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I have been on this site for the past 24 hours and can't seem to win even the smallest prize. When it timer gets to one, there is another bid. Also cost amount for item is deceiving. Each bid raises cost one cent. Yet each bid to raise it one cent actually cost 60 cents. I am questioning if it is actually a scam.

I am having the same problem and agree with you that it may be a scam. I woder if they keep showing sold items at incredible prices just to keep you interested.

i thought so too but than i won 75bid package and $100 Victoria secret gift card. You got to learn how to do it!

i won a 25$ walmart gift card on my first day there as well as a 25bid package, i received both. Last night i won an ipad. My buddy who i told the site about didn't win anything thought.

I have been working for the last day and am having no luck. Is it luck or persistence? I am wondering if it is legitimate

i found a strategy.... figure out what auctions are not as desired as others. everyone goes for the big stuff so most people don't get it. i've won several gift cards.

In a way, this is a big scam, as even though you can get the items at very low prices, someone is making big money here. On one of the other bid sites like bidwe there was someone bidding on an iPad and won it for about $128. However, he used 4500 Bids to get it, which amounts to more than $2500 Dollars, with each bid costing him $0.52. So all in all, he had to pay 2600 dollars for a 1000 Dollars item - that's ridiculous!!!

And, what I forgot to say is, do the math: $128 for an iPad translates into 12800 Bids, each bid worth 0.52 Dollar, which you have to buy of course. So whoever is behind that website just made more than $6.600 Dollars, just with this one item.

i won products with the bids i wont on the site. im sure that person didn't bid with that much money he probably just won a bunch of biding points and used that. of course people are making money off of this, thats what businesses do make money. that doesn't mean you can't win stuff for cheap.

I read this thread a couple days ago because i thought it was too good to be real. than i gave it a shot and won an ipod touch. got an email confirmation with a tracking number of my order.

i actually found them to be really good. i didn't win anything but the support was really helpful and responsive. i can understand how people who don't win would get mad though. not everyone can be winners though.

I'm thinking BIG SCAM ! I've been on the site for almost 24 hours and twice it has shut down. The first time it said it would hold all bids, but when the site came back up, the item I was bidding on was sold. Now, the site won't connect at all. I've tried to load it many times on two different computers and rebooted both computers twice but nothing is working. I'm glad I only wasted $27 for the smallest bid package. DON'T FALL FOR THIS SCAM like I did!

i would say its good.... i won a victoria secret gift card for the wife.

its an auction site OBVIOUSLY not everyone will win! i did though!

An obvious huge scam- the timer never runs out as long as bids are placed. It just keeps resetting to 10-20 seconds whenever a bid is placed within the final seconds. They state only a few seconds left but those few seconds stretch into hours because the timer keeps adding 10 seconds with each penny bid placed. Look at the math: Each bid costs you 60 cents. Place 45 bids which amounts to a 45 cent bid (not likely to make you a winner of any desired high cost item) and you have PAID them $27.00 for the PRIVILEDGE of bidding. The resetting timer allows someone to come in at the last second and outbid you by a penny and you come away empty handed AND $27.00 poorer. That person in turn is outbid by a penny and the timer resets once again. Just a hoax.

Put another way, there is only one winning bidder per item who MAY get a good deal. that depends on how much they paid overall in bids just to finally win one item. BUT all the many other people bidding have PAID to bid and lose. That is gambling, NOT an auction. I guess They figure a hundred people won't notice losing 10 to 20 bucks each on every auction so that one person can score a deal. They never post the Auctions that go for real money- say even $40.00 for an iPod touch. sounds reasonable but Forty dollars equates to 4,000 bids placed (remember it's just a penny increase per bid) which equals to a total of $2400 dollars paid by bidders for one ipod touch. NOW, tell me, how is that getting a deal? If Americans knew math they would not fall for these scams... But look at all the other financial scams Americans have fallen for in the hopes of making/ saving some money. I can't understand why this blatant robbery is even legal. The next financial meltdown is coming.

