Have You Bid on SwipeBids?

They E-mailed me today this is what they said We regret to inform you that there was an error in the swipebids system and the auction you were bidding on automatically ended. We sincerly apologize for this and have refunded you for the product. To make up for this inconvenience and ensure your success in the new auctions we have added 1350 free bids to your account ($495 Value). Management Well looks like I will have to start calling my bank before I get charged for something Im not doing anymore.

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Well I just came from my bank (chase) they say that swipebids.com put their unauthorized charge of 150.00 through as a third party charge. They told the bank that i signed up for a trial on another site and the other site billed them and they paid 150.00, and due to the fact that i had autofill all the info was correct and so, they are paid and there is nothing i can do.

I called BitterBuyer and they said if it's not over 500.00 they can't do anything. I am asking all of you who have been ripped off by swipebids.com to email me at al213@comast.net, maybe if there are enough of us someone will help! This company knows just how much money to steal so the law won't come after them and they know just how to put it through the bank so they will pay no matter what the account holder says. I am going to go on youtube with this and maybe they won't give us our money back but we can sure cost them some money in lost customers and maybe someone with some power will notice and help the victims of swipebids.com

So contact me and let's put up a fight!

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I bid on swipe bids at 2 am after accidently clicking continue, and buying 75$ worth of bids since it's non refundable decided to bid away. Well I won a cam corder worth 999$ two days ago I noticed I had way more bids on my account then I should So I first checked my bank then went on live chat they said it was a technical error and it would be fixed soon. Today I got on to live chat because they had refunded me 24 dollars I asked where my winning cam corder was since it has been over a week now and they said I won on a technical error… So I said I won it over a week ago the technical problems was days ago so they said It happened the day I won it too… Uh huh. Right . I'm done with them biggest waste of my time and money ever.

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I too was ripped off for $150.00 just for signing up. I also requested a refund and they refused. I have reported them to the BBB and the FCC with no response as yet. I also requested a hold on payment from my card Co. Haven't heard from them yet. The address I have for them is: Sphere Media LLC, 906 W. 400S., Oren Utah 84058. These crooks need to be shut down. Either nobody wins on their auctions, or they have an enormous inventory of the same items. They sell the same items over and over again. They may not even have any inventory to start with, just a bunch of pictures. al213@comcast.net, please include me in your list. They advertise 10 cent bids but charged me 50 cents for each bid.When I asked them about that, they said it would be 10 cents a bid on the next BidPack I bought not the first. I asked them where it said that on their website and he admitted it wasn't on there. SwipeBids is a bunch of crooks and something needs to be done about them. I'll be glad to do my part. I will contact the FBI's IC3 and the FTC as "auctionwatcher" suggested. I hope everyone else will do the same.

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sorry… lots of typos above.. i am enraged…

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Thanks to everyone who has commented on Swipebids.com. I'm always suspicious of something that sounds too good to be true, so before I register, I google the site and reviews, and found all of your reviews! Needless to say, I *won't* be registering there, and will spread the word of their scams. As a matter of fact, I think I'll e-mail the site where I saw their ad and let them know that one of their advertisers is a complete scam and operated by criminals (thieves and liars). Thanks again, I'm so appreciative that you all are here.

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I got ripped off too Charged $150 to my card and I have no way of ever getting that money back. I hope they burn in hell.

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It is obvious and understandable for person with a common sense that this can not be truth! Sorry folks – but this is a hard lesson for you all. I hope you will learned well. Also advice: search internet first to see is it real or not.

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I got scammed =(. I purchased 10 bids for $1 and then 40 for 24$. I decided that I would give it a try. Knowing that 50 bids would not likely win me anything, I bid on extra bids. Wow I won. I was enthused…..I purchased a total of $70 worth of additional bids. Having almost 2,000 bids I figured I would at least have a shot of winning an auction. I saw a camera that I had been wanting for year, but the auction was late at night, so I had my husband stay up late and watch the auction for me. Here is the email that he sent to me describing their practices.

I spent the hour before the bidding started on your camera watching other bidders. I then spent the next 5 hours both working on your item as well as studying all other high price items on the site that went up for auction (500+ retail). In the end I spent nearly all your bids (around 40 left). There was at least 5 instances where there was no more human bidders left. I suspect this site is using bots to hold the items. Some of my evidence listed:

1st-

Whenever a person I thought was human bid the timer would increase to at least 9 seconds when the bidding was at 1 second (including myself).

The avatars I suspect are bots would appear when there was 0 seconds left on the screen and the timer would go to 4 seconds.

2nd-

On multiple occasions when the timer hit 0 and one of these “bots” would bet it would spam their name 3-7 times but the bid amount would only increase 1 cent.

Though whenever the “human” participants would bid multiple times lets say they hit the button 4 times in a row before anyone else the amount would increase that many cents (person hit it 4 times the bid would go up 4 cents).

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When I got near the end of the bids I was wiling to put out there I left the bid alone to another human who had basically outbid me on autobids.

The person I suspect was a “bot” jumped in after no activity for nearly 1 hr (me and the other human had been going at it for that long).

The both then proceded to bid at 0 and jump the counter to 4. After approx 75 of these he finally won the auction.

4th-

This same behavior happened on 3 other items, 2 laptops and 1 digital camcorder. Basically the person I perceived as “human” finally drove off all competition and then suddenly a new bidder would appear at 0 seconds with all the things I mentioned above. In the end the one I suspected a “bot” won each time.

Whether these are bots setup by the site or by other players I suspect you can not actually win the bigger prize items. They expect you to win bids in their bid auctions and eventually lose them to other humans or to their “bots”. I then went online and did some research. I was not able to actually find one person who verified they won a higher price item on this site. I’m sorry hunny but I think this site is a scam. I did look into some others and there is some potential but again your only real garuntee is that you can buy the item with the money you already lost when bidding for an item. More than one person did say they won, but it was on other sites. Also those other sites all offered to let you still buy the item.

The following day with the bids that I had left over…I decided to try out another bid to see if I could see the same thing. I had the bids and already lost the money, what more did I have to lose. Low and behold what did I find….Another bot.

Please avoid this website. You can win bids, but don’t expect to win any merchandise (unless you consider your email being spammed a product worth winning)!

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Hi Everyone;

This conversation speaks for it's self. So far, I've had no problems with Swipe Bids. So when I can get the chance to figure out the best Bidding Choice. I could be back. Until then, comment on what you think of my live chat.

TY

qxinfinity@gmail.com

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Please wait for a site operator to respond.

You are now chatting with 'Natasha'

Natasha: Welcome to SwipeBids. May I know, whom am I chatting with?

you: hi, how do I change bid levels?

you: Ray

Natasha: Could you please rephrase your question so that I can best assist you?

you: I'm set for $11.00 automatic charge after 30 days. How do I change that to increase or decrease my being charge.

Natasha: Could you please provide me with your full name and email address, so that I can pull up your details?

you: ray echevarria

you: qxinfinity@gmail.com

Natasha: Please wait while I check your order details in our system.

you: TY

Natasha: The auto replenish program is a bonus feature from SwipeBids, which ensures your account has 50 fresh bids each month at a discounted rate. Your active card is charged only $11.95 every 30 days. There is no obligation at all, so you can cancel any time. It’s the best way to keep your account active and always be ready to bid on all the hottest items!

Natasha: This charge cannot be increased or decreased.

you: So if I wanted to increase from the $11.95 level to the $150.00 level I can not. If I started at the $150.00, I can not decrease back to the $11.95?

Natasha: When you sign up for Swipebids.com you are given a variety of valuable Bid Pack Options to choose from based on your preference. The choices are listed below for easy reference.

* SAMPLE PACK, $1.00 (10 BIDS).

* MINI BID PACK, $24.00 (40 BIDS).

* REGULAR BID PACK, $75.00 (125 & 10 BONUS BIDS).

* LARGE BID PACK, $150.00 (250 & 50 BONUS BIDS).

you: TY, so how do I change my choices?

Natasha: One moment please.

Natasha: The Autoreplenish program is a monthly membership in which you got charged $11.95 and got 50 bids, 30 days after signing up.

Natasha: You need to purchase the Bids to start the bidding process from any one of the above options.

you: OK, so how do I change the AUTO REPLENISH AMOUNT?

you: So every time I buy bids, I can change my choices?

you: !

Natasha: The Auto replenish amount cannot be changed.

you: Then I'll need to CANCEL MY ACCOUNT NOW.

Natasha: One moment please.

Natasha: I have effectively cancelled your Auto Replenish program. Please note: all past charges are non-refundable. However, I will personally ensure you will never be charged again.If you later change your mind please contact us back and we will gladly activate it again. Your Cancelation # is

Natasha: 1785

you: I'll open a new account later with a different choice.

Natasha: Is there anything else I can help you with today?

you: TY Natasha, you've been very kind. Have a nice night.

Natasha: Thank you very much for chatting with us today. We hope the rest of your day is an excellent one.

Natasha: Please feel free to come back for any further assistance.

you: I will, good night Natasha.

Natasha: Good Bye.

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I had been watching a Toshiba laptop on Swipebid since noon yesterday. I checked it again at 4:30 am this morning and once again at 6:30 this morning. It was still being bid on. That's nearly 18 hours of bidding. Something definately smells here and I told the live chat gal exactly that. It's now 9:32 am and its still for sale.

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When will I ever learn? Probably never. Did I ever get suckered. All those expensive toys that I've always wanted going for a fraction of their retail value.

How do they do it? Who cares? Hey wait a minute. It's fifty cents a bid. Well that's not much. I'll buy seventy five dollars worth of bids and cream the opposition. Yeah right!

Here it comes at last . The last ten seconds. Let's try autobid forty bids. Winning winning. Shoot! Outbid. There goes twenty bucks. Ok lets auto bid the rest . Shoot! Outbid. I've just blown seventy five bucks for nothing to show. Hey look at this thing go . Everytime it gets near zero someone bids it up.

What a way to sucker people. Charge them fifty cents to bid then as soon as it looks like they are going to win find someone to out bid. Give them ten thousand bids and tell them to outbid everyone else until the cost of the article has been covered one hundred time over.

Ask yourself how long is a piece of string. Without a time limit the zero bid could keep going for hours taking suckers for a ride at fifty cents a try.

Steer clear of these auctions unless you want to throw your money away.

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i looked up all the names on their winner page according to their city and state and what do you know…. no such people exist…. just look at the names.. that right there should tell you that those names are made up..

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Here is the full chat I had with swipebids.com regarding their payments/dispute resolution policies – in plain english.

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Please wait for a site operator to respond.

You are now chatting with 'Sherry'

Sherry: Welcome to SwipeBids. May I know, whom am I chatting with?

Kelly: kelly

Sherry: Hi, how may I assist you today?

Kelly: I'd like some clarrification on payment issues.

Sherry: Ok, how may I assist you?

