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Complaint Review: swipebids.com/index.php - Internet

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  • Reported By: George — Fernie British Columbia Canada
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  • swipebids.com/index.php Internet United States of America

swipebids.com/index.php Swipebids only swipes your money Penny Auction Site Deceptive costly registration process Totally deceptive bidding process involving false bidders to inflate the bidding process Internet

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This online penny auction site deceptive and expensive sign up to be member with bidding rights. Pricing of auction items are normally exagerated but the real reason for my complait is to report the apparent fraud in their bidding process which i can only believe to be phony bidders to inflate the sales prices. I witness a bidding process on top end Mac computer over a period of 24 hrs It appeared to be hotly contested and was always being defended by one persons screen name by an autobidder process I witnessed this same screen name purchase more of the penny bid packs from the sites main page to the extent of $800 to $1000 per hour till this screen name dropped out of bidding after 24 hours of this autobidding. Other hopefull bidders took over after this screen name dropped out and i witnessed a different screen name win the auction. Since the bidding process called penny bids is missleading the actual price to the bidder is $5.00 per bid to stay in this type of auction and the price shown as the selling price is only raised by one penny per $5.00 bid the actual revenue generated from a sale price shown as $260.00 would have been in the $130,000 if every bid was ligitimate. My impression of the longtime autobidder that i watched while puchasing all the bid packs at full retail was one of sympathy believing the cost to him to defend bid to be $25,000 and knew he would not be back to this site again Well i was wrong even though the winning bidder was another screen name the namme wasnt listed in the winners area but this original screen name was there for the same item. The reason i suspect this bider is false is that it was back in auctions 10 hours after losing the original Mac Pro book and was betting on other high cost items , If it walks and quacks like a duck it may just be a duck !

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AUTHOR: SwipeBids - (USA)

POSTED: Thursday, August 26, 2010

Good Afternoon George,

My name is Jennifer, Head of Customer Service for Swipebids. I assure you our website is not a scam and is entirely legit, please visit the information below for confirmation. I would be more then happy to assist you in any concerns you may have. You may contact me personally at jennifer@swipebids.com, please include your first/last name, user name, email linked to account as well as the link to this post. I will ensure you will have a positive resolution to your concern. I hope to hear from you.

The registration page where your credit card information is inputted into our system, has 4 locations where we notify customers of our $159 Membership fee. Provided in the link below, you will see 1 right above where your information is inputted, 2 are off to the left and the last is right above the "Start Bidding" button, which will finalize your registration.
https://www.swipebids.com/registration_pg2.php

We show on our website quite a few pages of past winners, included we show the price it was sold at, retail price and you can even confirm the tracking numbers by clicking on the number itself. We have also given away numerous cars to bidders within the United States and Australia which can be verified at the link below
http://www.swipebids.com/all_past_winning_auction.php

We also sponsor numerous children through World Vision, the link below will take you to the site where we describe how it all works and how we started by sponsoring 100 children and we continue to add 1 more each day in our effort to make a positive change.
http://www.swipebids.com/world_vision_charity.php

If you have any other questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me personally at jennifer@swipebids.com

Regards,

Jennifer
Head of Customer Service
Our Winners: http://www.swipebids.com/all_past_winning_auction.php
Our World Vision Charity: http://www.swipebids.com/world_vision_charity.php
Our Customer Service Page: http://www.swipebids.com/contact.php

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