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Bid Beaver Reviews Summary

Bid Beaver has a rating of 2.1 stars from 19 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Bid Beaver ranks 100th among Penny Auction sites.

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Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I personally have test bidded on this Web Site www.Bidbeaver.com and won two items.
Both item all bidders with me were bidding for were new items.
It took weeks to obtain them after many e-mails, and they were so badly packaged you wouldn't believe.
Both were cameras. Both damaged and second hand, possibly bought off e-bay!
One was at least 6 years old. One had a deep scratch on the front lens.

Be very afraid when you are tempted to use your money. Even the price advertised as bought for is a lie. The price of the article can go up by only one or two cents for ever bid which can cost each bidder a dollar!

With perhaps 20-30 people bidding, this brings into Bidbeaver thousands of dollars which people have spent... and then the sold price looks so tempting!

It is a legal gamble! You will loose your money and receive if you do win questionable items.

Read the others reports... all of these seem to work the same, penny auctions... stay clear.

Date of experience: July 14, 2011
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My experience with this online bidding site, www.bidbeaver.com.au has been horrific. 30 e-mails have been sent to them in regard to my winning supposedly new items, both camera. One camera is at least 8 years old, one of the first SLR with batteries and cards one has to search the world for.
They have lied, sent secondhand cameras and refurbished lenses. The Booklets and instructions tell clearly the age of the camera. One lens has a deep scratch and so far nothing has been done.
I hope my complains to FaceBook have frightened them from advertising there. As I have all the legal paperwork to support my case.
What out www.bids of any kind, keep well away.
Oh yes, there will be a few winners of new items, but at what cost to hundreds bidding against you. YOU WISH TO BE TAKEN, GO FOR IT ALL YOU LIKE!

ITS YOUR MONEY TO WASTE, AND THEY GAIN MILLIONS IN A WEEK!

MY ADVICE, FIND THE CHEAPEST PRICE ON-LINE YOU CAN PURCHASE WHAT YOU WANT AND BUY IT NEW!

TRY TYPING IN TO YOUR WEB BROWSER www.complaints against bidbeaver.com... then blow your dosh to your hearts depression!

Date of experience: July 4, 2011
New Zealand
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Just read all the other comments and you get the picture. They tell lies and stall you with promises. Even offer you free bids to tempt you. Don't get sucked in there really bad news.

Date of experience: June 13, 2011
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The site is over all very competitive but if you have the skills to win like i do you can score some really great stuff. I think like any company you are always going to have those that complain, and thoes that complain would complain about anything.
I like the site, i have only won 2 items but i enjoy the bidding atmosphere.

Date of experience: June 10, 2011
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I was bidding on a HP 4 in 1 Printer I noticed that over a 24 hour period they sold for the same price on about 8 occasions that I was aware of $10.08. On one occasion their were 2 of these up at the same time the first one sold for about $8.00 and the second was still going when I went to bed at $70.00. The other thing that makes it a scam is the same people bid 24 / 7 they never seem to sleep or work. I will be reporting the site to the Department of Fair Trading in Australia for them to investigate if it is legit. But I think all those who used the site know its a scam.

Date of experience: June 7, 2011
Australia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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What a scam you buy bids money to bid on an item and every time you bid u kiss your money good bye. Even when you don't win you LOSE your bid Money. Steve

Date of experience: May 27, 2011
Australia
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I have used this site before,
Luckily didn't spend any penny on it.
It's so obvious that they are real scam.

Date of experience: February 27, 2011
New Zealand
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Absolutely fantastic!
February 27, 2011

Absolutely fantastic! Another reason to love BidBeaver! These guys are so charitable it's amazing. I've seen plenty of other sites like BidBeaver that do not donate at ALL! Not just because they donate but the products they Auction off are STUNNING! I love my Armani watch that I won(as you can see a few posts below). I wear it all the time and my friends are jealous of it: D
Go BidBeaver! Keep helping the world! Keep auctioning more of your amazing products for me to win, and Keep going strong!

Date of experience: February 26, 2011
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The site is an absolute scam. On every auction you will see the same lowercase names popping up to conveniently place their bid right on the 1 second mark. Interesting how it's always on the 1 second. However, if you use autobid... your bid gets placed on the 4 second mark. My guess is so that the sites bots or what ever are placing the bids don't have to place their auto bid.

Also it's interesting how the sites items seem to almost always be the same items.My guess is because these items, having been won by the bots in previous listings, are being relisted. Either way... even if you win the auction, there is no chance in hell you are getting the item worth thousands for a few bucks. Even if people like sarah come on saying they do... no they don't. It's pretty obvious sarah is an employee.

I watched items over a 24 hour period and the amount of times I saw the same names appearing in each auction is quiote unbelievable. You would think they would have at least had an imagination with chosing names. "white", "allblacks" for example. These 2 names appeared constantly and consistantly early on. Then at a certain pricepoint you see names like "poa" and "iwinn". It's a joke.

Stay well away from this site.

Date of experience: February 25, 2011
Utah
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Bid Beaver is great they have shipped every item i have won. The only complaint is it usually takes 10-14 days to receive them but hey for 80% off I can wait

Date of experience: February 25, 2011
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Don't fall for the scam. Since when do you pay to bid on items which you don't or can't win and loose your money. Don; t be a fool and get sucked in.

Date of experience: February 18, 2011
New Zealand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This is a very dangerous site with auctions not following the count down on high value items. You can find your self with zero second to place a counter bid which means YOU LOOSE! My advice is don't get sucked in.

Date of experience: January 30, 2011
Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I absolutely love bid beaver, they respond and ship orders fast, and how can you beat getting $3,000 worth of stuff for $800. I have yet to find any other site where you can save so much!

Date of experience: January 13, 2011
New Zealand
8 reviews
58 helpful votes
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To those thinking of using bidbeaver listen to this first!

I was one fooled by the looks of this promising website until their autobid stuffed up one of my auctions costing me $500! Their customer service is hopeless. And not only that but on another auction I won the product was valued at $1349 and when it finally arrived the item was in disgusting condition. Very, very old looking, worn out, scuffs and scratch marks all over and worse it looked like it had been bought on ebay as the price tag on the inside of the packaging said $39! Absolute tragedy, will never use again. 0 Stars.

Date of experience: January 12, 2011
New Zealand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Some people obviously win some really great stuff on this site, most won't. Some people win huge jackpots at the slot machines in the casino, most won't.
Quite frankly, I got way better odds at the casino but I don't go there now.

Date of experience: January 10, 2011
California
142 reviews
427 helpful votes
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This site is a slot machine that is completely unregulated... good luck, but read this first

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/08/13/penny-auction-sites-are-hot-but-have-more-risk-than-reward/

Date of experience: January 5, 2011
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Love bidbeaver I have won over $1800 worth of stuff in the last moneth including a LV purse. I now don't win every-time, but when i do they ship my item quick and deliver, and i save money? 4 stars!

Date of experience: January 5, 2011
California
147 reviews
927 helpful votes
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Paying for bids is never worth your money! You're better off hitting the Vegas slot machines.

Happy New Year! =)

Date of experience: January 2, 2011