Kelly: 1-If i buy a bidpack for 40, assuming the bids are .60 cents each, the charge would be $24.00. Are there any additional fees?

Sherry: The auto replenish program is a bonus feature from SwipeBids, which ensures your account has 50 fresh bids each month at a discounted rate. Your active card is charged only $11.95 every 30 days. There is no obligation at all, so you can cancel any time. It’s the best way to keep your account active and always be ready to bid on all the hottest items!

Kelly: If i bid $300.00 for an item, but i don't win the item, do i still pay $300.00?

Sherry: If you do not win the auction the bids that you purchased upfront and used during the auction will not be credited back to your account.

Kelly: is there anyway to avoid paying for an auction you don't win?

Sherry: I am sorry, But your used bids during the auction will not be credited back to your account.

Kelly: What is the non-refundable fee for all bid packs ordered?

Sherry: The price of the bids pack which you buy are non-refundable.

Kelly: How do i notify swipebids of cancellation, and how long does it take to deactivate my credit card?

Sherry: You can cancel your membership at anytime by contacting our live chat service.

Sherry: And your account will be de-activate immediately.

Kelly: Can i easily re-register lets say 2 weeks later?

Sherry: Yes, you can re-register again.

Kelly: Do you realize the number of negative online reviews there are of swipebids? Most concerning to me are complaints of unauthorized charges and swipebids refusal to even discuss, let alone remedy these problems. Whats with this?

Sherry: I'm sorry I don't quite understand – could you please rephrase your question so that I can best assist you?

Kelly: OK, a different approach.

Kelly: Does the 'American Arbitration Association in New York City' offer online dispute resolution, or must one attend in person?

Sherry: I am sorry, I have no idea about it.

Kelly: Is a rather important question because If my credit card is overcharged, for example, your 'Dispute Resolution Provisions' require that i agree to using 'American Arbitration Association in New York City'. But i live in b.c. canada, and cannot fly to New York to attend this neeting in person. Essentially, i'd have no way to seek resolution.

Sherry: Please be assured for best deal with swipebids.com.

Sherry: We stand by the customer service and quality standards of the Better Business Bureau. That's why we are offering our customers complete customer satisfaction day in and day out.

Kelly: i've checked swipebids on bbb,org where you have 2 listings. One reads NR and the other a C rating.

Sherry: We have pending approval with BBB till date.

Kelly: However, you have no disputes listed for me to see how you resolve problems. So you bbb reports tell me little about you except that your business is very new.

Sherry: Yes, Our website is started on February 25 this year only.

Sherry: I can understand why you might be suspicious. We are a company that sells products directly to consumers after they have won one of our auctions. Because of the high volume of sales we have and the income we generate through bids, we are able to let people purchase products at a much lower cost than normal retail. And because we are the ones shipping the products, we have much more control over the process – unlike other auction sites that let people sell their own products. I hope this clarifies your concern.

Kelly: what do you mean by "We have pending approval with BBB till date."

Kelly: One final question – thanks for your patience -

Kelly: If i win an auction for $20.00, do i pay any fees other than the $20.00 i've already bid plus shipping? Total $29.50?

Sherry: You need to pay sold price + shipping fee only.

Kelly: Have i paid the sold price from my bids, or do i pay the won price again?

Sherry: You have to pay the won price again.

Kelly: OK – thanks again for you patience and exhaustive info. Have a great Easter Sunday!

Sherry: Thank you very much for chatting with us today. We hope the rest of your day is an excellent one.

Sherry: Please feel free to come back for any further assistance.

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Here is some maths for you.

An article is listed for auction as having a R.R.P. of $990.

The bidding goes for hours and the article is won at $300

Bless his little soul the winner came in at the right time near the very end and spends $24 in bids to win.

Now for the maths.

$24 buys 40 bids

$300 represents 3000 bids.

3000 bids collectively from all the bidders translates to $1800 ( 3000 divided by 40 and multiplied by 24)

The auction company gets $1800 from all the bidders plus $300 from the winner bidder , total $ 2100

The auction company probably buys the article wholesale fro far less than $990. Let's say $900.

The auction company is laughing , it makes $ 1200 . The winning bidder is laughing because he paid $324 for an article with an R.R.P of $990.

Guess who is not laughing.

Yeah right! All the suckers who contributed their bid money to the $300 winning bid.

Can you imagine holding a garage sale auction where you charge people to bid and keep the clock going until you have made 200 % profit.

There must be thousands of suckers out there for the auction companies to thrive . I unfortunately was one of them until I starting doing a bit of maths.

True . You can win. True. You can win first prize in the lottery. If you think you can do better on these auctions than on the lottery then go ahead , make your day. You feeling lucky punk?

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whats the old saying again, if its too good to be true it probably is!

people, if you seriously think you are going to get a $1700 laptop for $290 you are sadly mistaken. you think any company would be in business if they let products go for 75% less than retail?

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hi do you advice me to join ?

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There might soon be a lot more comments about this site because I just received an invitation from MyPoints.com to join SwipeBids for 500 points. That was also how I found out about BidCactus. MyPoints has always been legitimate, so this could be a new experience for them.

Also, the comments made by AnthonyM84 are correct regarding the $150. As you are signing up, you are being charged $150 for a bid pack. You have to physically check another bid pack button to avoid the $150, even though the $150 button is not checked. Very nice scam there, but "technically" they are following the same rules as the other auction sites in not refunding amounts paid to buy bids. The only difference here is that most people did not know they were buying bids.

I bought the sample pack so I could get my 500 points from MyPoints.com, and I won a bunch of those WalMart $10 gift cards, with the $4.95 shipping. It seemed like all I had to do was click on the auction, and I won it. Very strange. Now I have to wait and see if I actually receive them. I won more than 2 (I saw the limit notice, but I thought it was actually on the Wal-Mart card itself, not the site's policy), so why did it let me continue to win 6 of these cards. If I receive the cards, I save $4/card ($10 face value – $5 S&H – $1.01 cost).

So I am going to be angry if I don't receive those 6 cards, and I am going to be very angry with MyPoints.com for perpetuating a fraud.

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I won more than 2 Walmart cards,but I didn't purchase any more than the 2 because I didn't want to get ripped off.Please let me know if anyone wins and pays for more than 2 of them in a single day or at the same time and if you actually get them in the mail.I don't know if its 2 per day or 2 per customer for the cards.If anyone has any proof on how they do this,Please post here to let me know.Thank You:)

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Well, I just wanted to report that I received my 6 Wal-Mart $10 gift cards today–only a week after I "won" them, so they sent them all even though I violated the "2 per day" rule.

I think those $10 cards and bid packs are the only things real humans can win on SwipeBids. Right now, there is an IPod that is worth $249 that is being bid on and the cost is now $350. What???

If real people are bidding on this site, it may be because the bids are so cheap and they don't care how many they are spending. Swipebids gives awards each day for the Top 50 users based on the number of bids they used. The awards range from $100 gift card and 100 bids for the top 10 to 25 bids for the bottom 25. For $100, you can buy thousands of bids at this site, so maybe that's why people/bots bid like crazy.

But it just makes no sense. The IPod I mentioned earlier that is now $350–that's 35,000 bids! How is that possible? One guy, Tommy88, had AutoBid on, but other people are bidding one at a time. The same guy, Tommy88, also was the top bidder winner yesterday–he won a MacBook.

I got my 6 cards. I'm staying away from this site.

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This is all starting to make a little more sense…

When I went to SwipeBids tonight, I noticed I had more bids than I had yesterday. It's really easy to tell because I've never had more than 40. As it turns out, I was #38 on the Top Bidders list yesterday, which is near to impossible because I only bid on two Wal-Mart $10 gift cards, maybe 15 bids in all–and that made the Top 38. I "won" 25 bids.

That has to mean, as Chad mentioned above, that there are only a small number of real/bot bidders using this site and using it extensively. As noted above, "Noxcbot" seems to win every MacBook auction.

But, as I mentioned, it is starting to make sense. Each day, the top 5 bidders, ranked by the number of bids used (doesn't matter if they won or not) win the following:

1. MacBook ($999)

2. Vizio TV ($249)

3. $300 Wal-Mart Gift Card

4. PS3 ($300)

5. $100 Wal-Mart Gift Card

6. $100 Wal-Mart Gift Card

7 – 11. $50 Gift Card + 50 bids

12 – 16. 100 bids

17 – 50. 25 bids

So, the bids are incredibly cheap, you win prizes just for using them (or the bots do anyway), so people/bots just keep on bidding. Why stop bidding when it is possible to win a Macbook just for using all your bids and not winning anything?

The top bidders are re-listed every 15 minutes, so each person/bot knows where he/she/it stands. So it you want that Macbook, just put an Autobidder on a few auctions and who cares if you bid more than the price of the item? Even the $100 win would get you another 1,650 bids. What is that? $0.06/bid? You can win 40 bids for $1.00, which is $0.025/bid. You can win $500 bids for $29, which is $0.058/bid. This is the only place where the bid price gets higher as you buy more bids because they have reserve prices in place.

It truly is amazing the more you look at this site. If any normal human actually wins anything other than the $10 Wal-Mart gift cards, please let us kow.

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i was checking out the reviews because i was very tempted to bid when i was on their website. Thank you for all your information, it saved me my time and money big time.Thanks again all of you for shouting the truth out loud, so that atleast some of us will be saved….it is very much appreciated.

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Yeah, I spend the last two days just bidding on bids until i had over 2500 bids. I started an autobid on a Macbook that was listing at 150 bux with all of my bids. It was between myself, a woman named Deborah1(who won it) and another name that i forget. After 3 hours of the autobid war, KingBid came on and put an autobid in that took every one of my bids within seconds. Two bids later KingBid left and Deborah1 ended up winning. Put a sticker on my forehead that says, "Sucker"!

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i have won 85 $ 10 dollar wal mart chards and 1 xbox and a mouse and other small items and i have only receved 6 walmart cards when i try to as where is the rest i get told tech dificulties this site is a scam dont play they will play you and take your money and charge your credit card i have wasted over $ 600.00 playing and they have scamed me

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A few things to realize:

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"Due to high demand, we are only accepting a limited number of new customers today. To ensure your spot, please sign-up in the next 4 minutes."

What? Never seen anything like this on a website before … especially for a company that would benefit with more customers.

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"#1 Penny Auction Website"

… based on what?

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On the 'Winners' page they give you the tracking number for each prize. This just seems unnecessary, and they are obviously trying as hard as they can to convince you that they are 'real', which I don't doubt they are, but there's just something fishy about that.

