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Has anyone actually won a bid using SwipeBids.com?

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Question by G T: Has anyone actually won a bid using SwipeBids.com?
I am convinced without doubt that this is a total scam, as are many, if not most of the “penny auction” sites. I filled out the application and as I hit the enter button to send my info, up pops a page informing me that a charge of 9.00 was being charged to my credit card. Yes, it has gone up from 0.00. I immediately, and I mean within 60 seconds, contacted their service rep through their live chat option. I explained that I saw nothing on any of the information given as I was filling out the application about ANY fee, much less a 9.00 fee. I am one of the lucky ones apparently, because they said they cancel my account imediately and credit the 9 back to my credit card account. They said it would appear on my credit card account within 3 days.

So today I went online to pay my credit card account, and there I see a charge from SwipeBids for 9! Why if they told me they were going to credit it back would they charge it to my account six days later? It would make sense to me to not charge it to the account at all if six days had gone by. Any way, here is the answer to many people’s question of , “How do I get my money back?” All you have to do is dispute the charge. If you handle your account online as I do, you click on the company name with the charge you want to disoute. There will be a sentence that says, “Dispute this charge.” You click on it and fill out all of the questions they ask. They also leave a couple of boxes where you can fill in any details of how you’ve tried to handle things. Then it is all up to your credit card company. Since it is their money in a manner of speaking, they are going to work very hard at keeping from paying anything to a scammer.

So I expect that I will get the money back, especially since SwipeBid gave me a cancel number to file with the credit card company. I have seen on SwipeBid complaints at Complaintboard.com that they always gie you a web page to refer to that they say clearly shows where you are agreeing to paying the 9 charge. That page however, never appeared in the process when I or anyone else was applying to use the SwipeBid auctions. I think they show it to you so they can counter your disoute when you file one as if it is actually evidence that you saw it. It’s BS. Then they tell you that you bought a package of bids, and that once you’ve been charged for them there is no way to get that money back. They won’t be able to show you where you were agreeing to anything like that though. They then try to get sneaky by saying you can’t get a refund for the 9, but that they do have a 30 day money back guarantee. If they are telling you that you can’t get your money back, then quickly go on their site and file immediately for the 30 day money back guarantee.

Ok. So now after going through all of that, I am back to my original question. Has anyone truthfully won an auction on this scam website? I have seen where their public relations people have sent in a wonderful letter saying how great their experience was and how many nice things they’ve bought for 3 cents or 50 cents or whatever, but do any REAL PEOPLE ever win an auction? I understand that every time you raise the bid by one penny, they add more time to the auction to “make it fair to other bidders” so they ca get their updated bid in. That’s BS too. The whole idea behind an auction is being that lucky “last guy” who gets the last second bid in and wins the auction. If they add more time to the auction after every bid, it will never end. So tell me REAL PEOPLE, have yo ever truly won a bid on this SwipeBid site?

Best answer:

Answer by Hijinks Hijinks
SwipeBids is a scam.

There is a class-action lawsuit investigation that is ongoing as I type this.

PennyBurners has designed, hosted, and donated SwipeBidsVictims to the penny auction community. If you have been a victim, please be sure to check out the aforementioned website. If you’d like, please feel free to join the PennyBurners Forum and ask your questions there. We have wonderful members are are eager to answer questions and help where needed.

Hope to see you there!

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