new macBook pro, <$400
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- monNom0
this is wide open for fraud, if it wasn't conceived as a fraud from the start. There's nothing stopping the company or it's agents from placing the timeout bid themselves, thereby collecting another bid fee from you (perpetually), or never having to ship any product when the company wins its own auction. Meanwhile they've collected fees all the way through.
I wouldn't trust testimonials on the internet.
- freeskihp0
This is an interesting site as far as statistics and probablilites though. The vast majority of the time during one of these auctions it is taxing the stupid. But, under certain conditions, I think that odds of winning can be increased by a significant amount. Statistics party anyone?
- NoFavorite0
Has anyone actually won / received anything from this site? I'm tempted to bid on a MacBook for $200.
- sikma0
It appears to be just like a regular lottery, where you pay for the incredibly slim chance of winning something.
Lotteries are a tax for people who can't do math. I will leave it at that.
- xcarlx0
you can spend hundreds of dollars bidding on something, and still not win, sounds like a scam to me.
- instrmntl0
seems like auctions are never ending
- erikjonsson0
i think the word you are looking for is pyramid game
- deathboy0
As an example, I am viewing a "penny auction" macbook air that went for $248.03. Since it was a penny auction, that means there were 24,802 bids! At $0.75 per bid, they collected $18,601.50 and all they had to do was send a $1300 laptop to the one lucky winner (and the winner still had to shell out the $248.08 + shipping!)
brilliant. imagine if they also have their own employees bidding, so they dont lose the the equipment, until they have made their profit margins.
- baseline_shift0
this would only be good for compulsive shoppers who want to 'hedge bets' and see a good return for their investment. (ie, bid on lots of items, and occasionally win something cheap, offsetting the cost of bids on un-won items.)
for the rest of us, its like paying to walk into a store and not buy anything.
- Bam0
it looks tempting. an average of 65% cheaper then the original price. howcome i don't trust this?
- digdre0
that nikon is on 15secs for the last 30mins.
- bigtrick0
it's basically like a raffle, except the tickets cost 75 cents, and the more raffle tickets are sold, the more you have to pay if you win. so the winner gets a good deal hopefully, whereas all the bidders who didn't win lose small amounts of money.
- except a raffle doesn't keep upping the time every time someone buys a ticket. This is more like a slot machine.gokernyourself
- biggest losers are the ones that keep bidding and don't win i guessbigtrick
- sikma0
there's a D90 going for under $20, but the moment the clock counted down to zero a bunch more time got added to auction. somethings not right here.
- Timer goes back up when people bid.ismith
- that's what I'm saying. Feels like gambling. Not sure this will last.gokernyourself
- sublocked0
damn, i thought this was the place to get ahold of those macbooks from that new jersey heist a few weeks back.
disappointment.
- gokernyourself0
not yet. Somebody just picked up a macbook pro 13" for 26 bucks. And spent $75 in bids. Apparently swoopo lost some money on that one.
- brandelec0
this has been around for a while
- sikma0
has anyone here bought anything form it?
- sikma0
sounds more like a scam the spam
- gokernyourself0
not spam. I just ran across this site at work...