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Falon is the same name the "customer service" person used in the Acai and Teeth Whitening scams from Just Think Media :

http://www.dazzlewhitescam.com/1/post/2009/07/fir…

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.ph…

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I saw some interesting information on a different scam reporting forum than this that i hope i can borrow from this contributer without him getting mad.
it appears to me right now that swipebids.com has put a $75.00 bounty on the heads of all us folks if the affiliates of swipebids PR firm will lead anyone to swipebids.com site and sign up for membership. These affiliates are supposedly indepent reviewers of penny auction sites and all they have to do is write a glowing review of the swipebids penny auction and post an ad with a link to swipebids site and cha ching everyone who jumps to swipebids site and signs up the reviewer – affiliate gets $75.00. Wow i wonder if they get double for their grandmothers. This is the site thats posts the offering of $75.00 bounty per head
http://www.findaffiliateoffers.com/Neverblue-7387_9405.html
Marketing firm – Neverblue

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Joanne its always nice to read from people that have tried the experience of bidding at swipebids.com just to see what changes they have made to the membership sign up process that I experienced at the end of April 2010. When i filled out registration information there was no mention of choosing a bid pack opion only Click Continue and poof i had 300 bids and was $150.00 poorer as i found out by email confirmation later. Tell me more about the option you selected> What were the cost billed per bid. Was it the $.50 still or have they reduced that now ?I too bought the $10 Walmart gift cards as a newcomer but i was prevented from buying more than two. I had competition on the cards i wanted so i had to bid several times not thinking what it was costing me in these bids costing $.50 eeach and probably used more than 20 to 25 bids to win the 2 cards that i did.Thats all i could see of interest and my ability to bid on and checked out and paid for the two $10 gift cards. I hadnt read all the fine print so i was shocked by the shipping and handling charges of$4.95 for each but it was too late then and paid that amout plus the selling price of the item to claim them. Then i started to wonder how much money i had gained in the transaction. I was there afterall to buy buy buy at incredible low low prices.
for each card i did pay the price to claim them of only $6.65 incl.S&Hbut also the cost of that first purchase of bids at $.50 each times the bids i used
32 bids times $.50 = $16.00 plus the claiming cost of $6.65 = $22.65 for each $10.00 Gift card !! there was the additional factor to convert currency from the $22.65 US and the fact that cards were delivered to me here in Canada in Canadian funds but we wont nickle and dime this calculation
When i did consider that my won auction had cost me over $22.65 each with a return of $10.00 Canadian I started to rethink my opinion about the “bargin” i just got for myself.

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I see the question you ask is have I bid on swipebids.com I have and now I have a question to ask. What is a "bid" worth. I see this form of bidding unit on many types of this style of penny auction. At some of them that do the offers are some free bids to get you started . Some state that a bid will cost you $.60 cents and get you started with 3 free bids . I dont really know if swipebids made any offers of free starter bids because the sign up was so fast. I was charged $150 and given 300 bids and remember seeing retail prices for purhase of bids was .either $.60 or$.50. As soon as i start with bidding this auction i see that they offer packs of bids from as few as 40 to as many as 5000. All have retail prices shown at the top that matches the amout of $.50 per bid. but an auction start price far below thats as any penny auction would. So here is my question – why are there so many bid packs offers on the pages of open auctions that pop up everywhere and close for final sale with only a one penny bid to take this prize from "Bid Now" and what that does to the worth of my bids I bought at $.50 each? Are other penny auctions the same ?

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swipebids.com BBB rating and info: http://tinyurl.com/3273d6m

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Scam. Scam. Scam.

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Swipe bids is a hugh scam. Stay away. There is not money back refund. They will put a giftcard in your account and say you won a auction. It is a total waste of $150.

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To all who were scammed

1) Don't give up – some people got a refund, see comments here:
http://www.pennyauctionwatch.com/2010/05/swipebid…

2) Otherwise contact your bank to do a chargeback.

How to get a Refund from an Online Scam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHxSx47XDtA

3) Report the Swipebids scam to the FTC:
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard….

Also to the Attorney General of your state:
http://www.naag.org/current-attorneys-general.php

Good luck to all!

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They told me that they were in the UK when I wanted to fiel a BBB complaint. Here are three good address 2 in teh states and 1 in Canada.
1021018 Alberta Ltd
201, 85 Cranford Way
Sherwood Park, AB T8H 0H9
SWIPEBIDS.COM
20 SW 27th Street
Pompano Beach, FL 33069
Swipebids.com
906 West 400 South
Orem, UT 84058

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Mane I cant belive this site jus ripped me for $150 dollars the site is a SCAM what got me was wen it said due to the high demand u have 3 mins to sign up so i tired to hury and and it got me that fast for $150 stay away

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@ John and all new peeps reporting being scammed by swipebids.com. Why has this scam site been allowed to continue stealing people's money for this bogus membership? I have read hundreds of complaints from people going back to before March of this year. Alll basically say the same thing, They are tricked into this membership and report it to their credit card peeps. They are usually told the same garbage from these companies that they "chose" to do business with the scammers so you have to pay any amounts that swipebids.com want to make to your credit card. Don't these finiancial institutions have enough information from 1000s of complaints of this type of fraud coming from this website to perhaps red flag swipebids.com and begin some sort of investigation of these billing practices? Some credit card companies claim to have fraud investigation departments. Are these people all on vacation or on the same golf course daily with the executive branch of swipebids.com?

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yes, i agree completely. I just got scammed by them on yesterday and when i called my bank to stop payment. they advised that it was already in pending status and i would have to wait for it to clear to dispute it. i never seen anything about the charge either until after i had entered my banking card info (which was stupidity on my part) i thought they were just asking for bank/credit card info for when you actually went to bid. the joke was definitly on me. i tried talking or shall i say getting the run around from live chat claiming all that was pointed out before hand. "it is a lie". i went back after the fact like if i was going to open another account and it did not say anything about the fee anywhere. i am sure i got screwed out of the 150.00 will try to fight it with my bank and attorney generals office. but, if i can help it no one else will be in this predicament. i will make sure everyone i knows does not fall for this scam too.

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I was upset when I saw my bank statement with a $150 charge from swipebids. I contacted them and said that it was for the 300 bids for the first sign up. I told them I was not aware of that and if I can refund it. Of course they said they cant refund it. IT WAS A BIG SCAM!!! I tried it so I can save a little but instead I got robbed for $150 and its not a small amount of money for a student like me. I just wish that people will read the fine prints before they sign up for anything. Im so sad for all of us who got scammed by this. And i believe in karma and someone above all of us. They will be punished for this.

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Great work John in finding that CEO's report of being scammed by the fraudulent and deceptive sign up to swipebids.com. It does look like my instincts were right when I questioned the intentions of the Satisfaction Guarantee now offered by swipebids. It now appears to be a tool to delay complaints to the credit card companies as I thought. As a CEO of a Technology Company I admire him for making his experience public but did think he would have realized he was talking with an automated (bot) chat system provided by a company called Live Person Chat.

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Ya I was just scammed too! 150$ said they couldn't do shit for me. I have to jump through impossible hoops in order to be refunded!

Do NOT GO ON THIS SITE!!!

If there is a group to get rid of them or petition or something count me in!

I'm from Canada if that changes anything….

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It's a total SCAM and I've contacted my bank. Hoping to have them do a charge back. Thanks to the person posting all the info about refunds, etc and who to send complaints to.

That site is a total rip off. I never got the 300 bids there were saying I was charged $150 for. They stopped the 11.95 monthly fee, but I didn't see anything about any such fee when I signed up. I normally read everything before signing electronically or in person, but that flashing message saying you had a time limit is totally working to put pressure on you to hurry up. I can't believe I fell for the whole darn thing! My bank will take up to 10 days for a charge back, but we'll see.

Also, I would normally do a search to see what consumer reports are available ahead of time, but I just wasn't thinking this time.

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They charged me $l50.00 for a membership fee which I did not purchase. They say they will not refund your money. This is a scam website. I filed a dispute claim with my credit card company.

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I agree SWIPEBID.COM is a fraud website they charge me $150 without my kownledge so I made a stop payment on my CC, I reported them to BBB.I encourage everyone to file a complaint.

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And the address of Swipebids (for use when filing complaints with the FTC, BBB, AG etc) is:

Jesse Willms

Swipebids.com (Just Think Media / Terra Marketing Group)

85 Cranford Way

Suite 204

Sherwood Park

T8H 0H9

Alberta/Edmonton

CANADA

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Swipebids you say? Yes I was scammed by swipebids.con but I refuse to think I was just stupid and overlooked the membership charge of $150.00 for the Premium Membership. I DID NOT overlook it but tried to cancel the transaction when the screen popped up at end of the registration that said to buy bids. I DID NOT WANT to buy bids so I thought I had closed this window in the normal windows fashion with the “x” in the top right corner. As it turns out that was my “x” on the line to buy the large bid pack. If anyone else has had the similar experience of a surprise charge of $150.00 and can remember what you did when you finished the swipebids registration I would like to here from you. I was not just stupid enough to do this once but I visited that same registration page three times on my first visit to swipebids and each time that dam window popped up and each time I closed it with the “x” in the corner. I did find later three identical billings of $150.00 each to my credit card for a membership I did not want in the first place. And yes I misspelled swipebids.con because I refuse to provide a link to that scamming web site.

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Joanne it's a great thing you were allowed to bid and win more than 2 of the WalMart gift cards as many were prevented from bidding past the initial 2 like myself. I was not fortunate like yourself and had competition on both my auctions so with the number of $.50 bids it took me and the S & H charge I found myself in the hole by about $12.00 per gift card. I do wonder though how you with the best possible cost per gift card can compare your good fortune to swipebids claim of 90 % savings.

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@Jeff Very interesting info, thanks for posting. Knowing who is behind the site your claims do not surprise me, but it does seem that the scam may extend far beyond just tricking people into handing over the $150.

Another point is that the Swipebids domain name expires in less than 6 months and was registered for the minimum period of 1 year, which suggests that just like all the other previous Just Think Media websites: http://www.webcops.net/just_think_media_spam_scams_8001.html they do not plan to be around for very long!
http://whois.domaintools.com/swipebids.com

I wonder if Hardie is aware of the history of the company he is working for?!

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This compnay is also tied to QuiBids.com stay away

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Money Back offer is a Scam. short version you cant get your money back unless you use all your bids. and your ” disqualified if you win”
and I dont even know how i won before the auction time was completed. i bid 4 cents, and received in less than 2 mins ( 5 min remaining in the bid) a winning bid . ….

long version below . ………………………………………………………………………
this is the chat i had with their supprot staff.

Please wait for a site operator to respond.
You are now chatting with ‘Falon’

Falon: Thank you for visiting SwipeBids. We are here to help you win auctions, save money and have a great time. Who am I speaking with?
you:
Falon: Hi, may I have your email address and zip code please?
you: zip 84*** email used was coaching*******hotmail.com

Falon: Ok, how may I assist you?

you: signed up for you service using my credit card . so i want the accout closed and all transaciton canceld

Falon: Customer satisfaction is our number one priority; this is why we offer each one of our customers a 30 day money back guarantee. We are so confident that you will win auctions with SwipeBids.com that if you don’t win anything, we will refund you the entire sign up fee!