At Dan: Yes, Dan it is an auction and not everyone wins an auction. The difference is that you must pay to bid so all the losers of each auction have paid to buy NOTHING. Typically in an auction, Dan, The WINNER does the paying (for the item they won)- the loser does not PAY if they don't win. What makes this a scam is that in EACH and EVERY auction there are more losers and those people have paid money and gotten no goods. I am sorry you can not see it. They are counting on people like you to not see the scam and to not do the math and apparently there are plenty of people out there as gullible as yourself. WHO would pay to buy bids? That should be a red flag to anyone with reasoning ability.

well 'nonbeliever' obviously your butt hurt cause you didn't win. i guess that sucks for you. I am sure you wouldn't hate if you had won something. I actually did win a kindle for 70% less than what i would have paid had i paid retail price

seriously man its quiet obvious there is only one winner to every auction haha

At with dan: Yes, with dan, someone Does get a deal with each auction but the true cost of the item is the total bids placed (by ALL bidders, not just the winner) multiplied by 60 cents per bid. If you understand math you rapidly see that If someone wins an item for $1 US dollar- what a great deal for ANY item- That means 100 bids were placed on that item ( although you pay 60 cents to buy a bid, it only is worth 1 cent when younuse that bid). Again, 100 penny bids placed brought the winning bid to just $1.00. One hundred bids multiplied by 60cents paid by bidders for each of those hundred bids placed equals $60 (yes sixty dollars). So the final cost of the item was $60 and not $1. Get it? See how it works? If one person place all 100 bids then they paid the full $60, but more likely the cost was split between a handful of bidders with each forking out some bucks... ie each paying say $6 if they each placed just 10 bids (and that upped the item bid price just 10 cents, teehee) I "won" a $90/150 bid voucher for just $2.00. Initial reaction is yay, saved $98 bucks. Then the brain kicked in and calculated that $2 equates to 200 bids placed at a penny per bid. Those 200 bids cost someone or someones 60 cents each. THAT my friend totals $120 paid to the site for a $90 card. Yes, I did not place all those bids. But I used up my free 20 bids = $12.00. HOW can people not see that as a scam? At the very least it is GAMBLING as you must pay up front for the chance to "win". I for one will not help them make 2-5 times what an item is worth, while pretending to sell it at auction at a 97% discount by actually BUYING any bids. With Dan, did you win a large screen TV for just $450? Wow great! Oh wait that means 450,000 penny bids were placed on that TV. Let's see that is 450,000 multiplied by .60 ( 60 cents paid by someone for each of those bids) that means the TV sold for $270,000. But, hey, congratulations to you on YOUR score. And people complain about the kind of AMERICAN GREED that brought us to economic near collapse. WOO HOO!!!!!!!!

At HIP- YOU are absolutely right- The site is making $60 on each item "won" for $1.00 and that difference is being paid by the losing bidders at .60 per bid. So an iPad selling for $120 means 12,000 bids were placed. At 60 cents paid per bid, that equals a grand total of $7,200 taken in by the site for that one person to score a "deal". But if the winner had to place more than 1200 of those 12000 bids ( just a $12 bid on the item) then they actually paid full price for their iPad. The remainder of the $7200 was paid by the non winning bidders. How fun is that. People are blinded by their own greed.

You know it's a rip off in some way when you go to phony news sites such as www DOT actionnews15 DOT com/US/ that is supposedly an official news story about bidwe but everything on the page is really about bidwe. In fact, if you click on any of the news category links at the top it takes you to the bidwe site. Not only that but when you try to close the page it stops you and asks you if you are sure you want to leave. If you say you're not sure then it redirects you to the bidwe site. Phony sites put up Phony adds. Don't trust Bidwe.

thanks for all the information regarding this site.

It is very simple. Just consider it gambling. Sometimes you win sometimes you don't but the house makes big bucks. I've won and lost.

I have won an HD sony camera. Even if i would have lost I would not be crying about it like some people here. I knew what I was getting into.

You are given 20 free bids to play with...you can use those to try to win more free bids or just try to win an something you want with those 20. Just pick a time when there aren't a million people trying to win the same thing. I tried it tonight...didn't win anything. Yes, everytime it got down to about 5 seconds left someone outbid me but I was having fun. Kept me out of jail :)

This is a scam!!!!! If you read the help on their website, it says so specifically, even if the clock is going down to 1 second, if someone places a bid, the clock is reset to 10 seconds. I agree totally with nonbelievergal. Do the math people, the website is running a total scam. Even if you "win" an iPad for $25. Guess what, that means that 2,500 bids were placed. And at $0.60 per bid, the website just made $1,500 on that one iPad. And you still have to pay them $25. Winning the bid just gives you the right to buy the item at the closing price. So they don't care that you "won" it for $25. They earned way more than you paid for it. Even if they "give" you 20 free bids, you would need way more than that to win any of the big ticket items like TVs, iPads, iPods, cameras, etc. The other huge hint, all the ads they placed (actionnews15, news9, etc.) Those website are bogus. If you bothered to click on any of the links like "U.S." "World", "Politics", it just takes you to the BidWe.com website. There's another one out there ... Ziinga.com. Their bids cost $0.89. SCAM ALERT PEOPLE!!!!!! So, back to the $25 iPad. Assuming that it's for the $499 iPad, you would have to place less than 790 bids out of the 2,500 bids to make it worth your while.

