SwipebidsReviews 134

I was upset when I saw my bank statement with a $150 charge from swipebids. I contacted them and said that it was for the 300 bids for the first sign up. I told them I was not aware of that and if I can refund it. Of course they said they can't refund it. IT WAS A BIG SCAM! I tried it so I can save a little but instead I got robbed for $150 and its not a small amount of money for a student like me. I just wish that people will read the fine prints before they sign up for anything. Im so sad for all of us who got scammed by this. And i believe in karma and someone above all of us. They will be punished for this.

I too was scammed for $150. By the time I was through registering, they had already billed my credit card. When I called, they refused to refund the money,
I have not seen any positive reviews on this site anywhere. Go to Scamraiders.com and pennyauctionwatch.com and you will find the same. I filed a complaint with the FCC, FTC, Ic3, FBI and the Utah BBB.
They have changed their web site several times since they started. THey have bots who bid on the items each time the clock runs out, until they have the money they want, Then, sometimes they will let someone win. Probably one of their employees. Please file complaints with all the agency's you can. They all have complaint forms you can fill out on line. It costs you nothing and just maybe someone will get tired of reading all the complaints and do something about these crooks. James

I never even got to actual bidding scam and they ripped me off! I was stupidly signing up for this before reading up, and when it came to the credit card info part it kept telling me that it was not accepting my card, to re enter my information or try a different card. I tried a few times to still have it not work next thing you know i check my debit account and i have 5 $150 charges on one account and 1 $150 charge on another! These ripoff artists have nabbed $900 USD. I contacted their "on line support" which only feeds back to you programmed answers, however they did give me a contact number and tell me that the money would be refunded in 5-10 days. I froze my accounts and contacted the phone number only for them to say that the charges had not gone through, they gave me an email to send my dispute to and proof of my account postings. Guess we will see how much I've lost in the next 10 days.

-- Pissed Off Marine

DO NOT USE THIS SITE, SWIPEBIDS.COM, they are a scam penny auction site. They use bots to bid against you to push up the price and to use up your bids that you have to pay for. You can not win the high priced items and if you do they tell you there was a tech problem and your win is invalid put will offer you free bids in compensation for the inconvenience. The only items you can win retail for $10 to $25 and they charge $4.95 to $9.50 for shipping. They have a winners page listing recent winners with the persons users name, city and state, and a shipping tracking number of the item won. I check on all the tracking numbers and they are all bogus. The numbers are ether invalid numbers or the numbers are for things ship to a different city and state then the so called winner. One example was a winner of a macbook laptop and the tracking number showed the item shipped to a different city and state and the items wieght was 80 pounds. Do not use this site it is a scam. There are hundreds of complaints about this site on Penny Auction Watch. Com and other web sites

Swipe seems an accurate description. The fraudsters behind this website swipe advertising space everywhere on the web, and swipe money from subscribers in return for nothing through a clever variation on the bid site that incorporates an element of gambling. Their click-me ads are often disguised with large print such as "CRAZY PRICES", "LAPTOP FOR $14.35!", and fake surveys that entice you to casually click for "My favorite laptop". The avalanche of spy-bots that follows is something to wonder at. I was curious enough (as a student of criminal psychology) to put a question on their impressively customer-friendly "talk to a customer service person" messaging service, and was informed that the postage cost on any item to anywhere in the world was $9.50. A Sony Vaio for $14.35 and postage from USA to Australia $9.30? Seems too good to be true. It is. I didn't believe it.

I joined this site with the expectation that I was going to pay $1 for the sample bids to try it out. By the time I got done entering my credit card information I realized they took me for $150! It is impossible to change the package to the $1 package. And they won't give me a refund. They keep giving me the run around. I believe this is also a scam in the fact that you can bid and bid but never really win. There are bidders that are on every single auction. Why is that fair? They should limit people to a few auctions at a time. They apparantly have a way that the site will just bid for you every so often. This site needs to be closed down! Don't fall for it! They are ripping people off!