Also, please CLICK HERE to see the details that were stated on your checkout page as you confirmed your original purchase.

you: great .. cancel the one year membership. and credit the funds to my card.

Falon: To ensure no refund request is ever missed, please CLICK HERE to download the refund request form. You have up to 90 days to fill out and mail the form to our accounting department.

you: and please remove the the email address adn contact info form your server
Falon: Ok
Falon: Is there anything else I can help you with today?
you: please explain .. is says i have to use all credit to qualify for my refund?
Falon: Total Bids Left : 296
Falon: This has to be zero.
you: why?
Falon: To qualify you must:
Falon: 1. Must actively participate in auctions over the 30 day period. Click Here (http://imgstorbx.hs.llnwd.net/o36/swipebids/refund_form.pdf ) to download the Refund Request Form
Falon: 2. Must use all credited bids available in your account including daily bids (60 free bids credited daily upon login).

Falon: 3. If you do not win an auction within 30 days of original sign up with Swipebids.com, please contact us via live chat at the end of the 30 days for a refund.

you: i dont want to do busienss with your company. this seams like a way to for..

you: meka me do buseinss with your company

Falon: Must use all credited bids available in your account including daily bids to qualify for refund.

you: is that sos you can make sure i win something. so you dont have to refund my moeny?

Falon: This is our policy, you must qualify if you want the refund.

you: looking at your website. it dosent even look like you have a way to search for items. is that right.

Falon: Right

Falon: There are currently 3 pages of auction items available to bid on at any given time. The auction clocks are set at a much lower timeframe in order to give customers the option to bid on numerous items that are under an hour to count down on the clock. To keep the site fresh, we are continuously changing up the items available.

you: So i can only by the junk you guys offer .and if i dont bid onteh junk you offer. i cant get my refund because you i didn’t use all my credits.

you: it that rignt

Falon: Right

Falon: We don’t have more products right now.

you: falon dosen’t is seam like your company has set up a refund policey that is about not refunding the money, and getting unhappy people to buy stuff the do not want.

Falon: As I stated before, all you need to do is fill out the refund request form and send it to us to ensure you get the best possible results. In addition, I am authorized to credit your account 500 free bids (a value of $300.00), which will greatly improve your chances to win an auction for great items like a laptop, T.V, camera etc… Please CLICK HERE to see a complete list of 1000s of past happy winners this month. Shall I go ahead and credit the 500 free bids to your account?

you: if you credit my accout $500 bids then it will even harder for me to use all the bid credit you have given me up . so i cant get my refund . or i may win items i dont want because you only have limited inventory . that you cant search? dosen’t that sound like it would compound my problem.

you: and i just was looking , the item my wife bid on was a 4 gb sd card.

Falon: Please CLICK HERE to see the details that were stated on your checkout page as you confirmed your original purchase. This checkout page and its disclosures have been approved by our Attorneys, and comply with strict credit card regulations issued by the banks to ensure the charges cannot be disputed. All you need to do if fill out the refund request and mail it to us; it’s that easy to get your refund!

you: the total bid was $1.18 and the total winning charge looks like it would be over $10 dollars ..what the charge diffrence

Falon: Shipping & Handling charges are $9.50 (US $) for all of our products which we ship to U.S, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Gift cards such as Wal-mart are the exception, at $4.95 per card. Shipping & Handling charges will automatically be added onto the winning purchase price of the item in “Won Auctions”. There is no Shipping & Handling charge on Swipebids gift cards as they do not ship out, they are automatically credited to your account upon purchase of the win.

you: you stated. “All you need to do if fill out the refund request and mail it to us; it’s that easy to get your refund!” but earlier you stated that that i had to use up all the credit, not win something, and it looks like your company continues to ad 60 credit a day that i assume would also need to be used up in order to get my “easy to get your refund”

Falon: Its not necessary to login every day, you just have to make sure that you have zero bids left in your account.

you: your company give 60 credit a day right?

Falon: Right, if you login.

you: so what i need to do now then to Guarantee my refund, is bid all credit 298 and not log in for 30 days , and fill out the paper work. and I’ll get my refund. even if i win the item your requaring me to bid on get get my refund. right?

Falon: If you do not win an auction within 30 days of original sign up with Swipebids.com, please contact us via live chat at the end of the 30 days for a refund.

you: that last part should be I get my refund. right?

you: so tell me then what is the best way for me not to win an auction?

Falon: If you win any auction then you will be disqualified.

you: so tell me then what is the best way for me not to win an auction?

Falon: You have already won Dane-Elec 4GB Secure Digital Memory Card

you: i dont think so my wife using my card with our my authorisation.

Falon: I am sorry, you have been disqualified.

you: do i just need to work this out witn my credit card company then.

Falon: Thank you for visiting SwipeBids. We are here to help you win auctions, save money and have a great time. Who am I speaking with?

Falon: I apologize, please disregard that last message – It was sent to the wrong person.

Falon: Unfortunately, I am unable to assist you any further. Please take the time to follow our incredibly easy 30 day money back guarantee CLICK HERE.

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I too have been scammed by SwipeBid! God, I wish I read these websites ahead of time! Quick question – I've read a lot about people filing dispute claims with their banks, but has anybody been successful? I'd love to get some feedback on this…

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Lucas it sounds like you are with Visa. I have been a loyal Visa account holder since 1978 and they have not come to my aid at all to dispute these charges from that scamming web site swipebids. I have asked if this web site is even under investigation by the Visa fraud department and if it is not at present could I please summit swipebids for that investigation now please. I was told I could not do so at my personal branch of Visa but I could by downloading a 700 page informational booklet from Visa International which contains a form that I could print out to summit swipebids for a fraud investigation. I then asked my Visa people if they could send me a letter to my home address detailing these instructions and their reason why that office would not summit swipebids to their own fraud investigation department. I was then told verbally that of course they could not. Do you think that the people I talked with at Visa and the "people" I've chatted with at swipebids were fellow students at the Academy of Missinformation?

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I too got scammed by these pirates!

I tried to contact my Bank within 30 minutes of this transaction only to be told that they could not stop individual payments. I am shocked that a bank cannot stop these con artists from taking my money even though I contacted them before the funds had left my account.

Here is a transcript of my communication with Swipe Bids:
Please wait for a site operator to respond.
You are now chatting with ‘Cyrus’
Cyrus: Thank you for visiting SwipeBids. We are here to help you win auctions, save money and have a great time. Who am I speaking with?
Richard: Richard
Cyrus: Hi, may I have your email address and zip code please?
Cyrus: Please wait while I check your order details in our system.
Cyrus: Ok, how may I assist you?
Richard: I was unaware of the $150 charge to join, how can I get my money back
Cyrus: Customer satisfaction is our number one priority; this is why we offer each one of our customers a 30 day money back guarantee. We are so confident that you will win auctions with SwipeBids.com that if you don’t win anything, we will refund you the entire sign up fee!

Also, please CLICK HERE to see the details that were stated on your checkout page as you confirmed your original purchase.
Richard: I do not wish for any other money to be taken from my account so how can I deregister and remove my credit card details
Cyrus: I have successfully cancelled your Swipebids account as per your request. Please note, this does not cancel or remove any charges of $150.00 for a membership with 300 bids or for any bid pack you may have selected to purchase up to this date. You still have access to all of the bids credited to your account, along with the daily opportunity to become one of our LUCKY TOP PRIZE WINNERS.
Your Cancellation number is:
Cyrus: 8687
Richard: What has happened to the 1300 bids that I already paid for
Cyrus: You can still use those 1300 bids.
Richard: So apart from any money owed from winning bids I will not be charged for anything on a monthly basis
Cyrus: Correct
Richard: can I still log in to use the bids that I have paid for
Cyrus: Yes.
Cyrus: You can.
Richard: Have you deleted my credit card details from all of yours and any other related systems
Cyrus: Yes, we have.
Richard: Is there any way that I can be refunded the $150
Cyrus: I have successfully cancelled your Swipebids account as per your request. Please note, this does not cancel or remove any charges of $150.00 for a membership with 300 bids or for any bid pack you may have selected to purchase up to this date. You still have access to all of the bids credited to your account, along with the daily opportunity to become one of our LUCKY TOP PRIZE WINNERS.
Your Cancellation number is:
Cyrus: 8687
Richard: What has happened to the 1300 bids that I already paid for
Cyrus: You can still use those 1300 bids.
Richard: So apart from any money owed from winning bids I will not be charged for anything on a monthly basis
Cyrus: Correct.
Richard: or given that it was less than an hour ago even stop it going through
Richard: there is a cooling off period with most purchases does this apply
Cyrus: To ensure no refund request is ever missed, please CLICK HERE to download the refund request form. You have up to 90 days to fill out and mail the form to our accounting department.
Richard: what if I don’t win an auction
Richard: does the guarantee then come into effect
Cyrus: Then you qualify for the refund.
Cyrus: Yes.
Richard: OK, I would say thanks but I’m unhappy with the way this money was taken with very little and very unclear notification.
Cyrus: Is there anything else I can help you with today

I don’t see any way of getting my $150 back but hopefully I’ll prevent them from taking any other money from my account.

It’s been an expensive lesson!

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I signed up for swipebids yesterday. I never entered my credit card information because, well, I know better. After reading the terms and conditions and exploring the site I had some questions about the shipping of items.. I figured there would be astronomical shipping costs for laptops, etc. I spoke to a rep and found that they have a flat shipping rate for large items, regardless of the weight… 9.50US by Canada Post (I’m Canadian) using the Expedited service (the only one that gives a tracking number) To put this in perspective, I can MAYBE ship a bottle of hand lotion for 9.50 expedited… MAYBE. Here is my chat with the sales rep:

