Comments on: Swoopo – Legitimate Auction Deals or a Scam?

By: Nadu

Nadu — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:45:23 +0000

I have a friend who tried a Penny Auction like Swoopo who won an IPad just the other day. It cost him $60. It may have been beginners luck, but since he got it in the mail…I’m willing to have a go at it.

By: ho_ho_ho_29

ho_ho_ho_29 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:17:33 +0000

Dear MT,

Thanks for your respectful post. I personally don’t understand all the negativity. Swoopo is not a scam. It is a ingenious system that makes a lot of profit. Whoever came up with it is highly intelligent. Swoopo is a fair seller.
However, that said, the system benefits only a few individuals, the winners. Therefore, it is not profitable for most people. Personally, I will never use it, purely for the fact that although the rules of the game are clearly stated and enforced and the game is fair in that sense, the game itself is very hard to win. Anyone with commonsense will not play it.

Sincerely,
Santa Clause
(yes, magic is real)

By: Big Fatty

Big Fatty — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:15:09 +0000

Everyone knows what a scam this is. Go away.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:03:29 +0000

Try to register a username on Swoopo that contains any uppercase characters and your registered username will be all lowercase characters. Be suspicious of bidders who have usernames containing uppercase characters because they did not go through the normal registration process. Try it yourself, your username will be all lowercase. Be suspicious.

By: jim m

jim m — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:32:12 +0000

First things first. If you bid on Swoopo, and if you win, the product, exactly as described does get delivered within a maximum of 14 days. I have been successful in 13 auctions and without fail the product is exactly what you thought you were getting.

That made me a real fan, strictly as a form of entertainment. Seems too good to be true, right? Recently I began to see a large number of auctions go way above what one would expect to see. Strictly by accident I decided to look at their European and Korean websites to see if I saw the same type of behavior. Well, the actions of the bidders were exactly the same…. because they were the same bidders, including me. What was not the same were the products being bid upon in each country.

Certainly you can see the need for some product substitution across borders because a particular brand or model is not distributed in that country, or because of electrical requirements, etc., but what you probably cannot see the need for is a situation that sets groups of bidders from different countries bidding against each other for different products.

For example, you may have decided that instead of going out and buying a new GPS unit for your car or for camping you are going to give Swoopo a try. The bidding is spirited and you have little success after spending your allotted limit. Imagine your chagrin if you had gone to the Korean website and saw that a number of Asian consumers were bidding against you….for a digital camera. You would never bid on a camera, you have two already. The Asians would never bid on a GPS unit, they already have one.

What has happened is Swoopo created an artificial environment pitting strangers against each other, all of them chasing something different, with appeal to their particular region, but in the same bucket without telling anyone. I have numerous examples, but will stop with that one. You can check for yourself easily enough.

Long winded and rambling, it is just that I was really a fan. Won sometimes, lost sometimes, but always thought I knew what I was up against. Turns out I was wrong.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:03:44 +0000

Here is why you should not waste your time:
You have no chance of winning since The Bid Butler beats you every time. Not only that there is no way you can out match the bots that are bidding in each auction. From what I have experienced and studied, I have seen the same bidders over and over countless times exceeding the actual value of the item. I believe these bidders work for swoopo to raise the bids so they make you spend more money. An example would be last week while bidding on an apple Ipad, I was bidding against a guy who would bid almost every other bid. By counting all his bids to try to wait and knock him out of the picture, he continues to bid beyond the $829 price, who does that? 1576 bids were made just by one buyer. If you calculate that its .60 per bid so (1580*.60=$945.6) in addition you still have to pay for the auction if you win. Try counting out how many bids a person makes to clarify if you think this is legit or a scam. Also write down all the top crazy bidders that you will constantly see. If you’re going to waste your time and money on this I suggest that you stick with the concept of “Go big or Go home”. You will have to compete with bots and bidders based on who has more bids. Don’t waste your time if you’re going to be bullied out. If you decide to give it a try then my suggestion on strategy is waiting and watching the bidder’s actions. The “Bully” usually will make sure he owns the timer. An example would be the counter clock will never go below 3-5 seconds with him bidding. As he Bully’s people, just wait till he slows down because he is trying to discourage you from continuing on. Eventually he gives the timer up to another “Bot or Bully”. There are two things the Bully is hoping for, 1: is the lag in the system which is why he wants to dominate the clock and 2: he is hoping that people will expect someone else to watch the clock and bid. If everyone’s waiting on someone, then he wins. Glad to give feedback to people who want and need to know what’s going on. Watch how the system works before you play.
Good Luck and I QUIT!!
P: S If you purchase the “Special bid pack M+$50 resturant.com” Make sure they actual send it to you, since I never received mine.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:00:48 +0000

anyone ever think that they’d use BOTS to do bidding, win the item, send it to themselves, send the money back to themselves? is there any kind of transparency for this business model? no one in their right mind would spend MORE money on bids than the actual item+closing cost. i think swoopo and bigdeal are both scams.

By: John

John — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:29:55 +0000

I agree the site is not legit. If you keep bidding on an item someone is always bidding against you. Once you stop there is a winner. Check out the auctions with no bidders it ends real early. Thats because only their employees were bidding. Once a customer starts to bid the auction goes really high.