While surfing I happened across an ad for Beezid.com penny auctions, Leary about it I did some searching on Google to see if there was any HUMAN posts about them. Well I did find a scant few and NONE of them where positive and NONE of them said that they actually received the product on the auction that they felt they clearly won! Others state that the other bidders may possibly be bots or someone in the company outbidding everyone to get the bids up.
How does Beezid work?
Well unlike Ebay, you pay for each bid, Although they are penny auctions, each bid costs a dollar! You bid or buy these bid packages and they can cost upwards of hundreds of dollars. so be prepared to spend some major jack to play.
Here is a link to a blog from a woman who’s husband has become a bit addicted to this Beezid site, give it a read:
http://www.open.salon.com/blog/jess_d_facts/2009/11/12/beezid_the_claw_machine_of_the_internet
I would like to know if ANYONE has RECEIVED ANY auction product that they have won from this site?
Here is a cut,copy&paste of one unhappy customer:
“I will just copy and paste a letter of which I sent to Beezid.com which explains my situation and their fraudulent practices in full. As follows in quotations:
“NO MORE AUTOMATED RESPONSES. I WANT A REAL PERSON TO RESPOND PLEASE!
1) – Once again you are sending me endless copies of your automated responses. One had absolutely NOTHING to do with any of my grave concerns or questions. Please stop sending me mass automated responses for questions of which have been already answered.
2) – I have sent THREE emails to you concerning items I have won on your site. After patiently staring at my computer screen for endless hours and for most of the night while watching the countdown on two items until finally just at the right time, I hit the bid button AND WON BOTH ITEMS. I was originally so happy and thrilled that I had finally won these items. As I found just the right moment to hit bid on both of these items, the screen displayed, “ENDED” and displayed my user name on the bottom as the winner for both Auction ID:2329 AND Auction ID:2258. Then to my complete surprise and outrage your countdown suddenly restarted for both items! (These two items were up for bid on the same day yet separate times). At first I thought perhaps you were having a computer glitch even though I thought it was EXTREMELY unfair to me, but when it happened a second time I had enough! Eventually both of these items were awarded to other people…..if they are even real people at all. How could this happen???? And Why? What kind of a site are you running here???? It was then that I sent an email to you to address my grave concerns about what happened to me, your website and it’s practices. One email was the original letter which addressed my great concerns about this. The others were reminders to get you back on track concerning this outrage when you sent me repeated automated responses to questions that had already been answered and had absolutely nothing to do with my grave concerns about these issues.
3) – As mentioned above, there were two items that I was originally very interested in when I joined your site and purchased your Bids. If I had only known that I would have to sit and stare at my computer screen for hours upon hours in order to win these items, I would have never joined your site. I had originally expected there to be regular penny auctions available as detailed in your description of your website. I had also planned to use your, “Auto Bid” and/or your, “Sniper” options and let them do the bidding for me during hours when I was sleeping. As much as you massively advertised on the the availability of these wonderful options, you failed to mention that they were completely useless because they did not apply to your only form of auctions which had any items at all up for bid which are your, “Thriller Auctions”. Neither your
advertisement, your help section or ANY SECTION of your site made it very clear that these options of which I expected to use were not available for your “Thriller Auctions”. In fact I had to deeply search your web site to find any reference about these options not being available for your, “Thriller Auctions”. The only reference I could find to this was in very small type of which I found to be very deceptive on your part.
4) – Your site only seemed like more of a scam when I searched under EVERY SINGLE
CATAGORY to look for any regular auctions to bid on which allowed me to use the, “Auto Bid” and/or “Sniper” options only to find that there were absolutely NONE to be found anywhere on your site! Most of your categories have absolutely NO LISTINGS! The ones that do have listings are the very same listings which are shown on your main page and are the very same, “Thriller Auctions”.
5) – There are periods of time when even in your, “Thriller Auctions” you only have one or two items up for bid. Other items listed are not up for auction for many hours or days. You seem to basically only list auctions to buy more of your very own bids! For what?? To win only to have what you win taken away and awarded to another person if they are even real?
6) – I have watched your site long enough to notice a pattern. First, your auctions to buy more of your bids seem to be the ONLY ones which sell for any large amounts of money. Why is this? They usually sell for amounts which are very close to the value of the item. People seem to bid at inappropriate times on these items like when there is still much time left before the timer ends. Why is this? Could it be that your very own people are pressing the bid button to get the most money for your own bids? How would anyone know? Are there any protections in place to see that no one from your company can, “Stuff the ballot?” How could anyone tell?
7) – You advertise “Cherry Auctions” for new members who have not yet won any items, yet when I press the button to see what cherry auctions are available, there is rarely anything listed. When there is a listing, it has only been a single auction to buy more of your very own bids!! The exact same situation applies to your, “Bid for Free” section!
So where are the regular items that are up for bid? There are NONE!!! Where are MY two items of which I spent many hours of my time watching and lost sleep over to win fairly? I await a reasonable response from a REAL person.”
There was no response from them.”
Please if you have ANY information on this site, Let us know! Is it a SCAM?
Hi there there admin, I truly needed to firmly place a quick note to state that I relished your specific story. Thanks!
Watching Beezid over the last few months I have seen a several of these auctions go for much more than the retail price that is shown. I have in that time won several items, but all have been under the $100 mark. I have recieved them within 3 weeks of paying for them. I have gotten them all for a very good price. However, when you see certain names pop up you know that the price is going to go way up. Tyler was right with names he posted. Some others are:
Alpacino75
theunknownmember
fatma
Thank You.. Its really all about understanding how it works, im not gonna lie ive only won about 200$ in products buts its fun and free to try. To be honest if you dont win anything with the FREE bids they give you then id say leave the site. If anyone is intrested just try it out, copy and paste the link below for 25 FREE bids
http://www.beezid.com/?ref=6iqwifgufzm&utm_source=bu&utm_medium=RAFsb&utm_campaign=RAF
beezid is nothing like ebay. popular beezid penny auctions continually reset after the original end of the auction. if they restart the timer one hundred times, the item is only $1 higher in price, each of those resets is a bid you have to pay for. if a beezid penny auction sells for $150, it was bid on fifteen thousand times – almost all of it ALWAYS after the end of the auction’s original end time. ebay has ONE end time. ebay auctions are won by the highest bid at one final end and are paid for, by that one person only – everyone else who bid and lost doesn’t pay a dime to anyone. beezid makes money on every bid made, win or lose because all bids have to be purchased by all who participate. so ALL people (except one) on the beezid auction lose actual money and get nothing for it. beezid is a pyramid scheme, except there is only ever one place that always gets all the money for nothing – beezid. the most fun about this is that sometimes the same final bid prices on their items can be had from legit sites without having to pay $5 (or more) for each ten tries to win the chance to pay for the auction. keep in mind it takes hundreds of your bids to win a popular item, and that’s with smart strategy – the pros use several hundred bids on an item, but obtain them differently. and i think there are fake company bots out there too. anyway, i just got a big personal experience education today and want to warn others that you won’t win the chance to buy the auction, you will only pay to lose the auction. however, say the winner, faux or real, pays $100 for an $800 retail item (beezid buys wholesale for $300, and you can buy on sale for $379). beezid precollects $5,000 before this auction starts for the particular $100 auction end price, because it took 10,000 bids to get to $100. they then collect the $100 plus shipping from one lucky person, and ofcourse that person used/bought hundreds of bids to win it, along with the others who also used/bought hundreds (or maybe add another zero) to try to get the chance to buy it. if you add your bids cost to your win price, you could have bought it for that or less online honestly, without the stupid dance.
that $3 bucks you say you’re willing to lose can easily cost you $75.00, and you will get nothing, zero, nada, if you lose. but you will still be out the $75 or more. each penny increment costs bidders (other than the pros) on average about .50 cents, and if you want to win you would auto bid, or regularly bid to get that item for $3. beezid will make upwards of $150 for anyone’s $3 win. plus they have shill bidders. the odds of buying a popular item on beezid is basically impossible, and i doubt if they even have that item to sell to an actual real bidder. but if they get a $150 winning end bid for a $1000 retail item (their cost for it is probably $300) beezid actually got paid about $7,500.00 from that auction. you could buy it yourself for around $300 on sale at a legit site. winning names can suddenly get bumped off too. it’s all a scam, and you have no recourse because the company is in canada. it’s not $3. it’s never $3.
I don’t understand why you’re nagging about people reading and posting about this stupid blog while you’re doing the exact same! At least people posting on this blog about the scam are being informative instead of pointless. You’re just a hypocrite that thinks he’s better than everybody else!
Okay, just have to say, I’m reading this entire thing just to distract myself at the moment, beezid scam was the first thing to pop into my mind so I decided to look into it. Some of these comments are funny, some are stupid, and some are probably plants(I mean, there’s a post near the top that if you click on the name it leads you into an obvious scam which is an ad for how to win penny bids…) However, think of it this way; yes, there are people hoping to make something for nothing…and yes, that is rarely possible…but the lesson needs to be learned by those people and here they are passing it on so no one else makes the mistake. So just like you, I have no interest in the topic and like you, some of the grammar mistakes are making me twitch…but at the same time, if this is a scam and people are trying this its a lesson that those people need to learn.
Nothing is that easy but at the same time, hope is important. It’s just finding the point where there’s a balance that’s best.
As for the reason I decided to post on yours…I find it amusing. You think these people are idiots yet you actually give them a message that long to say so. I don’t think anyone’s an idiot. Yes, there are a few lazy people here but for me, curiosity is the main reason for looking into this stuff. Anything I pay for online I will not touch unless I personally know a few people who have actually gotten something from it. Admittedly, the one site I made an exception to that for–they had awesome gloves for five bucks with free shipping, what’s five bucks, really–turned out well, I got my order in only three days and there was no issue with it, but that site also had a physical location in another state.
Anyways, allow people to be curious. Some of these people are just checking it out and never spent any money on it while others decided to follow their own experience.
I just have to say that I’m glad that I bid against the people on this forum. The site is all about strategy and no one here obviously has any strategy. The items I’ve won include a Nikon camera for my wife which I got a few days ago, Star Wars I-VI which is on its way, and 2 memory foam pillows for my wife and I. I hate to diss everyone but yeah…and if you call customer service and ask them to give you free bids, they will if you buy some first.
Today is Halloween, where 41,000,000 kids will be dressing up to go ‘Trick or Treating’. At Beezid, it can’t be all work and no play so we’re always looking for new ways to have a little fun. Today for example, the Hive was filled with different faces: Pharaoh, of course Moses, Cobra Commander, Paul Stanley (one the members of the band Kiss), an undead princess, the Artist Formerly Yet Now Known Again as Prince, Teen Wolf, and more walking around the office, going about their daily tasks.
The penny auction scene is fairly recent, to my knowledge the industry been around for only a couple of years, I’ve visited a couple of them and until now I prefer Beezid to the rest. It’s good to know what you’re getting into before you take the plunge, know that you have to pay upfront for bids.
recently bid over 300 bids on an item and 98% of the time it was my bid against one “Autobid”. I have called them before about the autobid gimmick and have gotten several different answers. My discussion the other night was about 15-20 minutes before the customer service was scheduled to close and the young lady i was speaking with was very polite for the first 5 minutes. When I questioned her how someone could bid over my bid automatically for over 300 plus bids she suddenly “ran out of time and had to go home because the live time frame and the live hours to speak about customer service was ending.”
My questtion to her was how someone could could autobid over my regular bid OVER 300 TIMES andd she suddenly did not have time to talk about it. I bid regularly over and over and over again but the same username continued to automatically outbid me for over an hour. There is no way that is legitematly possible because of the way the bidding process is set up.
Several other times I submitted bids with 2-3 seconds left and when I called I was told you had to bid at least 4 seconds before the auction was supposed to end.
Several shakey incidents and explainations that don’t add up make me wonder and I think I need to see a legitimate process and a bid ending for an auction to make me have any confidence going forward with this sight.
Did you forget that that’s how ‘tv channels’ make their revenue? Anyone willing to shell out money to advertise on a tv channel or in a newspaper, etc… that media will, no doubt, show or print the commercials/ads. It’s how tv/newspapers generate money.
Thousand and thousand in advertising only to have the cars recalled. See, even advertising is like a game of chance 
Take the ‘slap chop’ commercial for example… the guy starts his monologue, starts using the product, Uses two fingers to show how easy it is to use (since alot of people don’t like to cook because of prep time, this product looks great) BUT having used one (actually two of different makes and brand names) I have found this product ridiculous. I thought how great, easy to use, save me alot of pain, etc. All I did was agravate the arthritis in my hands, wrist, and arms. I actually had to put all my weight on the plunger just to make it work!!
So you see, the ads are great (designed to grab your interest), they’re on big named channels (designed to reach more people) BUT that doesn’t make product reliable.
Second case in point… how many car commercials/ads do you see that sound so great but then read about cars being recalled.
When you think about it, sites like Beezid, Qidbidz, etc. misrepresent themselves via ads and such. They say they’re penny auction type sites but all in all, they’re a type of gambling site. Nowhere in their ads do they mention that you have to shell out big bucks to buy ‘bidding packets’ in order to bid a penny on an item. There are no garauntees that you’ll win the item, as discribed above where the item was won then taken back, basically in a blink of an eye.
… remember the old saying: if it sounds to good to be true (99% off? yeah right!) then is usually isn’t.
You’d be better off going to a casino with a set amount of money (so you don’t break your bank acct) and enjoy yourself there. Or go to a store and buy the item properly. At least you’ll have the item and a reciept. Not a web site saying you won, yet you didn’t.
Scam or not. Keep your money. Spend it on a charity auction in your hometown. Just know that sites like these don’t care. That’s why they have disclaimers, which you agrree to whether you want to or not, by just starting your bidding process.
And before someone starts whining, YES I’ve researched sites like this, YES I know people that work for some of them (they don’t like it but a job is a job these days).
Never ever use sites like these (so-called) auctions or gambling sites if you’re not ready to lose alot of money in the hopes of getting something for next to nothing.
Stay safe world
Canda has free health care? Since when???? Nothing is free in Canada, NOTHING! Yet another misconception another country makes when dissing a country they know nothing about!
I won 3 items, a gaming headset, 100$ gift card and a 500$ necklace, and i got all of em, so its not a scam i know that much, just unlucky for you i suppose, if anyone wants to try it i got a ref link gets u bids gets me bids and u cn get a free shot at an auction or two.
http://www.beezid.com/?ref=28vxybnh07c&utm_source=bu&utm_medium=RAFsb&utm_campaign=RAF
How does anyone know you were not paid to write a positive blog or in fact work for them? I’ve read alot more negative blogs then positive ones!
So are you saying Beezid is not really an auction site, but an on line gambling site?
BEEZID REVIEW : beezid SCAM : Beezid Fraud : beezid bots : yea, beezid is so stupid that they can’t even defraud people correctly. Those criminals are so greedy and that they can’t even control they scam bots to stop bidding after the auction price goes above the bid price…. word to the wise… STAY AWAY FORM BEEZID
I saw that very $200 Walmart card auction going on that Tyler mentions and wondered what the hell? Certainly makes me nervous about that site.
Beezid is DEFINITELY using BOTS. BEEZID IS A SCAM AND A FRAUD
There were 3 different beezid bots running, here are the names:
combatvet68
marcoislandqn
baltimore7
Auction ID:288664
Retail price * $200.00
winning price: $1,003.78
7-22-2011
11:51:34 EDT
Winner Is:
combatvet68
http://www.beezid.com/auctions/vouchers/gift-cards/200-walmart-gift-card
the website link may just bring you to the current walmart gift card scam they are running. but here are screen shots of the walmart gift card scam they ran.
screen shots of the BEEZID SCAM of BEEZID BOTS and BEEZID FRAUD :
http://tinypic.com/r/2090uvm/7
http://tinypic.com/r/a4myvm/7
http://tinypic.com/r/2lt4c3/7
Honestly, you got no where with this post. It has little to do with Beezid; however, it does seem to contain a lot of elitist bullshit that stems from you deciding to play your “I’m a college graduate, therefore, I’m superior” card. No, were not starting into devolution, and no, nothing has changed. And no, there is no free lunch, and iPads don’t grow on trees. But if you would open your god damn eyes and see this through Beezid’s eyes, this is a gold mine! So stop assuming that people are stupid and you seem to be the only smart one. Because the way I see it, you’re replying to a post made about some “scam” so that you can feel superior. But the owners of Beezid are cashing in on the false hope of humans everywhere.
And i don’t care who will not see this or not care because anyone who has dealt with a Grammar Wh**e feels exactly as i do.
To samantha, Seriously? Shut up about “Grammar.” Your insistence on such a trivial matter only shows you’re complete lack of competence in seeing a larger picture. This post is NOT “Beezid is a scam! Also I won the third grade spelling B yesterday!” It is an exposure to the scum that is Beezid. So next time you or any other nit picky, self righteous, arrogant, bachelor degree earners Feel the need to spew diarrhea out out of your mouth in regards to something that is not relevant to the subject at hand. (grammar in this case.) try to take control of your Attention Deficit Disorder and random impulse to show everyone that you can manage to spot the mis-spelling of a single 1$ word on 2 page report and hold your tongue to save us the agony of your irritating yet predictable bantering.
I received two of my items this week, an xbox 360 250gb with kinect system that retails at $399 and a nintendo 3ds. Both items were purchased with my children’s birthdays in mind. So to answer this question fairly, yes it is possible to win and yes they do send the items you have won to you. But don’t let this review make you want to go, like said previously the less that go the less competition for me.
I have participated in quite a few auctions at beezid.com. It’s not easy, that’s for sure, but winning is very possible. I have won 7 auctions retailing for about $1,600 so far with about $750 worth of bids (and I have bids left). I won and paid for my first auction for a Playstation 3 with move bundle valued at $399.00 2 weeks ago (6-8-11). They say that items are normally shipped within 3 weeks, so we will see about receiving the items I have won, and I will update about that then.
As mentioned previously, there is plenty of information available on the internet as well as on beezids site and through beezids customer support to get a good idea of how to play the game. Just as any type of game you may play, job you may get, etc., a good strategy to end up on top is necessary. It also helps to know your competition. People that do not want to devote the time to study the site and the auctions and how it all works should not spend a dime on the site since if you do, you are destined to lose. Those that do decide to spend the time to learn the site, how each auction works, the competition, and learn how to find their strategy that works for them and stick to it should do rather well.
People say they always see the same people bidding, well, a successful bidder would continue to come back and bid now wouldn’t they? Instead of complaining about it why not study what the successful bidders are doing so that you can become successful too? If you can’t handle losing a few here and there and/or if you can’t control yourself once you place a bid in an auction then by all means stick to eBay, it will work better for you.
i cant believe am readin all your complain that beezid is a scam or illegal. its a marketing strategy. little common sense is what you need to understand it. You think it’s a scam coz you lost muney, but if you actually bought an ipad for $12.00 would you call it a scam?
Here’s how it work.
Lets say IPAD cost $500
Winning bidder won it for $12.00
$12.00 is accounting to 1200 bidder
Assuming 1 bid is $1
$1200 – this what beezid gets from the bidding
then the winner only pays $12.00
so…
Beezid gets $1200(from its awesome marketing strategy) + $12 (from the winning bidder) minus $500 (for their own pocket to purchase IPAD)
= $712 beezid earning from its business.
It aint scam, its business strategy. its like casino, you gamble to win.
Sometimes you win big, most of the time you lose big. It is what it is.
AGAIN!!! Its gambling not scam =)
i play beezid and won 3 item (I GOT THE ITEM) though i stop coz its very addictive. am losing big rather win big just like in casino. =)
just explaining what it is coz am one of those jealous who didnt think of this strategy. =)
FYI to all who said they won but didnt receive their item. dont be fool, coz they lost their muney and didnt win anything thats why their upset. you may email beezid ,they do reply [takes a week or 2 though]. even when you complain on paypal they would reply [takes less than a week, asusual paypal is great =)]
I once thought its a scam and paid my fist winning item through paypal and didnt receive the item. when i call paypal, PAYPAL immediately suspend all BEEZID account so beezid immediately replied that they will re-ship my item. (foolish me, my aunt receive the item for me but i didnt know thats why i complain, so they reship the item. i got the item twice by paying only once =P).
The next item i won, paid it through card and didnt have any problem. =)
you can have them re-ship you item if you didnt receive it.
oh yeah, it takes 2-3 weeks for you to get the item so just be patient you know.
Actually Samantha…you got the liar part right, but lier is “a person or thing who lies, as in wait or ambush.” or “one who reclines” (according to dictionary.com) ‘Lyre’ is the correct way to spell the thing you were talking about (something that holds a piece of music to an instrument.) Everyone makes mistakes…
never used beezid so I’m not sure if I’m in the right place. But I DO use bidrack and haven’t had a problem with them yet. I love ‘em. But…The items I did get took forever to arive. That is the only down side.
I saw the Beezid ad on TV. I looked into it and there’s several threads like this. The site is vague and evasive. Right away, I was getting red flags when there’s little or no information about how this really works.
Scam? Well, first of all, it’s not really penny auctions and people don’t get nice items for .3 or .5 cents like the stupid and deceptive TV ad states. So right away, it’s a huge deception.
If it’s not a full on scam it’s certainly a Suckers Bet. I’m an Ebay buyer and seller. Beezid is just plain scarey.
It seems like an offer lot of people should open up their own penny auction, considering everyone knows how it should go. In other words show people how it’s done and stop watch people bidding habits beside if you don’t work for beezid how can you be so should you’re so right ???? Open up your own and stop spreading rumors.
Scam if I ever saw one. They advitise 1 cents, and charge you 67 for each bid. When I complained, they called and told me they wanted to double my bid points. ex. 500 and I get 1000. So when asked how much this cost it was $250.00. Ok, so you got me once, never again. Lets sue as a class action.
Beezid is a great site and you can score amazing deals by just doing your research on the site and watching auctions before you participate! I have won a ton of items off this site and have never paid retail for an Item! A lot of people will go into these Penny sites and expect to just win immediately and when they don’t win they will come on these forums and just complain about how big of a scam the site is. It is there fault for not doing the research on how the site works and calling there support team to get tips! Beezid is a great site and ill always be with them!
I’m an avid EBay buyer/seller and when I saw the ad for “penny auctions” come up, I was intrigued. So I did my research. The site itself seems legit. Meaning, that you can get high-ticket items for a fraction of the regular price. Even if you buy 200 bids at a $1.00 a try and you win a $2500 TV for the auction price of $300; you still only paid a total of $500. Which is still A GREAT PRICE!
My concerns though, would be with the customer service and buyer/seller contact. Traditional auction sites tend to really make an effort to ensure that the lines of communication are open. Questions can be asked and if they’re not answered in an apt amount of time and it results in a problem; the hosting site usually has no problems with intervention. If this a genuine problem for Beezid.com then it could be a deal breaker for shoppers and something they need to consider fixing. But from my research, this complaint seems to be consistent to a singular identity who copy/pasted under different names on several review sites. This makes me believe that the issue was not as severe as this person makes it out to be.
After looking at the bidding structure and format of the auction, my best advice is that sites like Beezid.com are a bid-sniper’s dream. You can simply find a product you want. Wait for the auction end. Then bid at the last moment. Thus saving your bid “points” and gaining the item. This kind of practice has been going on for a few years on sites like EBay where auction bidders lurk until the get their SMS/Email message stating that the auction their watching is about to finish. Then they swoop in like vultures and drop a bid $.50 higher than the last bidder. It’s aggravating, yes. But sites like EBay don’t discourage it and in structure, penny auctions encourage it.
There is no such thing as a free lunch
There really no way to tell if its a scam or not unless you work for the company!
People can say they won things but humans lie a lot!
I tried my luck with the free bids and of course i got nothing!
Have you all nothing better to do with your time & energy than to 1) read these stupid sites and post your ignorant comments to them, and 2) honestly believe that you can get something for nothing?? Come on folks – any of you who graduated from high school (which after perusing these comments I have concluded the vast majority of you have not done) should know, and have drilled into your brain, that there is no such thing as a free lunch. EVER. No get rich schemes that are legal and work. Amway will only make you rich if you believe in Jesus and don’t care if you lose all of your friends and family over it. That watch you bought off the guy in Times Square, who swore on his dead mama’s grave it was a real Rolex, ticks, but you’re so sure it’s real!! Any of it people – quit being so stupid – PLEASE!! It’s collectively reducing our societal IQ by enormous increments! We are NOT supposed to be this stupid. We haven’t always been. Maybe we peaked half a century or two ago. At least from a communicative and street-smart basis. We have proved again and again that we are just getting more and more stupid. Maybe if just one of you decided that not wasting your time on Beezid, and on this site bitching about Beezid was the right thing to do, you could convince someone else of the same. Then, maybe you could decide to use the energy you were going to spend doing those useless activities perhaps writing to your congressman or woman and asking them why they’re taking away the free breakfast program at all the inner city public schools. Or write a letter to the Japanese government asking them to think twice about culling the earth’s beautiful creatures to points of almost extinction. Try doing something good for once, rather than worrying about being the cheap dude on the block.
Perhaps we’re de-evolving and many of you have already taken on the traits of the humanoids who came before us whose brains were far smaller and simpler than that of modern man’s. They used noises, grunts and hand gestures to communicate rather than speaking in a language, not to mention writing in said language – correctly.