Please wait for a site operator to respond.
You are now chatting with ‘Shalyn’
Shalyn: Thank you for visiting SwipeBids. We are here to help you win auctions, save money and have a great time. Who am I speaking with?
you: hi
Shalyn: Hi, may I have your email address and zip code please?
you: rachels####@hotmail.com L7S 2K8
you: i would like to know your shipping rates and service
Shalyn: Shipping & Handling charges are $9.50 (US $) for all of our products which we ship to U.S, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Gift cards such as Wal-mart are the exception, at $4.95 per card. Shipping & Handling charges will automatically be added onto the winning purchase price of the item in “Won Auctions”. There is no Shipping & Handling charge on Swipebids gift cards as they do not ship out, they are automatically credited to your account upon purchase of the win.
you: what are the shipping rates on the larger items, such as a laptop or tv
you: i know from experience that its not possible to ship a laptop or tv for 9.50
Shalyn: Yes, $9.50
you: how?
Shalyn: That is our company policy.
you: and there is a tracking number?
Shalyn: Yes, we’ll provide you tracking number as well.
you: what service do you use to ship
Shalyn: We use USPS, UPS and Canada Post.
you: where do you ship from?
Shalyn: For security and privacy reasons, we are unable to disclose our exact address, but I will confirm for you that we are based out of the United States.
you: how is it that you use canada post to ship items out of the united states?
you: i was actually wondering what method you use- for exmaple by air? expedited? ground?
Shalyn: We have one warehouse in canada as well.
you: i was actually wondering what method you use- for exmaple by air? expedited? ground?
Shalyn: We’ll ship via expedited.
you: … expedited… a tv… for 9.50
Shalyn: Yes.
Shalyn: We will ship your product within 72 hours of receiving the final payment from you. If you are in the continental United States you should receive it in 1 to 2 weeks. If you live outside of the USA, shipping normally takes an extra 3 days.
you: what is your policy regarding taxes
Shalyn: There are no taxes.
you: at the border? there are no taxes?
Shalyn: Right. Because if you are living in Canada, we’ll ship you from our Canadian warehouse.
you: why does it take extra time, then?
you: canada post expedited services take 3,4,5 days
you: not 1-2 weeks plus 3 days
Shalyn: We will ship your product within 72 hours of receiving the final payment from you.
Shalyn: We always says more time.
you: do daily/monthly winners also pay shipping on the items they win
Shalyn: Yes, and with the same price of $9.50
you: how much is shipping for the car
Shalyn: $9.50
you: i think you are beginning to understand how ridiculous that is
you: lol
you: i have questions about winning the auctions as well
Shalyn: We provide best price selling to our customers, that’s it.
Shalyn: Please let me know, what’s in your mind?
you: so each person pays a penny per bid… if by chance i don’t win, lets say, a gift card for $2.00 will i still have to pay the $2.00 in addition to spending the bids?
Shalyn: If you do not win the auction the bids that you purchased upfront and used during the auction will not be credited back to your account.
Shalyn: But, The Premium Membership have a guarantee that you will win an auction or the bids purchased will be replenished. If you have been unsuccessful at winning an auction, I can replenish the total amount of the bids you originally purchased this one time.
you: so, to clarify, when i am bidding, i am actually bidding on the opportunity to buy the item at the final auction price. if i do not win, all i spend is the bids?
Shalyn: Right.
you: but when i buy the premium membership, i will be refunded the bids i spent if i do not win the auction?
Shalyn: The Premium Membership have a guarantee that you will win an auction or the bids purchased will be replenished. If you have been unsuccessful at winning an auction, I can replenish the total amount of the bids you originally purchased this one time.
you: only once?
you: for the duration of the entire membership?
Shalyn: Yes, only once.
you: so, essentially the first time?
Shalyn: Right.
you: are all the products in the auction the newest models, unopened?
Shalyn: All of the products you see on SWIPEBIDS are brand new. There are no re-furbished items. We take great pride in providing top of the line products which are supplied directly from the warehouse. To review the details of any item, simply click on the item of interest and a full detailed description will come up for your viewing.
you: so swipebids buys the products at retail, loses some small amount of money on the auction price, but makes money on the actual bids that people spend trying to win the item, and off of the membership fees of people who join without realizing what your company is?
Shalyn: Every company requires a profit margin in order to sustain itself and provide high quality services to its customers. Our profits are earned from the cost of bid packages which customers purchase. Although these fees are not substantial, the volume of customers that our site gets allows us to accumulate revenue that we can put towards providing huge discounts to auction winners.
you: you do buy the products at retail, though?
Shalyn: Yes, we do.
Shalyn: They are just brand new items you would purchase at any electronic store. Our stock comes from an electronic wholesaler.
you: i can understand why people think this is a scam… but if you actually shipped the items, it is actually a feasible buisiness idea.. im not convinced that you can ship the larger items, though, because you arent requesting a large enough sum of money to do so
you: and from what i have heard.. you dont
Shalyn: SwipeBids is most certainly not a scam. Though given how great some of our bargains are, I can understand why you might be suspicious. We are a company that sells products directly to consumers after they have won one of our auctions. Because of the high volume of sales we have and the income we generate through bids, we are able to let people purchase products at a much lower cost than normal retail. And because we are the ones shipping the products, we have much more control over the process – unlike other auction sites that let people sell their own products. I hope this clarifies your concern.
you: thank you for your time.
Shalyn: Thank you very much for chatting with us today. We hope the rest of your day is an excellent one.
Shalyn: Please feel free to come back for any further assistance.

I came to the conclusion that swipebids has the ability to be a legitimite auction site, provided they actually send the products. They make their money off of people making less than careful decisions *cough thats where your $150 went, it CLEARLY states on the left that you are signing up for a membership and that you will get 300 bids for $150* which is why they are so reluctant to give your money back. They buy their items at retail price… sell them for a fraction of the cost.. (meaning they make 2x the final auction price b/c the bids are paid for that lead up to the close of the auction) Then they make a small amount of money from people buying their bid packs which are a rip off (but if you spend all your bids without knowing what you’re doing, you’ll likely need to spend a little cash in that area… and let’s not forget the $150 they make off of the hundreds of people on this forum, and many like it. I would like to acknowledge that some people have actually received small items like the gift cards. The actual auction piece of the site isn’t what is too good to be true. It’s the shipping! Simply stated, you can ship a gift card for $4.75 (magic-you got your gift card!), but you cant ship a laptop for $9.50 (magic- no laptop!) In conclusion, I did not buy their membership package, although I am a member (for free ) I watch the auctions and estimate the final auction prices.. I keep my eye on who wins and how frequently. I will not buy a membership package until I have proof that someone has received a large item, though.

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Sounds like everyone that says its a scam or not to do it lost $150 on it well why are you that f*cking dumb to spend $150 your first time.

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@>>>>>>>>>Rachel June 15, 2010 at 3:52 pm sry for typo above. How long have you been employed by the marketing firms hired by swipebids, What gives you the right to call any and all of these people here stupid because they have been tricked and defrauded by these scammers swipebids that change their website daily to suite their needs. How can you be so highmighty as to suggest what you say you experienced was anything close to the conditions that existed before or even after your visit,

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I can't find their address and phone number. Does anyone knows?

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I was also scammed by Swipebids.com! The "live" chat is obviously not really live and totally automated. If you pay attention once you are in it you can see the mistakes the bot makes. It kept answering questions that I didn't ask and were totally off topic for the conversation I was trying to have. I never mentioned any orders but yet "she" asked me for my info so she could pull up my order status???? I too called my credit card company after being prompted to by more bids; when I tried to just close the whole window another one popped up "confirming" my purchase for 300 more bids for $150! This site is a huge FRAUD/SCAM site. Everyone BEWARE!!! I wouldn't go anywhere near the site if I were you.

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What can I say? You guys said it all. The first response is exactly what happened to me word for word. It didn't help me any except that my wife now knows that I'm not the only stupid SOB that can be tricked (E-Bay is getting the same way, watch your orders and payments history). As far as Swiped, you didn't push the button too fast I think thet have it rigged. When I finally found the charge sign way up in the left corner. I called their customer service line. They asked for a different e-mail address because they thought someone else must be using my card because I already had an account. I gave them one I never use. Well, they deducted the first$150 but I was immediately charged another $150 for the other account. Now, I was only on the website 2minutes and called back. They said I didn't call back until 4 hours later. I spoke with another cust service rep and she offered to give me an additional 500 bids . I said I didn't want any bids at all I wanted my money back. She said I had to fill out a form and it would take 90 days. I said the other rep credited my card right away. She said that was impossible because no–one gets their money back.Then she said I should try it and she gaurenteed I would win more than my moneys worth. Well, enough, my bank and I are joiniung forces and I think a Class Action Suit would be near in the future. Remember there's strength in numbers. Keep Posteds. Thirddog993

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Join me at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12653228736… if Swipebids scammed you too!

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I feel I have to write this, my wife has been a member of Swipebids for a couple of months. Last month she finished in the Top Ten and had won many prizes such as Laptops Tv's etc etc….. Currently my wife is in the top Ten this month but I can garantee she won't be finishing there at the end of the month. At the start of this month my wife won a few prizes big and small and everything was going alright until last week, she was bidding on a MacBook laptop and it ended with my wife being the winner only to find out that another bidder won the item!!!!. Next night she won a small item only to find again that another bidder won the item.Over the last few days when she has been bidding on items big and small her computer screen freezes for a few seconds,mine add you she was bidding on one of the Brand New MacBook that she received.{MacBook being only a week old!!}.

Last night she won a couple of items and were in her account and as I was going to pay for one of the items it disappeared from her account. As I said my wife has won many items from Swipebids over the last month but now its quite obvious that she can't win anymore.

As they say on their website "there is no limit of contests you can win per day, yeah right firstly they take the prize out of her account, secondly she won those items last week only to lose them to another bidder and that is after when the item is SOLD and WON by my wife.

Another matter my wife won a TV only to find out the tracking mumber was for Walmart Cards and the TV has gone AWOL .

I don't know if Hardie is aware of all of these bodgy activities, lets hope they put a stop to this.

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This is for Rachael, my wife has won many large items and the postage cost is DEFINITLY not $9.50 ,they say its that shipping price for people that live in USA, Canada, Australia England etc etc. When the items arrived it comes with a invoice and the postage and fees varied between $69.00 to $100.00 and that is for the large items and the small items as well.

With the tracking numbers it may appear that they are legit and check out but when my wife won the panasonic TV and she received the tracking number, we didn't receive the TV instead it was something different that we received.

So be aware it all appears to be legit but you find out along the way that its not what its cracked up to be.

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Its nice to see I'm not the only one who has been scammed by these people.One has to wonder how they sleep at night.I am just starting the process of trying to get a refund.Has anyone had any luck with this ?

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@>>>>David June 18, 2010 I just looked and that comment was made here by:

keith schipiour June 14, 2010 at 6:34 pm

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Everyone!!!Remember this name and "run"… if you see it. SWIPEBIDS

They are slick. I just lost $150 on a membership. I thought it would be $11.95 with the first month free and you can quiet anytime. I gave them my credit card number. I then started to bid on a $20 Walmart card. After a minute a designation came up that said CONFIRM. I clicked it. Bingo!! My credit card was charged $150. Then after I lost the Walmart card I found out that each time I clicked a barter it was costing me .50 I freaked out when I found out my pocket had been picked again. I went on live chat. I did not get any where with them. I tried it again and asked for a manager. She was rude and I was upset. After that all my contacts were blocked with the live chat. I called my credit card company and they said they would help and don't worry. But I happen to know the SWIPBIDS will provide all sorts of bogus paper work showing I joined and did not cancel, etc, etc. They "GOT" me. The old saying says,"if it's too good to be true it probably is." Don't go near them

Say, If any one knows a good lawyer perhaps he/she could represent all of us. Another suggestion, contact the BBC in your city and the State Attorney general. I will do both. Hope you will also. Do what you can when someone steals your hard earned money!!! Good luck!

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you guys should go to better business bureau as they state they have no complaints

http://www.seflorida.bbb.org/Business-Report/SWIP…

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@>>>>To everyone who have posted complaints of swipebids swiping your money that say they feel foolish or maybe even stupid about “overlooking” the membership charge on swipebids registration form:

STOP IT AND GET A GRIP !!

