Comments on: Too Stoopo For Swoopo

By: ijames

ijames — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:11:57 +0000

i wonder if man-in-the-know has actually used crazybidders.co.uk because i have and have actually won quite a few auctions the latest being a macbook air, anyone who has played the game will know that if you use the autobid function then your bid will be placed in the last 10 seconds, not everyone has time to sit watching their computer screen all day. I have receieved any item i have won without question which is strange if all the players are virtual, i think man-in-the-know should be more concerned by the websites who took his money then when he won pissed off, i think he should change that name to man-who-knows-f**k-all

By: Mr. Crumb

Mr. Crumb — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:17:17 +0000

I didn’t even think of the possibility that these sites may be stealing from their clients. Thanks for the input.

By: manintheknow

manintheknow — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:04:35 +0000

Mr Crumb makes a good point. I have used and won on swoopo but for every winner there are a lot more losers and I would advise caution as this is essentially a gambling not an auction site. I have also used several other new sites of this nature and had much more success and gained some real bargains. Unfortunately genuine new sites do stand to lose money at the outset and three that I have used in the past have now stopped trading (one still owes me four items that I doubt will ever now be delivered). Of particular concern however is a site called crazybidders.co.uk who are a new site, but are using virtual bidders to essentially steal from their users. I know this as when the site was recently re-developed the bid patterns changed and on all auctions bids were continuously placed at the same time (7 seconds before end). Anyone who has experience of these sites will realize that no two auctions follow the same pattern so for all the auctions to receive bids at the same time is, not just once but over a period of hours indicates that these bidders are not of human origin. I did question crazy bidders about this but they surprisingly refused to comment. BE WARNED it’s a jungle out there.

By: Mr. Crumb

Mr. Crumb — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:35:24 +0000

What did you win?

By: Jason Merk

Jason Merk — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:18:56 +0000

There is also http://www.beezid.com. Seems more serious to me, I received yesterday the item I won last week