Comments on: Deep Savings at Swoopo.com

By: penny auction reviews

penny auction reviews — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:30:51 +0000

I really like your blog, I stumbled across penny auctions about a year ago and have been enjoying them ever since!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:08:39 +0000

And it appears that sellmoo.com can be included in the same category as Swoopo. Don’t peddle that crap here.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:34:27 +0000

I think I might agree with you actually. When this first came out I didn’t know a lot about it…then just recently I found more sites just like it and even learned exactly how the site operates on the back-end side (not to mention what is necessary to build them). I found it to be like gambling actually. So I think I will update this post. Thanks for writing in.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:47:06 +0000

I heard that they use bots for this site, so humans usually don’t win, which means it’s a big scam. I wouldn’t recommend this site to anyone, and I kind of wish you’d take it down for the safety of other people.

This site (milkyourmoney.com) is supposed to help people save money, and this scam page is only making people throw their money away. :\

By: Sellmoo

Sellmoo — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:03:41 +0000

I would like to invite everyone to check out http://www.sellmoo.com get three free bids when you sign up!

Thank you

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:34:16 +0000

I’ve been using http://www.Spree4.com grabbed some great bargains so far, recommend it to all.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:41:14 +0000

Just to be more clear, I don’t mean the BidButler when I said bots. I heard they actually have bots posing as human bidders, which are there to make sure no human bidder wins.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:38:42 +0000

This site (milkyourmoney.com) is supposed to help people save money, and this scam page is only making people throw their money away. :\

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:08:01 +0000

I love all these comments, thanks to everyones input.
@David: Thanks for the other sites (https://www.redbread.co.uk/default.aspx & the other one seems to be for something completely different?) Try not to spam your own site.

@John: Another good one, thank you. Lots of UK sites…interesting.

@Jo: Excellent findings. Yea, I was a little disappointed to see they had BidButler, where there was automatic bidding. And if customer service is an issue…then thats an issue.

@Matthew: Very true…they seem to be definitely covering their costs under the guise of you saving a bundle. Something to watch out for.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:07:03 +0000

Well it doesn’t take much to figure how they can sell stuff cheap! The money is in the bid! I just saw a Kitchenaid mixer that goes for around 250. Lets say it goes on Swoopo for 120. OK it is a .02 auction which means each bid can only raise the price .02! To get to $120 there will have to be 6000 bids at .60 each… can you say $3600.00!!!!!

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:26:15 +0000

Hi,
After reading your post on swoopo a couple of days ago, I did some extensive research on swoopo. (two days worth!) I did some analyzing of how their system works and some research on google by typing in swoopo scam or swoopo reviews. It appears to be a very controversial site. Even their facebook page has some unhappy user comments that they don’t seem to respond to. I would be very careful in today’s society about where I would spend my hard earned money. It appears to have great deals but from what I found out a lot of the winners are humanbots not real people. In my research I typed in winner names plus swoopo into google. One of the winners won a side by side refrigerator in from their uk site and the next day won a side by side refrigerator from their usa site. Sounds pretty fishy to me. The analysis of what appears to be a ‘humanbot’ came out that typically their number of bids they placed to win the item came out to around 10% of the total bids coming in on the product. This analysis was on quite a few different winning humanbot users. A humanbot is a computer generated software program that makes it appear a real person is bidding when in reality it is a software program. My time spent researching this site was interesting to say the least. I for one though will not be spending my money with swoopo. Just thought you would like to know.

By: John

John — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:27:07 +0000

A far less risky way of shopping is http://www.spree4.com – with amazing savings to be had. Take a look, prices only go down, no bidding wars where someone can snipe you – this really is an exciting way to shop!

By: David Cooper

David Cooper — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:40:33 +0000

Agreed that Swoopo is a great website but they are not the only one. The online penny auctions industry is growing at such a great rate of knots. I think this may have something to do with the recession and people trying to pick up a ‘bargain’. Other great websites to definitely consider are redbread.co.uk and pbid.co.uk. I think you will find that more and more people will use penny auction websites once they learn of them.