YOU did not overlook it and you were defrauded out of your money by a very crafty thief. It was NOT clearly evident on the registration page you put your information into but swipebids have multiple versions of that same page to use at different times. After any of us make a complaint the chat service always steer us to a sign in page that does display that information about the membership cost. THAT page is not the one any of us saw when we placed our credit and personal details on. THAT page that displays all these costs is the one they present to the banks and CC companies to prove the charges are valid. YOU are being ripped off twice, once by swipebids and secondly by your banks and CC companies that accept the word from their “merchant” swipebids that this sign in page is the real deal. I have started a discussion in another scam reporting site if you would like to read or comment on this apparent “oversight” by our banking institutions.
http://www.scamraiders.com/forum/topics/swipebids…

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@>>>dave June 18, 2010 at 10:45 pm I think that is a great idea and could have some good results dave. I was scammed by swipebids two months ago now and still can not get satisfactory answers from Visa that I chose to use as CC information I placed in the swipebids sign up page. I have told them of the 100s or even 1000s of complains from people i have seen reporting this same scammer but they refuse to summit it to any fraud investigation. I would really like to here from anyone who has been told that swipebids is under investigation by their banks or CC companies. I have also started a discussion group if anyone would like to leave a comment or information of active fraud investigations@
http://www.scamraiders.com/forum/topics/swipebids-scammed-me-out-of

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Please join the discussion in another scam reporting site about swipebids scam:

http://www.scamraiders.com/forum/topics/swipebids…

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Ditto…I just got scammed as well. Have to dispute with my bank. I thought I was smarter that this but I did not see anywhere that there was a $150.00 memebership fee. Also reporting to the State investigators. Shameful

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Oh yeah…I did a nslookup on their domain then found the server "cloud" provider with offices in San Antonio. Then I checked the consistent #1 going for the monthly car winner…..from San Antonio.

Now the autobid doesn't work and I havent seen a win all night.

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@>>>Lisa June 20, 2010 at 1:20 pm Lisa I believe you might have been making a complait to the wrong BBB perhaps in Florida. If you were to check with the BBB nationwide or even Utah you will find different results. Most complaints I have found about the suspected ownership of swipebids can be found at this link:

http://www.bbb.org/edmonton/business-reviews/heal…

Maybe you would like to add your complaint to the thousands that are on file there.

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Sorry to say, anyone who decided to give Swipbid there credit card number deserves everything thats coming to them.
How could one ever think this would be real?
Im sorry, after reading the first page. I thought you have to be kidding!
No one in there right mind would sell a Macbook Pro for $140 US dollars.
Or anything else listed on there page.
Im going to start another swipbid site. You think people will give me there money too?
Like the old saying goes, it’s too good to be true!

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This is for Acutting, the usernames that you are probably seeing are more then likely in the Top Ten,they go bidding around like crazy to keep in the Top Ten. Now that the autobidder is down its the only way that they can do it.My wife was doing it last week and she is definitly not a bod bidder, if you take notice of the daily bidpack winners and the premium bidpack winners its more or less the same usernames that are in the top 50. The bot bidders are the ones that no one sees in the bidpackers comps each day.

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Tom I was scammed by swipebids too and am mad as hell when they tricked me with that sign in page. I have made a complaint to Clark Howard too because the more exposure we give this scam the sooner it will get its credit card processing privileges pulled and be out of business. I have also taken screenshots of the various start pages and the at least different sign in areas used by swipebids since they started. I have posted them at a discussion group at:

http://www.scamraiders.com/forum/topics/swipebids…

All anyone need to do is to Google searh the sign in page from swipebidscs to expose this obvios fraud. That page that “clearly shows all the charges is never viewed by anyone while signing up at that website but is presented to banks and CCs to convince them these membership charges are clearly displayed:

Swipebids customer service link

http://swipebidscs.com/

http://swipebidscs.com/service_enq2.php

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Has ANYONE received a refund at all from SwipeBids OR from your credit card company? If so, please say HOW. Thanks in advance.

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I was scammed a few hours ago, apparently in the same way as everyone else. When I spoke with the first rep, she canceled my account with verification code 8687, a code given to two other people I've found on the web. When I question her (Karen) about this, she said the number was unique (so I don't think she was a bot). When she canceled it, she also clarified that my account was still good, but now it would no longer auto-renew in a year. I went through two reps who both ultimately referred me to the refund page here…

http://www.swipebids.com/guarantee.php

So it seems you have to spend your initial 300 credits plus 60 free credits you get every day when you log in. So today, on my first day, I have 360 credits. I did go to my bank and attempt a fraudulent stop payment option, but they told me (Wells Fargo) that they'd already investigated this shyster merchant previously to discover their unethical behavior is backed up by US law.

I have not bid on anything yet, but I am considering doing so just to test the refund waters. I'm also intrigued by the 60 free credits I can get by logging in every day. If I do nothing, I guess I just paid $150 for a valuable lesson, but I would still like to get something tangible out of it. But I have absolutely no reason at all to trust anything that anyone says. Below is the BBB site for SwipeBids, an "F", the worst possible rating.

http://www.bbb.org/edmonton/business-reviews/heal…

Anyway, I'd just like to know if anyone has decided to attempt the refund process by using up their 300+ credits. I haven't seen any responders to that yet.

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I thought swipebids seemed like a really cool site to get things I really would like but couldn't neccesarily afford the conventional way so a penny auction seemed awesome. I saw a video done by a newscast saying how great this company supposedly was and was hooked. I gave them credit card info under the understanding it was so if I won an auction I could be charged for the cost of the item. I did not realize I was charged $150 until later that night when I did some research and saw thousands of messages but people saying how this company scammed them. What I didn't know is that I was already another person to join the long list. I logged into my account and clicked on my account to see if there was a purchase history as no receipt was sent to my emial notifying me I had been charged anything. Sure enough it said I had a $150 charge for a 1 year membership I never even knew I bought. I thought when I signed up I got 300 bids free and after that you needed to buy a membership, the way most things work. I quickly complained to the live chat operator 'Rosy' telling her that I did not authorize the purchase of a 1 year membership and it was done so unknownly and deceptively and demanded a full refund immediatley. She told me like most other stories that I could follow their rules to get a refund which demanded you activiely participate for 30 or 90 days in auction bidding and that if I had not won a bid I would get my money back. Problem was that I had already won a bid when I was playing around with my supposedly free bids but never purchased it. It was 500 bids for $29. She did say that even though I had won I could maybe get my $ back still but I would have to activatley paticipate in the mean time. I told her I was not interested in participating and that I demanded a full refund and that my card was not to be used at all what so ever! I tried calling mastercard while talking to her but it said they were closed so when I finished getting the run around from her I looked up another number for master card for emergencies. Please note I never logged out of my account or touch the website, it was on its home page I believe, when I noticed my bids jump from 300 to 3300 and some odd bids in my account. I quickly checked the purchase history and sure enough it said a purchase for 3000 XXL bid pack had been made, that cost $995! I could not believe it. I was shaking I was so upset. I immediatley dialed master card and told them to cancel my card ASAP! They confirm that a charge for $1126 was made just minutes ago and that another charge of $155 was made earlier that night. I have contacted the police, economics crime division and will be contacting the news. I also have a friend whose brother is a ethical hacker (he works for companies like mastercard and banks on how to protect their systems). She contacted him and said the guy that owns Swipe Bids is named Jesse Willms and is a well known crook in the fraud industry. He advised cancelling the card and working with mastercard to resolve the dispute. He also said to get a seperate card for internet purchases with a low credit limit so that this can't be done again with such severity. I am still awaiting to here from mastercard on whether the purchase will be going through despite it being fraud. I told mastercard that this guy is well known apparently W5 a well known documentary show in Canada did a thing on this very guy scamming people, so if he is well known for his unlawful business practices then why is mastercard and visa knowningly supporting a fugitive in scamming people's $. I told him that they need to do some research on the company and advised they stop doing business with these unreputable companies because otherwise it could cost them customers as I no longer feel that safe using my credit card. I am also contacting a lawyer for a class action law suit, if you are interested in pursuing this with me, please say so on here.

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SWIPBIDS is disgusting. They originate outside of the US. They steal.

Same story here as the others, you are deceived into believing you are registering to bid. No clear indication that you are spending 150.00 for 300 bids. No contact address, just some but cutting and pasting defenses. No address to disclose. I submitted the BBB complaint using my own address. I asked the NJ consumer affairs dept to identify how many laws they may be breaking. You can't shame them they are successfully stealing. As long as that is going on they win. This site is gross. Horrible the worst I have seen. Pathetic losers working there. They shouldn't be around long. HORRIBLE. None of them will admit who they are, the company hides. probably a sleazy dickless grunt laughing while making a fortune. cutting and pasting the tired phrase we are not a scam. Creepiest site on the internet.

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I too was scammed by the site swipebids.com. They said that I would get 300 free bids for signing up, so I did just to try it out. Little did I know that I was actaully paying $150 for the 300 bids and I was automatically signed up for additional money to be taken out of my bank account every month. They only have like 5 main items you can bid for on the website and they all cost 5 bids a peice. That means that you only actually receive 60 bids which amounts to only 60 cents since the price of the item goes up by a penny for every bid. The items sell for about $100 to $500 when the bidding is done. If an item goes for $300 that means that means that there was 30,000 bids on that item. At 50 cents a bid times 5 bids for each bid comes to $2.50 a bid. $2.50 times 30000 bids means that the website made $75,000 on a product that retails for less than $1,000. It is a total scam and they would not give me my money back. They said in order to get my 30 day money back guarantee that I would have to not win any items and I would have to bid every day and use all of my bids including the 60 free bids they give you daily. Than I would have to fill out a form and request the money back. I am going to try to win an item with the bids I have purchased by watching an item and hoping to get lucky. This site is a total scam and should be shut down.

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Yesterday I went on the swipebid website and I read that I was going to receive 300 bonus bids for signing up Today. It aslo stated that a bid is .50 cents. It never stated that I would be charged 150 dollars the same day for signing up. Once I saw that my card charged 150 dollars I went back on the site to chat with a live person. I asked for the 1800 customer service number. I called the 1880 number and told them that I did not see anything stated that I was going to the charged 150 dollars. I told her since I did not see that I feel that I should not be charged. I also told her that I do not want this membership and that I want my money back. She told me that I could not get my money back. She also had the nerve to tell me that I have 300 bids to use. I told her that I am not going to bid. She told me that the bids would still be there. I do not want this membership. I have been scammed and do not like it!!!!!!! I need to get me a lawyer!

