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BidSauce has a rating of 1.6 stars from 98 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with BidSauce most frequently mention customer service, gift card and penny auction. BidSauce ranks 98th among Penny Auction sites.
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Shame on bidsauce! Worst site ever. I never received almost $2,000 of my merchandise. Customer service did nothing to rectify anything. Shame on me for not suing their behinds! Please don't waste your time or money. I received my winnings in the beginning. All was great until I noticed items weren't arriving. I reached out to Customer Service. They said it would be arriving soon, but nothing. Don't trust them!
Complete, total, 100% RIPOFF, I won a tv in November of *******. Paid shipping, etc.
They kept giving all kinds of excuses and finally booted me from contacting them.
Run from these A--holes.
I purchased SW airline voucher almost 3 years ago and have put in NUMEROUS tickets asking why they do not send me my vouchers or refund my money. They either do not respond or they say they are waiting for the vouchers. This company is a SCAM! DO NOT BID ON ANYTHING WITH BIDSAUCE. THIS IS A WARNING.
SCAM RUN, Run away as fast as you can!, If you do win, They want you to pay$7.50 for a E Card, We all know they are free to ship.
I requested a refund, They told me they do not give refunds,
The site is a RIP OFF. They want people to pay $7.50 shipping for a ECARD. We all know ECARDS are free to ship. It seems like they have the same players on that site that win. I wonder if they are paid players.
Thanks everyone for posting. I won nearly 180 times making a good profit. However I only recieved a fraction of my cards and items. They still owe me nearly $9,000 in items. I have just now contacted the Utah Consumer Protection Agency.
I would not even give this site one star. A total rip off so don't bother. If you don't believe me, read the rest of the reviews!
SCAM. I won two bids for giftcards, which I never received. I called three times and was given the same weak story about delays, vendors not paying them etc. I contacted the BBB. They couldn't get BidSauce to cooperate. I was unable to get a refund, credit, or the products I paid for. STAY AWAY.
Nov 5th, 2010 decided to try bidsauce.com. I bought a big package for $375 plus upgraded to the platinum for $14.99. I started bidding which granted I jumped in a little to fast which is my fault, but ended up wining 3 auctions for a total of $125 worth of gift cards. Oh then they charged me a shipping fee of a few dollars per item. About a $250 dollar mistake but worse then that still waiting for items lmao. Everytime I contact them they give me the same run around about trying to get backorders caught up. What a joke they were christmas presents last year what the hell do I care now but u think such a great company could afford $125 don't u think especially since it only took about 10 minutes for them to take my money that day and my bids lol.
Complete scam! Never visit this site it is not even worth it! This site should be shutdown ASAP! Not even worth 1 star rating! SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM
Have been waiting since November 2010 for a gift card. NO help at customer "service". Avoid at all costs or it WILL cost you! (After reading other complaints, I'm glad I'm not out more money!)
I hate this site! I just discovered this site today. I've been looking for penny auction sites since I already reached the win limit at skoreit, bidcactus and quibids. I made investigation and finally joined this site since they have items for auction every few minutes... I hate waiting several hours for an item. I bought the 250 bidpack for $149 for 1st time buyer. After playing in the beginners auction I used up all my bids and just won $25 worth of gift card. As I mentioned I'm actually not new in this auction thing since I've been a regular of the 3 penny sites I mentioned. The chances of winning at bidsauce is so slim. Not gonna play here again. Does anyone know any penny auction site that has higher chance of winning? Thanks
This a plain and simple scam and crooked seems the mob has invaded our internet
JG
I don't like typing or even using the computer to do much except craigslist and ebay ect $#*! like that. I overheard about bidsauce being great and all this other bull$#*! so i tried it. I don't know why they call it penny auctions anyway when your spending one dollar every bid then if you win u still gota pay for the amount it went up to on the bidding and for shipping. BUT THE BEST PART IS I NEVER GOT $#*! AND I WON A 50$ GIFT CARD AND A FLIP CAMCORDER I'M SAYING THIS WAS OVER 2 MONTHS AGO AND I CANT DO $#*! ABOUT IT JUST LOST OVER 300$ DON'T DO IT I WISH I WOULD HAVE LOOKED INTO THIS CLOSER SUCKS GETTING TAKIN FOR A FOOL< $#*!IN $#*!S
I may be the only one here but bidsauce has been great to me, it takes a little while to get your stuff but so what, If you pay $150 for a bid pack and don't read what your paying for your just dumb. I have won several items and they have been delivered to me and are great. This is a legit website, that is fun, its gambling folks and if you are not prepared to lose then you will be one of these hayseeds on this site complaining but again IT IS GAMBLING GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS! WIN SOME LOSE SOME. I have been playing for a while and again have received everything I have won. You do not have spend $150, you chose that bid pack to buy, research a bit first, the amount of dumb people in the world are astounding, there is no fee to "join" but you do have to purchase bids to play. I do not work for the company and am in no way associated with the company.