As for Beezid being a scam, I could give a rat’s fart if this stupid site is a scam or not. I stumbled across this site doing research for my thesis, and just couldn’t sit idly by and not say something. I find it so sad that in today’s society, we, as the human race, are still so stupid and ignorant that we will believe you can really get something for nothing, or for very little and that there will be no consequence for doing so (high shipping costs, losing your ass in bets, never getting your ‘prize’, spending hours upon hours staring at your computer waiting for the exact right second to click in hopes of winning that useless piece of crap you really don’t need). This whole thread of discussion is an excellent example of why humans breeding should become a privilege, not a right. I beg of you, please don’t procreate, and push your excessively moronic genes into the world’s already waning gene pool. We’re getting stupider by the minute, as is proved by this thread alone.
Good luck to you all. I hope you all win a million dollars in the lottery, scratch the winning ticket, buy the power number in the Powerball, win your fantasy football league, and take Vegas for everything, and get your dream item on Beezid for $2.50!! Perhaps with your combined intelligence verging on the point of retarded, you can all figure out a way to save the world while you’re at it.
“The only thing that is a scam about it is the fact that your odds of winning are about the same as they are in Vegas.”
The worst payouts at Vegas are 75% of what’s taken in, most are far higher. Even counting full retail price, on penny auctions, 50% is unusually high, and 75% is absolutely exceptional.
“Everyone knows the casino wins in the end.” Yeah, at the end of the day, casinos make a profit. They’re also regulated and monitored. In Nevada, slots, the form with typically the worst pay-outs, are required by law to pay out at at least 75% of what they take in and they usually pay out more. What are the minimum payouts here? If you count full-retail as the payout, that’s less than 15% payout on this example. In reality, though, it’s probably a little bit higher of a payout percentage. There’s no money being taken in from the strategic, last-millisecond shill bids used to guarantee that the auctions stay alive. If a 0% payout from a shill bid winning would somehow expose them, they could easily avoid it. If real people were to suddenly stop bidding for a while, 1 penny increments buying 10 seconds a pop, after the extremely unlikely event of an hour of shill-only bids, the price of the item would have only increased $3.60. If that’s a $599 ipad at $58.60 instead of $55, that’s not much of a difference for attracting bids.
At best, it’s legitimate, there’s no shills, and a small number of people might be able to get a good deal through luck, psychology, a broadband connection, and software that can time their bids by milliseconds while everyone else makes people at who play the slots all day look like genius economists investing on the ground floor of the next Microsoft. At its worst, it’s a total scam full of shills and other deceptions.
Even if it’s an all-out scam, there are enough uncertainties about what is going on in any particular auction and enough embarrassment from the losers to keep from generating many BBB complaints. The pittance they pay in those settlements is nothing compared to their profits, well worth the legitimate image a good BBB rating gives.
Beezid is awful & misleading. They nerd to be shut down. Class action lawsuit needs to be filed. Everyone one needs to be credited.
I was contacted by Beezid after I lost all my bids and some money… for those wanting contact info I dealt with Yoni Amir
yoni@beezid.com
Also I was told I could reach him at the number listed on the site. When I tried calling I got put on hold….I hung up and 2 minutes later my phone rang….
i decided to try this and got screwed out of 2 hundred dollars for an item that we won but the timer went again and ive sent them emails and tried contacting them but nothing this is the worst website ever later i went to amazon to check out the same item and found it for the quater of the price and you dont need to buy bids on amazon so yes this is a rip off!!!!!!!!
Harsh but true. …….Lolz. …….dictionary.com too funny
After investing the site for a few days I came to the conclusion that beezid is a scam. If you do not believe me you can check it yourself. Look at a cheap item, yesterday I was monitoring the ‘Lego Kids make and create watch’ which retails for $24.99. I was paying close attention to 3 bidders named Jonah***, laalaa945**, and Magnet****. At the end of the bid Jonah placed 64 bids, laala placed 280 bids, and Magnet placed 136 bids. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt ok they all bought their points wholesale at $0.60 cents a bid. At that rate they would pay as follows:
Jonah 64 * 0.60 = 38.40
subtract the retail cost then add the final price: 24.99 – 38.40 + 2.00 = -15.41 (loss)
laala 280 * 0.60 = 168.00
24.99 – 168 + 18.17 = -161.18 (loss)
Magnet 136 * 0.60 = 81.60
24.99 – 81.60 + 18.25 = -74.86 (loss)
Who would in their right mind would pay $186.00 for a 24.99 item?
one last thing there was no early bird special icon for this auction, which means you will not get your bids back if you are the winner.
Conclusion they have bots or employees with unlimited bids to bid up their prices. This way you can use up your hard earned bids up much faster and end up paying more if you do somehow manage to beat the bots.
The sites you mentioned are dying because more and more people are starting to avoid them. It is basically giving something to someone on other peoples money. No doubt, it is same as lottery. But atleast in lottery, you’ll not be spending that much time. Whether lottery or this type of auction, there are certain people who are becoming addict. That is bad. World will be much better if one puts that dollar for each bid to savings account, in a year, he or she will be able to buy that item wanted so long, in stead of screwing up 100 other peoples money.
I don’t get why everyone thinks beezid is a scam. The only thing that is a scam about it is the fact that your odds of winning are about the same as they are in Vegas. It is a gamble. To date I’ve won 4 items from Beezid. 2 $50 iTunes gift cards, a 500gb external hard drive and a DSiXL. They really send you the items. Most items are fulfilled via Amazon.
Think what you want but just because someone says something that you don’t believe doesn’t mean they are a paid shill for someone. If you want to see paid shills go look at all of the “Beezid is a scam” videos on youtube. They all say they “won” the same items and they all had the same “countdown problem” that the article above talks about. Another classic is the “they never sent me my item!!!” one. Unfortunately this is either a case of someone being too stupid to have something shipped to them or a complete lie.
If you win the auction and pay for the item+shipping you will ABSOLUTELY get what you won.
The article provided in this post states that all the auctions are “Thriller auctions”. This is a bold faced lie. I am looking at beezid right now and there is not a single thriller auction up right now. (Also anyone who puts up a ton of autobeezids and then just goes to sleep is just a huge a$$hole)
To the guy who says he couldn’t “bid on bids for free”: Grats on being a total moron. Sign up for the site. Click the bid button. WOW. That was hard, wasn’t it?
In response to the people who “watched the site for 3 hours and saw the same people”: You say you say the same “150 people”…well congrats. That proves nothing. So what if a site has 150 people currently bidding? You are bound to have people bidding far more frequently than others and it indeed puts newer users at a disadvantage but it doesn’t mean it’s a scam.
I sit and watch/bid on auctions on my secondary monitor while I work on my primary monitor. Does this make me a bot? Apparently so according to you oh so smart internet sleuths…
Also to the users who complain that customer support is non-existant: Call them. And use the right number. (Yes, it exists. The only number listed on the page is the correct one. Someone here claimed the number was fake and that is a lie.) Their e-mail system is horrible and even their CSRs admit to that.
People need to quit crying about how the site is a scam just because they can’t win. There is a strategy to win and that strategy involves either sniper bids or mass amounts of auto bids.
Stop being so quick to judge something. Stop being a whiny baby. No Beezid is not easy and no, things are not in your favor. Get over it and stop defaming a perfectly legit company.
I think about add this material in my RSS. Do u think its ok?
As long as I’m properly linked and credited
“an registered nurse’?? its a registered nurse
I am glad that there was all this discussion on this site (both pro and con). Some folks figure things out right away (as in the younger vs older on new technologies). For many people this is ALMOST a form of gambling (on you being the last bidder, your connection being good up to the last moment, and the server working properly). For those who WIN anything, things are always good. I don’t mind folks making money either (big oil companies DO NOT HAVE THIS TYPE OF PROFIT MARGIN FOR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THEY HAVE INVESTED). But, all in all, I will not join this site, I am afraid it would take me hundreds of dollars in bids before I would figure out how to successfully WIN something. If I wish to give away my money, I will go to a casino and watch the waitresses with low cut tops, bend over to serve drinks (about all you get to walk out with). For those of you who do well, good for you, but, there are many who do not win (therefore their profit margin). S0, all and all, EBAY is a much cleaner forum and you don’t WIN anything, you know what you are getting and normally pay close to it’s worth.
I’m with the blogger.
No matter how much you disrepsect the business model. Its not a scame unless they fail to send out products won in auction.
Some of you say the auctions are unwinnable.
I’d like to hear more of that if it’s true, or a counterexample. That you won and geot your stuff.
Bob, ever hear about proofreading? If anyone here is a shill, it’s you! I was about to sign up for Beezid, and realize it is a fraud. Thanks, but no thanks.
It’s a scam, i tried it you can’t even bid on bids for free! That site is so stupid, and the worst part is they have my email address now, so they’re probably send me all kinds of spam
“why else would a *40″ LCD TV sell for 12$”
I seen the ad on tv, joined, bought 27 $ worth of bidz, and then won an auction for 500 bidz at 7 $. So i was in for $34…and i thought, not to bad. Well, after 600 or so bidz I was not able to win anything. I auto bid on a few items, even at higher prices, and in one case spent over 300 bidz and still didnt win. Same names kept pushing the $ amount up. Since i had only invested 34 in the site, i was not to upset, but i could not see anyone buying 500 bidz for 300 $ and then using them all to buy a 100 $ item. Something is not right. Its a good scam. Its def a $ maker. The one thing i can say, buyer beware. Its people like myself, who make these guys rich. I will not invest anymore into this site. I was glad I won the 500 bidz because it really proved what i had suspected…you are better off walking into a casino and pulling the handle on the slot machine. The reset timer on some of these auctions are suspicious. Why else would a 40 $ LCD TV sell for 12 $? What no one else was awake at 4 pm? They were the only one on the site? Ya right. Be very cautious of this site.
Lol. You. Obviously. Are a dumbshit. In the Aircraft mechanics industry students have to learn about Assembly and Fabrication. Welding is necessary to complete your training. Thus, Fabricator is a real title. Do your research, and stop thinking you know what your talking about.
Marty is some kind of something. I googled ‘beezid scam marty’ and his posts came up all over the internet. He posts on how great the site is everywhere, as in that is all he does all day long. I can’t thik of anyone who likes the site that much doing this for fun all day long. He must be some kind of plant. JMHO
NV, not every penny auction is legit, but rest assured that beezid is very real and people are winning prizes on there everyday. If you stick to the big 3 you’ll be fine. Swoopo, Beezid, and Bidcactus. Just get your strategy right!
Well I just read all the reviews and am relieved I did because I wouldnt mind spending a few extra bucks on an item as long as I seta limit and get it without bots. The idea did make me want to look into other pennyauctions to find a legit one. Heck maybe Ill even make my own site cause this sounds freakin genious its a win win unless you lose then if you didnt set a limit for yourself it really sucks but if you set a limit of 3bucks or something then atleast you dont lose a lot of money. All in all this site doesnt look legit but the whole penny auction thing sounds like a good idea
I agree with ohappyday, I’ve won a number of items on the site also. I think people get frustrated thinking it’s going to be easy, however I think that determination plays an important role in your success. Seeing how I won items at beezid, I doubt it’s a scam. Heck I’ve even won items at swoopo too.
One thing people have to remember is that there are auctions you have to watch out for, and the signs of a fake are pretty common sense, for everything else a good strategy is key.
Well, I just stumbled onto this blog, and WOW, can I say everyone has such ‘high emotional’ responses regarding Beezid.com. Well, you all are wondering if it is a scam-right? I can tell you honestly, that my family/friends and I have all won alot in merchandise and cash (and we’ve even won some of the $600.00 and $500.00 gift cards too). We have received items in a timely manner. In the beginning, we spent alot of time watching, studying, searching the web, reading blogs like this one, (check out pennyauctionwatch.com ).
But, you see, you MUST read all of the instructions, help screens, etc, and you MUST watch and study auctions, review closed auctions, follow bidders that have had success, and even call Beezid and ask for help–they’ll give you some bidding hints as well. Also, you can review pennyauctionwatch.com — they have articles on game-theory, as well as strategies for all pennyauction sites, not just Beezid. If what you want is to log in, spend $20.00, and log out after 30 minutes with a 55″ LCD HDTV, then this site isn’t for you… BUT after a few months of studying and ‘losing’ a bit, you could possibly get to a place where you are winning more than you are losing… Just like any other gamble–if you are a ‘slot machine player’ — put the money in, spin the wheels, win or lose…put the money in, spin, win or lose…–no thinking involved–then you will not do well on this site. If, however, you are a blackjack or poker player–strategize, study other players, learn the game inside and out, watch and learn from past ‘winners’–then you will not only do well on this site, you will LOVE IT.
I could easily provide ‘proof’ as some of you request–with packing slips, emails, pictures, etc, however, personally, I would benefit more if you all just thought it was a scam and stayed away…(less competition for me
So, ‘no’ the site isn’t a scam. But, ‘yes’ it does take time, effort, energy and strategy to win, and especially to win ‘big’. So, the site isn’t a scam, it takes work–for some people (like me) the ‘work’ is worth it… for others, it is not worth it. But, just because you don’t particularly care for the site, don’t understand it, or don’t want to spend the time and effort it takes to win, it doesn’t mean that BEEZID is a scam..It really just means it’s not for you–perhaps online slot machines are more your game?? Seriously people, like everything, you will lose some, you will win some.. and it will be a good site for you if you get a strategy where you can win more than you lose I guess… So, like I said earlier–believe me or not, that really is fine… If you aren’t there bidding, it’s just less competition for me.
I just joined, I saw the ads on TV wanted to see if it’s real, they have a 46″ TV that’s 4″ deep which is not slim, but selling for $38 bucks, I was like, there has to be something else, I clicked, the shipping is $90! Still cheap but, I don’t know, however, there is an aucton going for a $500 VISA gift card, I’m going to bid a few bucks on that, if that’s real, then wow, I will do a blog on this site myself. Cheers.
beezid is a scam dont use it. you have to pay to bid on things but you might not even get the thing your bidding on
I don’t think that qualifies BeeZid as a scam. that information is pretty clear from the get go.
Well if I have learned anything from reading this blog/comments its that canada sucks. But then again we already knew that. Keep your free healthcare, maple syrup, and beezid. You’ll never be anything more than America’s top hat.
Glad to see you came back.
Please refrain from using different accounts. This will help you look more legit.
‘As far as you go Samantha Yes Marty and RNsoon are the same but not the others ”
Bullshit! are did you forget “BEEZIDPRO”? Not only the SAME IP but the SAME EMAIL address.hmmmmmm.
The more you yap the deeper it gets!
The ONLY reason I feel some of these Auction sites may be scams, is because they may have BOTS or Employees that bid in order to get the price up.
The idea is such a good one, I actually started my own Penny Auction http://www.Tech4Cents.com. No Bots & No illegitimate bidding.
I do believe these types of auctions are a win win, as long as they are run properly.
I’m well aware that IP’s can be the same even from different people and I’m simply stating that these usernames are all using this one IP.
However your email address is yours and has at least 3 different usernames. One being “BEEZIDPRO”. You forgot to mention that one or give an excuse as to why you would sign up using all these different names even if you where on different computers.
If I go to a site that I have already registered on, I still use the same information I originally used and don’t create several different accounts even if I am using different computers.
Whats the purpose of doing that anyways? the only logical reason is to be deceptive. Why do you need to be deceptive Marty?
Did you know I can back track an IP to see if it is from the same person or a shared IP. ;o)
OH I almost forgot…High Octane the last 2 post were all made from my nephews computer who lives 13 miles away and would you look at that…. the same little picture beside my name…must be from the same IP and in the case you made there for must be from the same computer lmao
see ya because this time I really am not going to waste any more of my time on a conspiracy theorists wet dream of a site.
ps: be careful of the lightning when wearing your tin foil hats lmao.
I deleted the link to this site but figured I would drop back in today to see if people had got wise and see that beezid snaglo and all the other sites like those are not scams but guess people are still mad at these site for doing the only thing they are in it for….to make money.
High Octane, I would have thought you were smater than this…to say that no one has the same Ip. is crazy and yes I can Prove it.
Proof: in the case where I live we have 2 IPs to choose from but both use the same firewall that they put every single customer they have behind…now the firewall has its very own???? thats right, you got it IP address..now when each and every person who use this internet service goes online they all appear to all have the same IP hmmmmmm.
Don’t believe me do some checking around to see for yourself that it is the truth.
As far as the rest on here goes… maybe there is some kind of grand conspiracy…maybe I do in fact work for all these sites
or maybe it’s reverse psychology..you know where someone tries to make you believe one thing…but all the time getting what they really want.
Maybe I tey so hard to make it look legit that it makes more and more people think its not… so I get what I really want, which is that many people not joining and screaming scam …so they go around telling everyone else scam scam and doing my work for me LMAO!
As far as you go Samantha Yes Marty and RNsoon are the same but not the others as High Octane said but it goes to show just how far someone will go to get in on the action lmao if you can call it that…you actually took the time to read and look for a mistake such as a typo and then take the time to post about the word liar …as for the name RNsoon it was for my wife who is soon to be an RN and not I <<<<< oh look proper english LMAO
not bad for a REDNECK wouldn't you say LMAO She also works for the hospital which was voted the number 1 in the country and just for you Samantha there is a typo in this post…. can Ya find it ???LOL
Hey Marty,
If you are going to school to be an RN, then I highly suggest you learn to spell the word LIAR!!! It is liAR not liER (which means something that holds a piece of music to an instrument–which I don’t think any of these people are haha!) The only reason why I responded to this post is because I was aimlessly searching for reviews about this site before I put any money into it and came across your post and am HIGHLY offended because I am too in nursing school and think that we should hold ourselves at a higher standard and be able to spell simple words!!! Good luck in school (if you have made it that far)!
PS If you are unsure of how to spell a word, then I would suggest http://www.dictionary.com or spell check!
the fact that you agree to buy bids makes you a complete moron. i’ll stay with ebay.
it’s obvious that you and marty work for beezid
HighOctane – hope your wife is ok.
Very interesting blog and quite informative. Thanks for posting it. I will not be bidding, but I share the view that it is probably “legit” but like buying raffle tickets in bulk, a bunch of folks spend a lot of money and someone gets a “deal”, and the rest get the “fun” of playing, also calculate the number of hours lost watching, clicking and scheming.
Thanks again, John
Thanks, Shes at home now, that’s a good start.
I’ll try to fix that text/background problem soon.
Hi Site owner.
Ahh Much better! its still black on dark, but MUUCH better!
Actually My wife has been in the hospital all week and I have not had time to make any changes?
ahh all i got to say is .. the people that think its not a scam .. sure like to waste a lot of time defending it .. when in reality they should be bidding on the next item they want so as to be getting more good deals … at lest thats how i look at it … unless your getting payed to go around to sights like this to defend the sight .. i wouldnt waste two seconds here if i didnt question the bots or people bidding just to take money from real bidders its a vary real possibility i mean if all the tvs sold for 2 bids they would lose massive money .. so they have to make sure they make the money they need .. thats all i wana say really have fun bidding lolz
i cannot win anything. ive wasted a crap ton of money can someone please help me.
hey guys ive been biddin forever wasted about 2000 can u give me some tips on what to do.my email is tmizzo2005@hotmail.com thanks alot,
mark
What do you mean? You see these peoples names associated with my IP address? I never posted under anything but one name… skeptical and one email address, so if your saying the names you listed are associated with my IP address I don’t understand? I am not that knowledgable on IP addresses other than I know it is assigned when you sign up with your internet provider and cannot be changed and we have two laptops and two PC’s all wireless that each have their own IP address but there are only me and my spouse who use the computers and laptops. So how could other peoples names get on my IP address? Besides I always post on this site using my wireless laptop which was purchased new in December 2009 and no one has ever used it except me. Can you explain how these people could be using my IP address?
I thought they were all the same, because of the avatars being the same. Marty\’s changed a few weeks after first coming here. If you look at 4/7/2010 he had an avatar that kind of looked like a potato head, then when RNsoon posted on 4/9/2010 it was square, blue with horns and then I noticed that on 4/10/2010 when Marty posted it was the same avatar as RNsoon then same with Beezidpro. That was why I had asked on 4/13 about the symbols in the upper right corner, I had suspected he was writing all of those and trying to make it look as if it was different people. He accused me of having different ones but I have never posted on here under any other name except skeptical! I have no reason to hide and own up to everything I have posted. I had no need to make up different people to defend myself or to defend a mindless stupid site like Beezid.
Marty was so frustrated with people putting Beezid down he resorted to stupid childish tactics and all it did was make it seem he worked for Beezid and makes Beezid look like a scam because he posted under so many different names trying to defend it that now it does seem shady. I don\’t believe I ever said Beezid is a scam, I played for a few weeks never won anything but more bids. I was worried they used bots because the programs that run these sites have the capability to plug in false users and set up bots, that doesn\’t mean Beezid does these things and I have no proof.
I never won anything but more bids but that doesn\’t mean it is a scam just that I never developed a strategy and lost interest before I did. I feel this forum is beneficial to anyone who has doubts, despite what Marty or anyone else says we all have the right to doubt these sites and if a person is convinced the site is a scam there are no amount of posting that will change their minds .
Marty tried so hard to prove Beezid is a legit site and he did nothing more than make it seem it is a scam through his constant posting and listing his wins. I don\’t think he is so interested in proving it is legit as he is in bragging about how good he is at winning. He has one of those egotistical personalities that thrives on appearing smarter than others and even telling others how stupid they are and how smart he is. Winning at Beezid means nothing, many people win on the penny auction sites, he isn\’t the only one and hasn\’t cornered the market on winning on them. His bragging simply shows he has some shortcoming somewhere in his life and bragging about himself is to make him feel better about himself, nothing more …nothing less.
I quit bidding on Beezid but for those who want to try it out or are using it, all I can say is read all the stuff on the site about how it works, pay special attention to the autobeezid and sniper functions, don\’t purchase the smallest bid paks, start out big, bid on and try to win as many bid paks as you can to load up on bids, then start bidding on the things you want. Don\’t back down if you really want the item, if you show fear or doubts thats when the big fish that play on there come and wipe you out. Watch the site for a long time before you start bidding, learn how it works, watch how people win, like I said pay special attention to the autobeezid and sniper functions, a lot of people win using these functions and if someone is using autobid you can\’t outbid them until or unless they stop the autobid function so don\’t waste your bids as they will always outbid you. Most of all have fun and don\’t get in over your head, because regardless of Marty saying it isn\’t gambling, if feels a lot like gambling to me and if you don\’t watch you could get in over your head. Have fun and happy bidding.
The Avatars are generated by the Email address, However
I see the names, skeptical, Krisstina, Joe G., & C.C. under your IP address?
While the Email address may change the IP address remains the same.
I for one got a $50 bid pack, I then got the 50 bonus, I did belive I would get them all to use as i wanted, But i did not. You only get 1 extra bid every 5th real payed bid, thats one of my complants, the other is, I moved and my address is now a differant zip. I have been unable to win or pay for anything as my card is now regected by beezid, not my bank. after calling and walking into my Bank, they showed me that It is the site Beezid pulling back my charge, and not the bank. OK as for it being a scame and not finding this site, Well I do belive in it and I was just simply looking for beezid codes, thuss I found this forum, No im not happy with the service of the site, But to be fair, your statment about scam, is more spam probly from another penny site. P.S. stay off my bid. bigfoot11bravo has spoken!. and ya my spelling suck, and I have beter things to do the gramer nazi people, or sites, LOL have a good one people. I will let you know If I ever win or fix this problem of zip codes.
Dear site owner: Wow please fix the form for putting in your name and mail which is required Black on black doesnt work well..
BeezidScam: Why do you say that beezid is evil?
There are tonnes of 1 cent auction sites out there, I tried out a couple, but not beezid though, so I know a little bit how it works. I don’t see how its a scam though. These sites clearly explain how they work so you know what you are getting into before you place your first bid. I am sure you wouldn’t be complaining if you won that iPad. Even if you say its gambling, why should it be shut down? There are gambling sites out there you know. You either choose to play on them or you don’t.
Say you lost $500.00 playing blackjack on a gambling site, are you going to go and say its a scam? Everyone knows the casino wins in the end. People go to to these auction sites so they can have a little fun and get an item for cheap. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Who cares how much money they make? It’s a personal choice.
And you said you tried it yesterday.. wow, you didn’t win your first time playing? Boo hoo! There are strategies for these sites, you dont just randomly click when the timer is just about to expire and hope you were the last one. You are going to have the same result on any of these auction sites you go to. I won an auction, nothing to brag about, a dvd. I got it for 93 cents. Yeah, so that was pretty neat and I bid about 5 times on it. I got a new dvd for under 5 bucks and had fun playing, not a huge prize or a huge savings, but still a win.
Either play or dont play, but dont whine about it when you don’t win an iPad when you try out a new auction site. Someone else did, and I bet they are very happy and telling their friends how they got an iPad for $55.
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll look into fixing it.
The site is a scam. And all the post were from people making money from the site they want to defend the site cuz the know people would google them first to see if there is a catch. Anyone win has won anything on this site wouldn’t even bother posting on this site cuz they wouldn’t have found it if they truly believe in the site lol.
Beezid is evil. Very evil. If I were some evil destroying champion, I would hunt down the Beezid people and put stakes in their hearts. I tried it yesterday. I was going to an iPad. I spent $27 to buy 30 bids which comes out to $0.90 per bid. I didnt win the iPad but the person who did (if it really was a person and not a bot) won it for $55. So since the auction was a penny auction, that means that the price went up one penny every time someone bids. So lets say that since the win was $55 thats 5,500 bids. On average of lets say $0.75 spent per bid by all the people that comes out to $4,125 spent by all the people who bid. So everybody who bid on the item spent $4,125 just so that one person could get a $599 item for $55. TOTALLY a scam. Its not auction, it’s gambling. Someone should shut them down.
