eXciteReviews 97

Haggle.com is a waste of time IMHO. I won't waste money on the bids, and found that the 13 free bids I got for signing up was just a way to frustrate the piss out of me.

I do know that the employees are forbidden from bidding themselves and the "Insiders" that I know, swear to me that it's not rigged, and I believe them. However, I do think that it's pretty much impossible to win a bid for the prices they are advertising, so if there's a scam anywhere, it's in the advertising.

I would expect, if I had the 5 hours to hang out and watch the bidding war, that the price of an item would be close (still a fraction however) to the retail price listed once it actually sells.

Waste of time in my opinion, the only one who wins here is Haggle (Infospace/Will Lansing)

I personally stumbled upon this site about a week ago. My first time on an auction site. They give you 3 free bids when you sign up, but 3 bids for the most part are absolutely worthless. Well after watching for awhile I decided I was going to take a crack at it, I bought a bundle of bids and quickly learned what not to do and how not to bid. Since then I have won 5 items, none of which have even been shipped out yet so I can't say if the products are new as they say. It normally takes 5-7 for them to even ship it out. But I will say I got some VERY good deals as well as made a stupid mistake or 2. In all, I've come out about even but have learned a great deal in the process. Assuming all my items are delivered and come as advertised and the site doesn't become TOO popular, I will definately purchase more bids! You can't find deals like these on eBay. Sorry, no way. Not even close. I'm not giving away any hints or strategies, you gotta figure that out for yourself but there are items to be won here, and cheap! I will say be aware of certain users. People were only allowed to win 10 auctions in a month now Haggle has upt that to 20 wins a month. If u see a user basically hoarding all the auctions, start keeping track of how many items they win. Once they hit 20 and they keep winning, report them!

I agree that it is a waste of time and money. It's more like a raffle than an auction. You don't just lose the auction you also lose the money you used to bid. You buy bids ahead of time and bid on the 12 -13 items listed. And get this, all bidders except the winner loses the money they used to bid. The site doesn't lie about how it works but they make it sound like it's easy and fun and it's neither of those things. There is a clock running and when it gets to zero if you are the high bidder you win. There is one catch, if anyone else is biddig when it is around 0 it adds 10 seconds to the clock for each bidder so the auction continuously loops from a few minutes to 0 minutes until eventually somone miraculously wins. To sum it up don't waste your money. They have some racket going and must be raking in the money.

Frustrating as heck... spent $100 on 150 bids and spent hours of time and too much anxiety to lose what I really really wanted to someone else b/c I would not push the button with 1 second left... refusing to believe a $1500 computer could possibly go for $46 when 3-8 people were bidding non stop, this happened on at least 6 items I tried... finally just blew through my last 60 bids trying to get a $250 Coach card that I had seen twice go for less than $5, needless to say, me trying to be the frontrunner, just jacked the price up and I was out when I ran out of bids... I felt like I was at a slot machine.

I agree it is a waste of time & money. Some of the auctions are buying more bids to bid on bids! Did you get that? Seriously, these people you are bidding against are absolute idiots! For some reason they think that always staying on top and constantly bidding will win them the item they are bidding on. Um, no. It just jacks up the time more & more & leaves the rest of us sitting here for hours just waiting for dumb asses like this to figure out you don't need to do that to win. They are the ones who are really wasting more time & money then the rest of us. And I agree totally that the people who run the site are absolutly raking in the dough! Genius actually for whoever came up with it. I spent $100 on 150 bids. Once I piss all those away, I'm DONE!