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I was taken by SwipeBids.com for $150!!! This is just totally bogus! And to get your money back you have to "actively" bid every day, plus you have to wait 30 days to even submit a request for a refund. Now the website is not even accessable thus making it impossible to "bid" for anything. This all adds up to NO REFUND!!!! I want my money back!!! They mislead people and I highly doubt that anyone wins anything!! The counter goes down to zero only to go back up with more time on it making it literally impossible to win anything. This is the most ridiculous sites I have ever seen. It is a total scam and should be stopped immediately!!!!

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Please Join "SwipeBids.com is a Bloody SCAM" on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SwipeBidscom-is-a-B…
Add any and all information you can including contacts, "cancellation numbers" and ideas of who to petition for legal action.

Thanks.

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This was a huge lesson learned for me. I also lost $150 2 days ago and gone gone thru numerous "live chats" just like everyone else that said exactly the same thing that I have read here. I asked to cancel, and was also given the same confirmation #8687 and told that I had to use all my 300+ credits. I tried to bid on a few things before and seeing it was almost useless sitting there for hours competing agains bots or programs but I had used a few bids. I just decided to try to fullfill their request and downloaded the money back guarantee form, and was going to comply with their rules. I started bidding on a few things and wouldn't ya know it…I accidently won a stupid bid pack. I looked into my "won" column and it showed I had already won a small bid pack for $1.04. I swear I didn't win anything before so since I "won" an auctin, that forfeited my refund. I would be interested in being a part of any class action suit against these crooks.

Peggy

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This company sure is a scam and they do charge you $150. for sighing up that they do not let you know about it. they also charged me $150. for bids that I never said i wanted. So I got took for over $300. that is a very costly lesson for a foolish 70 year living on a fixed income.

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I found anothe Penny auction site called http://www.incrediblebidz.com. It looked interesting and I have some friends who joined similar type auction sites and had some good luck so I was thinking about trying this…I actually took the time to read through the Terms of Service agreement…It was all the same standard BS as you'd normally find, though under the "shipping" section they referenced themselves as Swipebids in one sentence, and Incrediblebids in the next (I guess the Find and Replace function failed them). That led me to google Swipebids and Scam and thats how I found this website….so long story short: incrediblebids is the same scam run by the same people.

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Not sure why people call Swipe Bids a scam. It tell you how much bids cost and how much you will pay. I feel bad for people that lost money but I have won many items at very discounted prices. They even gave away a car for really cheap, not sure how much but it was definitely under $100. Just try out the bidding, it actually works. I bought a whole bunch of bids for cheap to start off then won some great electronics. Everything was new and worked great

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I spent $900 so you don't have to. Ok, so here is how it works. SwipeBid offers you a $999 computer (retail). Now, these computers might go for $50 or they might go for $200 (seems to me that they get up over the $140+ range normally). Normally you would be bidding on a 10 bid per bid product. This means that your one bid costs you 10 bids points. Each bid point will cost you 50 cents if you buy directly from SwipeBid and maybe it will cost 10 cents (maybe even a bit cheaper) if you bid on them.

Ok, so then SwipeBid offers maybe 2 good products at any given moment. Yes, they will have maybe 6 things that you can bid on, but it is silly to even start biding before the count is down to 1 second left (so you don't bid on the ones that have a hour left). So, everyone is already focused on those 2 or 3 items. In any case, if the item ends up selling for $200 that might sound good to most people. And it would be if you didn't have to spend $1000 to actually win it for $200. In any case, $200 would mean that there was 200,000 bids. For a 10 bid per bid auction that means that means that 200,000 bids occurred for that object. At 10 cents a bid that would be $20,000 for SwipeBid and if it is 50 cents per that would be $100,000 for SwipeBid for a $999 computer. Don't get me wrong I am not against profit, but there is a point where it seems a bit silly.

Still, you could win a $999 computer for $200 so what do you care. Well, the problem is that you have to overcome the other bidders auto-bid before you have any chance of getting anything. With only 2 or 3 items being auctioned at any given moment means that you gotta put in 10,000 bids to have any real chance of winning anything. But what does that mean. Well, if the origianal product is $999 and you win it for $200 then that means that you can't spend more that $800 on bids. But that isn't even reasonable since you have to spend time bidding and sign up and do all sorts of things just to get going. So, if it costs you even $200 for bids to win a $200 computer then it probably isn't worth the effort. But lets stick with the $800. What can you buy for $800 (bidwise). Well at 50 cents a bid that will be 1600 bids. At 10 cents a bid you can get up to 8000 bids. 8000 bids might last you all of 1 second if you toss them into auto-bid (because there are other people posting 10,000 auto-bids). So, you will have to sit there chugging away bidding ever 10 seconds for 12 hours or more. You will likely spend 12,000 bids doing so, but maybe you could get that down in the 1600-8000 range. And lets say you WIN….YIIPPIIEEEE!!!! You just bought a computer for $200, but you spent another $800 for the privileged of bidding. So you run around telling all your friends how you won a $999 computer for $200, but you know in your heart that you messed up big time.

And that is in the unlikely event that you actually win. When you don't win then you just wasted $800 on bids.

Now, this ignores the possibility that SwipeBid doesn't run bots to trip you up even more. I suspect as much based on my experince, but that doesn't even matter. SwipeBid will make its 10,000% profit and most people will have spent $200-$800 and won nothing. More importantly the one (1) winner will have won the computer for $200, but likely they would have spent $800-$1200 in the process.

Don't bother with this site. It is a waste of your time. Just drop over to eBay and buy a used computer if you want a deal.

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Oh, let me make this even more painful for everyone (my evil plan). Let me tell you how people currently win. The first thing you need to understand is that the price is NOT the thing that you need to be concerned about. What you need to be concerned about is your bid cost. What you spend in bids will be much more then the price that you end up paying for the product (if you win). In any case, you will want to do the following:

1. Wait until the time gets down to 1 second before starting to bid.

2. Wait until the price gets up to a bit below the average price that such products go for. This is the trouble since this will change depending on many factors and this is what will force you to start bidding earlier and earlier. Still, you want to be below this average (like, I'd say it is $140 for a MacBook right now). YOU CAN IGNORE THIS STEP AND JUST START BIDDING ON SOMETHING THE MOMENT YOU LOG IN. This is too difficult to predict if everyone is trying to predict it. You need a few saps bidding when they shouldn't be in order for this to work.

3. Next, VERY VERY IMPORTANT, you should make use of the auto-bid. There is no point in just bidding one bid at a time (single click). NOBODY SHOULD EVER USE SINGLE CLICK (except in emergency when your autos run out). Even if you want to do a single click you should do that with an auto-bid of 1 (though it is better to bid 50 auto-bid or something).

4. Now, that you are using auto-bid you will have two strategies. The first is that you want to use smaller auto-bids (like 20-50 at a time, whatever you can tolerate). So that is your general strategy. You are kinda using the auto-bid as if it is a single click bid strategy, but maybe 50 auto-bids at a time. This is the strategy that will defeat ALL single click bidders. Thus you can ignore that mass of foolish people that are wasting their money on single click bids. They are essentially completely out of the game. They don't know this, but they are. Mind you ever one of you that is currently using single bid is in that "completely out of the game" category because every bid already has a few people using auto-bid in this way. So, I must repeat DO NOT USE SINGLE CLICK.

5. Ok, so now you have all the single click people throwing money at SwipeBid without any chance of winning anything (because your auto-bids will always beat them). So, whats next. Well, you also have to defeat other auto-bidders. But this is the problem. You can't do that without spending large numbers of bids. Still, at the present (since most people are single click fools) you could use this strategy. When you encounter a large auto-bidder you should reduce your auto-bid amount and use autobid to test his large autobid until it runs out. I don't mean that you should run out his large autobid. Let the single click bozos do that for you, but you do need to test his autobid to determine when it has run out. So, small autobids should do that. When you determined that his large auto bid has gone bye bye you can then go back to your 50 per auto-bids and hope that some other 50 per auto-bidder messes up (or runs out of money from his kids college fund).

Of course, the problem with all of this is that the more people that catch on to using auto-bid (because the alternative is losing for sure using single click) then the more impossible things get for everyone. And thus, my evil plan is made clear. If everyone can start using auto-bid then nobody will every win (since everything will cost the winners more than it is worth…so even the winners are losers). And this will be the end of this silly site. So, if you must play then at least do it right. Don't waste your money on single clicks while auto-bidders win the prices. Go use auto-bid like the winners do. Of course, doing so will make everyone losers (even the winners), but at least this site will close down.

If you don't believe that the winners use auto-bid then go ahead and look at the current winners. Then watch them in the auction window. You will see that all the regular winners use auto-bid (and you will see that they use it just like I am describing above). So, be a winner like them…and make them lose too. Use Auto-Bid!!!!!!!!!

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i am also victimized by swipe bids…. they took 300 dollars from my account)

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If you take notice I just happened to click on to ‘Join up Now’ even though that my wife and I are members already,I happened to notice that they have 3 usernames with whom have won many items and it reads that they paid $150.00 for the membership so they cover their arses well with putting that on as I know it wasn’t up their a few weeks ago, as my wife has found out their are many scams inside Swipebids not only the charge of $150.00. How do I know this because its happened to my wife and I would like to mention with the comments that ENLADE wrote she is right on the money,just have alook at the daily Premium bidpack winners every day and how many they purchase its not hard to do the math !!!!!!

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BE AWARE SWIPEBIDS IS A SCAM…IDF YOU ARE ONE OF THE VICTIME PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION FOR A CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINTS SWIPE BIDS NOW…
http://www.petitiononline.com/icls4js/

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I find it interesting that you have to flag my reply of less than 50 words. How many hours did it take to moderate the last few threads of 2000 words or more?

“Your comment is awaiting moderation”

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I was wondering if anyone was able to get their sign up fee back from Swibebids? I had not realized that they had charged me that fee. I admit that I had not noticed that. Also, what will happen if we sign the petition… given that we supposedly signed the agreement that we would not bring charges against them. I am woefully undereducated in this whole area. It took me a while to figure out it was no deal and to begin to wonder about who was actually winning. I don't think there is a way of winning with so many "people" having thousands and thousands of bids to bid on on something which would make them paying more for the item than the original price. Is there anything else I should do? I assume that my bank won't be able to refund my money for my lame mistake.

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Greeting

I am in the same boat. They have scam me too. I am out of $461.95. I have talk to someone on there chat line, NO HELP! I have put in request for a refund. NO HELP! Ask to be taken off there list, did not. Still charging me for another month. Tell and show you one thing and charge you another thing. I am very upset with them. And they talk about how they are rated with other companies. I hope someone can get them.

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I went on just to watch the auctions and it said to bid I had to join. I had no idea that I would be billed 150.00 and could not change my mind to join. I was told everything is legal and it states the charge and information before you join. I was not able to cancel and get refunded but was told I can sign on for a year then my membership will be canceled. I have not won anything and it takes forever for an auction to end. I am 72 and feel like I have really been taken.