(Yes, SteveCFL is my Beezid ID)
Honestly people, If it was a scam, do you really think they would still be in business?!?! How about a reality check, thinking it’s some sort of scam that’s been running this long, and still advertising on TV (which puts them into FCC territory) is something that just wouldn’t work in the real world! I have won quite a bit on Beezid… TWO – Digital SLR cameras with MSRPs of $599 & $499, another pocket size camera (With a built in projector… Pretty cool!) one at $299, TWO – 64GB iPod Touch (5th generation), a set of cordless phones, a 55″ 1080p 120Hz LCD TV, a remote control helicopter and yesterday an Xbox 360 Elite! Not to mention LOTS of the 200 bid packs wehich were needed to effectively compete for the items. I sold the majority of them allowing me to purchase bids as well. Yes, it is in fact gambling and should be approached the same way – With caution! It certainly is not a scam, but I can see why some might think it is, like a lot of the people on here choose to beleive. These seem to be the same people who bid foolishly because they havn’t taken the time to learn how it works. A bit of common sense doesn’t hurt either! If you play wisely, yes you can win some pretty cool stuff, and yes they do actually ship it to you. As for them having the items in stock, I can answer that – They do not carry an inventory. Every item I won was bought, and shipped, from Amazon (or a store accessed through them, some I had previously done business with myself) after winning it. As for the clocks, each auction has a set countdown time, usually 20 seconds. When the clock counts down to below that set time, say 15 seconds, the next bid takes it back to 20 seconds and counts down from there. Each bid putting it back to 20, the idea is for it to reach zero with you being the last bidder… no scamming there, the clock resetting itself is simply part of the ‘game’. Strategy does play a big part in winning & as I said, a bit of common sense goes a long way. If you are foolish enough to beleive a scam could be run for all this time, without being shut down, I would advise you to stay away from it. Apparently, that all important, ‘common sense’ seems to be lacking with you. For those of you who are enjoying the ‘game’, good luck (unless you’re bidding against me)! Before making any assumptions, no, I do not work for them.
Oh my, you do have a point, in my screen they’re all monsters and RN , Marty, and beezidpro are all exactly the same… while everyone else is different…. conspiracy anyone?
Marty, BEEZIDPRO, RNsoon, liar & BRAVO are all the same person.
This site is a scam there is no doubt about it. You people are really falling for this??? Lets really think about this really hard I start a website Patsauction.com I have a bot program similiar to a bot on yahoo messenger to randomly pop up or pop up a bid when the time is low. Now you the dumbass bidding on this junk has to pay a dollar for every bid at 1 dollar a bid on a penny bid just to raise the bid one dollar I make 100 dollars being the webmaster. Now who wins here the dumbass bidding or me the webmaster.
“Fabricater”? You can’t even spell your own job title correctly, and we’re supposed to believe you??? I guess beezid is hiring very stupid trolls these days. Hope they didn’t pay you too much for your illiteracy. Good luck “fabricating” (get the humor there?)……
Wow you sure did go through alot of trouble making alternate user accounts then arguing with yourself. By the way, everyone having a user icon made in MS paint gave it away
beezid is a scam, and has been proven by this employee trying to make it seem as if multiple people on here agreed it wasn’t. I was considering shopping on this site but now I’m thoroughly convinced it’s a scam. Good day.
The icons are automatically generated Gravitons for Word Press and are not made in MS paint.
I don’t think one person is making different accounts, unless they went through a lot of trouble to have a separate IP for each one.
Here is their Who is registration… Email them here.
Registrant:
Beezid.com
4150 St-Catherine St. W.
Montreal, Quebec H3Z 2Y5
Canada
Domain Name: BEEZID.COM
Created on: 12-Jan-09
Expires on: 12-Jan-15
Last Updated on: 20-Nov-09
Administrative Contact:
Chuta, Uche
Beezid.com
4150 St-Catherine St. W.
Montreal, Quebec H3Z 2Y5
Canada
+1.8774233943 Fax —
Technical Contact:
Chuta, Uche
Beezid.com
4150 St-Catherine St. W.
Montreal, Quebec H3Z 2Y5
Canada
+1.8774233943 Fax –
email is Paul.akselrud@gmail.com
i would love to read some of your info on how to win big on beezid… all i can see is Beezid making a buttload of money. thanks.
I have now removed this link from my favs list and this WILL be the last time I post anything here, If by now you still think beezid is a scam ….more power to ya…..not my prob….and have fun with your conspiracy theories…dont forget about the aliens in the attic running the prices up lmao…and wal mart has a deal on tin foil right now for those who need to make a brand new Tin Foil Hat and you may want to try paper clips on it for better reception ROFLMAO!!!!!
ps: TONY you must have not went back far nuff in this forum to see that I tied your way and was BASHED first so like rambo lmao They drew first blood roflmao but i just ended the war with this post!
I have now removed this link from my favs list and this WILL be the last time I post anything here, If by now you still think beezid is a scam ….more power to ya…..not my prob….and have fun with your conspiracy theories…dont forget about the aliens in the attic running the prices up lmao…and wal mart has a deal on tin foil right now for those who need to make a brand new Tin Foil Hat and you may want to try paper clips on it for better reception ROFLMAO!!!!!
ps: TONY you must have not went back far nuff in this forum to see that I tied your way and was BASHED first so like rambo lmao They drew first blood roflmao but i just ended the war with this post!
Interesting conversations, I just looked at Beezid, and if it works as it says, it is clever and extremely profitable. I see it as a huge raffle: everyone who participates fund raises for the item that one person will win. Clever. And for gamblers, well there’s the rub, it might be irresistible. I enjoyed the conversations here between Marty ( gender challenge taken well) and Timothy.
scam or not idk but you are out $$$ if you do not win and i was watching the timers (from the live page not the front page) and i seen that the ones with seconds left (not minutes) the seconds stall, skip, jump back, and the “Going” adds even more time how much im to sure cuz the timer is not there but it is too unreliable, for me so i will not be using it
best of luck to the rest
reply or not idk i wont be back just putting in my 2 cents to help people
I think “Marty” is a Beezid plant. You seem WAAAY to devoted to defending them. You should be staring at the website to make sure you are not outbid. Scam or not, I don’t trust you.
Bishop,
So you spend $150 on an item that cost $30. Total you’ve spent $180, but what you neglected to mention is how much that item is worth. If its a $1,500 TV that’s a sweet deal. Whats your problem, you want the TV at $30 not $180? Can’t have your cake and eat it too. Beezid does not appear to be a scam. They disclose everything to you up front and its up to you on how you bid and what you bid on. If you don’t want to pay for your bids, don’t use this website, its a fairly simple concept. If you knowingly buy bids and then complain about it, Then you sir are the dumbass.
Well said Tony!!!
Marty, you are clearly a very lonely troll.
This is not to say you’re doing anything bad or stupid. Congratulations on your achievements, I have nothing against that.
However, it is quite sad that you come on these forums to bash anyone who does not see eye to eye with you, and really just try to make them look like fools. I would have a lot of respect for you and what you have supposedly accomplished if you had explained in a professional manner to the naysayers that you have been successful in bidding on such websites. Your responses on these forums make you sound more like a spoiled child than an intelligent investor. It worries me that you have children if that is what they are being raised by.
For the record, I do not believe the site is a scam. It is very clear how they make their money, and how one can easily save money on this website. You’re nothing special for winning items on this website for pennies on the dollar. Quite honestly I’m a little disappointed that there are people who are idolizing you here based on reports of your conquests. Next time Marty, put your ego away and try acting a little more mature when explaining why you believe somebody is unfairly judging something. It will make your argument that much stronger.
I can’t say I’ve every played on Beezid, but I’ve won many items on other penny auction sites. The truth is I only play on new or smaller sites like http://www.lincolbidz.com. A smaller site has few users, so there isn’t as many people competing against you. Most of these new sites lose money before signing up enough users to make their site profitable. In fact, many people support their ebay business, selling products they win on for cheap on smaller sites. I don’t know how anyone can win on a massive site like Beezid. Plus I know that http://www.lincolbidz.com submits to outside audits to prove there is no auction tampering.
For all we know, a beezid employee could have read this and posted that beezid is not a scam
Marty,
I knew I could get you to come back to the blog even though you said you were not coming back…..we missed you…..NOT. This blog is like that tootsie roll pop too isn’t it, just can’t get enough licks can you. BTW, could care less how Timothy learned to win, I just love stirring the pot to get a response from you.
At auctions you don’t lose your money when you bid on something and lose. How is this not a scam?
Kinda like the tootsie pop…how many licks….well guess you will never know lmao…but I do
one continuous lick roflmao 
hahaha you are all freakin stupid if u think this is a scam, i do not work for beezid im currently a welder/fabricater and i have been watching this website for alittle over a month now. there is no scam to this website its simple math and common sence. everytime you bid an item the time refreshes, so think of this website as a type of gambling, of corse you will not win everything you want if that were the case it would be called a online store….. you say you only see XXX number of people bidding, maybe those people have made a career out of this? i mean honestly you win a $1400 tv for 100, turn around and ebay or criegs list that thing making yourself some quick cash. EVERYTHING IS EXPLAINED IN A VIDEO TUTORIAL!!!!! jebus you guys how much easier can they make it to learn how the website works, you sit back and watch a video that explains it all…… maybe they should write it out in a book and slap you across your heads, maybe then you may understand it.
Actualy what all you people accussing of scams should do is come to nevada and hit the slot machines, we could use the revenue from tards like you!
to the rest of you who know how the site works and were just currious if they deliver ect. it does work i know people who have had items shipped and the fact that beezid does or doesnt carry the items in stock shouldnt matter…. you get what you win plain and simple whether they buy the items and keep them in stock or not.
If you still think the sites a scam why not do the world a favor and jump off a roof, i mean for real its not that confusing, its gambling plain and simple. the website was intended for responsable adults if it makes you that angry just quit with the internet, because theres alot bigger issues out there then stupid people who dont know what gambling or watching a tutorial video is about..
Thanks for the time and stupid people should jump off a cliff for sure!!
Timothy,
Did you learn to win by doing the research which you are suggesting everyone else do or did you get there the easy way by getting Marty to send you the secrets? LOL.
One thing I didn’t see anyone mention… If you dig through Beezid’s website you will find it is based in Canada. So, if you are in the US you face potential international credit card charges on both your bid purchases, and the actual item purchases. Not to mention, potentially higher shipping rates if these items actually ship from Canada to the US.
Personally, I consider this a scam site because of the way the timers are constantly resetting themselves – in conjunction with your inability to specify a bid amount. It’s random chance timing that costs you money to play! How is this not gambling?
Oh, I forgot–someone posted earlier about the avatars in the upper right hand corner of the posts. I don’t know about those. Someone addressed that a few posts ago. Sorry. Someone also posted about the number of star ratings a post gets. I don’t know how that works either. I presume readers can vote on how many stars a post gets. I don’t know and don’t really care very much how many stars my post or any other post gets. Sorry for any misspellings I have in either of my posts. I’m not the best typist in the world.
I have won ten items on Beezid within the last month and have received most of them. No, I do not have a shipping label to post as I threw them away. The next item I receive I will be happy to post the shipping label if someone can tell me how to do that. I do not work for Beezid. I thought it was a scam with lots of bots to run up the price. But I have changed my mind. The company does have a phone number with a customer service department. I have called them twice to talk to them. I won my first item and they contacted me about using my name and picture on their “winner’s circle.” I was not sure about the site and called to talk to them about why I should lend my name to the site. I decided to let them use me on their winner’s circle after talking to one of their supervisor’s, a very nice woman named “Veronica.” The phone number is on their website–it’s 1-877-4-BEEZID. When you are on the main page, simply scroll down tot the bottom and click on “Contact US.” Someone earlier had posted that they do not have a customer relations department or a phone number. The link is clearly listed at the bottom of the main page. This is just an example of a poster being upset and jumping to a conclusion.
Again, I do not work for Beezid. The site is not a scam. Yes, there is a huge profit for Beezid. That does not make it a scam. If making obscene profit is a scam, then every oil company in business is a scam. So are most of the traders on Wall Street. So is Wal-Mart. So is Microsoft. Bill Gates did not get to be the richest man in America by having small profits. Huge profit does not mean illegal activity. Why would Beezid do that? Why risk getting shut down? As people have pointed out time and again, look at the amount of money they make on most auctions. Why settle for only a small amount of obscene profit when they can make that same obscene profit for months or years? Why risk it? Only an idiot would do that. The people behind Beezid are clearly no fools. I used to think they used bots, but I do not think that anymore. I think they have lots of people using their site. Veronica told me they have over half a million registered people. If only 1 percent are actually using the site at the same time you are, how many people is that? 5,000! No wonder the price goes up and up and up.
Do the research, watch the tutorial, watch the auctions, skip around on the website and click on the links under the “Help” label and get completely familiar with the way Beezid works. They are completely honest about everything. And they tell you how to win. They give their strategy away, just read the way it works and think about it. Do some “backwards” thinking. Remember in math–if A plus B equals C, then B plus A equals C. And C minus A equals B. Therefore C minus B equals A. They do not spell it out in black and white, but they do tell you how to win if you think about it. I will not spell it out here since I don’t want the competition. But it’s not a scam. If you win the auction they will ship you the item within the time frame given. You have to spend money to make money. There is no such thing as a free lunch–it will cost you some money. But you can buy things very cheaply. Early this morning I won a copy of “Final Fantasy 13″ for my son for 47 cents. I spent 8 bids. That’s 8 bids at 70 cents each ($5.60), plus the 47 cents and a $6.99 shipping fee. That’s a total of $13.06 for an item that retails at $59.99. I have never bid on the flat screen tv’s or the MacBook Pro computers or the Mustang Car that is currently at auction. That would cost more money than I have to buy the bids. But I buy the things I want–such as $50 in Shell gasoline, $50 at Applebee Restaurants, X Box games, smaller things like that. But it is enough to convince me that the site is legitimate as I have received the items purchased and the people at the customer relations department were very nice to me and took the time to explain everything to me when I called with concerns.
Please, don’t knock it until you have done the research, talked to the people involved and just sat down and watch with pen and paper nearby to take notes. See what other people and ask yourself why. Yes, it takes a lot of time. Most people don’t have the time available. I happen to be disabled having had 15 surgeries n the last 5 years, 12 of them on my spine. I don’t walk very well anymore. So I have lots of time on my hands. You can win things at great discounts, but it takes time and you need to spend money to make money. Don’t worry about how much money Beezid is making, unless you worry about how much money the Walton family is making from WalMart, or how much the members of OPEC are making. It’s legitimate or the U-S and Canadian governments will be shutting it down. I’m sure they have heard from unhappy people about the site. If anyone is that unhappy or is that convinced that Beezid is a scam, contact your local Better Business Bureau and ask. Or contact the FBI or the Canadian equivalent. Do some research before slamming the site.
Have you noticed how “people” wait ’till the last possible second to make another bid?
I would register for beezid cus i would get 10 free bids plus the bouns code so that would be 15 bids but when those ran out i would stop.
It seems like a scam but I would be willing to try,not that I would ever win but mabey the tome would run out and I would win and be all happy untill I wait for like a month and a half and never get anything.
I belive it has bots cus why would you jack up the price to like a dollar the first hour when theres still like 20 hours left?just curious.
Marty you clearly work here b/c you never shut the hell up. I don’t have anything to do with this sight but i came over to see what this bs is about. All i’ve heard and seen is your constant blabbing about this sight. Give it a fucking break and let people vent if they want too. If you want to prove you don’t work for them then just shut the hell up and then people won’t know you work for them! But I’m sure you won’t b/c you just can’t leave shit alone.
Actually, you are very dumb. The math behind this site not only makes sense, it is fantastic. Online bidders pre-purchase BIDs for $1 each. Each time a bid is placed the final price of the item increases by $0.01. So for example, a TV is won for $41.23. This means 4123 bids were placed and each bid was purchased in advance for $1. Ergo, Beezid collects over $4000 for a TV probably costing around $500. The website makes a profit and the bidder gets and item for about 20% of the retail price (bid cost + final cost.) 1 + 1 = 2. Get a calculator or complete 5 seconds of research before you spout off your hillbilly opinion.
Regardless of whether beezid is a scam or not, no one really wins in the end. I mean if you do win the item, chances are in the last 100 bids, you spent 50 as counters. Probably even more. Not to mention the fact that the people that are waiting until the end will NEVER be alone. Not seeing your opposition’s face makes it even more difficult. I am also sad that I didn’t think of it first. I wish that I could buy stock in the company, because even if it isn’t a scam, which I would highly doubt, it’s a great idea. They don’t have to scam you for the simple fact that you ARE going to spend a ton. Even if they sell the product, it’s chump change. I mean if you sell a $1,200 tv for $50, you just made $5,000. I’d laugh the entire way to the bank. I’m staying away from it because I know that I probably won’t win. It’s not a scam, but it’s next to impossible to actually win, at least on a regular basis and still get deals on the products.
Thanks Sarah for the fine explanation, no need for me to explain it. And, NO I don’t work for Beezid. Just heard the ad on Howard Stern and wanted to check it out!
I do not like giving bad reviews, but however this site clearly has bots. I watched bids for over 3 hours and kept seeing the same names pop up and they were all ways bidding up the price on multiple auctions. In my opinion no one has that kind of money to bid to reset the timer on a auction over and over again. Thees names would never buy the items , the time would run to a end and that same person just bid again to reset the timer never intending to buy the item in question . I’m gonna list a few of the names I have seen , but I would suggest you watch for your self and take note of every name on every auction you might see one of the same names I post (samotto , point2265, cactus 841 , big tank338 ) be aware of this type of site , and always watch for a hour or even for a few day’s be for you commit to partaking in it’s unseen benefits.
Anyone that has been scammed by beezid needs to file a complaint with the BBB.I have placed the URL on here if anyone wants to file a complaint against Beezid.com
http://www.bbb.org/
BEEZID IS A SCAM!
(Until they prove otherwise)
TO DATE, no one has PROVED ever receiving an item out of millions of so called auctions
DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY!
well marty, this “unknown blog” just happens to be the 3rd result for beezid on google.
Hell, if I was eBay, I’d come in and drop a link for http://ebay.com on your bitch ass AN ONE for myself…
…oh wait, I just did
why wouldn’t you google “beezid” before signing up, before bidding, before paying?
this is crap they just got me for 70 dollars when i set my auto bid because i was going to spend what ever it took to got this damn videogame they froze my autobid and i fucking lost
Basically,for people like Marty, put your money where your mouth is, prove it.
I don’t have an issue paying for bids and I can easily understand how to play the game, but what scares me is that NOBODY can prove they ever won anything from the site. It sounds like there shouldn’t be a problem from Beezid, making so much money per bid that it shouldn’t bother them to release a product to the $100 winner even if it’s worth $1,000. Yet again, so many people have claimed to have won the bid, but then never receive the product. If this site was really making tons of money, then they would have a customer service dept with a phone number that you could call, but they don’t. Sounds fishy to me, if no one can prove they won a bid with shipping labels, then I will stay away.
It’s called viral marketing you idiot. Do you think modern day corporations only advertise on a few gigantic media outlets? Modern day advertising attacks from hundred of angles to continue to effect their increasingly cynical audience.
Troll Alert!!! prove it with screen shots and shipping labels!
Clearly, Marty is a troll for beezid. They most definitely make you buy bids, and you can’t see any of the “real” auctions until you do.
Just logged in again. Seems you can see “auctions” now (if they’re real), but you still have to buy bids. who falls for this crap??
If it were a real site, they’d allow you some free bids to see how it works. There is ZERO info on how these auctions work, until you buy bids. stay away!!
Some of you aren’t diligent enough with your math. Say an item that sells for $100 and is worth $700. That’s $10,000 in bids. Say they cost an average of 80cents. The company makes $8000 for the bids plus $100 for the winning bid = $8100. Less the $700 list price for the item leaves a net profit of $7400.
Now, I haven’t joined the site and the comments about winners seeing the screen freeze and the auction restart, have made me leery. I have suspected other sites of having employees running up the bidding, or the seller running up the bidding on third party auction sites. So this one seems a bit more questionable than others.
Beezid must be a scam………….. I purchased bids and had some fun for a few days, now my user name and or password has stopped working. I have attempted contact with Beezid via their site and a phone number that does not work, a number of times. If it was legitimate, it would have a customer service office that actually is available and helpful. So about $100.00 worth of bids down the drain / unattainable . NOT HAPPY.
Just saw an advertisement for beezid.com and wondered what it was like. Decided to check it out and am glad I did as I will not join it as I feel it is nothing but a scam and the governemnt should investigate it.
The beezid guys are geniuses, they have found a way to turn a $300 item into a $3000 item before it actually sells. At a buck a bid and with so many willing to spend a buck to bid a penny they have cornered the market on the gullible and less informed. No wonder so many commercials keep airing, their profit margin has to be around 500% per item. BTW… IF you are an employee of beezid, I would be happy to hire you to help me develop a similar type of website offering prescription filling services for a penny a pill provided the user can afford our bid program, perhaps we can set priority standards based on NEED and Government funding options. We could make a small fortune.
OKKKAAAAYYYY MARTY WE GET IT!!!! YOU WORK FOR BEEZID NOW STFU!!!!
I too gave some cash to BEEZID…….it is borderline scam, only becuz u have to be ignorant to be taken, much like a scam. If I get this right..more or less…its ~ $1/bid, so for every dollar increase in bid price, beezid grosses $100, so the $699 MSRP flat panel tv that sells for final bid price of say $100 ” A SAVINGS OF 85% ” grosses beezid $1000, net ~ $300 on a “$100 sale”
This site only works upon the premise of the volume of gullible people bidding…every bid is cha-$-ching …I closed my acct with plenty of bids left..RUN, don’t walk, away from thie site
handicapped people and money are totally different things smart one
this is scam I have been watching for over 1 hr for a 100 gift card visa and down to the 15 sec it starts all over again…………..scam scam …….
It’s like my mother always told me “if something seems too good to be true, it is,” as well as “there’s nothing common about sense.” We live in the age of the capitalist and they ARE capitalizing, why make a million bucks when you an make 100 million? Right? Nothing is free, and you can’t get a brand new laptop for $15 ANYWHERE! You aren’t going to find anyone who won anything on beezid because it’s a scam! Is anyone really surprised? A fool and his money … well, you know the rest.
Rene:
You said your computer froze and then you were privy to others sniper bids and autobeezid. If you are on the detail page you can see everyone elses bids, whether regular,sniper or autobeezid and everyone can see yours as well. Some people don’t know to go to the detail page by clicking on the auction picture on the home page then on the details page is a box that shows two tabs,” bidding history and strategies”. Click on bidding history tab and it shows the last ten bids, the price, the name and the bid type. There you will see the sniper and autobeezid bids.
And you are correct, they make their money from the bids. That is how they can sell a $2000.00 TV for $190.00 or so. At first I was mad about how much money they make but after much research the past two months I realized these sites are money makers but they are very expensive to maintain. If you go to the site pennyauctionwatch.com you will see over 50 of these sites that have went under because of not making enough money to maintain their site. There are also some listed that went under due to fraudulent practices such as using bots to run up prices or not sending out the product they auctioned off.
Beezid is not the originator of the penny auction business, they started in the UK and spread to the US. There are many of these sites that all work on the same principal as Beezid…. sell bids, auction off product at super low prices, make person who wins auction very happy, make those who lost very mad.
Thanks for Post, I got a eMail 2day … So thought to do a research on beeZid … and this article saved me lol ((-;
I don’t wanna my hard eaen money |-:
Not only are they a scam I watched this site for a week bidding infrequently to see what would happen. Noted for the internet their bidding base is small. Saw about the same 150 names over and over again. Do these people work or have jobs, they certainly use more bids then the product is worth. Very suspect. Secondly why is one of the auctions bids for free but at 0.37 a bid and not 0.1. This auction continually goes, people they make money off of you buying bids. I thought it was fun to keep raising the price on that 50 pack because these bidders are idiots. Next my screen froze on many occasions. When this happened I was privy to other peoples Autobeezid bids and snipers. I guess that means they can also see mine. Suggestion all you who love this site. Just get a paper and pen, pick an auction and write down the names of the bidders and the frequency and type of bid. I think you will find this more interesting and fun when you realize how stupid these supposed bidders are and if you need to get in on it, well ‘Happy Bidding’.
MARTY.
Much respect for keeping your cool. This is a HUGE business prospect. The person who thought of this website is brilliant in the form and money gain. When you figure the numbers properly since all auctions are said to start at zero….its massive gains in revenue. MASSIVE. Somthing sales for $200.00…each bid sends it up a penny. each bid is anywhere from .60-.90 cents. thats damn near 20 grand! As far as the whole bot thing. I see it as a huge possibility. The site has very limited items, not everyone wants that 50 inch tv at 2 in the morning. I could def see the gain in maybe not having a bot…but paying som1 to bid against 6 real people to drive up price…cuz then impatient frank ran outa bids and needs to buy more bids. Theres no overhead..bids are really nothing but a number of clicks your allowed before u have to buy more clicks. Like i said..as far as gains this is a very sensible way to go about it. Do i fully agree with it…not entirely. Its is kind of shady i feel. But you must spend money to make money. And every person that spends money with the took that risk in the first place. Just like gambling as i believe you mentioned. AS to you comparison on ebay and beezid..spot on. No ‘auction” online is a real auction. Going once…twice and so on till no1 bids and it goes to the final bidder. Barret jackson auto auction in january. PRIME example of a real auction. I do however feel that there are forms or auctioning. Especially with the techno age we seem to be jumping into s rapidly. but that is another story.