This site is an absolute scam... I "won" 4 $50. Gift cards 6 months ago and still have not received them. I have contacted customer service 3 times and you get the same B. S. line that it's the co. That handles their shipping that's at fault. I contacted the Better Business Bureau 3 weeks ago and received an e-mail today saying that Bidsauce will not return their calls and messages. Please help spread the word about this site so others don't get screwed by this auction site. Qubids, Bidcactus, and Big Deal are all legit. Sites that I have dealt with.
I joined in Nov. 2010, won and purchased 14 items right away in hopes of having them for Christmas. I was told they would be shipped within 2 weeks, as of today I still have not received even one item.
It was absolutely terrible. First they automatically charged me. I was dumb in not reading the agreement, which they get away with saying you will automatically get bids. Also, it automatically charged me for more bids. Here's the kicker. When I ended using those expensive bids to finally win a product, they haven't even sent it yet! Its almost april and I bought it in December. They are scam artist, and a terrible company to deal with.
. I visited this website and bid on 5 different gift cards and won> This was in November 2010 and still have not got them. I have called 3 times, e-mailed 2 times about when am Igoing to get these and I get the run around and they always say yours will be the first to go out. Here it is March 24th and still no gift cards. I would not recomend this website.
Answer: I have been using penny auction sites for some time now. I do not work for a penny auction site, and am therefore not affiliated with them. I am a residential loan officer. I am a member of bid sauce. I just read a good majority of the complaints on here and wanted to make some general observations. 1. To the people who feel scammed by making a $149 purchase. Get over it. It clearly states on the site what you are purchasing. Once you have registered on the site, you could hit backspace, or go to the homepage without buying bids, and could purchase them at a later time if you chose. It even gives you several options of what size of the bidpack you desired to buy. It then asks for your credit card information to pay for the TOTAL that is directly in front of you. If you feel duped, because of that, then you are an idiot. You selected a product, they gave you a total, and you gave them your credit card number to purchase the item... Is it really that difficult to comprehend? 2. To those of you who couldn't understand how penny auctions work. Ever heard of doing a little research prior to? Everyone that knows anything about the basics of penny auctions knows that you purchase your bids prior to, and then use those bids to bid on items. If you win the item, then you pay for the "winning bid amount". This goes for any site... (Quibids, BidCactus, Arrowoutlet etc.) It's REALLY not BidSauce's problem that you haven't done your homework. Don't be an idiot. Do your research! 3. Shipping related issues: This one I am unsure of, and could warrant a valid claim. I recently won my first gift cards from the site, so I can't comment as to whether or not they honor their wins. From reading your posts, it appears that the site has been up and running for a good while, so I'm assuming that they would either A.) Have to be honoring their wins to stay in business that long or B.) Have been repeatedly ripping customers off for the entire time, which would baffle me to think that they have managed to escape being shut down all this time. Can anyone post anything about having actually received items they won? I'd be curious if they are just slow on their shipping, or are honestly ripping people off... I hope you don't take my comments the wrong way! I know many of you are frustrated, just a personal observation:) Marshall
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