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I was successful in obtaining a refund of the $150 "membership fee" for Swipebids.com by complaining to the Dept. of Consumer Affairs in my state (Florida). Swipebids.com responded to the complaint through their attorneys in NY, alleging no violations but providing the refund. They continue to assert the "confirmation page" gave me notice of the $150 charge, but as all of us know that have been scammed by Swipebids.com, the "confirmation page" doesn't pop up until after they've processed the charge.

Even though I did get my $150 back, I intend to followup with complaints to my state Attorney General and use all other available legal resources and agencies to bring awareness to the nefarious business practices of Swipebids.com

The $150 unauthorized charge from Swipebids.com was on my PayPal account debit card. PayPal was very cooperative in handling the charge as a "charge back." Those are apparently the magic words you need to use to get your credit card company to provide a conditional refund of the $150 (or other charges by Swipebids.com), pending a response by Swipebids.com. Providing your credit card company with volumes of negative comments to be found all over the Internet about Swipebids.com may help persuade the credit card company to settle the charge back dispute in your favor.

I am currently urging PayPal to add Swipebids.com to their list of merchants for whom PayPal will not honor charges and will reject any charges that may come through from the company. I hope everyone with a PayPal account that has been ripped off with unauthorized charges from Swipebids.com will contact PayPal (whether or not the Swipebids.com charge was made on your PayPal account) to join me in urging PayPal to reject any charges submitted by Swipebids.com on any PayPal account.

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hey guys

this is my live chat from swipebids.com

100% true, i was take picture from my 3g ip for this chat

read it and post it out to more sites for save innocent people ( i was one befor hope this help

Please wait for a site operator to respond.

You are now chatting with 'Sandra'

Sandra: Thank you for visiting SwipeBids. We are here to help you win auctions, save money and have a great time. Who am I speaking with?

you: hi Sandra

Sandra: Hi, may I have your email address and zip code please?

you: im new to your site

you: just wonder how it work out for aution?

Sandra: Ok, how may I assist you?

you: like every bid how much it cost me?

you: and do i need to deposit fund into the account befor i bid

you: or it take straight out from my credit card

Sandra: The Membership offered since July 29, 2010, is a onetime charge of only $159.00. The full membership is charged upon signing up and as stated, 300 bids are deposited to your account upon signing up to allow you immediate access to the bidding site.

you: also is this Australian own and run website?

Sandra: No, it is a US based website.

you: registed with australia?

you: i have some bad experience from other auction site so just make sure only

you:

Sandra: No we are based in US only.

you: so how do i feel secure to be your member?

Sandra: Our 128-bit encryption technology keeps your information as safe as possible. Please make sure your own anti-virus software is up to date and you should have no problems shopping online with us.

you: what i mean is

you: from the last auction website

you: i spend more than 4grands to buy bids

you: but never happen to win even a single thing

you: i think it a scammer

Sandra: SwipeBids is most certainly not a scam. Though given how great some of our bargains are, I can understand why you might be suspicious. We are a company that sells products directly to consumers after they have won one of our auctions. Because of the high volume of sales we have and the income we generate through bids, we are able to let people purchase products at a much lower cost than normal retail. And because we are the ones shipping the products, we have much more control over the process – unlike other auction sites that let people sell their own products. I hope this clarifies your concern.

you: so i requestto withdrawn available fund out then they just ignore me

you: like just for example

Sandra: Ok.

you: if i think this site like that auction site

you: who may i contact to solve it out

you: sorry say so

you: just example

you:

Sandra: You can contact us at the live chat service.

you: may australian customer affair can involve in ?

Sandra: No.

you: are you registed in us?

Sandra: Yes.

you: may i request to see it befor i become your member?

you: just dont wanna get scam again

Sandra: You will not get scammed by Swipebids.

you:

you: can i see your registed cert plz

you: i ll safer with registed business

Sandra: Is there anything else I can help you with today?

you: so you can show me your registed cert?

you: alrite cool

Sandra: Thank you very much for chatting with us today. We hope the rest of your day is an excellent one.

Sandra: Please feel free to come back for any further assistance.

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17. Other Information; Warning

Placing frequent bids on http://www.MyEZBids.com can lead to high costs. We advise all users to monitor their bidding habits and regularly check on their bidding costs.

Now doesn't that sound like something a gambling site would have in their TOS?

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Hi,

Just a helpful hint. As soon as I figured out that swipe bids was a scam, in like 2 mins, I called the credit card company and cancelled the transaction. Swipe bids never fought back as they know very well that what they are doing is fraudulent. Please don't let it go!! Call your credit card company and ge your $$$$$$ back!!

M.

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I have scammed also by swipebid.com.

They did not explain about their website and charge $159..

Now it's pending on my account..

We need to make them close their business for other future victims.

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Swipe Bids is a total rip off..I made the mistake of giving them my cc thinking i just needed it to bid..$159.00 down the drain.."we cannot refund your money" was their immediate response..then you have to bid on or buy leads just to bid on something..i ran the numbers and to make a profit is virtually impossible unless you have 24 hours a day to spend watching one of the very few items actually for bid..use an honest site like eBay..Swipe Bids should get shut down..they are not what they say they are..

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Suzanne I understand exactly what you are saying my wife won many items some we received and many that we didn't such as 32 inch Panasonic TV macbooks HP probook's Canon EOS Camera which my wife payed after winning the auction,that was back in June and we are yet to receive the prizes,the whole live chat is a pile of crap sending emails to customersupport is a complete waste of time, my wife lost over $3000.My wife was very distressed about this for some time all she wanted was her prizes that she won.

There are many red flags on this website those asswipes took out 2 won prizes out of my wife's account they are a pack of dogs the whole lot of them. I can't understand for the life of me why they are still in operation shut it down they are very cunning deceptive people they couldn't care less about anyone except for themselves.

I have wriiten a few times on hear I want people to know that there are mnay other scams on Swipebids not only the initnal charge of $159.00 ( a few week's ago it was $150.00 charge) obviously they had to up the price,they are always changing what is on their registration page I have written about that previously.

I have taken legal action signing the petition is all very nice but how long is it that someone is actually going to do something about this and in the meantime every hour of the day people are losing money by these asswipes people fed utter crap with live chat right through to the emails.

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If you put your cc info into a suspicious site like that you deserve what you get.

I checked it out but no way in hell would I ever in my life give some crappy site like that any $$$ info.

IF IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS MADE OVER SEAS THE AVOID IT. Look for site credits for North American owned and operated agencies or steer clear.

Verify where the company is located. Want legal avenues after the fact? Don't deal overseas. Bottom line: we need to cut off the third world.

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Thank-you for posting this information. Keep up the good work

justin

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same thing happened to me, the charge was for 159.00, apparently i made 300 biids ($0.53 per bid). I didn't made any bids

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We need to report these people to the attorney generals office for fraudulent business practices. Yesterday they did the same told me to “click here for refund” when it did it said “thankyou for confirming your registration”. I immediately got my partner to call VISA while i kept the chat personrobot in line. They told me the purchase was made 3 minutes earlier I told them to cancel immediately which they did. I then told the chat person I have contacted visa she said “no need we will not charge your account until you are satisfied” I told her the account was charged and VISA has removed the charges. she said “Bye”

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Justin

I didn't mean to say that I felt they were air tight but my credit card company Wells Fargo told me they had multiple cases and in their words Visa would not allow a dispute as the disclaimers were posted on the website and they were "airtight"

That being said I went on the site and talked with Peter who assured me he was a real person and not a Bot but they did have to read off of a pre prepared script. After sticking to my guns and telling him the only way i would be satisfied was a refund of my money he relented after me standing my ground and refusing to go through their process. I also followed the advice of another poster Ann and contacted Jennifer@swipeauctions.com

Jennifer replied to me and apologized i was not happy and assured me my refund would be processed. I checked today and it was credited back to my card and showed the 10/1/2010 date she said they had posted it.

Although it was a bit of a process to get this done they did do as they promised and returned all of my money. Some posters here said they had seen the comments but no one had posted they actually received the money back. Well I can to tell you that I did receive the money back. I would suggest using the e mail to Jennifer I mentioned above as this is the easiest way to get action without having to go through the online chat process. I also gave a call to my Credit card company {Wells Fargo} in the fraud dept and gave them the documentation so the customers they claimed they could not help could get a refund. if you have any questions please feel free to post and I will try to help.

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Scams like this one rely on peoples natural greed to do much of their work for them. New, in-the-box DSLR's for under $100? New 2010 cars for less than $2,000? I-Mac's for $300? C'mon! When will people ever learn… If it sounds too good to be true, it probably IS too good to be true.

I've studied con-men and all the experts agree that without the 'suckers' desire to get a 'special deal' the con won't work. Remember what W.C. Fields character, Snively Whipsnade, says in the movie "Poppy"; "You can't cheat an honest man… Never give a sucker an even break, nor smarten-up a chump".

As for the BBB… What a joke! They're a CLUB! They can tell you if they have a lot of complaints about a business, and that's just about all… People running these scams could care LESS about what the Better Business Bureau has to say about them.

Stop your whining… You got taken… Learn from it and don't get taken again. That way it won't be a total loss.

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Just checked my bank account and they haven't repaid any money into my account since they took it on 28th Sept.

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I won a very nice laptop, which I'm using right now. Actually I was mad and thought I'd at least go ahead & get rid of my bids. Since then I won a $100 Walmart gift card. I no longer purchase bids, I just claim my 60 free ones each day for signing in. I've learned not to bid against some people, who sometimes buy $1000 + bids in a day. Though by pure luck the site worked out fine for me, I would not recommend it to a friend. The $150 fee is certainly a hidden fee.

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I was just informed via their chat that they are no longer accepting new customers, at least according to the bot on the live chat.

Nick#SA5086: Swipeauctions is winding down operations due to merchant shutting down our processing and is no longer accepting new customers. During Swipeauctions’ wind down period, all products corresponding to already paid winning auctions will be shipped in accordance with the Terms & Conditions.

This was from three different bots. But yet i was able to create a new account! didnt get as far as entering my credit card info, as they already fraudulently stole 167 bucks for registering, even though when i signed up, the registration fee was not disclosed, ANYWHERE, even in their terms of service. I have a case pending with Visa as we speak!

Also, according to the bot, you can bid all ya like, pay all ya like, but never receive anything…as it is only items that have already been paid for that will be shipped. Visa contacted them by phone and were told that swipeauctions is “winding down, and their bank had been closed, therefore no one is getting a refund”

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BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE!!

Swipeauctions.com aka Swipebids.com is now operating under new website.

Kindly pass this message around as it will save tons of people from getting scammed again by Jesse Willms.

Here’s the new site – http://www.selloffauctions.com
Look at all the similarities and you will know.
Try their online chat and you will know.

Above all, I am more than 100% sure that it is new venture of swipebids.com / swipeauctions.com
My information comes from trusted source, someone very close to those guys.

Save yourself from another scam guys.
swipeauctions.com is now http://www.selloffauctions.com and they are BOTH scam as we know.

Regards,

Anonymous

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