I stand on your side marty. I Do not believe you are a beezid employee..the company could better spend its money rather than have som1 on a blog all the time defending their word against others. FOR ANYONE CALLING BEEZID A SCAM. smarten up! get some literal business sense into your gimme gimme gimme stage of life that we have in america right now. IF THE COMPANY NEVER SENDS YOUR ITEM. IF THE COMPANY TAKES YOUR MONEY AND YOU RECEIVE NOTHING OUT OF IT. IT IS THEFT! theft is clearly illegal. legal purchases made with no presented “retail” item is completely subject to fraud and investigation by the fbi punishable by all sorts of crap. If the item you receive is not the item described it is up to the “seller” to fix the item. I dont not believe as such with a website that has national advertising. its risky. And if that were the case this company would long have been put under. I see the stratagy and patience involved. Sometimes you have to spend a dollar to make a quarter. Profit is profit. Savings…well its savings. I believe what nearly ALL of this boils down to is beezid is to interactive for some people. You actually have to sit and watch and bid and develope a real stratagy. I feel that its just the impatient american mind that, with this unfortunate adminisration is being sucked into an infant state of give me give me give me for nothing. We all want something for nothing. Why do you go to walmart for the super fluffy pillow? well its about 50% less than the same super fluffy pillow at macy’s.
For me…beezid gets the job well done. Its a money pit! The person that created this site is living the good life right now. More power to him. I hope he was som1 that got slapped down and layed off from his job and turned around picked his shit up and shoved his middle finger at his boss and said watch me now.
I want to thank everyone for the insight and opinions on beezid. I came to this forum just to see what was being said about it. Learned alot. Did some more research, came back cause there was some fired up people. And marty stuck to his guns with facts and sheer common business sense. Felt he was gettin a little beat up ^^ Strictly from an outsiders point of view: If your looking to purchase any of the items on beezid, check full retail price…or the cheapest price you can find. And if you have to invest $200.00 in bids and $100.00 in shipping and a few hours of your time to buy lets say again that 50 inch tv that goes for $1400.00 retail. Well…by god we’ll round down and say u saves $1000.00 Sounds like a damn good deal for a small price. little commitment…little money. Same manufacture product. One more argument. Lets say for the same item on a crappy bidding day. You spend $900.00 on bids…whichs is crazy but still..then again that $100.00 on shipping and more of your time. Your still saving $400.00 Now…i dont know how you all live..but $400.00 is still a good amount of money to save on a stationary object. Run the numbers. Figure their profit. Figure your savings. With YOUR savings who the hell cares about their gain? THATS BUSINESS. Again. genius idea for a website. Marty. Props. nay sayers…well theres no hope for you cuz everything is negative to you so…please. Keep your misery elsewhere! thanks for readin!
Guess it must be random because one user has a picture of herself on here hmmmmm
Yeah I would like to know that myself now that you mention it because I have had about 5 dif ones since I have been posting here guess thats why yours has changed as well hmmmm??????
To; High Octane-
I was just wondering about the color blocks that look like patchwork that in the upper right corner of everyones blog. I noticed I have the same one, same color throughout the entire time I have been posting on here. Mine is an orange quilt block. Seems each person gets their own color. Am I right? If so then I was wondering why Marty, Rnsoon and Beezidpro all have the same one, same pattern, same color, recently anyway. Marty’s was yellow earlier in the blog now it is purple… identical to RNsoon and Beezidpro. LOL- just curious.
Hey rnsoon, maybe you should learn proper vernacular before you call others dumb. Like when you said “people are just to dumb to understand” its “too”. Or when you said “when you was explaining that” it’s “were explaining” and last but not least “just can’t except it” really? It’s “accept”. So when you do become an Registered Nurse you probably shouldn’t do the paperwork. And Marty you either work for beezid or you have no life. I’m leaning towards you being a loser. Beezid is just a legal money racket. You might win but it’s highly unlikely.
Well i do have a system that works really really well and a guy { no names} I sent an email telling him how i won so much and they system i created and he tried it with jus a few bids left in his account and won both items he went for…with just 15 bids….there is a way but Im not saying lol
on seccond thought, the autobid feature is really nice the way it works. you just add in a max # of bids. it really help you manage how much money you are spending everytime you bid and seeing as its just like gambling your odds dont really change. they say its all about strategy, but even living in a leagal gambling state I have yet to figure out the strategy in winning. I suppose check the number of people bidding on it and try to beat there max # of bids without going way over the retail cost of the item? I really dont know lol
beezidpro, yeah if you need a macro program to help you gamble your money then how bout i just link you my paypal and you can just pay me and ill sit there and bid items all day for you.
Honestly if the autobid feature on the site isnt enough for you then please send some of that money this way.
Yup now if you want to talk about a scam heres a scam to talk about BEEZIDPRO!!!!
another BRAVO lol!!
Bravo!!!
I wasn’t endorsing the Beezidpro, just informing people what things are out there to help or not help them. Beezidpro is just another product that each individual needs to check out and make a decision on whether or not to purchase, just like individuals wanting to check out Beezid or any other item they may purchase on the web before handing over their money or personal information. I know nothing about Beezidpro, just stumbled onto the site and put it here for anyone interested. LOL
This website seems a lot like swoopo.com, which I think as a money making business is genius. I don’t think either website keeps any items in stock, and actually just purchases the items for full price from their manufacturer after an item is won. I spent days watching one item on swoopo which i never saw actually won, but Swoopo has an option that if you spend the amount in bids that the item actually costs, you can just purchase it, or if you spend $700 in bids and don’t win, you can still go ahead and purchase the $900 item. So for the consumers who are winning, they are getting great deals, and the business is making a lot of money too, if you have a penny auction and the price of the item sales for $80, that means they made $8000 in bids on the item!
OK so after doin alot of research i decided to sign up and give it a shot. a scam i dont think so, the people who made the site are brilliant.
So you have to purchase “bids” to place a bid on the site the most common bid package is $40 for 50 bids. everytime you place a bid it subtracts from the number of bids you have purchased. also everytime you bid the products “time to end” increases by said ammount (shown under the picture of the product 10-45 seconds from what ive seen).
All in all its not a bad deal you just have to know how much you are spending…. lets say you won a item for $150 and you’ve bid on that item 50 times, it will equal out to $40 (for the purchase of 50 bids) plus the price of the product $150 plus shipping ect. making the total cost $190 + shipping.
As i type this im watching a computer system wich is at $107.45 this system retails for $1,199.99 and at $0.01 per bid this site has already made $10,745 off the item, but the buyer will get the item for the total cost of each bid plus the final price making it fairly reasonable.
So a scam i think not, i think alot of the complaints from people are simply people who deserve to get ripped off for not looking into something befor handing a website your personal information such as credit card, name, address ect. i have been researching this for hours and just decided to check it out. come on people its not the site its not a scam you all just need to do your homework first befor you start handing someone your money!
Give it a shot and it is a form of gambling, with every bid the time left does increase. if it was easy to win a $1,199.99 product for $107.45 then I would start asking more questions and be alot more worried. I have yet to read of anyone not getting their purchase and really dont care, the site is legit and the creaters are freaking brilliant.
If you can’t manage how much money you spend over the internet, maybe you shouldnt have a computer *shrug*
LMAO how much time and money do you think they put into this so called beezid pro??? I can tell you because I know a secret lol
Watch the video on the link above and look at who he calls a pro and to stay away from bidding against him ..this is where it gets real funny because im only gonna show you this once
25 of his 30 winsd are bid for free auctions you know the 50 bid packs and the other 5 well I let the numbers speak for themselves…Baltimore7 and Jason68 is in on this program and I could blow the whistle on the other 1 but will not ..want proof they ran the numbers up to con people to buy this well here you go…look at the amount of bids placed …they were going to win no matter how bids it took…reason they needed the numbers for the program…you know to make it look good…here ya go
Auction ID:39081
Apple MacBook w/ 13.3″ Display – White
2-22-2010
1:28:30 EDT
Each bid increases the auction price by $0.01
Winner Is:
baltimore7
Retail price * $999.99
Placed Bids (2862) $2,003.40
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $175.92
Savings (0%) $0.00
Auction ID:45729
Apple iPod touch 64 GB
3-10-2010
5:32:25 EDT
Each bid increases the auction price by $0.01
Winner Is:
jason68
Retail price * $369.99
Placed Bids (343) $240.10
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $19.34
Savings (29.88%) $110.55
I have a lot more but not going to waste my time pasting anymore but take a look on the so called beezidpro who the contact is
The program is junk and if you have a beezid account and want to keep it then it would be wise not to use this as it will result in IP account ban.
I have won 24 items. Received all within the 2-3 week time frame that they give you. Yes you have to pay for your bids. But $3000 worth of stuff for $500 worth of bids is a good deal to me!
RNsoon is probably Marty’s sister, after all he said in one of his post he taught her the game and now she is winning more than him!!! LOL.
lol oh I don’t know, or care, i just thought it was kind of funny. The two guys who seem to be the most controversial, who everyone assumes works for Beezid both have one 5 vote each for each of their posts, while no one else really has any.
Funny is all. Thanks for your blog btw, I had just heard about this on the radio and was curious. Nice to see some of the feedback from folks who have used it.
Have you guys noticed that all of Marty and Timmy’s ratings are at 5, when just about nobody else even has any ratings? Wonder why that is?
Nobody is voting?
oh man I hope I don’t get sick in her hospital!
Jimmy and Callingitlikeiti
LMAO
And to think I was told by Marty in an earlier post to ” get off my pc, go somewhere and make some friends so I wouldn’t be home alone” because he felt I spent too much time on this post. I think Marty should take his own advice since he has made this blog his own personal soapbox for Beezid. He obviously doesn’t have anything else to do in life but sit in front of a computer all night bidding on Beezid, posting on here and reselling on Ebay. Oh but then he has the all time greatest secret the world has ever known!!!!! HOW TO WIN ON BEEZID!!!! Maybe he can solve world hunger while he’s at it???LOL
My experience with Beezid…. I have not won anything other than bids, but then I also didn’t spend weeks watching auctions to see what the patterns were or all that stuff because I got bored with the site after just three weeks. All I wanted off the site was a TV, I honestly wanted something for next to nothing, who doesn’t??? especially when some people won them for a few dollars. But I just wasn’t dedicated enough to try to learn all the ins and outs, or stay up all night to bid at the right time so I just used up my bids and haven’t gone back to bid. Instead we bought a new flat screen LCD TV through my spouses employer, which is one of the largest computer warehouses in the U.S. we got it for 30% off on employee discount, not the few dollars some got theirs for on Beezid but still a good deal.
Just some info…there is a guy who has put out a program to help people win which can be found at http://www.beezidpro.com/ I won’t be buying it and am not endorsing it but just trying to help anyone who may be thinking of signing up on Beezid. I also looked at the software that can be purchased to start up one of these sites at http://www.auctionwebsitescript.com and there are fields that can be utilized by the company to put in bots and make up fake screen names to run up auction prices. I am not saying Beezid is doing this, just that the programs have that capability and some auction sites were caught doing it and are now out of business. I found the site because I wanted to see what it would take to start up one of these sites.
Good luck to anyone who decides to play on Beezid. I am done with it.
skeptical,
Thanks for the links!
I’ll have to research them.
This blog is so stupid, I have A lot of friends who use beezid and they have won a few small items that they wanted and they did get them.
I figured I would try them a couple weeks back and seems just like ALMOST everyone else I don’t have much money to spend these days but I did have about a 150 dollars I could spare so I bought 200 bids for 120 I think it was figured I would try to get just a couple small things needed and to be honest I didn’t think I had a blue moons chance with what I was seeing. I am going to school to be an RN so I really need a laptop, so I saw a HP pavilion and figured I would try to get it .
The auction was already going when I clicked on it and it was up to 14 dollars and something , I waited a little while just to watch it and said what the hell and I set up what they call a autobeezid, I put 50 of my 200 bids in that thing and click it, it starts to bid for me and to my shock I won the computer with only 10 bids, I got what I really needed and still have bids left over , I got my laptop yesterday , it cost me like 30 dollars by the time it was shipped and of course the bids I bought.
Thats brings me to this blog, each and everyone of you that are saying it is a scam are one of two things- liers making stuff up about something you have never tried just so you have something to talk about or two- you tried it didnt get what you want and said well its a scam.
I know I will not be back to this blog and I will just say this you ALL are stupid, most of you have no clue what you are even talking about and are full of sh!T!!!
MARTY I read a lot of your post on here and noticed a lot of the others are giving you a hard time saying you work for beezid and all kinds of other sh!T, I know what you are saying is true, these kind of people are just to dumb to understand and if it isn’t their way then its a scam, Like when you was explaining that they are watching things from the wrong lobby window and it made it look like people were bidding against themselves, you told them what they were doing wrong. Don’t listen to these fools You and I and Thousands more know the truth these idiots just cant except it because they won’t have anything else to talk about!!!!!!!!
Why is the Blog stupid?
After all it was designed to answer a question though input from peoples experiences. Kind of a narrow minded statement if you ask me.
I think allot of the information posted here is VERY helpful. Sure one has to ignore the B/S and sort the facts.
For instance, Do they use BOTS? That alone will keep me from using the site, as well as the odds of actually winning something is pretty low. Something else I don’t care for is the advertising that suggests penny’s on the dollar, when its actually each penny bid costs nearly a dollar. kind of deceptive.
So in short your attitude suggests a very unhappy person with some issues to whom I’m glad will not be coming back to visit my blog.
SeeYa
Marty, I don’t think you are really that stupid to say that car auctions, ebay etc aren’t real auctions.On eaby when I”bid” on something the auction does not end until the last bidder bids.I don’t know which nut house you eascped from, but any fool can realize that a dollar bid for a penny increase in selling price is not a true auction.Suppose there were only two biders, which I’ve seen a time or two on beezid. Even on a bid on more bids would cost each bidder $150 each to win a 30 dollar item.You may not call it a scam,but it certainly is the worst kind of rippoff.At least at other auctions the bidder knows he is getting one dollar credit for each bid ,not one penny.If he doesn’t win it costs hinm nothing.Not so with beezid.
Hey Marty- can you get me a job at Beezid? Maybe I can sit in the cubicle next to you and help turn all of these peoples’ experiences into lies and false accusations. Perhaps I can earn bids for each blog I discredit…sound familiar?
WOW, Marty is a HUGE champion of this site. I mean here’s a guy thats willing to take on all comers and argue them into the ground over wether or not people’s experiences, alot of which seem to be the same issues, can actually happen or not. Look back through this thing…every second post is his. Sometimes more. Sometimes 3 or 4 in a row. That is some hard core dedication. I don’t think a redneck could defend his sisters honor so well.
If Marty doesn’t work for a company that pays him to defend Beezid on the blogs, someone should hire him! I mean, imagine what he could do if someone were paying him to defend their companies honor? I’ve seen Red Sox fans give up more easily to when Yanks fans bust their chops!
Tiger Woods should hire this guy to be his spokesman! I can see the press conference now….Reporter “So Tiger did you sleep with a bunch of porn stars?” Marty: “Hey, if you’re a billonaire and you don’t sleep with a bunch of porn stars, your just stupid. Next question. NO NO NO, you can’t run your SUV into a tree AND a fire hydrant at the same time, the system won’t let you. Unless you’re not the highest bidder. I don’t care what you saw! These are the facts sir! Do you have a Wii mr. reporter? Do you? You’re just stupid then! This conference is over!!”
Cold Hard Truth :
Items kept amazon.com value $1,700 ….all items won woth just over $6100..investment just over $3,000…items sold Net income $4,900 … profit : items kept plus $200 cash
but thats just stupid.
Go Marty Go!
This will prob be my last post on here but i had to come back and set the record str8 about selling things on ebay you get off these penny auctions..we all know the economy is bad and if you dont know what you are doing you can give a hell of a lot of cash away on these sites….but for those who do and are doing each and everyday such as myself.. it is a way to get things one could not afford before.
Since it is MY money and i AM NOT a biz… then once i have paid for and get my items… they then belong to ME not beezid or anyone else…what i then choose to do with those items is MY BIZ!
I dont care what negative feelings you have about that because for me…I am sitting here at my home watching a 55″ flat screen that i have NOTHING in { FREE } I have a FREE PS3 and my kids have a FREE Wii how is it free hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Go figure..where did all those other items go….thats right they got me my money back plus some profit and i now have nothing in my items i kept.
Call it stupid… call it what you may but my friends thats just pure and simple SMART!!!!
now where are you going to get a free 55″ tv PS3 and Wii???????????????????????????????????? I got mine… not my fault you cant get yours…and it sure isnt the sites fault………but just because you cant do this does not make it a SCAM…good day or night SEE YA!
I wouldn’t say that this is a scam as much as it is just a company preying on the general public’s lack of common sense and understanding of the bidding system. Someone is making way too much money off of this service and it’s probably not going to be you. Many bidders will get screwed, thats probably going to be the demographic most people will fall into. Additionally after reading through the comments I must say, I love the troll that’s got two or three usernames and conversing with himself over how wonderful this penny auction site is, many lulz have been had.
I would like to make a note to everyone who reads this blog/forum I joined beezid in Feb. so I have been there 2 months..I have since bought over 4000 bids on beezid which is little over $2400 plus $600 for the ending auction price and shipping so around $3000 but the items i have won on there comes to little over $6100 Amazon.com Prices not beezids retail prices..if i used beezids retail prices then it would be well over 8 Grand. So half price is fine by me.
Now ask yourself this..do you want to spend around $600 for a tv thats worth lets say $1700 ??? if not then dont go to beezid.com first off that tv will prob go for around $190 to $200 plus $90 shipping thats close to $300 and you need to have at least $300 worth of bids {around 500 bids } to have a chance to get it and well its easy if you know how
Just sent you the email Tim and it has all the tricks you need to win just about anything you want on beezid for very few bids…once you get the hang of it. Its what i do and glad others do not
I will send you some info that will help you out big time if you use it wisely
Thanks for the five stars, Marty. I appreciate that. And I apologize for getting the gender wrong. It’s hard to tell sometimes on the internet. But once again, I’m sorry.
As I have said, I understand the system pretty well now and I find it humorous to watch an auction and see people do what I used to do–bid without looking and knowing what they are doing. There may be three people using the “sniper” function and people using regular bids. Then someon comes in with the “autobeezid” tool. And people bid and bid and bid some more–without realizing the sniper function is going to beat them everytime, especially when there are three people using it! My big problem is I don’t understand how you can tell when the auction is going to end. Would you be willing to share that knowledge wth me? Not on this website, of course, but in a private email? I understand if you don’t. As I said, I am not interested in the big ticket items. I just don’t care. The things I need can’t be had on any website. I’m on disability with spinal problems. I’ve had 15 surgeries in the last four and a half years. I’m doing better and the future finally looks bright. But I really don’t care about big screen tv’s and such. We have very little money because of my medical bills, so I can’t afford to purchase the bids to really get the 200 bid packs to bid big. But there are some smaller items that would make my life easier such as the talking alarm clock. It is voice activated and will tell you the time if you want or act as a nightlight. That would help. I have a hospital bed and our bedroom is fairly small. I don’t have a night stand because of where the hospital bed is located. And it’s the only place to put it in our bedroom. If you would be willing to share some information with me, my email is timothymolnar@gmail.com
Thanks and keep bidding and keep winning. We both know it’s not a scam and there are patterns that you can see, if you spend time watching and writing a few things down.
Tim
lol
IM FIRED LMAO 
:D
Im giving you five stars for this one…oh and its he not she lol …kids were not home when i took the pic for beezid but im on the winners circle as Came, Saw, Conquered Marty T.
Not a bad idea, Marty–call it “Beezid for Dummies.”
I am also wondering why there are so many people who post obscenities and insults. It says a lot about a person if they can’t speak without insulting someone or using inappropriate language. I swear sometimes too, but not about total strangers on websites. People don’t have to be “stupid.” Maybe they are just ignorant. Not as in “rude” but as in “lack of knowledge.”
Once again, I do not work for Beezid. I have won only one thing so far. And I did receive it in 72 hours. I understand the system for the most part. It takes time to watch, write a few things down and most of all, have patience. Marty spilled part of the secret in one of her recent posts—the 200 Bid pack. Watch them–go back in time and see how much they sell for and when–the time of day and day of week. Go to the Winners Circle and click on “To see more great deals, click here.” at the bottom of the page. There is a pattern. Buy one or two of the 200 bid packs for a few dollars–15 or 20 dollars is cheap for an item that costs 120 dollars–and you have lots of bids. Do not watch from the main window–click on the picture of the item itself and look at the “bidding history.” You will see if it is a regular bid, a “sniper” bid or an “autobeezid” bid. The last two are great tools for winning an item. People have posted that it looks as if people are bidding against themselves when the timer gets to “GOING.” They are not–you will see that in the “bidding history” window. They are using the “autobeezid” function. It’s a great idea.
So if I know so much, why have I only won 1 item? I don’t have much money and only have 22 bids left from the last bid pack I bought. And I will not spend any more money to buy more bids. What does this mean? It means I won’t win. But that’s ok. I don’t mind. I understand the system pretty well. I just don’t have the extra money to buy more bids, then get the 200 bid packs and stock up on bids. But I don’t need those items anyway. I have 2 laptops and an old, but dependable, desktop computer. My entertainment center won’t hold a 52 inch tv and I don’t watch much tv anyway. My son already has an Xbox and a Wii and a Playstation 3 and a Nintendo DS and a GameBoy (all gifts from my mother-in-law or brothers-in-law) and lots of games for all three systems. What I really need can’t be had on any website, so the rest doesn’t matter much to me. I don’t really care about those things. Nor do I care about how much money Beezid is making on each item. They are in business to make money. There is no law about how big a profit margin a company is allowed to have. If there were laws, the board of directors of Exxon and Shell and every oil company in the world would be in jail. Half of the Wall Street investment brokers would be joining them as well. Is it immoral? I don’t think I would do it. But who’s to say? If faced with all of that easy money, I might do the same thing.
If you keep buying the 50 bid packs for 40 bucks or a bit less at auction, then you will most likely never win anything. Or at least anything big. You have to play big to win big. Good luck. I won’t be playing, I just don’t care.
I just had a brainstorm or fart LMAO i could make millions selling a book on how to win on beezid.com ROFLMAO. only 19.95 plus 6 bucks shipping LMAO
I would also like to ad that once again i have won all my lock limits and have gotten each and everyone of them….over 1500 bucks for just under $400 out of pocket..and to be honest I could care less if they have 30 million members i will get deals like this on and on because i know how.
My sister lives over 200 miles from me and i talked to her on the phone and explained to her step by step what it was and how i was doing it and she has now won a apple mac book …a 46″ 3d hdtv…and a playstation 3 she has about $600 bucks in them all thats over 4 grand worth of stuff…shes beating me lol.
edit last post 26 bucks plus purchase price for grand total of $34.35
and lets show the so called bad bids i placed on beezid or are they ????
Auction ID:53765
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition (Xbox 360/PS3)
Retail price * $59.99
Placed Bids (117) $81.90
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $4.39
Savings (0%) $0.00
plus 6.99 for shipping
Auction ID:53114
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3/Xbox 360)
Retail price * $59.99
Placed Bids (80) $56.00
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $3.96
Savings (0.05%) $0.03
plus 6.99 shipping
now ask yourself this why on earth would i pay more for these 2 games than what i could have gotten them at wal mart???
reason ..i just have won a 200 bid pack for 12 bucks and some change including my bids place so i got both of these games for little over 12 bucks plus 14 bucks shipping..now im no math wiz but by my math thats on 26 bucks for 120 bucks worth of games????????
yeah beezid how dare you sell me a cobra radar detector for a few bucks
Auction ID:51624
Cobra Voice Alert 15-Band Radar-Laser Detector and GPS
Retail price * $219.99
Placed Bids (1) $0.70
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $1.84
Savings (98.85%) $217.45
plus 5 bucks shipping ….shame on you beezid LMAO ROFLMAO
a lot of sites like this look alike because they use the same companies software design.
did you stop to think that maybe he won a couple of the 200 bid packs they have up for bids and he may have got them cheap and that he may only have a 100 bucks in that wii??
Beezid is a GREAT idea IF you are the guys raking in the bucks for the poor slobs bidding.
I got 10 free bids just to see if it were the moving cheese game that I thought… It is.
You bid, and yes, if you are crazy enough, that bid costs you a buck. (mine were free and I would not be stupid enough to buy bids).
Then someone bids at the last minute, and voila! The timer is RESET, 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds, whatever. Your Cheese Keeps Moving JUST beyond your grasp.
Bid again! Oops! The Cheese moved again.
Meanwhile, the item (valued at, say $350.00) is only bid up to $6.66! “WOW!”, you say in ignorance, “I JUST GOTTA KEEP BIDDING! That’s SOOO CHEAP! I JUST KNOW I’LL WIN IT IF I KEEP BIDDING!” Yea, dream on oh ignorant one.
So you bid. A dollar here, a dollar there. You and hundreds of others. Beezid is literally making a HUGE profit on the bidding! So, let’s say the product sells for $25.00. That’s TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED BIDS!!! THAT’S TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ON A RETAIL ITEM VALUED AT $350.00!!!! (OH, AND THE $25 IT SOLD FOR!)
HELL, I WANT TO GOUGE PEOPLE LIKE THIS. JUST SEND ME $2,500.00 AND I’LL SEND YOU AN ITEM VALUED AT $350 ALL DAY LONG. I’LL BE A MILLIONAIRE IN A WEEK. RIGHT BEEZID?
DON’T BE A FOOL! IN THIS ECONOMY, YOU WANT TO THROW MONEY AWAY LIKE THAT? IF SOMETHING APPEARS TO BE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT IS!