I put $27 in and got out with dr. dre beats headphones. every person has his own experience.

This site is a blast, i lost and won... than won some more... came out positive. I am loving it, telling everyone about it!!!!

They likely inflate their own auctions and reset the timers or have people with unlimited bid credits farming the sites to inflate prices and keep you bidding. They don't even offer contact info on their site and the live chat link takes you to the EMail ticket system where you get generic responses that start with: "We hope this response has sufficiently answered your questions. If not, please DO NOT REPLY to this email and DO NOT SEND another one. "

i join but than i requested a refund. they refunded all the bids i did not use, which was good enough for me. their support is actually really good! they responded within 30 minutes and got me what i asked.

Its safe and good site. True you have to pay for bids in order to bid but they tell you that from the get go. Their support is good and I got my winning 10 days after I won them.

All I can say is read the fine print before you agree to anything! Then again, who wants to read 5000 word agreement! I found that if you don't understand it, let someone else read it for you.

I read a review on aol and decided since it was new, I had a chance to win in the late hours, so about Midnight I started bidding. Went on automatic bidding about 3AM and when I next went on at 6AM the bidding had temporarily halted. When I went back on at 7AM, the bids had only moved up $2.00. Then I was told that I needed to put more money in the bidding bank, so I did. Kept bidding automatically and tried to close down the automatic bidding. They said I couldn't do it. So I vowed not to put any more $$ on my credit card. Still it bid for me. After 30 HOURS, it was still going on and when I checked in next day to see who had won, it was "temporarily offline." I don't know who won, but I'm going to try to get my money back, as promised if I did not win. Wish me luck! moviebuff

I won an ipod touch last week. I received it yesterday.

Just watched on of those Apple MacBooks fetch $282. With a retail value of $1900, the person that won that item is feeling like they stole something. For all the mental midgets that don't understand math, to get to that price BidWe received 28,200 bids times 60 cents or $16,920. In order to take in that much cash for this item there had to be plenty of losers. No telling what the guy that won for $282 actually paid since the bid history only shows the last 5 bidders. For BidWe to make money on a MacBook the bidding only has to clear $32.00. To make money on a $50 gift card they only have to clear .85 cents. This is brilliant on their part. The people that participate in this are basically gambling. Just like a gambler the person that wins an item will never tell the true story of how much they actually spent for the item but will only brag about how much that winning bid was. This is not a scam in the true sense of a scam but there will be a lot of people with a bigger hole in their pocket book just like if you walk into a Casino in Vegas. Good luck suckers!

Hey Kyle- good job on the ipod. Care to tell us how many bids you had to make to win and what your winning bid amount was? Were you watching this item for a while or did it go pretty fast? Some of these must go for days to get to a $100, one penny at a time?????????????????????

This site is garbage, i spent $45 for 75 bids and i got the 40 free, no matter what i bid on even a crummy 20 bids i cant win it, but if i see one go down to the last seconds it just ends.. like wtf every damn time mine get low they get bid on. its not like i am trying to win an ipod, just trying to win anything, and this was at 2.am, total scam dont waste your money. go play the lotto if u wana gamble, because that's all this site is.

I just registered on bidrivals and had a Promo code for free bids I guess. The code is not valid?? What else is new. I will check back later. The site is down again.

it is not just scam . you are bidding against fake made names. which has done by company. you will never win anything except their voucher. Computer simple will not let you win by using fake names. i am sure one day someone will sue this people and make enough money.

Penny Auctions - This is the most common and fast growing form of online auctions site. Beware of some Penny Auctions sites using things like Bid Bots. Bid Bots are software applications which are implemented in some Penny Auctions site to keep the bids coming and lead the real human bidders thinking they are bidding against an actual real person rather than a computer. Remember to always bid sensibly and responsibly.

Allsigns point to this site being setup as a replication of legit penny auctions but this one in particular appears fraudulent. If you are interested in penny auctions check out Beezid.com. there you will find a properly setup site, contact info and real support. Do your research before you bid.

Can anyone tell me what's going on with Bidwe? I have won two wal mart gift card, one as far back as 1-13-11 and as of today have not received it. C/S will only say they are having problems.

OK, so I "won" an item, but can't seem to pay for it. Even their support ticket system doesn't work. Feeling "had."

i won a gift card but cant pay for it scam