Deal Dash Inc. and William Wolfram, Chairman & CEO Penny Auction Site Offering great deals on bids which then magically disappear leaving consumers considerably poorer Manhattan N

Over the last few weeks I have spent more on bids, emptying my checking account and maxing a credit card. I have read the Deal Dash advice to bidders on how to win auctions and have employed those as well as some of my own. I have blatantly (meaning very obviously) been screwed out of wins a couple of times and complained both times and allowed them to appease me with the offer of 200 bids. I have read some of the blogs and frankly find them hard to believe. I look at the people I'm bidding against and see most of them have 0 wins. I gave a bid back for a list of those at their limits and found not even one name of a person I was bidding against in any of the three auctions i was contemplating. NOT ONE other than my own! And exactly what good is that anyways? I used my bid buddy, i went free hand, i watched trends, I counted bidders involved, I researched past prices paid. I have happily paid for what I did win. 2 $10 gift cards and a couple of small bid packets. I am not willing to be out hundreds of dollars with nothing to show for it and yet that is where I find myself. This is a scam. This should be against the law. Oh and that guy bragging and blogging about the piles of electronics sitting around his house because he's so good at this which he kindly donated to charity.... how is it he even got to bid on the same thing more than once when I see blocked bidder lists posted on many high end items??? Oh and your customer service is great... keep your mouth shut great! You ended up advising me I should not be bidding on high end items since I am new, yet you limit low end items and I get a pop up that says I can only bid on items worth $200 or more And when I don't win you want me to buy it now at an inflated price and give me my bids back. I have never been so embarrassed to wear the giant "L"oser mark on my forehead! I only hope any who read this will BEWARE! From a very disillusioned DealDash Sucker!

This was my first public report made against this company.  I vowed never to go back and stupid me, I was lured back with half price bids and the old anything you buy is free line.  My second attempt at going public was going to look like this.... I was locked out on a 2000 bid packet win that looked pretty intentional to me.  I was using bid buddy.  When I checked to see if I needed to add more,  I watched my "buddy" use my last bid and I manually punched in my next one in plenty of time...  my bid button would not work.  So I lost my 2000 bids.  These were bids I intended to use to buy an iPad which I saw coming and had reserved a spot in the auction by placing 35 bids on it to start through the bid buddy on that auction.  So you suggest I do a BIN (Buy It Now) on the 2000 bids I lost out on for $1200????  That just seems a little outrageous to me.  I had also placed 35 bids in the bid buddy of another ipad that was coming up so as not to lose a place in that one.  I was trying to decide which one I would bid on.  Somehow those 35 bids disappeared entirely and that auction started without me and was past no jumpers before I knew it.  My whole reasoning for going after bid packets to begin with was to accumulate enough bids to get that ipad and a notebook, both to be xmas presents.  Those gift cards were a fluke.  And talk about a scam....  DealDash offered me 9 bids each for them.  On a normal day that is 60 cents on the dollar.  On a sale day like yesterday that is 16 cents on the dollar.  What would DealDash have charged me on a BIN for them?  $10 at least I'm sure!  This site is very misleading.  Even for those of you who are very good at setting a budget and sticking to it - which I normally am tighter than bark on a tree with my money - let me just say you can kiss it goodbye at DealDash.  You get very little for your money.  You spend oodles on "bids".  You win an item and then you have to pay for it after that anyways even if it is at a reduced cost  Someone may buy an iPad for $25 but I'm betting they spent hundreds on bids to get it!  What a racket.  Think about it!  You are paying someone 60 cents to click YOUR mouse on a picture of a particular item and if you do that more than anyone else all the while PAYING for the "privilege", someone will send you the actual item.  Someone is laughing all the way to the bank. Think of all those people (me included) who clicked away at 60 cents each and walked away with notta!   I'm off to finish up my Ripoff Report.  You know I tried to post on your WordPress blog and you rejected me AND your Facebook page.  I never did post this part but...