BEEZID, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
You notice how http://www.bidcactus.com/index.php and beezid.com look alike? It probably is a scam.
just tried my first auction…. nintendo wii…… weird that the winner won with 781 bids for a total of 540$. Thats surely a bot.
the reason for this is because the front lobby page/window does not refresh as quickly as the auction page..so it will indeed appear that they are bidding against themselves ..anymore Q??????
:D 
it will only let you bid if you are not the highest bidder…do not watch the auction from the main lobby go to the auction lobby and watch and you will see then that they have an auto bidder up and that someone else is bidding which makes their auto bidder bidif you are watching from the front page where it shows all the auctions the it will appear that they are bidding againts themselves.
cant be done it will only let you bid if you are not the highest bidder…do not watch the auction from the main lobby go to the auction lobby and watch and you will see then that they have an auto bidder up and that someone else is bidding which makes their auto bidder bidif you are watching from the front page where it shows all the auctions the it will appear that they are bidding againts themselves.
OK folks I had nothing better to do so I checked it out for myself. I seen the commercial on TV and looked at the website but when I googled it I also saw the other links. I carefully read this page and others to figure out what’s up. After doing a lot of careful research and educating myself as best as possible I then proceeded to beezid.com. One tip I found on one page was to bid in the early morning when most people were sleeping. So here I am at two o’clock in the morning trying to solve this mystery. After watching for about two hours to see a pattern or something and I spotted some unusual activity. I watched several bidders that clearly could have won the item but as the timer counted down to “going” that bidder reset the clock by bidding again…???…!!! Not only did the bidder do it once but too many to count…???…!!! Now folks I have to say this is very suspicious. What was even more suspicious was that after it seemed too blatant another bidder stepped in and continued this activity. I have compiled a list of bidders that I think are company safe guards against letting the item expire until it has generated enough revenue to show a profit. I am working the graveyard shift with nothing else to do for the most part and will post the results of my little experiment once I have established a history of these same bidders consistency. Who knows maybe I will post their user names so everyone can sit back and watch them bid against themselves.
It doesn’t take long watching the sight to see an auction ending and the high bidder bid against themselves to keep the timer going. Can Marty, or anyone expain this?
Marty,
You’re awesome, just becasue these poor fools try to win a new car with their 3 free bids and it doesn’t work out for them they scream “SCAM” and try to make sure that someone like me who has friends that have won things on Beezid and have talked me in to trying it for myself, but I still want to research it a little becasue I am quite the skeptic. People like Julie and Skeptic need to just work at Wal-mart for 30 years get a weak pension and die a miserbale death because it’s pathetic people like you that make America so weak. Marty I’m on your side and keep up the Beezid/Ebay flipping. In no way is that selfish or pathetic. It’s smart and shows incredible entrepreneurship and I hope to see you on the Apprentice working for Donald Trump!
You know whats funny, every sinlge person that says scam must have never used a REAL auction before..EBAY is NOT a real auction, A real auction keeps going until there are no more bidders…just like all of these penny auctions.
Ever go to a car auction???? ever go to a real estate auction???? or your local auction house??? These dont have timers that run out like ebay and the auction is over.. they keep going until they have only one person left who is bidding and the rest have quit.
You know going once …going twice…SOLD! Yeah Yeah I know what you going to say…at least at these auctions you dont have to pay just to bid…but thats where you would be wrong as a lot of private sales charge you an entry fee giving you the right to bid. same thing on these penny sites.
guess if you want an Ipod for 23 bucks you better look for a china knock off because you not going to find that anywhere and everyone says ..ITS NOT LIKE EBAY if it was then that ipod would cost ya over 300 bucks just like ebay.
I hate Ebay but you dont hear me calling it a scam? You know when there is an item selling on ebay thats is a really good price you place your bid with about 30 seconds to go and you look away for a split second and some one sniped it at the last second and you didnt get a chane to bid again. No going once going twice sold …just sold without a chance to bid again..that is NOT an auction.
I looked into this site out of curiosity and I do not believe it to be a scam. I can not say that people from the company are not placing bids to up the prices however the dynamics of this type of penny auction make perfect business sense.
Each bid costs $1 and each bid can only up the price by 1 cent, therefore if a TV that retails at $2500 sells for $200, the company is making $20,000 on bids alone. This makes it possible for other auctions to sell this same TV for say $15, making only $1500 but the cost is well hidden within the $20,000 previous revenues. Seeing items for well less than what they retail for sends up and instant red flag but in this case you have to understand that they are not making their profits on the price it sells for but rather the bids.
I do not work for this company, I just saw a commercial on TV for it that caught my interest and before spending my money I wanted to also make sure it was not a scam.
WOW! I have never read such negativity! Why the personal attacks folks?
I wanted to go to beezid to check it out, but after reading some of these posts, FORGET IT!! I work too hard for what little money I get to be throwing it away on stuff like this. I have tried to purchase a few things on several internet sites, and so far they have all been scams. I don’t consider myself stupid, pathetic or any of the other negative things being said on this site, just unlucky.
Those of us who have been considering using this site appreciate the information from both sides, but please keep it civil. There’s no need for name calling. I will not be using this site due to the information I gleened from the previous comments. With my luck, I’d wind up paying 1,000.000 for something worth 2.00.
I can’t believe it….you mean I have to bid that many times………and CAN NOT just bid a high price……..I see where you make your money from repeat bidders at almost $1.oo each bid…..I got hustled for $27…….such a SCAM>>SCAM>>SCAM>>I must have had a brain F**t…….to even get involved you must be “Brain Dead”…
I think this auction system is one of many S***S……Thanking You In Advance…….Doug
I would like to ad also that I already have my game plan out for when everyone catches on how to bid on beezid or the other sites i bid on..its called and pay very close attention
first stage bidders
second stage bidders
Third stage bidders
the last stage bidders where I will be bidding…how will you know when the last stage sets in well i couldnt really tell you that now could I??? but trust me or not ..if you do your homework and spend a lot of hours watching and learning then you will know
when and exactly to place your bids and get huge deals on these sites. Its actually very easy once you learn how and know what to watch for and look for in an auction like this.
To be honest I could really care less what people think about me or what i type in these forums. I know the truth and yeah your right I may do sound like a company man as you put it…sure wish i was I would be making the real money then and sure the heck wouldnt be coming here to post anything…everyone keeps screaming you have to buy bids ..just to bid…and that its not fair and why should i have to buy bids scam scam scam….blah blah blah…IF it was LIKE Ebay then those items you see would be SELLING for Ebay PRICES!!!!!
Its not gambling and it will never be looked at that way other than those who think its a scam or that they use bots….beezid is making millions upon millions …ask yourself this would you risk that just to run up a few bids on 15 or 20 people that are bidding on one item??????? REASON its not gambling….no one is making anyone bid on an item…if youre the last one to bid and the other people says well im maxed out cant spend anymore or go any higher then you will get that item….if you bid Early then chances are youre just wasting your time and money..set up a sniper and wait for the price to get close to its max price from the last 5 times that item has sold and you will spend a lot less money and more than tripple your chances of getting that item for a much much lower cost.
I may sound like a company man but its only for the fact that i did more research on this site than prob everyone else in here combined before i place my first bid there.
ps: The prob with everyone saying scam scam scam is that they did one of two things…ONE they have never tried it TWO they went there bought a cheap bid pack like the $40 that gets you 50 bids….they saw a item they really wanted and started to bid…but they didnt stop to think what if there are 30 more bidders ……what are my odds that i will get this item early with so many bidders??????????????????????????? do you really think you can get a big ticket item for only 50 bids on beezid or swoopo or snaglo or Quibids or the hundreds of others out there??????????????????
pss: and its all those people that make it possible for myself and so many others to take advantage of a site like this..because we know you will bid early and hope to get the deal of the decade…so we just wait you out ..let you use up your few little bids..and then start our bidding on an item and get it for way less than half price of wal mart lmao. See I dont care to pay $200 for the auction price and say $90 for shipping and use $600 for bids if it gets me a tv that worths over thats only $890 for $2000 or pay $50 auction price plus 15$ shipping and another $150 to $200 for bids on a item that cost $599…and this state of mind is what makes the dif between those who get the deals and the others who run off screaming scam scam scam…and thats the cold hard truth about it and most just cant face it or look at it in that way period!!!!!!!
Just check out this link…
http://muskogeeusa.net/2010/02/07/beezid-scam-or-legitimate/
Looks like there are already spin offs of this business model.
All I can say is thanks for confirming my suspicitions about Beezid. Though I do not think it’s necessarily a scam, (expect for thoughs who don’t understand it ) it’s definitly a gambling site and not an auction site. I too was attracted to the site through a friend who has recently found it and ask me to check it out and after about 2 hours of reading and watching the bidding process it does appear this site uses bots and does (in my opinion) use ghost bids to increase the bidding price . I won’t tell you what I do for a living, but I can tell you I’ve seen this before and is very hard to prove unless caught in the act, so unless your an insider forget it. For the most part it is legal and you should read everything before you start playing . Games like these are fun to play but you can’t take them seriously because they are obviously geared for low consumer gain and high company yield just as any gambling establishment. I myself also enjoy a lttle gambling here and there but you shouldn’t go into it thinking your going to rake it in, that’s not what these companies are in business for. Play it for the enjoyment of the game. If they seem shady, STOP… Continuning to play knowing the reputation of a certain game is a bad one,is nobodies fault but your own! And as for Marty, if your not a company man you should be! I’d would believe by the stats you show and the paticular knoledge you have of this website, I’d say “slow down pal,your showing your true colors” I also think your a company rep. No offense meant!! But to everyone I say keep speaking your piece, let all know what’s happening on this website. Keep people informed so as to help keep them from making the mistakes we have already made! And for those who understand and enjoy this website I would say; ” HAPPY GAMING AND GOOD LUCK !!! A informed inviroment is a secure inviroment! Happy Days!! Game Safe and Enjoy!!
sorry @wolfpuppy… that reply was meant for Marty not you…
wow u r very dumb…. its so obvious that you work for the company!!!! a regular person who was actually getting good deals, would NOT try as hard as you to back this company up… if it were me winning all that shit for cheap and others saying it was a scam, I would say “ok” it wouldnt bother me… but you, you keep trying to make this site seem like such a great thing… you are working for the company and dont want to let the SCAM get out into the public…. duh… that is all
you probably work for beezid!!! you are a f#*king idiot! of course i would try to cover up the SCAM if i worked for the company too….
Did you receive this item? How long did shipping take?
im just sad i did not think of this idea first
Beezid is making tons of money on every item they sell that’s why they are there at almost $1.00 a bid they arebound to rake it in at a penny a bid something you win for $50.00 just made the company $5,000.00 lol maybe I should open one of those sites I think I saw a car that retails for $18,000
went for like $550 that’s almost $55,000 for beezid
Felicia
What school did you go to because the correct spelling in this case is “they’re” NOT “their” or “there” lmfao!
Hey beezid is a scam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is why I say the same thing on as many sites as i can find!
TOTAL BS!!! lol
no one needs to tell anyone..they have spent millions on advertising..its all over the tv and radio in case you did not know lol.
have got every single item from them and have been winning even more and now they have millions of members lol.
last time i checked they dont make you buy bids and if you did they dont make you use them in a foolish fashion.
Millions upon millions know that beezid is there….how could they not its all over the tv…watch sometime lol.
You know whats funny is all the crazies coming here and thinking that other people are advertising a site…who the hell needs to advertise a site on an unknown blog or forum when they have spent millions advertising on tv and radio???????????????????????????????????????
ejchi
LMAO-I totally agree with you about why would anyone come on here and tell everyone how great they have done on Beezid. It makes no sense to me as to why anyone would want more people to sign up and make their chances less at winning.
I don’t know if Beezid is a scam or not but I do wonder about it since some people claim they never got the stuff they won. I was just wondering if Marty has received any of the stuff he said he won. Also couldn’t understand why they would not have posted his picture on their Winners Circle since he has won so much stuff. But they post Timothy Molnars picture after winning just one item. That seems a little fishy to me as well.
I think Beezid has a major money making website and after all someone has to win sometimes or there would be loads of complaints. I equate it to gambling because you pay up front and hope to win. That is like gambling to me.
And Bishop Glenn- I have had the same thing happen, shows me as the winner of an item, then my computer froze up and when it unfroze the auction was still going and my name was gone. That is fishy too! It has happened to several people. It is those kinds of situation that makes people think it is a scam. Beezid explains it away as a computer glitch or a problem with a persons internet connection. They never take any blame for it, it is always some other problem that caused it.
Hey I have won 11 auctions in the last few weeks. 10 green and 1 blue, the blue action was for an Apple laptop. I just received my first package this week and nust say the site is for real.
If you got such a bargain, why the heck would you want the world to know that you found a place that gives you several hundrend dollars for every penny you give them. You better keep your smiley face because when reality sets in it will help keep the frown away. By finding out the truth that others jumped on the bandwagon and got those great deals or the fact that you will probably never receive those items you won. either way you will cry whhile showing you smiley face 1216. Come to think about it i remember you now, You are one of the 12 million that go to Las Vegas each year and always come back winning several thousand dollars. Call me stupid, but I have never figured how Vegas could let everyone be a winner every trip.
First let me say that I am an idiot for biting for such a scam. I originally “bought” fifty bids for $40. I “won” the item (a 50″ tv) several times and it showed me the winner and closed only to reappear again and again, until I used up my $40. Needless to say I never “won” and above all that particular item never showed an actual winner after over a week. Not only that, but even if it was a legitimate auction at a few pennies per bit a $2000 retail tv would bring them in $10,000 even if it was actually won for $100. The problem is they are so greedy they don’t even want to have a winner. These people need to be sent to the big house that has sex offenders running loose with them 24/7.
I just had another thought on this whole matter. Why did you search and come to this site… for me and most… I bet it was to see if this was a scam. Well if you knew this was not a scam… why would you even care to post something about this site. You would be busy buying and getting your great deals. Only people looking to advertise their website would be here talking about how good it is.
It just goes to prove my previous post: I think it is a scam cause… if people were really making so much money, why would they let every one else know how good it was? Hey I just found a hole in the ground where there are tons of diamonds and gold… now I am going to tell everyone where it is, so I will not make as much profit from reselling it on ebay. it is located 5369 west haven street atlanta, ga. now every one go and get some too.
how stupid would that be?
I think it is a scam cause… if people were really making so much money, why would they let every one else know how good it was? Hey I just found a hole in the ground where there are tons of diamonds and gold… now I am going to tell everyone where it is, so I will not make as much profit from reselling it on ebay. it is located 5369 west haven street atlanta, ga. now every one go and get some too.
how stupid would that be?
SJL
My heart goes out to you and the problems you faced with your son. Bless you and your family.
SCAM, only retarded people will join this site.
nottaken
I enjoyed reading your post and agree with a lot of the things you said. I also appreciate you sticking up for those of us who are disabled. Some in this world could never understand how bad life can be for a person with a disability and being in excruciating pain every day of their life That said let me continue..
I tried Beezid for about a month and never won a thing. Even though I watched the site and researched it for quite some time before signing up. I did lose some money but I finally learned that the biggest strategy that seems to work for most people who win on the site is the use of the autobeezid. Most items are won like this and I think most people have to research a lot and get the autobeezid set up correctly and have a lot of bids to utilize if needed.
Some people have won using very few bids for an item, like Marty on this blog. He has a good strategy of always bidding so he is always on top, that way if the auction ends he wins. He also does most of his bidding at night when there are fewer people awake so he wins a lot. I know a lot of people on here thinks he works for the company, we will never know and I don’t really care other than I would hope a legitimate company would not allow their employees to attack so many people in a blog . I am not claiming to be an angel here as I said some things about him.
I think some of us have gone into Beezid thinking it looked really easy only to find out it wasn’t as easy as it looked, especially when there are a lot of people on and bidding. If I decide to go back to the site I know what my strategy is- always keep a lot of bids on my account just in case, set up my autobeezid to bid on items in the middle of the night and bid, bid,bid.
I am still not convinced they don’t use bots, but there will never be a way to know. I also hate that we don’t know when the auction will end and also have had a few cases where the time ran out, it showed me as the winner and then my screen froze up few for several seconds and when it came back the auction was still going and I wasn’t the winner anymore. I have also experienced trying to bid on an item that is still open and people are bidding and it comes up and states the auction is closed when I placed my bid, then the auction continues, this has happened a lot.
I checked into swoopo, as it is a lot like Beezid and on my very first day I almost won a gold bar and a platinum bar.Same as on Beezid, swoop’s has what they call a bidbutler which is the same as Beezid’s autobeezid, so another guy outbid me using his bid butler. The only reason I brought swoopo up is because after a month of bidding on Beezid I never came that close to winning an auction on Beezid as I did on swoopo. So it makes me wonder a little bit about what may be behind the scenes with Beezid.
My last thought-Good Luck to any who play on Beezid and be prepared to invest some dough if you want to win.
I am not a conspiracy theorist or a blogger, but I did buy into beezid last night. After looking further into how the site works (or doesn’t) I realized I should have done some research first.
After placing a couple of bids I noticed the bids would start over after you thought you were the winner. I don’t like how you can’t see the actual time left on the auction. Not having a visual of the auction time left creates an opportunity for foul play. Do any of you know how to tell the exact ending time of each auction item?
For some people writing these blogs is the only way to get the truth of their injustice out there and it should be taken seriously.
If I was winning on beezid or for that matter anything, I would be of mindset that the fewer people who knew about my gold mine the better. Less competition means more gold for me.
So why would people who’ve claimed to win anything on beezid come to this blog and defend their meal ticket? Why wouldn’t you keep it to yourself? Why would the very winners and believers of these sites actually defend it? If I was winning and profiting upwards of $18,000 a month or even a year the last thing I would want is more people to jump on the band wagon with me. I have to question their reliability. I myself would be laughing my way to the bank with my lips tightly shut.
And if you haven’t used the site or won anything on it, again… why would you find the need to defend it? What brought you to this blog in the first place? Is it because you work there? Because for me, if I hadn’t just bought bids and felt taken I would never have come here. Nor would I bash people about being alone or having too much time on their hand because at least they have a legitimate reason for spending time with this blog.
Websites do hire people to counteract the blogs that dog them. Again, I’m not a conspiracy theorist but a realist. We live in a world where we can hide behind a screen and become anything we want and to say whatever we choose. But we also have the ability to believe what sounds right and what doesn’t.
There are some messed up marketing strategies that push the envelope to the legal limits yet step on the threshold of being morally wrong.
Pat,
I agree with your post 100%.
And I can’t stop laughing since I read it!!
Dwayne Allen,
I enjoyed reading your post! I did a Google search to learn about this Beezid and have been sitting
here reading posts. I am glad I finally ran into one that found out by what you posted that they have
to be scam artists. Thank You For your posting. I will certainly not join Beezid!!
Marty!
I find You VERY OFFENSIVE!!!!
People should have Compassion for Handicapped People! My children even have
Caring & Compassion for Handicapped People! They learned very young how to help
and care for their youngest brother and NEVER EVER Treated him like he was not
as good as they were!! But they Knew and Treated him Special!!
My Youngest Son was Born with Hydrocephalus And could not Eat by Himself ( He
could not chew his food) . He could not Walk, Talk . He was in a Wheelchair not of
his own choosing!! He started having Grand Mal Seizures when he was only 3 years
old. He practically lived at the Hospital due to shunt problems!!
He passed away when he was only 6 years old! He would be 29 years old right now
if he had lived!!
You remind me of an old lady that walked up to me in the Mall and ASKED.
“How can you bring something so disgusting out into public! ”
Same kind of treatment when we would take all the kids out to eat in a Restaurant.
People threw a fit because he slobbered when we fed him. This world is full of
CRUEL People Like YOU!!
Remember….. What Goes Around Comes Around!!
Could Care LESS if you like my response to your Callousness!!
Beezid’s products and services are offered exclusively to private users and not to commercial or partly-commercial resellers. Beezid reserves the right to exclude anyone it has reason to believe is such a commercial reseller from participation in auctions and to close their user accounts at any time.
This is from beezid.com terms……Now the last time i checked i am not a commercial reseller..just someone sitting in the privacy of my home buying things for great deals.
Registered yesterday morning and bought $120 bid package. Three hours later my money had been sucked into the vast outer reaches of Beezid with nothing to show for it.
Call me a dumbass and I’ll only agree with you. An expensive learning experience.
Please note:
I believe that Beezid is a scam. But what I came here to discuss is reselling on Ebay. If you read the terms and conditions of the site, reselling items on Ebay is strictly prohibited and is supposed to be reported and membership revoked. Someone need to report these people and see if the company revokes their membership.
I’m not angry, trust me. No offense taken. Thanks for the compliment about my son. He is enjoying his game immensely. I am just presuming that many people will think because I am on the winner’s circle anything I wrote about Breezid is easily dismissed, because I am “in their pay” so to speak. I am not, anymore than you are. As for the bots, I will say I must be wrong. I have spoken with the customer service people at Beezid about this for a fairly long time on more than one occasion. They insist they do not use bots because they do not need to. I will trust them when they ssay they have over half a million people registered. If that number is correct, and again, I must trust them, then they certainly do not need bots to drive up the prices. So retract that statement and will say I was wrong. I am trying to figure out how to get a good strategy. I understand that certain days of the week are better than others and certain times of the day are better than others. My only problem is that I am not awake at 3am, I can’t be with my health problems. I have been tracking certain items and seeing what times they objects come up, how much they go for and some other items. But so far I am just beginning with my research. If you have any tips or advice, I am certainly open to hearing them.
Beezid IS A SCAM !!!! I personally know 3 people who work for them and they confirmed it and told me to not waste my money !!!!
To my last post, I am not trying to make you mad tim, just saying anyone that says they use bots should not be on beezids winner circle,
I also got the 25 bids and used them to win another wii for only 23 of them and if anyone wants proof as if i have not already proved it in my other post— it can be done for just a few bids here is all the proof you need { and remem this was just using free bids they gave me}
Auction ID:48744
Nintendo Wii
Retail price * $199.99
Placed Bids (23) $16.10
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $28.03
Savings (77.93%) $155.86
Current Auction Price in US Dollars$28.03
3-19-2010
3:12:14 EDT
Paid
Each bid increases the auction price by $0.01
Winner Is:
smileyface1216
You have to know what you are doing in these kind of auctions and if and when you learn this you can get all kinds of great deals on these sites.
wasnt talking about the house rules and they do contact everyone that wins asking them for a picture and a few short lines for them..they did me the same way but not once have you heard me accuse them of using bots to run the bids up like you have and honestly you dont deservv to grace their winners circle page…period!!
Yes, my picture is apparently in the Winner’s Circle. I have not seen it and probably will not bother. They contacted me by email asking me if I would send them a pic. They would give me 25 bids and 25 bonus bids. I presumed it was a standard thing they do for all winners since it was a form email letter. Nothing personal about it. So I said yes and took the picture with my son. I just checked and the bids are there. I can see how it would look to anyone who was not in my position. So I will not bother to defend Beezid in any way other than what I have. They are a business, this is how they work. If you don’t like the house rules, don’t play the house game. I will most likely blow through the 25 bids in about 2 minutes and that will be that. Good luck.
tim guess you left out the part of how much you really had in the game and about all those bot bidders lmao
So Timothy Molnar how do you like your pic on the winners circle of beezid
sent mine in but they have not put it up guess ive won to much lol good looking kid there hope he enjoys his game.
Well, I purchased some bid packs back in October 2009 and won a set of boxing gloves for the wii. In December I still never received the package even though after contacting them they had assured me that it would be delivered on Dec 24, 2009.
It is now March 18, 2010 and I still don’t have the wii boxing gloves.
I called beezid, however they don’t seem to contact you back. I am going to contact mastercard.
I’m glad I read all this before learning the hard way how the penny auction works. I’m certain it’s saved me from a lot of fustration and disapointment. Thank you all for the heads up.
I agree, it’s totally illegal to win a bid for a 55in TV for $60 bucks, the retail price is $2500, but to know that the total dollar they made was almost $6000 because they kept the bid $ from everyone. Someone needs to call the BBB on them to check them out. Any other auction, if you don’t get the bid, you don’t pay.
No offense taken, 2nd chance. I understand your frustration and I share it. My initial post had some unflattering things about Beezid. Their phone menu is the pits, I still can’t believe how bad it sounds. I also have bid and bid on things only to see them someone else buy the same item for a few pennies. Sometimes I have been bidding on something and it went to someone else for only a few pennies because I was waiting for two other people to stop slugging it out. They did and it sold before I could get my bid in since it’s impossible to tell when the auction is going to end. I can’t afford to spend much money so I won’t. I simply refuse to buy too many bids since I don’t have the money in my checking account. I’m on disability and have so many medical bills it is ridiculous. Money is too hard to come across to buy bids and have them go to waste. So I won’t be bidding very much. It’s that simple.
J. Santiago–I’m not exactly sure what you said, but if you said what I think you said, I agree with you. You may have won the auction for $30, but you had to buy bids and if you paid $60 for the bids, and won the auction for $30, that’s $90. And then we do have to add in shipping. Yes, it is my money and that’s why I’m not going to spend too much of it on Beezid. But that doesn’t make the business a scam. It’s a business. We are all adults and we all know how it works. We can decide if we want to play the game or not. But if we do play, we have to play by their rules–it is their game after all. We can make up our own minds. No laws are being broken.
