Comments on: BigDeal.com Lives Up to Its Name

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Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:06:40 +0000

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By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:03:02 +0000

Yes they sure do get a lot of bids now.. what I like about Bigdeal in particular is the buy it now option. I can spend $retail of a laptop in bids and then buy it now and only pay what I spent on bids (=retail). Thanks for stopping by!

By: Sarka

Sarka — Sat, 14 May 2011 04:00:33 +0000

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I am sorry, it does look like a scam to me. What a great idea originally. I do not blame the media for covering similar businesses, but they should do their research before endorsing them. I accidentaly landed on this website, and just out of curiosity, observed one auction that was almost ending. While the bids were somewhere around 28 bucks, and as the bidders kept increasing their penny bids, all of a sudden, somehow mysteriously won the item for 181.36. I contacted the site to clarify how this was possible, as they claim the increments go by pennies.. Then, since I have not heard back from them, I made my math and calculated, how much this “mysterious” winner would have ended up paying for the item, besides the winning bid price of 181.. last recorded bid was 28, so, here it goes (181-28)x100x.75 (every bid that increases the price costs .75). Do your math! Plus, all the bids that went placed before, unrewarded..

By: Sarka

Sarka — Sat, 14 May 2011 03:44:15 +0000

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By: Jonny

Jonny — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:48:18 +0000

It does require a lot of luck in order to get deals on this site and it also requires a ton of patience. I won an Ipad 64gig wi-fi for only $77.93 (including 9.99 shipping)… but I watched the item for 7 hours waiting for a good time to bid. I lucked out I guess. It's risky but it can be worth it. Only had to place 7 bids on the item.

By: User on Bigdeal

User on Bigdeal — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:22:34 +0000

I paid up to retail and had to rely on loyalty bucks too

that totally contradicts the point

Its supposed to be a penny auction site

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By: chris

chris — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:37:18 +0000

I think its fine. I won a $400 netbook for $13.53 and a amazon kindle for $103, the key is that you have to expect to pay retail, have the money to pay retail ready, and then you would only be pleasantly surprised, poster before said Crueman569 is a fake user, and it could be true but I doubt that, because I end up having to do that sometimes where you keep bidding and other people keep bidding so you end up bidding the retail, but that's no big deal to bid to retail, because you still get your item and by bidding to retail you will probably accumulate a couple 100 bucks in loyalty dollars that you can spend on another item, for example 2 days ago i was bidding on a $500 tv, i put about $485 worth of bids on the tv and the auction price was at $15 dollars, so i maxed out in bids. so used the buy it now feature and bought the tv for $15, and now i have $485 that i can use towards other items, so in reality I got the tv for $15. Other people realize this too and thats why they are willing to throw up over 500 bids on a auction. It really is how you look at it, if you are only willing to pay less than $10 for that ipod your going to get screwed. the key is to bid, bid often, people will sometimes be turned off by someone bidding often, so that is an advantage to you. Expect to pay retail on everything you bid on and bid to retail on everything you bid on. and to use the loyalty dollars. Defiantly a win win site.

By: User on Bigdeal

User on Bigdeal — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:05:07 +0000

Yeah right I used the site

Its pretty annoying, who the hell bids over the item price

Its just a scam like other penny auction sites

Users have weird names, you could easily tell they were automated

The way it works the items with no real bidders sell for so cheap you are tempted to go bid

When real bidders start bidding, the winners who bought the item for a few cents

come back and bid so much that its almost the buy it now price

and then they cant bid anymore and leave

for every auction they are at least two of them

Its all a bunch of bull

and the person who commented before me just said that they dont have a real office even if its a home

and also they items are shipped from all around the US

since I was forced to use the BUY IT NOW option, probably they help friends sell their iPods they cant return

BIGDEAL IS A NO DEAL

please stay away

http://bigdeal.com/auctionid/music-players/ipod-t…
Fake User : Crueman569

By: Hotcake

Hotcake — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:51:25 +0000

Big Deal Is A Big Scam, Everyone Should Already Know That? Big Deal Scam

By: Conners

Conners — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:22:48 +0000

The address of BigDeal is a maildrop. (660 4th Street, Box #296, San Francisco, CA 94107)

Concerning they say its a multi-million dollar company, that makes me go: "Hmmmm."