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BidSauce Reviews Summary

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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California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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!

Date of experience: September 26, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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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.

Date of experience: January 26, 2014
Washington
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Very good site, the quality of products and the service all is very good.

Date of experience: July 20, 2013
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: July 6, 2013
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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,

Date of experience: June 12, 2013
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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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.

Date of experience: May 31, 2013
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: January 17, 2013
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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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!

Date of experience: February 25, 2012
New Mexico
1 review
1 helpful vote
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SCAM
November 7, 2011

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.

Date of experience: November 7, 2011
Pennsylvania
1 review
4 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: September 12, 2011
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Complete scam!
September 6, 2011

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

Date of experience: September 6, 2011
Maryland
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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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!)

Date of experience: June 3, 2011
New York
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I hate this site!
April 24, 2011

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

Date of experience: April 23, 2011
Florida
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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This a plain and simple scam and crooked seems the mob has invaded our internet
JG

Date of experience: April 19, 2011
Pennsylvania
1 review
3 helpful votes
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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

Date of experience: April 7, 2011
Connecticut
1 review
2 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: April 1, 2011
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: March 29, 2011
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I joined in Nov
March 28, 2011

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.

Date of experience: March 28, 2011
Louisiana
1 review
2 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: March 27, 2011
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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. 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.

Date of experience: March 24, 2011