I, for one, think it’s a legitimate auction site. A little pricey, but legitimate. And I have to say, their customer service is incredibly good. I have spent lots of time talking to their customer support people about bots getting the price up, or bots outbidding people and winning the auction. The people are very polite and very professional. In particular Kevin and Veronica are great to talk to. They will answer your questions and concerns if you simply call their toll free number. And their answers make sense. They are in business to make money. They won’t make much money if every person gets frustrated and stops buying bids. So why would they use bots or pay people to win auctions and then not claim the prize? The greater the frustration level, the less money they make. Think about it. I was told they currently have over half a million people registered. That’s a lot of people. Not everyone is on line at the same time, obviously, but if we do math, as people keep saying on this site, and say only 1percent of those registered people are online at the same time you or I are online–that’s how many people? 5-thousand. That’s a lot of bidding going on. And more importantly, a lot of bids being bought. Why would they need to cheat? It’s in their best interest NOT to cheat. They stand to lose more money cheating than being legitimate. They are making money by being legitimate. Why cheat? Yes, they could be lying when they say half a million registered people. How would I know the correct number? But where do we draw the line on trusting online businesses? Check Amazon.com carefully. I was looking at things on their site and the price listed near the item’s picture is not necessarily their price. It can be someone else’s price. And they will say “this item is eligible for super saver shipping” or something similar. But it’s not—only the Amazon.com price is eligible for super saver shipping. The lowest price can be someone else’s price–and NOT eligible for super saver shipping. Is that honest and above board? Not really–you have to read the fine print! That can be considered “not nice” to say the least. But is it dishonest? No. That’s just one example of many, many others we all could come up with if we wanted to. Don’t knock Beezid for their way of doing things. Other penny auctions do the same thing.
You’re right when you say that this is a gambling site, although a bit different than a traditional casino. Part of that may be that, since it has been illegal for some years (I forget when the federal law was passed making online gambling illegal) to gamble online for cash, it is not surprising to see a site like this where one can gamble for items instead of cash. Obviously, this form of gambling doesn’t run afoul of the law, which, by the way, only applies to US citizens. I think, everywhere else on the planet, you can have all the fun you want with your own money. I know, because prior to the law, I used to gamble at several online casinos, where you could fund an account with a visa and play with pennies for hours. So, even if you don’t win a big jackpot, if you have a good enough time playing that it was worth the twenty bucks for the hours you spent in the casino, then, that too makes it worthwhile. But, alas, until the law is changed, sites like this is all we are going to be left with. Pity. I like gambling, and I like casinos, but the problem I have with this site is that you do not know the house odds. No matter what casino you play or what gaming table you are playing at, you are aware of the house odds. For example, the house odds on a craps table is usually around 5.2%, which actually is pretty good for the player. However, what are the odds on winning, say, a tv? Does anyone know? How would one even figure that one out? So. . .if I decide to spend some cash in the hopes of winning more, I’ll do it at a gaming table.
As for this site? Well, I also bit and bought into the hype before I fully understood the real deal. I purchased the smallest pack of bids, then did a ‘bid for free’ and ended up with 50 more for close to what I’d have paid anyway. Big deal there, huh? Now I am down to one bid and do not plan on buying anymore. I’ve gone to the bid for free “auctions”, but, like other posters have discovered, all you can bid on there is, you guessed it–more bids. That alone probably is enough to turn many people off. I guess I’ll burn off my last bid soon. I was only holding onto it because you need to have at least one bid to bid on the bid for free deals and I thought, what the hell, if I could pick up fifty bids for, say 10 or 20 bucks, perhaps that wouldn’t be so bad. But, after entering a half dozen of these bid-offs, I’ve discovered that they all sell for thirty something dollars. Every time. And I’ve seen the same names there as well.
I only wish I could sell this last bid for the seventy cents or so it is worth. It’d be the only thing I would be getting out of this site.
Well, actually, is is a gambling site. You are paying an average of seventy cents each time you bid, unlike a regular auction, where you can bid as long as you like, with no cost, until you quit or win. On ebay, you can bid a thousand times on an item, and if you get it for, say, $200, then that is all the money you are out. Now, that is an auction site. On this site, beezid.com, you are paying each time you bid, so, whether you stay in long enough to eventually win or not, you are going to have some skin in the game. According to the site, each bid is around seventy cents, so, you can see that it doesn’t take long to get to the level of “significant” skin. You can equate this to any slot machine, where you put in nickels until you, hopefully, win. Pulling the lever isn’t free, as it would be if one were to compare it to a regular auction–you have to pay each time you pull, just as you have to pay each time you bid on this site. So, hopefully, I’ve cleared up the idea of whether or not this is a gambling site…it is. If you still disagree, please read this first paragraph again.
Well, I too saw the advertisement on tv and decided to try it out. I bought the smallest bid pack because I wanted to see how the site worked while trying to spend as little as possible. I saw the advertised good deals, but most of us know that if a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. After staring at my monitor until my eyes started to bleed, I came to a few realizations. My first observation was that this site is a gambling site more so than a true auction site. You have to pay to play with no guarantee of winning, just like any casino anywhere. Quite obvious, actually. Then came the second observation. This site isn’t really about selling items, it is about making money via bids. The items are more of a teaser to get people to bid, but the money is made from the bids themselves. And what money they are making! I did a little math on some of the items which the site advertised as sold. I saw a tv, a nice one, I actually bid on it myself when it was around $115 (and was promply outbid) and, when I left the site, it was still being bid on at around $200. Now, unlike a typical auction, these sales, advertised as “auctions”, are limited to a penny a bid. You bid, the item increases a penny. Which brings me to another point. Is there anyone here that would be willing to buy an item at a very steep discount who would say, “oh, wait, the price just went up a penny; that’s too much for me”? Of course not. A penny, in and of itself, wouldn’t keep anyone from buying anything, and that is where they get you. Got me too, for awhile, until I finally got it. What I get for staying up too late. So, they end up selling a $2000 tv for $200. Depending on how long the winner was bidding and how many purchased bids he had to use to finally win this item, he or she probably got a good deal. But beezid.com ended up with 20,000 pennys, or 20,000 bids, which netted them a cool $14,000. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see what this site is all about.
My final conclusion is that while one could come away with a super savings, it is not going to be easy. You are bidding against the internet, after all, a virtual unlimited pool of people. And anyone can enter the bidding at any time, so, if you were in from the beginning or nearly so, you could have quite a bit of money invested via bids, yet another bidder could enter late in the game and win the item without having to spend a lot on bids. I do not see how one can ever determine when would be the best time to enter the bidding for a tv that lists for $2000, is at $210 and still being bid on, and was recently sold for $67.42. I mean, really. I’ve got a few bids left, and maybe I might play with this site a bit more, but my eyes are open now. I know it to be a form of gambling, and I am going to approach it as such. I like gambling, by the way. I think vegas is a wonderful place and would like to go there again sometime when I have another few thousand that I don’t care about losing. But as for an auction site? Nope. And as far as those deals you got, Marty? Well, I am in no position to say one way or the other, but knowing what I know about this site now and reading all the other posts, it seems extremely unlikely that any one person would walk away with three deals like you are talking about with what looks to be 90%-95% savings. I am going to go out on a limb here and say I don’t believe it. You are either making it up or you are a shill for the site.
I’m going to close by simply saying, if you like to gamble, and don’t mind house odds that are probably the worst you could ever run across, then have a go at this site. Personally, I believe you’d have much better luck at the roulette wheel.
People do the math if u bit 30$ on a item that the retail price is 100$actually the price of that item is about 70$,but here come the bad news,you bit 30$ on that item thats is all ready at 60$ you bit on it you win that item good your a happy camper causes you only bit 30$(really). Now you need to paid for that item another 60$,did you really won i don’t think so.30$ for bit another 60$ to buy the item=90$(p.s. don,t forget shipping cost.(IS YOUR MONEY THINK???????)
Tim i did not mean to point my finger and heckle you with your problems. we all have problems myself I’m 100 grand short of being 1 mil. in debt. thats life for me, if you read my post’s I cant get anything bought no matter the time or date and when i checked the closed auctions, the stuff I cant get bought (for a good price) sells for nothing. I’m going to try it one more time and it bugs me to buy the bids and then pay to bid…. if they would lose one or the other and offer more things to bid on, they would profit lots more later 2nd. ps. sorry about your back I can relate on that one.
I’m not saying this will happen every time, but I posted on this site that I won an auction for a copy of Bioshock 2 for xBox on Beezid this past Sunday, 3/7/2010 for 92 cents. Some people posted earlier that the site is a scam. I don’t know if it is or not. I am sure they use bots to drive up the price and may even precent people from winning, hoping they will buy more bids and try again. But when I posted that I won the auction, people said I will never get the item I won. They told me Sunday (yes, there was a customer service rep working Sunday afternoon when I called at 3:45pm) that it would arrive in about two weeks. It came today, Wednesday 3/10/2010. That’s 3 days. Is Beezid a scam? I don’t know. But I did win the auction I wanted and the item was delivered as promised. Brand new, with the factory wrapping. You decide if it’s a scam or not.
Actually I’m not in a wheel chair right now. I was for a bit, but I’m able to walk and getting stronger everyday. I’ve had two brain tumors that caused osteoporosis and my back bones keep breaking. I’ve had 15 back surgeries in the past four years and three months. I have rods and screws up and down most of my spine. That’s why I’m on disability. I hope you never have to be in a wheelchair, 2ndchance. You or Pat. You wouldn’t joke about it if you spent some time in one. Then you really would be unlucky.
YEP pat i woke up… stupid… it seems like to me peeps in wheel chairs win a lot i stay up late ect. but stuff sells high BUT when i check the closaed auctions it sells cheape.. i dont understand ?????????? i guess im, unlucky…….):
There was a few things I wanted to say in my last post, but forgot–people have made comments in previous posts here about the profit made by the owners of Beezid. Yes, they are making huge profits. So are the Board of Directors of Exxon and every other oil company. Remember the huge bonuses given to the very same people who caused the banking problems just last year and the year before? Take a look at Wall Street–huge profits being made every day. Name me a company that is in the business of losing money. Those are called philanthropies, not companies. Of course Beezid is making money for their owners. That’s what is designed to do. If you want a company to have a small profit margin, go look at a grocery store, they operate on a 1 or 2 percent profit margin. Furniture companies regularly double the price of everything they sell. Are they scams? Car dealers get incredible incentives from the auto manufacturers. Are they scams? Why shouldn’t Beezid be a money maker? Does that mean I will be spending hours and hours on the site? No way. I will only bid on items that I can get for under five dollars or so. And there are plenty of those items if you look at all of the items available. Again, let the buyer beware.
I am not an employee of Beezid.com. I am a 50 year old male on disability. I saw an ad for Beezid and decided to give it a try. So yesterday (Saturday, 3/6/2010) I signed up and received my 3 free bids. I spent some time reading everything on the website I could find. I watched the tutorial and spent an hour at least just watching the auctions going on and surfing around the site. I won an auction for 50 bids for $30.71 (a $40 value) and decided to bid on a few small items. I had realized very quickly that bots were being used to drive up the bidding on items. While watching the auctions I saw the same name on three different auctions at the exact same moment. Nor were they using the auto-bid feature, which you can find out by looking at the detailed view of any item. I saw how even when you think you won you did not because someone would jump in after you. One time the time clock was counting down and was reset to 20 seconds. I went to check the detailed view of another item and when I went back to the main view, the auction for the item I wanted had ended. There was no way it took me more than 20 seconds to go to the other view and back. More like 6 seconds. I smelled trouble. But this afternoon I saw a game my son would like–Bioshock 2, a new game that retails at WalMart, Target and GameStop for $59.99. The details said another copy recently went for .29. So I had about 40 bids left and decided to go for it. I wound up winning the auction and getting the game for 92 cents! There was a $6.99 shipping and handling fee. So my total cost was $38.62–$30.70 plus .92 plus $6.99. I don’t care how many other people might have bid and lost. I don’t care how much each bid cost. I only care how much money I charged to m PayPal account.
The item description instructed me to call a toll free number to let them know if I wanted the game for an xBox or PlayStation 3. I called the number this afternoon–Sunday, 3/7/2010 at 3:45pm Eastern time. I didn’t expect much on a Sunday afternoon. I got an automated phone menu, as I expected. Frankly the phone menu as recorded with terrible audio quality. I expected something much more professional and of a better quality. I can do better at home with my laptop and free audio editing software I downloaded from the web. But it is what it is. I pushed the number to speak with a customer representative and to my surprise got a live human being. Her name was Veronica and we chatted for a few moments about the site and the auctions going on. I asked her when I could expect to receive the game and she replied it all depended on where I live. I told her State College, Pennsylvania and she said they would probably get the game from Amazon.com and send it to me, so I should expect it in about two weeks. I asked her how the company could make money with the auctions being what they are. She replied it’s because each bid costs a certain amount of money and they make money from all of the people who don’t win the auction. Some items (such as mine) they may lose money on. Other items more than pay for themselves. Honest and accurate answers to legitimate questions.
Will I spend hours and hours (I am on disability after all) on the website–no way. Will I continue to buy bid packs? No way. Did I get extremely lucky getting my son his game? Absolutely. I still have over 20 bids left and will most likely bid on some small items that I find interesting. I will not bid on an iPod, a MacBook Pro, a flat screen tv or even a 200 pack of bids. I will not spend my money on buying bids. I got lucky and don’t expect to get lucky again. If an item normally goes on the site for less than three or four dollars (just watch the auctions! The same items come up and you can find when by looking.) I may bid on the 50 pack if I feel like it. But I am not a gambler and don’t buy lottery tickets. Is Beezid a scam. No, I don’t think so. I hope I don’t have trouble getting the game, my son is really excited about it. Again, I do NOT work for Beezid. But I did bid and may do it again. Just not very often. Let the buyer beware is a great motto to live by.
What does the weather have to do with it?
I’m so glad I checked this site first. I went to beezid and I saw where you “buy bids” and ran like the wind. I think I’ll stick with ebay, where I may not get a new car for $300.00, but I also won’t get “STUPID” stamped on my forehead. Thanks sooo much
it did not mater if it was 6 am or 11 pm week day or weekend. im not a little kid here. if you bid there and do good great. BUT when you have to buy your bids and then pay to bid on an item………… and thats not a scam youcan have it ………….strange i could not find a site that was for beezid????????? but a lot of people other than me HATE THE S.O..B,S!! to
oh now you know you wanna go back..after all… we need guys like you to start the bidding and get the price where it needs to be at so the ones of us that know what we are doing can get all those sweet deals.
you just got out bidded by someone else who waited till the price got higher before the started bidding…no scam there..you just bid way to much way to soon hoping to score the win real cheap…if you would have waited till late you would have gotten them..the 200 bid packs almost always sell up in the $20 range..the reason you see some of the 200 bid packs going cheap is because someone forgot to set their sniper to keep it going until they were ready to bid.
no scam, just bad bidding and planning on your part. Jumped in and drowned before you tested the water by just getting your feet wet. Your fault not theirs.
Seems like Marty is a Beezid employee lol
It’s funny how on all the sites complaining about Beezid there is always these generic and canned pro-Beezid posts. Seriously, your company is pretty shady without making fake blog comments and not assuming you have bots/workers to keep auctions going…just let sleeping dogs lie and worry about putting more quality items on your site. If you truly are legit you shouldn’t be worried about internet folks comments.
well i seen it on tv…. got on line and wow i bought bids and then i bid on more bids the first one was $40.00 for 50 bids did that 2 times then 100 bids for $70.00 did that 2 tomes last but not least 200 bids for $120.00 i was sure i could get some bids bought now……… nope the strange thing is i allways checked there closed auctions and the bid packs sold cheap. they scammed me. i spent $400.00 of my own money for nothing. i thought about it emaild them and said I GOT 2 WORDS FOR YS G.. F….. !! NOW i feel better and am never going back. later 2nd.
BEEZID a waste of time. You would be better off paying twice as much for the iteams on beezid than going through that website.
Um, no, not really. It doesn’t take much to do that math… Unless you’re incredibly stupid. Besides that, this math is wrong! The actual math is:
- This is 1 bid for $0.01 at a time… which means there were 19,000 bids!
- Assuming $0.70 is correct per bid, beezid actually made $13,300 on this $2,000 (retail) television!
- Wholesale cost is probably roughly 50% of the price, meaning beezid made $11,200 on ONE television.
Wow, that’s a HUGE margin. You don’t have to sell many TVs to stay in business at that rate. Whoever realized people would fall for this was kind of a genius, although I don’t think the site will last. Imagine, you bid on 70 auctions and win 1…. I don’t think you’ll stick with it very long.
Some people will win an item, and others, will pay a couple hundred dollars and get nothing. It’s kind of a shitty deal if you’re not on the winning end. For every person who wins, by the example above, there would be (19,000 bids to get it to $190.00 divided by 272 =) about 70 people bidding on this one item, and only 1 person wins.
The item you got will ship to you..no need to worry about that it takes up to 3 weeks..I also have items won on the 16th and called to check up on them and they said they go out Monday March 8th..so you will get it soon.
also it is not gambling..people bid on items with bids they buy…thats how the site makes money and pays for the items..some people will bid more than others of course but you have to look at it the way i do..the bids placed is the true amount that i am paying for the item and that the amount of bids placed is what i am spending for that item and not the little 3 or 4 bucks it shows in the penny bids..
a lot of people on beezid do the same thing..they go on how much they have spent for bids as the price they are willing to pay for that item..example…$200 that went for say 20 bucks and you see the winning bidder spent 150 bucks for bids ..they would then have $170 plus shipping in that item..so if they were going to buy that item anyway they got a discount..in their eyes
but then you have a lot of people that get great deals there..I am one of the fortunate ones to have gotten such deals…like these 2 items i got…i was going to go out and buy them anyway but look at what a deal i got by bidding on them
Auction ID:38882 Sony Cyber-shot TX1 10MP Digital Camera w/ Touch-Screen (Blue)
Retail price * $349.99
Placed Bids (33) $23.10
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $10.16
Savings (90.5%) $316.73
Auction ID:37167 PlayStation 3 Slim (120GB)
Retail price * $299.99
Placed Bids (19) $13.30
Free/Bonus Bids (4) $0.00
Auction price $3.25
Savings (94.48%) $283.44
but one item i did not need and did get it to make some money off of was this one i got on the 25th of Feb.
Auction ID:40695
Sharp AQUOS 52″ Class
Retail price * $1,699.99
Placed Bids (181) $126.70
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $51.47
Savings (89.52%) $1,521.82
I have gone through a lot of posts on here and it does seem that a lot of the negative comments are from non-users…and because of that it reduces the “weight” behind their comments, I think. So, let me give you the perspective of someone that has actually used it..and is for real (although I also realize that just by me saying that it doesn’t really mean anything).
Anyway, my wife saw an ad on TV about Beezid and asked me if I had ever heard of it. I work in the internet industry and am the resident cynic in my family, so she often runs this stuff by me to get my vibe on whether it was for real or not. Part of me thought it was probably a scam, but at the same time it was an ad that was sponsored by DirecTV (they had their own promotional code to get 100% bonus bids) so I figured even though I have my issues with DirecTV’s business practices most of the time, I’d be surprised if they involved themselves with a company like this if it wasn’t on the up and up (obviously really intelligent skeptics like myself can be duped…if that’s how duped is spelled).
So I signed up for an account and got my 3 free bids and put in the code and didn’t get anything for that. I didn’t realize that I would not get the bonus bids until I purchased my first bid pack. Not sure if that is documented anywhere…but I didn’t really read it that thoroughly up front so I can’t say for sure. I admit…no justifiable complaint there. But, that did prompt me to do some research. I read through all the FAQs and stuff on the site…read various reviews on Google and other site (like this one). I decided, like many, it isn’t really as much an Auction site as we are all familiar with…it’s really a gambling site. That doesn’t inherently make it a scam, mind you. I go to the Casino once in a while, visit my local Poker room, etc. It was rather entertaining to watch the bidding and to use my free bids on stuff, so I figured even if just for the entertainment value, I’d “take a flyer” on it. So I bought a 30 bid pack for $27 and got my bonus bids of 30 to go with it. Of course I also found that “bonus” bids can only be used on bid per every 5 of your regular bids. Not that great a special, to be honest…but I wasn’t counting on those really anyway, so whatever.
I started watching other bidder and realized fairly quickly that without a fair amount of luck, I’d probably need more bids than that if I wanted to win anything other than a mini-blender, so I started bidding on other bid packs to bump up at a smaller rate. I used some bids and didn’t win them, but the process was still kind of fun and very addicting (how sick am I, right?).
I started bidding on a Nintendo DS Super Mario Edition. Nice system, came with the Mario Bros game. My kids have one and it’s kind of fun to play with them on games so I figured that be a good smaller item to go after. It was one that ended early in the morning and I didn’t really want to stay up all night, so I set an autobeezid for after like $8, figuring it would likely get that high and went to bed. Got up for my workout at around 5:30 and it was still going and I had already been outbid. So I bid some more. I started to get a vibe with the bidding that it was going to be over soon. The last second bidders were dwindling and it was just a few people left. So i bought another 50 bid pack so I could get them quickly to keep bidding. Another $40. I kept bidding and did eventually win it! I was pretty stoked. I ended up getting it for $10.66 on the auction price, plus $9.99 for shipping (if you want to check…it’s Auction# 37180). So 20.65 total for the actual item, plus the cost of the bids themselves. It only cost me 35 bids, but even if I factor in the cost of ALL the bids I purchased, that’s only an additional $67. So, $87.65 total for the DS and the game. Not the 99% off that they talk about on their site, but still a very good deal and I was very happy with it. And, I still had bids left in my account to go have some fun with…which I promptly wasted on other bid packs and a feeble attempt to get a flat screen TV. Oh well…was still fun and I got a great deal on the DS. Which I could use (which was my intent) or sell on eBay like others have talked about and make my money back and a little extra if I wanted.
All a great plan…assuming I ever get the item. This is where the problems start. The auction ended on 2/16 and I paid for it right away. The email I received after winning the item said I would get a shipping confirmation when the item is sent out and that I would get the item in a couple weeks. I received no further communication. No shipping confirmation. So, after a week, I went on to their help page and it had a link for contacting support for shipping or billing questions. So I clicked that link and it takes you to a web form to fill out. So, no email per se…just a form that I trust will be going somewhere. Not that email itself is any guarantee, granted, but it “feels” a little more personal….but whatever. I filled out the form requesting a status update with all the information they requested (name, userid, auction #, email address, etc.). Clicked on the “send” button and the form just cleared. No confirmation that it was sent. Even less “warm and fuzzys” there.
After a few days, I did it again. This time, as you can imagine, I mentioned that I had done this once already and did not receive a response. Maybe it fell through the cracks, so to speak…maybe someone just missed it. Maybe I typed some of the information wrong. I was already skeptical at this point that anyone was actually reading these, but figured I’d give them the benefit of the doubt and try again. Still nothing. That was several days ago.
So today, I gave up on the form and called the 877-4-Beezid number on their site to try to talk to someone. I get initially what sounded like a radio advertising voice on the automated response. Kind of muffled, and way to much “Radio DJ voice” to the guy. I had to roll my eyes there. It gave me a few options on the system and so I picked the one for checking on order status. There was a staticy click (sounded like someone turning off the radio) and then I got a woman’s voice that gave the usual “thanks for calling…someone will be with you shortly…blah, blah, blah”. But the one thing I do remember her saying was that I was THE next caller in line and someone would be with me shortly. She also said that at anytime I could hit the “*” key and leave a message. The “next caller in line” message replayed several times for about 10 minutes. Then a different message said that the extension I was trying to reach (I think it said “extension 8″) was unavailable and said to leave a message. Interesting…
So I left a message, and I fully expect to hear nothing in return. I gave them all my information, including my phone number, but I have very little hope here.
So, at this point I have to agree with the consensus that it’s a scam. No communication, no items shipped. Hard to come to any other conclusion, honestly. As you can imagine, the entertainment value is now gone too…
I would like to know what you’ve won. I think the idea of this site was brilliant and i decided to try it out. I didn’t expect to come out ahead because its essentially gambling, but when the same person happened to only bet after the auction said going just to keep it alive, but as long as someone was bidding it didn’t bid, you can’t tell me that’s not set up. I don’t doubt that they really send the products out when won, but they definitely keep people bidding.
How do you know anything about my work history, how many years I did work, or where my current income comes from. Just because I am disabled doesn’t mean I am automatically on government assistance. For your information I did work 15 years for one company and was the third highest in a very large manufacturing plant. I have paid in taxes for over 30 years until I got sick. You are just showing your ignorance again and just very defensive for some reason. I will not respond nor read anymore of your post as you haven’t lived enough life yet to understand anything. Goodbye little man.
I don’t think it’s a scam but I think it’s very sneaky but I’m just pissed I didn’t come up with the idea myself. Wow, beezid is makingsome profit!
YYYAAAAAWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
Attacking LOOOOOL You fired the first shot with your little reply..I lump you in with Julie’s mean, uncaring attitude.
I like this that you typed:
skeptical said: But then it shows how ignorant you are and probably the type of person who would park in a handicapped spot because your too lazy to walk a few feet
Youre crying about people parking in the handicap spot because they are to lazy LMAO the lazy ones are those who are check drawers who never put 20 + years at a real job to earn it.. but they are able to get on the computer at home but cant make a job out of it!!!!!!!! Hell there is a guy who is Blind and he works on computers for a job …oh he works for the SS//SSI Admin taking applications for people like you LMAO
You wouldnt know a hard days work if it walked up and slapped you on your face! But you want to talk about lazy..thats a F#@KING HOOT!
One more thing I love that you typed
At 2010.02.28 20:21, skeptical said:
Julie:
I just love when people like you jump on a site and have to say stupid crap about other peoples post.
You love it EHHH??? you must use something like this to give your life purpose..to make up for something maybe??? The chance to argue a point and to simply give you something to do on all those non first/3rd of the month days while you wait for that uncle sam check that all of us hard workers are paying in for you.
You are no more handicap than I am ..if you can use a computer then your lazy ass can work plain and simple!!!!!!! good day to you…my last post to someone who talks a pretty game but doesnt have a clue!!!!!
