boycott Plimus whenever you see their logo in any merchant website and don't buy from that site because they will not solve any transaction disputes you may have in an acceptable manner.

But anyway, go to Plimus website and report your dispute. Keep pestering them. And report to the authorities in the link above. best of luck.

Yes, I too have fallen victim to these buggers! From an Ad on Facebook (How can Facebook allow scammers to advertise? Surely they have reputation to lose over this?) I went to the site, saw the possibilities and bought $180NZ of bids. Thankfully that's all – I'd designed a strategy to assure winning by creating 2 accounts, both loaded with bids! Sadly I was too caught up in the hype (my own greed, I guess) and only thought to look for reviews etc. after buying the bids.

So I decided, well I've been scammed, might as well use the bids. But I went into hospital for a few weeks and didn't get chance. Now I go to sign in, an lo! My bid count shows '0' bids remaining! Surely that is beyond scamming, that is actual robbery? And of course, no response from BidPax to my complaints.

Does anyone know if it's possible to complain to VISA about this? Since I paid through them, and they have good payment protection…?

Well, thanks for listening! BidPax are, in my opinion, villains. Stay away! Now if only we could get some authority with serious clout to investigate… BidPax must have scammed thousands of dollars from people all over the world!

Tony Slater

Any luck in getting a refund via paypal?

Do report BidPax to CASE. (www.case.org.sg)

And also report BidPax to the following authorities.

1. Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3)

2. econsumer.gov

3. Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection

Links to these sites: http://againstscams.blogspot.com/2009/11/who-can-…

This will (hopefully) put bidpax to a stop.

having seen the ad on Facebook, I was silly enough to buy SGD 800-1000 worth of bids..the website actually says currency in SGD which made it appear legitimate..appears to be only anyway

I actually WON an auction for a PS3..it never came..

first, they gave excuses like the PS3 is not in stock in Singapore..then they offered to transfer money and asked for my Paypal account..

after giving them the email address for my Paypal, there was a crap/nonsensical/out of point email reply from them that they "fixed the error"..upon requesting for clarifications, no more emails were forthcoming..I have been sending reminder emails..for 6 weeks now after the auction ended

it's all silence now..freaking scam

Please, whoever is reading this, please tell your friends etc, not to throw money away..even if they have a slim chance of winning the auction with a lot of bids..they will never get the merchandise..

ps: also, search whether the items on bidding are ever available in your country (since they claim that they ship the goods locally). I found that the TV models are not available in Singapore and you can never get warranty..that's one loophole they haven't plugged to con more people..