PS: skeptical..there is such a thing as an IP…be carefull uncle sam doesnt see you doing all this hard work in these forums..he may want you to work for a living doing data entry or a nice job doing secretary work behind a computer at a desk…you know just like the work youre doing when you type in these forums
Keep an eye out im sure he is lol.
Jeez Marty what did I say that pissed you off so badly? Was it because I accused you of what you accused others of which was getting something for nothing? You state you have money invested in Beezid and haven’t gotten anything for free. But then your last sentence says you sell the items so you have nothing invested in the ones you keep. Isn’t that something for nothing?
As far as your rant against me that was quite impressive and a little overboard for me calling you an ass and mean. But then it shows how ignorant you are and probably the type of person who would park in a handicapped spot because your too lazy to walk a few feet. Also I never said I was sweet in fact I can be just as nasty as you if the situation calls for it. On this blog Julie’s post was just plain uncalled for so I commented on it, then you come along and say things like ” if your smart enough to have a debit card, blah,blah,blah,” which implies people are less intelligent than you, I commented on it. I was just wondering why you have to be mean to people.
Also I never said I was in a wheelchair, never expect to be treated differently because I am disabled. I have a life and don’t need some nobody I could care less about telling me to get a life.
As far as you being a poor Ky boy…guess I’ll never care!!! For all I know you may work for Beezid and just blowing off here to look like you don’t, that I’ll never know either and don’t care.
This blog was started because people were questioning Beezid, people have a right to question anything new and unproven. Do you know 100% that Beezid does not use bots? You don’t…. unless you work for the company or wrote the progamming…. you will never know. You may say there is no reason for them to use bots because they are making money hand over fist but they may be using bots to drive up the prices so they don’t incur any losses. According to my research these companies are very expensive to start up and run, so they cannot incur a lot of losses.
So you can stop attacking me now and go back on Beezid, since it seems you have no life because your always on here posting and always on Beezid and listing your items on Ebay, so that must be your life.
The chat box you are talking about is automated and there is no live person on the other end…when you asked it about the BBB and Paypal..it would have gave you the same answers if you had just hit xy or z lol. It is their way of offering you free bids to make you want to stay and give them a try..nothing more nothing less.
You could have just kept hitting the x y or z Keys and it would have gave you the same messages until it used up all of its preprogramed ones ..which is what it did when you got this one
Rachel Says: OK, Thank you for your time. To end the CHAT simply CLICK on the “X” in upper right.
as far as any item i sell on ebay it would be items that i have 2 or more of …like the 2 Wiis..i will keep one an sell the other.
and before you even say it ..why did you buy 2 of them …because the price was right and i bid on them at the right time …so i could sell it and have nothing in the items i Keep.
See youre not all that sweet as you try to make out… you to are just as bad as the rest of us…For your info i have money invested into every single item i have gotten from Beezid and I am not getting anything for nothing..as far as being a poor ky boy …guess youll never really know…kinda like your little ramark to Julie and your little sad story about being home alone in a wheel chair…so what..you posted that as if you really wanted someone to care or feel sorry for you and all those alone people…if youre home alone then its no ones fault but yours//I know alot of people in wheel chairs and guess what they are NOT home alone.
Get away from your pc..go somewhere…make some friends …then you dont have to worry about being home alone!!! Just because youre disabled and in a wheel chair doesnt make you any less of a person or special and I will treat you just as if you were not disabled..because you are still a person and you are no different just because youre in a chair!!
Marty and Maxwell
I think you both are mistaken. Maxwell I think you are replying to the very first post on this blog on November 11, 2009 where there was a post that was pasted from another site and the guy was saying he had won both of the item in auction # 2258 and 2329. He stated his screen showed he won but that the auction went on after it showed he had won and other people won the items, so that explains why you see two different people winning the items.
So see Marty he wasn’t even talking about you, but was replying to something that was months old and instead of just asking the man what he was talking about you have to be an ass and get all defensive. Just being mean again. Also I liked your post where you said “too many people want something for nothing these days” well yes a lot of people would love to have something for nothing, just like you getting something for nothing when you get a big pile of cash from selling your items on ebay, so you get a lot of somethings for nothing. Is this how you make a living being a poor Ky boy?
If they are using employees to bid on the products they have for auction this is concidered Shill bidding and IS illegal. The hard part of course is proving it.
Below is a copy of the chat log I just did with beezid.com. They are scammers.
Rachel Says: Hi there! Before you go, don’t forget to finish registering to become a Beezid member, it’s FREE and will only take a minute of your time!
Plus I have been authorized to give you 50% BONUS BIDS when you register today through this chat only! CLICK HERE and use the bonus code “HELP” to take advantage
Rachel Says: Once you register, you’ll need to purchase some bids, available in the bid package of your choice! After that, all you need to do is pick an auction that features an item you’d like to have and start bidding!
Rachel Says: This offer will not apply to everyone, you have been chosen for this special one time deal. So CLICK HERE and use the bonus code “HELP” if you would like to accept this offer!
You: Hello
Rachel Says: Hi, thanks for chatting with me today. Beezid is a whole new fun and exciting way to get the absolute BEST deals out there!
Rachel Says: Beezid’s software allows you to take advantage of getting the best discounts over and over again using great bonuses and incentives. Beezid is also a great tool for you to make money!
Rachel Says: So what are you waiting for… CLICK HERE and enter the bonus code “HELP” to ACT NOW!
You: I have a question.
Rachel Says: Sure, what is your question?
You: I was online looking up people who have used the site, and all of the information is saying that beezid is a scam. Is this true?
Rachel Says: No. Our goal is to make sure that you are happy with the item you won. If you decide that you no longer want the item within 10 days of delivery, we will gladly provide you with a refund of the final auction price of the won item as well as the original shipping costs.
You: Are you with the BBB, and do you use PayPal?
Rachel Says: Yes. Using our secure checkout, you can conveniently pay for your bids using any of the following methods: Visa, Visa Debit, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover and PayPal.
You: Is beezid a member of the Better Business Bureau?
Rachel Says: Keep in mind that when you register today I have been authorized to give you 50% BONUS BIDS! CLICK HERE and enter the bonus code “HELP” to get started.
You: Is beezid a member of the Better Business Bureau?
Rachel Says: Our goal is to make sure that you are happy with the item you won. If you decide that you no longer want the item within 10 days of delivery, we will gladly provide you with a refund of the final auction price.
You: Please repsond with yes or no.
Rachel Says: Keep in mind registering to become a Beezid member will only take a minute of your time and when you register today I have been authorized to give you 50% BONUS BIDS! CLICK HERE and enter the bonus code “HELP” to get started.
You: Once again, can you please repsond with yes or no if beezid is a memeber of the Better Business Bureau.
Rachel Says: OK, Thank you for your time. To end the CHAT simply CLICK on the “X” in upper right.
You: You company must be a scam, I will post this chat online so that people will know not to register with your company. Thank you have a good day.
Rachel Says: You’re very welcome
LOL lying ehhhh??? and just where do you get that when in not one of my post did i list the 2 sets of numbers you just posted 2258????? 2329??????
Auction ID:38230 Nintendo Wii – Auction ID:35558 Apple iPod shuffle 4 GB – Green-
Auction ID:37167 PlayStation 3 Slim (120GB)- Auction ID:38882 Sony Cyber-shot TX1 10MP Digital Camera w/ Touch-Screen (Blue)- Auction ID:40695 Sharp AQUOS 52″ Class – 1080p/120Hz/LCD HDTV and Auction ID:34685 are the only auction Ids I posted here..so where exactly did you get these numbers to say that I am Lying??????????
Beezid seems legit. They are among sites like Swoopo and others. You can find all the penny auctions with the auctions they have going on right now, including Beezid, at pennystats.com:
http://www.pennystats.com/
They have a review section for Beezid but I don’t see any reviews at the time I posted this:
http://www.pennystats.com/penny_auction_reviews/6-beezid
doesn’t that sound like something a beezid employee would say thoough? it’s very well thought out and put together.
as far as i can tell you are an employee and no i’m not registered at beeezid and i was just about to and i’m glad i didn’t because it is a scam if they offer prizes they have to pay up as far as i’m concerned that is considered false advertising if they don’t and that is illegal. there are real people here with problems and people that own beezid are wrong to steal like they do sure we know what we are paying for but we are expecting something back and when we don’t get it this is what happens.
Tell me Julie, What personality consistently comes back to read and comments on Conspiracy theorists posts?
Somebody thats home alone??
I am glad I read all these reviews. I haven’t seen one positive review yet. I had seen the comercial for this and got online to check it out. Right before I was ready to pull out my credit card and buy some bids, I decided to google it to see what people had to say. Good thing I did.
Marty:
I lump you in with Julie’s mean, uncaring attitude. Read my reply to her 2/26 post. Can’t you just be happy with yourself and the fact that you were able to win on Beezid and I don’t know about the poor KY boy song you were singing, your percetion of poor must be different than mine if you can afford what your spending on Beezid then you can’t be too poor. Poor to me is when you can’t afford to spend money on biddding for something you may never get. Why is it necessary to boast or brag about how smart you think you are? And why should you care if anyone thinks Beezid is a scam. If you are winning I’d think you’d want to keep it to yourself to keep others off the site so it doesn’t lower your chances of winning. I went into Beezid after several weeks of watching the site and I researched everything I could on the net about the site and also the items being won, what time of day they were being won the price they were going for etc and wasn’t expecting to have all the rewards without risk but there are things about the site that trouble me and I am allowed to have my opinion just like you have yours.
Also it appears you have worked out your strategy and you use the autobeezid function a lot which is the way most items are won if you happened to notice. So good luck in the future and it’s not necessary to put others down in the process!!!
Julie:
I just love when people like you jump on a site and have to say stupid crap about other peoples post. I may have said some things about Beezid but I didn’t come on here and start putting down a person. Businesses and websites don’t have feelings but people do. I am far from a conspiracy theorist and resent you lumping everyone who posts on here into that pile. And to comment on how they are home … alone. That is just pure meaness because did you ever stop to think that some people ARE home alone and it doesn’t mean they have nothing better to do than drone on about conspiracy theories. I AM home alone because I am disabled and I AM not STUPID but a college graduate who came down with a debilitating disease like MS and maybe the problem is people like you that HIDE behind the anonymity of the net and feel they can say whatever they want about others.
Despite all the crap you said and whatever I have seen or what others have posted I like Beezid but mostly just watching the site not buying or bidding anymore right now. But I do have some serious problems with some of the things I see on the site, like the timers being screwy at times and YES the same people winning over and over. I don’t know if they just have a lot of money, are addicted and don’t care how much money they spend or if there are people who work for the company that drive up the prices. Do you know which it is Julie? And why are you defending the site? But the biggest questions is why do you have to be mean.
What did you see that supports the bots? Please tell me.
Good job searching and finding merazconcrete on ebay. I was going to see if any of the people who have won several TV’s or other items were selling them on ebay and hadn’t gotten the chance. I guess what they do with them is their business but it burns my ass that we live in such a selfish, selfish money hungry world. But I did see on a post somewhere on the net during my research of Beezid a guy who said he has sold like $36,000.00 buying on Beezid and reselling. He said he spent $18,000.00 on bids and so he has made a profit of $18,000.00. I don’t know who he is because he didn’t give his Beezid name but if he has spent and made that in just the few short months Beezid has been up boy he really has something going there.
Also I have experienced the same problems as you with the timers skipping, going backwards, freezing up and also I was the last bidder on an item a few days ago, it showed the auction had ended with me as winner and it sat there froze up for a few seconds and then the clock restarted and my name was gone and the auction went on. So needless to say I was pretty pissed off.
But I don’t understand what you mean when you talk about seeing other peoples autobids. Can you explain what your talkling about.
I don’t think you are the one that I was talking about on my post that put in over 2000 bids with the autobeezid function. If I recall you were the one that snuck in there and grabbed that TV that day after the guy who was autobeeziding. I watched that auction almost all day and I didn’t put in bids carelessly but was just outbid at the right time. I seen where yes you have won a lot of stuff this month on beezid, how have you done it? You say your a poor country boy from KY but you can’t be too poor if your able to buy the bids and then pay the price of the item. Unless your perception of poor is a lot different than mine. I think it is every persons right to question when something seems too good to be true. So kudos to you for winning. Good luck in the furture but I am giving up this site.
Hey, just to let everybody know, this guy is obviously lying about winning the items with ID 2258 and 2329.
If you go to beezid, click on an item, your URL will have beezid.com/auctions/item/or auction ID Number. The winner for 2258 was a “uscgfox”, but the winner for 2329 was a “redneck1″. These are two different people unless this guy has two accounts.
I’m not saying that beezid is a great website, but if you have a good strategy and a good amount of money to spend, its not bad.
It isn’t a scam, its simply a genius idea.
FYI: In no way am I employed by beezid.
Lose is spelled with one “o”.
BRAVO well said…prob the best post in this stupid forum!!!!!!!!!!!
You my dumb ass friend are a LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also for those who also come here or anywhere screaming you have to have a ton of bids or you will get nothing and you will always have more in it than if you would have went to the store well lol and read ..and yes i have proof..wanna see the Ebay pics after the Beezid Pics??????
Auction ID:38882 Sony Cyber-shot TX1 10MP Digital Camera w/ Touch-Screen (Blue)
Retail price * $349.99
Placed Bids (33) $23.10
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $10.16
Savings (90.5%) $316.73
Auction ID:37167 PlayStation 3 Slim (120GB)
Retail price * $299.99
Placed Bids (19) $13.30
Free/Bonus Bids (4) $0.00
Auction price $3.25
Savings (94.48%) $283.44
Auction ID:35558 Apple iPod shuffle 4 GB – Green
Retail price * $75.00
Placed Bids (32) $22.40
Free/Bonus Bids (6) $0.00
Auction price $3.38
Savings (65.63%) $49.22
Auction ID:38230 Nintendo Wii
Retail price * $199.99
Placed Bids (14) $9.80
Free/Bonus Bids (3) $0.00
Auction price $16.53
Savings (86.83%) $173.66
just because people want all the reward with no risk..they jump on a band wagon screaming SCAM SCAM SCAM if there is any risk whatsoever involved!!!……..leave something alone if youre to stupid to understand how it works or if you have never or are to scared of trying it!!
For every single step you take to try and prove Beezid.com is a scam ..I can take three steps to prove it isnt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One more thing for all those screaming WOLF to the top of their lungs..I have gotten over $5300 worth of items there and it has only cost me around $2000….so if thats a scam..then I guess I fall for scams like this all my life lmao.
The way I look at it is if someone is smart enough to have and use credit cards or debit cards or paypal or NAME IT type methods to pay for bids… then they should be smart enough to know how a site like this works…do you really think they could pay for these items by not selling bid packs?????????
They use the mass of people to pay for an item and for those who cant except that should stay away from sites like this..and anyone who is dumb enough to go there and be stupid enough to use their money without research… then yes I will take full advantage of that…and make thousands doing it!!!
To many people want something for nothing these days…I guess people thought they were just gonna go to this site start bidding pennies on something and get a $2000 item for 20 bucks..one thing to say about that LMFAO … no site on Gods green earth could sell items like that and be in biz for longer than a few minutes…and its not gambling..you chose to bid or not and no one makes you..if you stop bidding then the guy who is still bidding will get the item…simple as that.
To many people are going by that little counter going up by a penny each bid thinking thats what they have to pay…I dont even look at that stupid thing..I look at and go by the Bids placed to decide how much I have in an item and only use that little penny counter as reference as to when to start bidding…if other people were smart enough to do that then they would see it is NOT a SCAM OR RIP OFF!!!!!
The company is based in Quebec, Canada. They have their own laws as far as this kind of “business” is concerned and it is the province where countless telephone, mail, etc scams are based out of. This is definitely a case of buyer beware. Personally would not trust any online business coming from Quebec. Your money is better kept in your wallet.
everyone one thinks there getting a good deal but if every bid cost 1$ and you bid 50 times trying to get something that retails for 50 then your actually paying more. same goes for higher dollar items that you have to bid more times on
i was watching this website and i notice people bidding on items 3 or 4 times in a row without anyone else bidding like they didn’t want it to end. obviously this is a scam
penny bids: people are willing to spend $100 on a $200 item but because society is unarguably cheap the bids go up a few pennies. With each penny beezid’s profit goes up $1.01 so, to reach $100 $10 000 is being spend. I don’t know weather or not its a scam but if it is there stupid because man are they making money.
“They have bots – with the amount of profit they’re taking in? They would have to be stupider than most of the posters in here”
Exactly why risk getting shut down when there making millions LOL.
I see where you’re coming from but, I too am the type that will research something on a few sites, and copy and past my argument instead of re writing it LOl.
iwillneverstop, imnotgonnastop, and iwillnotstop, are probably the same person, yes.
but, like previously stated beezid is a site dedicated to gambling.
We don’t know the history behind iwillneverstop, imnotgonnastop, and iwillnotstop.
Maybe their not bots, maybe there addicts.
LOL, regardless of weather or not it worked, why wouldn’t there be a Z on the phone ha ha ha ha
LOl what school did you go to because it’s “once so ever” NOT “what so ever” lmfao!
If it sounds too good to be true….
You know better, if an offer works on greed then you know what it is all about, greed, sorry,
You are an alleged shill, someone who talks up or cheers an opportunity, you sir are a cool-aide drinker,
OH!!!!
Almost forgot…YES I will be selling this tv on Ebay for a huge profit…why the hell wouldnt I ;-D
They can keep saying all the negative things they want about Beezid but I know the truth lol and just picked up my second blue lock item for the month and it was a hell of a deal at $268 bucks for a $1700 flatscreen:::
Auction ID:40695
Retail price * $1,699.99
Placed Bids (181) $126.70
Free/Bonus Bids (0) $0.00
Auction price $51.47
Savings (89.52%) $1,521.82
The reason you find more negative posts than positive posts is because people are not very smart and have no other coffee house to drone on about conspiracies than the web, and from home…. alone. Conspiracy theorists have been proven to be a specific type of personality and that seems prominent here. Stop caring! If you don’t like something, don’t go back to it. Change the channel, kids!
all scams start out sounding just like you…. like I was always told “if its too good to be true”
I figured i would search the net for stuff about beezid and never thought i would find someone talking about an auction i won … user name smileyface1216 on beezid and i won that 55? LG tv the auction id# is 34685 and i can tell you right now that i am no bot but just a poor country boy from Kentucky and i have won 11 items for the month of Feb. on beezid and yes it is a money making monster for them.
You have to take advantage of all the other bidders to pay for an itme for you if not youre wasting your time and money…wait late and bid strong and win ..thats all it takes.
Beezid is for real and there are no bots like alot of people think….just alot of dumb noobs running up the price of something thinking theyre going to get it on the next bid or that its like EBAY where they think the last second bid should win..and then the next thing they know they just spent $300 and wasted 500 bids trying to get a $2000 item for $5 bucks..when if they would have just checked to see what that item had went for the last 10 or 15 times they would have seen that it went for $190 and higher ..so there was really no chance of them ever getting this item by bidding so early because its more like a real auction where its kinda like going once.. going twice…. sold but if another bid is made then the auctioneer starts all over with the bidding process.
I have won my limit of 10 items for the green lock and 1 for the blue lock for the month of Feb.and YES i have gotten them and YES I have spoken with alot of the people working there when i call 1-877-4be-ezid .
The prob. I see with alot of people is they went there thinking it was like EBAY and lost some money on bids before they knew what they were doing and now theyre pi$$ed off about it because they couldnt sneak in the last second bid and steal an item from someone..so they went into rant mode and shot all their bids into an auction early think they would win it….when in reality they were prob. about 15 or 20 people sitting back an waiting for the price to go up to a certian point so they could start bidding on said item..{just like i would do} and winning said item for a couple hundred bids and the price and shipping of the item.
Here is what i have in the tv i got $893.20 and its not a bad deal for me at all but a real sour taste in the mouths of those who bid and got nothing….
Retail price * $2,199.99
Placed Bids (872) $610.40
Free/Bonus Bids (97) $0.00
Auction price $192.83
Savings (63.49%) $1,396.76
Delivery cost ; $90.00
Shawn,
I get what you’re saying about the locks. He won one tv one month, and two the next. But that was also before beezid got so popular. You do bring up some more good points though.
Last night I decided to use up the last of my bids just for the heck of it, and saw some more stuff to support the bot idea.
One way or another I’m done with it. My wife says if I want to gamble, I should go to the casino and play some blackjack. Probably better odds and it’ll be funner, lol.
ps- my name is Sean too
Point taken thatGSXRguy. I should have been more specific in my last statement. I was making a point about winning a 52 inch or higher more than a few times for the purpose of selling it on Ebay for a profit.
If you win 3 or more 52 inch T.V.s in a month and are turning over a profit on Ebay, I would say thats bull because you are only allowed to win 2 T.V.s within the month. The item has a blue lock claiming you can only win it twice.
The red lock is limited to 1 win, the blue lock is 2, the green is 10, and the black is unlimited.
Let me ask you with all the hoopla about bots and employee bidders, how can we be sure Mr. merazconcrete is not an employee of Beezid? How do we know he wasnt one of the few bidders who found out he was being swindled, complained, and all of a sudden is winning items? No one knows for sure. I can assure you he seems like he has alot of money because I checked and saw how many bids he put in for several of his items he won and…..DIDNT WIN. This bidder is always on there. His beezid name is almost memorable when I log on.
Not trying to challenge you but I did notice this bidder long before I felt beezid was a waste of money.
Heres a few other things I noticed on Beezid and you may have noticed as well. The time clock runs down from 20 seconds and everytime a bid is placed the clock is reset to 20. Ever notice sometimes within the 20 seconds the timer goes up a second or two instead of right back to 20?
Its funny to see bids on items before the bidding clock even gets to 20 seconds. People seem to forget the bids are not 1 cents but 1 dollar and some items are up to $80 in actual bids when the item is only worth $50 before the 20 second timer. Thats a ridiculous waste of money.
And of course our complaints about bots and employee bidders are not going to mean much if no one important investigates Beezid anyways. The more people that see their ads on T.V. or online and try Beezid the less they are going to need Bots or Employee bidders. The less chance of Beezid getting busted should our intuition be correct. Also the more people who try Beezid it will slim the chances of winning higher valued items.
Also if you think about it, as long as people buy bids, regardless if they bid or not, Beezid banks money. I would guess they already banking on bid purchases alone.
Well, not here to offend anyone. Just here to point out a few things about Beezid. Im all for the people and fair business. Your heard it, you read it, you now know it. Dont say we didnt tell you so.
LOL
I figured i would search the net for stuff about beezid and never thought i would find someone talking about an auction i won … user name smileyface1216 on beezid and i won that 55″ tv youre talking about the auction id# is 34685 and i can tell you right now that i am no bot but just a poor country boy from Kentucky and i have won 11 items for the month of Feb. on beezid and yes it is a money making monster for them.
You have to take advantage of all the other bidders to pay for an itme for you if not youre wasting your time and money…wait late and bid strong and win ..thats all it takes.
Even if they’re not using bots they have been advertising the site so much that more and more people are joining, lessening any slim chance you have of winning anything ( especially any tv’s, so you can forget that dream lol ).
A few of the things wrong that I’ve seen personally-
clock freezes or skips
sniper bids not working right
able to see other people’s auto bids
beezid ignores emails
Also…
Shawn,
Since you don’t believe, here’s a quick example of people winning on beezid and selling on ebay. If you look through the closed auctions, beezid user merazconcrete has won 3 -55 inch LG TV’s.
Want to take a guess what ebay user merazconcrete is selling? That’s right 55 inch LG TV’s!
http://cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320467130312
Guess what else they’re selling….
http://cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320475358057
hmmm…..there’s no way they won that on beez….oh wait a sec….
http://www.beezid.com/auctions/25186
Wanna buy a 64 gig Ipod touch?
http://cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320475313283
What do ya know he won one of those 15 days earlier
http://www.beezid.com/auctions/24492
Rant over, sorry to pick on you. Just wanted to prove a point.
YES INDEED WE ARE SUCKERS< I BOUGHT &) dollars worth and just wished I would've bought a nice pair of shoes, Most of us are just making some assh***s richer!!
i say just use reliable n trustworthy ebay. a lot of these posts may be fake. people r always being suckered into things. now the concept of the site is respectable and very smart but only if you could trust strangers. sadly this will never happen.
I don’t know if beezid.com is a scam, but it sure is a great racket. These people at this site are making up to ten times the retail price on every item that they sell. You have to pay close to a dollar for each bid, but when you place one of those bids it only registers as a penny on the website. So when an auction for a Playstation 3, for example, closes at $10.50 that means that 1,050 people have bid on that item at almost a buck a bid.
It is nothing more than a bunch of different raffles. Which, by the way, are illegal in EVERY state unless the proceeds go to a non-profit organization. beezid.com should be shut down, plain and simple.
I was reading a few of the comments on here about Beezid customers winning numerous auctions. Some even winning the same item one or two times. People, please stop being nieve and wake up. Seriously, who is going to sit for long hours bidding on a T.V. over and over again so they can sell it on Ebay. The thought of winning a 52 inch T.V. for cheap and reselling again sounds appealing but its almost far fetched. You try bidding on a 52 inch T.V. on Beezid and see how many you win or even if you come close to winning. The odds are stacked against you. Believe me, you are not the only one feeling this way. Lets just say you win a T.V. and you figured you should sell it on Ebay and repeat the process over and over again. You either have no life, no job, or you have too much time on your hands because first off the timing those T.V.s appear are not like clockwork, you have to time it and wait for it to come around. Then depending on how much people or how many bids are being put on that T.V. will also determine how long you will be sitting, watching, and bidding. The task and the thought of doing it repeatedly is daunting. You could actually get a job, get paid, buy a T.V. on Craigslist or Ebay for cheap and resell it again for a little more money with a better chance than repeatedly winning on Beezid. You also have to factor in how much money you lose every time you bid on a T.V. and lose. You dont win the T.V. then you lose money. You bid on another T.V. and lose money. Repeating the process and you end up spending more on a T.V. your not winning than a T.V. you could have just bought straight out.
Come on people, do the math.
People are winning on Beezid because they were allowed to win. Either Beezid has bots, paid employees putting in bids, or it running on a casino styled theme. Your going to lose more money on this site if you keep bidding. If you dont believe me, try keeping track for a month and let me know what happened.
agreed i just blew through 75 bucks on there i won a couple of the bid packs including a 200 bid pack and as soon as i sent the payment of 2 bucks the bids where there ..i then thought to myself hell i got 220 bids now yay me im gonna win something awesome… i of course did not ….lol not because of bots or anything just because i suck at life lol the site is legit its a matter of if your lucky and have good timing…i dont but obviously some ppl do or the site would have been shut down already
Understand that these are businesses. They are in business to make money. Does anyone complain that Best Buy marks up there prices 300% or more. No we don’t because if we don’t like it we don’t shop there. There is risk of course you would have to be stupid not to see that, but the choice is yours to use these sites or not. Remember there is also risk on there part, because if very few bids are placed the lose money. I understand the concerns about cheating and that is always a concern, but do your homework and watch these sites. Remember if your think that you should get a $1000 TV for $5.00 at no risk to youself you are living in a fantasy would. Is this like gambling? Yes, but I see it more like Poker then let’s say Slots or Roulette because you have some control over the outcome and the strategy you use.
BRAVO!
This is EXACTLY how I see this site working! and what people should expect if they join and PAY.
Is Beezid a scam? Well think about this for a second. You pay for an amount of bids you want which is close to a dollar on the bid. So now your actually paying for something without even bidding yet. You have to buy bids before you can even bid. Once you buy bids you lost that money already unless you win something with those bids…keep that in mind.
Now onto the bidding. You put in a bid. That bid registers and shows you bid .01 cents. One cent, really? More like $1. Each bid that is put on that item is actually $1. So those commercials you see on televisions claiming you can get items for almost 99 percent off the store prices seem a little misleading now?
Those items that show the retail price for example costs $1000 and the bid ended and $200. It actually sold for $2000 and Beezid just made a $1000 profit. Yes of course the winner got it for only $200 and maybe he only bid 10 times and only lost $10 in bids, but the rest of the bidders out there lost out $800 altogether. Talk about setting our fellow neighbor into a slow recession.
Are there bots on Beezid putting in phony bids? Ever notice how you keep seeing the same bidders relentlessly bidding like they have lots and lots of money. I noticed a bidder one night bidding like that and the next morning he was on bidding again in the same fashion. That night he was on again. You try it. There is a pattern if you really pay attention. Similar complaints argue that they have actually won the items and all of a sudden the clock is reset and someone else has won. Could that someone be a bot?
But why would a company that made so much money need bots? To cut their losses in case there maybe a loss. Think about this one, why use a bot when you can use your own employees to put in bids for the items themselves. They bid just like real bidders. They use the autobeezid just like real bidders. Who would know? The company uses their own money to make money. Even if the hired bidders lost the bid it wouldnt matter because the bids were pushed up high enough for the company to make a profit and then some.
Ever notice you cannot contact any of the bidders on Beezid? Its not like Ebay where you can ask questions and relay messages. So how do you even know if the other bidders are real people?
If you won, good for you. Someone has to win something sometime. The company cant keep winning without letting someone win something. Whos going to vouch for Beezid? If nobody won Im sure someone is going to ask questions. Beezid needs winners to answer those questions.
All in all….you should check out the site and how it operates before buying anything. If you already paid for bids then you already lost that money so you might as well bid and hope you get lucky or they choose you to be the winner.
They made their loss back on higher price items. Losing money on low cost items is just to take up time setting up for the next big ticket item. Really….do the math. Watch Beezid long enough and you will see a pattern.
While surfing I happened across an ad for Beezid.com penny auctions, Leary about it I did some searching on Google to see if there was any HUMAN posts about them. Well I did find a scant few and NONE of them where positive and NONE of them said that they actually received the product on the auction that they felt they clearly won! Others state that the other bidders may possibly be bots or someone in the company outbidding everyone to get the bids up.
From what I have read, absolutely no one is happy about the site, and the ones who are have all won the same 52 inch LCD TV. In other words the happy customer messages are all copy paste. Also unlike ebay you pay every time you bid. Therefore you can pay $100 for the idea of winning. I would be cautious about joining.
Beezid.com is a total scam tried it out won 2 items never got them. then decided to watch a few auctions, found one “bidder” in each auctio placing numerous bids. Did some IP tracing and they wen back to the same place as BEEZID.com. go figure.
Yeah I’m pretty sure that was one of the names for that auction, I might be wrong but I definitely remember that name making a huge amount of bids during one of the auctions I watched. I think a lot of the people are doing like you said..winning on beezid and selling on ebay.
They never emailed me back about my question but I think they really need to do some work on the site itself. If anyone knows / is vettech06 you might wanna ask beezid why I could see all of your autobids for the TomTom GPS auction (#35545) since they don’t wanna answer my emails.
No reasonable person would bet until the last second if you have to pay a dollar every time they bid, it just doesn’t make sense.
GSXRguy
Do you remember if one of names of the people who were autobeezing that day for that TV was joshuasauers? I am almost certain it was, if it was then I find it very odd that a guy named johnsauers won the 50″ Panasonic Veira on 2/10/2010 after a guy named joshuasauers spent 2000 bids and lost the other day. I am not certain about the names but if they were as I stated it is too weird for me. In any case I am done with thise site. I just cannot believe how the same people win over and over. I looked back over 200 pages of past auctions and the same people win again and again. Besides it really irritates me that I suspect those who have one two TV’s and many have won two TV’s, are just selling them on Ebay to make a buck. I advise people to stay away from this site and others like it.
Skeptical,
I know exactly which auction you are talking about! I watched that same auction yesterday for most of the afternoon and up to when it ended at 9:00. There were a few screen names that I saw drop a couple of thousand dollars in bids. I have a problem with that auction, but for a different reason. I was using their auto bid thingy + the sniper and they never even kicked in! When the TV was still in the $180 range I set up the autobidder to start at $210 and put 3 bids in the sniper. My sniper bids were never used and the auction ended at $192.83…WTF? I took a screen shot and sent them an email right after it ended, but so far no answer back.
Beezid looks and and sounds like a hugh scam just to take dumb people’s money. I would just leave this crappy site alone.
Well, I am here again blowing off about Beezid but I was back on the site today trying to use up the 70 bids I had left and thought I’d use them up bidding on a TV. I really don’t believe this site is a scam but it can be very addictive. I have done nothing but sit and watch those damned timers counting down all day today. What I found most disturbing was one person that was bidding on a 55″ LG HDTV and was using the autobeezid function. I watched for hours as this persons autobeezid outbid everyone for three hours. When he started bidding using this function the price was at around $92.00,( keep in mind that is 9200 bids at approximatley .70 per bid so $6440.00) But this guy bid for hours and didn’t stop using the autobeezid until the price reached around $140.00, so he had to have spent at least $2000.00 if not more, which I did not understand why a person who has that kind of money would be using an auction site, why not just go buy what they want. There has to be something more to it whether it is someone at the company bidding and driving up the prices or a person with a serious addiction to this type of entertainment I am not sure, But it can be addictive, believe me I have found that out in just a few short days.. But after all his crazy endless bidding the guy disappeared and didn’t win. The final price was around $192.00 which is 19,200 bids at a price of around .70 each, so Beezid got around $13440.00 for a $ 2200.00 TV and the person who won had bid over 1300 bids. Sounds like a great business to be in if you don’t mind taking advantage of the majority of the people who use the site, it seems a little bit like a gambling site. So few really win any thing of any major value and the owners of the site certainly are not going to bed hungry or cold tonight.
You can search for all Beezid and other penny auction site listings and reviews on PennyStats. http://www.pennystats.com. This is definitely the easiest way to find auctions that are ending within the next hour.
Are Penny Auctions Scams?
Nope. You have to understand the rules. These rules can lead to you getting great deals — just don’t expect it to happen every time. Sometimes you’ll be outbid and will lose. If the site you’re bidding on offers Buy Now, you’ll be able to convert your losing bids to a discount on the item, effectively not losing anything. But if the site doesn’t offer Buy Now, you will get nothing if you lose. With a good strategy on a site without much competition, this can still mean you’ll get a great deal.
You have to understand that there are elements of risk to penny auctions. If you have the mentality that you are going to spend five bucks in bids to win an HDTV, then you’re basically gambling. If, however, you were going to buy an HDTV anyway, and you’re bidding on a penny auction site that offers Buy Now, you’re giving yourself a great chance to win the product at far less than retail. But if the worst happens and some nutcase outbids you every time, you’ll end up paying roughly retail — what you were going to pay anyway.
That being said, just like any website / webstore out there, there are a few penny auction sites that are fraudulent. They employ what are known as fake “bots” to shill bid against real bidders. Any auction is susceptible to shill bidding — where the owner of the item bids against real bidders to drive up the price and profits. It happens on eBay and at in-person auctions. That being said, it’s trickier to detect on penny auctions because the auction company itself can bid. Shill bidding is illegal and immoral and we aim to help drive our users to only the trustworthy sites.
http://www.pennystats.com/penny_auctions_tutorial
Well tonight I decided to take the plunge and try out the Beezid website. I signed up got three free bids for signing up, however you have to use those within 60 minutes of receiving them or they take them back. I have been watching this site for about two weeks or so and after reading all I could on the site and checking out whatever else I could find about this site as well as others I decided to try it out. I started by buying a 50 bid pak, which cost $40.00 and I got 50 free bids for using the code DIRECT1 when I registered. So with my 103 bids I started bidding on a 47″ LG HDTV at around 10PM EDT and after using 75 bids the auction is still going and currently has had 7645 bids placed for this TV that cost $999.99. So Beezid has basically raked in nearly $7000.00 for a $1000.00 TV. I have sat here for five hours and besides bidding on the TV I also bid on a 50 bid pak that was ” bid for free” which means I didn’t have to use any of my bids to bid on it but it cost me $33.00 for 50 bids which had I bought them out right would have cost me $40.00 so I saved a whopping $7.00 by bidding on and winning them. I am just not sure about this site. A few weird things happened while I was bidding. One way of bidding is to use their autobeezid,which will place bets for you after you set up a few parameters like the price range your willing to pay for the item and number of bids to use, so when it hits that price range it automatically will place a bid for you. This is supposed to be good to use if your away from your computer or trying to watch several auctions at once, it will automatically place a bid when the timer gets to one or two seconds that way no one can sneak in at the last second and outbid you. I found out the hard way this is nearly an impossible thing to beat because when someone else has theirs set up every time a bid is placed their autobeezid places a bid for them putting them back as top bidder so you can sit there until the cows come home trying to hit the bid button before ther autobeezid can and your never going to beat it or set up your own autobeezid and have a bidding war with another person and just waste bids.. Now I know why most of the TV’s have been won using this function. Needless to say after all these hours all I have to show is a tired back and weary eyes. Weird thing is that there was at least two individuals that used a few hundred bids each if not more using the autobeezid function just on the TV and they were bidding on other items as well. Something just doesn’t sit right with me with that situation, I am not saying these are bots or people working for the company but still strange they could stand to lose that much money, especially if they don’t win. Well I am not writing it off just yet as I have still around 70 bids left in my account I will bid them out and then close my account and maybe if I am lucky I can win a gift card or a set of binoculars and save up to try and get a new TV rather than spend hundreds on trying to win one on this site which is the same as flushing it down the toilet. I am not saying it is a scam or a gambling site as I really don’t know. But to those of you who get so offended at others who suspect it may be a scam I don’t understand you. People have to be wary nowadays, the web is dangerous and many have been ripped off and or lied to through the net. I feel it is up to each of us to decide for ourselves. I used the site and have my suspicions and will leave it at that. If I win a big new TV I will let you all know.
Hey Julie, why do you say that 90% of these posts are insane?
I plan to register and bid on some smaller items. There’s too much competition for the larger items. I also think I’ll bid on the 200 bid packs, based on looking at the last two months of winning history. I believe the winners win. I also believe the products ship, but I do feel that there is some variability in shipping intervals. They (Beezid) use the standard of 2-3 weeks shipping, which should be a high estimate to make sure they beat my expectations.
Here’s my thoughts on the majority of naysayers on this thread. I believe you’ve either…
1) not registered,
2) not looked through every single link on the site,
3) you’ve bid and not won anything.
If you haven’t registered, especially if you don’t plan to, walk away. You have no experience with which to share that any one of us cannot get on our own.
If you haven’t looked at every link on the site, shame on you. I’m not sure what it was like when the site first launched, but all of the links seemed to be very clear about the risks, terms and conditions of playing (yep, I consider it playing because there is a win/lose opportunity).
If you bid and never won…..well, you lost. Based on the number of wins per day, I suspect there are many more daily losers than winners.
I also believe this is a gambling site, at its core. And, I think it takes advantage of the gambling mentality. When you buy chips at a casino or get your little bucket of slot coins, you rarely think about the value of those chips or coins after the money to purchase them is spent. At this point, those chips or coins are just a means to an end. And, when you win, the chips and coins you’ve lost at previous machines or tables are quickly forgotten. Sure, on the way home from Vegas or the Indian casino, we think about what we spent and what we won, but we’re much more focused on that one 100 quarter win, versus the $50 we lost on our way to the win.
As I believe they ship the products and I feel strongly that there are patterns that can give me a higher likelihood of winning a bid, I’m going to gamble what I feel I can afford. I think going for the high ticket items, in general, is just bad odds of winning. So, I’ll stay with the small stuff.
Oh, one last thing regarding these “bots” that continuously win big ticket items, disappear for a while and come back to win again and again. First, I think this is a quasi-profession for those people and they are flipping the product. Why not spend $500 in bids to ultimately pay a $90 winning bid for a $2,100 TV that can be purchased at a discount online retailer for $1,500? Aren’t you financially ahead? Then, when you’ve reached your 2 monthly high ticket items and your 10 monthly low ticket items, why stick around. Sell your spoils and come back when the clock resets. I believe it’s a business for these folks and their pattern of behavior is fairly obvious.
If you decide to play, good luck. If you don’t decide to play, good for you. Stay conservative, save your money and find the best deal you can on what you want to buy.
They make LOTS of profit. Just imagine if you bid for a TV, say you win it. Let’s say $100.00
for a TV valued at $2000.00, if you bid 10 times, if you got into the bidding late and bid 10 times, it
cost you $10.00 But, if the bidding goes up 1 cent a time, that means they got $10,000.00 for
that TV. Now that’s what I call a good profit. It may be unpopular but it is legal and the person
who thought this up is pretty shrewd.
90% of these posts are insane
It seems to me this is gambling or at the very least online raffels. What I don’t understand -isn’t there laws about gambling and raffels?? Are gambling sights regulated?? With the world wide web, is there any laws??
I was checking out this site, not sure it’s a scam but they sure make a lot of money off poor unsuspecting people. I noticed that the 55″ TV is a popular item and would love to win one since our TV is old as the hills and can’t afford new one, but I doubt I would ever win one on this site unless I wanted to spend a fortune and if I could do that then I could afford to go out and buy one. I was looking back on the history of people who won this tv and lo and behold a user named merazconcrete won this TV three times since 12/11/2009. He won it on 12/11/2009 again on 1/13/2010- funny how it was 33 days and you can only win 2 of the blue lock items every 28 days, boy is this person lucky to win so close after the 28 day time period was up. Then lo and behold he/she won another one on 1/17/2010. So I better not see him/her win another one for at least 28 days from the 17th. This person must have an endless supply of money to bid on these TV’s or something fishy is happening. I wish he would stop being so greedy and let some other people get a chance to win. But then he/she is probably selling them on ebay or some other site because all they probably want is to get more money to bid on more items.
well I heard about Beezid on TV one day before a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving and I tried it yes you do have to buy bids but they are @ discount and winning greatly depends on how fast your internet connection is as seconds count I have won and received 50 in Plasma TV , $200.00 in Walmart gift cards $300.00 in Target gift cards a softserv ice cream maker, foot massager, a Wii remote,and an American Express Gift card. A great deal depends on the day and time of day you bid
One last thing, if you are stupid enough to blow money on this site, I want you to stop and think about what you could have spent all the money you lost on. Depending on how much you wasted, you could have bought anything from a fancy dinner to a remodeled kitchen. Now you need to realize how stupid you are. Once you realize that you are pathetic, you also need to realize that you don’t have to be pathetic forever. If you have any strength of character at all you can convince yourself to change your wasteful ways. If you are absolutely obsessed with throwing money out the window, try something like donating. At least then your money goes to a worthy cause(hopefully), and not some greedy fat cat’s wallet. Right now the owners of this company are probably laughing like crazy talking about how stupid people are.
I’d like to once again stress the fact that more than likely you won’t win. And if you go in with the mentality that you absolutely will win, you are almost guaranteed to lose bucket loads of money.
I’m very certain this site is not a scam. It doesn’t need to be a scam for them to take advantage of weak minded fools. Say you bid 30 times to win a ps3 for $40.00. You just spent less than $100 counting shipping, that’s an amazing deal. BUT, there were 30,970 other bids. Each and every one of those bids was a person losing money. Some people may have only lost a dollar, others may have lost hundreds. Sure you might get lucky and win, but more than likely you won’t. This is a new form of gambling disguised as an auction. That’s what gambling is, spending money in the hopes of winning more than you spent. If you enjoy risking your money then this is the perfect site for you. Don’t “bee” fooled into thinking you’ll win, because more than likely you won’t, and you’ll lose tons of money in the process.
And to those saying that after a certain point the only think you can do is keep bidding on an item, that is ridiculous. You think you’ll just spend $3,000 in bids on a $2500 item. You finally win the item for $900. You just spent $3900 plus shipping on a $2500 item. And what if someone else gets the same idea? At some point, one of you is going to lose a fortune. There is no happy medium. One of you IS going to suffer more than the other.
Gambling on sites like this is a problem, and you should seek help immediately.
its not gambling if one of the players (the beezid bots) did not originally pay in. It is a scam. They are making money off of fools willing to buy into the scam.
I am watching a guy right now who has been bidding on a 55″ lcd tv. Every time anyone places a bid, he outbids them. This started when the price of the tv was $25.00, it is now over $80.00. At $0.60 a bid every other bid, he has spent about $1650 bidding on this tv that is priced, according to beezid, at $2200.00. (I found the same tv on newegg.com for $1500.00
) This makes absolutely no sense.
This brings up another point. If half of the bids are bots, then they are not making half as much money as you would be led to believe they are making, the bots simply drive up the price and force people to continue bidding. They use bots to coerce bids.
I will not waste my money on this site.
If you are stupid enough to buy into this, then good luck, and may God have mercy on your bank account.
If this site is real, and people posting on this forum saying this site is legit are members of beezid, why would they do that? If you are bidding on the site, wouldn’t you want LESS compeition…if you are happy with the site, i assume you would go on here to complain about the site to convince people to leave. Let the skeptics stay off, it is better for you.
that being said…my opinion is, which you cannot trust, is that this site is real, people are dumb, and gambling problems take advantage once again.
Nice Try, owner of Beezid… yeah, this site is a total scam. I bought the 100 bid package, thinking this was such a great idea… why would the owners of the site want to fuck it up? Even things you think you win, you never do. It happened to me once and I was done… I realized I’d waste 70 dollars to win a $40 video game for 6 bucks.
Found below on Alexa, could be an employee, but probably not based on her recommending 3 sites.
* The Gold Standard In Penny Auctions
* by Jam Eastcastle
* Jan 08, 2010
I’ve been reviewing and researching penny auction sites for quite some time now.
I have worked on all the major sites and have a review board on facebook. I have mainly been reviewing new sites (to determine legitimacy) and the top three in the US; Beezid, Bidcactus and Swoopo and I believe all are fantastic sites, but if I have to choose one, it would be Beezid.
Beezid’s software is fantastic, their site is vuery user friendly as well having an excellent customer service department.
Beezid has great products and you can tell by simply reading through the closed auctions that the deals are equally strong.
I recommend use of Bidcactus, Swoopo and Beezid almost equally, however, Beezid deserves the gold medal, without question.
I’ve seen what all the buzz is about!
I am a skeptic when it comes to things like this but Beezid is the real deal. I only paid $48.16 for a 55 inch plasma TV that retails for over $2,000. I spent 272 bids to get it which equated to $190.00. Add the shipping cost of $90 and my grand total for the TV was $328.16. Beezid did not lose any money on this TV by selling it to me for such a ridiculously low price because for every penny that was bid, it equates to approximately .70 cents. Beezid made over $3300 for this set with all the bids that were submitted. I do not work for Beezid so please don’t imply that I do. I am only telling you about my experience with them. Believe it or not.
this a slot machine. i rather bet it on roulette at least i have a 50-50 chance to get somthing.
From what I have seen, beezid has no extra charges and everything is very detailed. I won’t start all over with why I think what I think, you can see above for that. I’m not saying that people should be judged on grammar alone, but it is a moderate indicator. Anyhow, beezid seems to make too much money to engage in scamming people for $50 at a time.
My bottom line: Good business, happy users, nice site, good support and not hiding anything. ….and mostly all of the negative posts seem to be non-users.
Good luck!
I am a non-user of the site. And I saw a 50-bid pack, which retails for $40, sell for $40.33. Ain’t it sad?
Here is what is wrong with beezid:
They don’t list their phone number – oh wait, yes they do, on the contact page, as well as email forms to enter
They charge money to bid – perfectly legal
They don’t give you your bids back if you don’t win an item – No kidding! If they did, that iPod would be full price, not 20 bucks
They have bots – with the amount of profit they’re taking in? They would have to be stupider than most of the posters in here
Customer service has a voice mail system – so does IBM, Microsoft, etc , facebook doesn’t even have a means to be contacted!
The voice mail system states they open from 9 to 5 – and there is something wrong with that?
Positive posts here are from beezid employees – pretty sure Tim proved that wrong, and why is it impossible that there would be positive posts? Have you seen the traffic on their site? Go check it out
The timer resets – that’s how it works as explained in detail in their help section and video tutorial
They are hiding the cost per bid – impossible to hide, try buying one, the price is right there and you can’t bid without having bids
It seems that more than half of the posters here are misinformed and that is due to the fact that they either did not join the site, or if they did they did not look into anything at all before buying bids and draining their account. Most claims here are unfounded and I would like to see how you will have beezid looked into for alleged bot use. Is beezid making money? Looks like it. Does that make it a scam? Of course not. I can say that this blog is a scam because some posts here are not true, but I would be a moron, and there are obviously enough around. I mean come on, should I take your review seriously if you fail to punctuate anywhere? Some of the grammar is also awful, but my favorites are the hilarious spelling mistakes. Spell check missing a word doesn’t mean you spelled it correctly as you have used it. I don’t want to point anyone out, so I will stick to the original blog poster, High Octane. Great article (maybe), but you later posted the word rumors and spelled it roomers. I’m sorry about that, High Octane, and I assure you that there are many more horrible examples from other posters. What I love about the internet is its anonymity. Some of these posts can be made by 14 year old high school kids and probably are. So how can you tell who’s who? Simple: grammar and spelling. I know this is about beezid, but for me, it’s all about knowing your sources. Just because a website is legitimate, doesn’t mean the people posting on it are and the internet has plenty of that, as proven above.
Well I cant speak for everyone, but I’m 46, work a full time job, run my own business, have this Blog, a Laser Forum and other sites including Facebook, twitter, MySpace and many more. So my days are very full. and with a family member in the hospital, a cat on my keyboard, wife bitching about something or another, I am capable of making mistakes. Honestly, my grammar sucks and I know it. However those who judge me by my grammar alone, I feel are narrow minded. and my many strong points heavily outweigh my weaknesses.
There are MANY scams out there still going strong and the only way to stop them is to inform the public. If Beezid is legit and they may be, one way to evaluate them is to have people post their experiences. Then others can sort through the good and bad, the BS and bad spelling to make their own decision.
From what I have read, Beezid seems to have one hell of a business for themselves but that doesn’t mean they are 100% legit.
Who here has worked for a business that didn’t bend the rules to make or save money? and to what extent did they go to do it? Quite a few I’ll bet!
So I have to say I am still Leary on the possibility of employees/bots doing some of the bidding at times.
As far as this Blog goes, I feel its a great way of sharing information and opinions. Read about “A Mom’s Trick to Whiter Teeth?” and tell me they are not being deceptive in your opinion. Then read all the posts made by people who didn’t know about all of the EXTRA charges and now they do because of this Blog. That to me makes all the time and effort worth while.
weird. why’s it that you’ve recieved a tv you just won yesterday, but yet it took about 2 weeks for shipping?
Well from what i have heard it seems that it has to be a scam. Mostly because of a loss of money from all bidders going for the one item. Also if more than bidder other than bots do bid there is nothing but loss unless you bid several times. I have not used this website but was a little curious on how it would work if brad or tim did win and if they are not full of themselfs its because they made a lot of bids I mean a lot. Point in case it is a scam because of the people that are bidding for the one item shown and keep on and it keeps coming up as more time to bid you or whoever is you know is bidding they are without a doubt getting royally screwed big time.
Timmah posted that exact post on ripoffreports.com hmmmmmmmmmm
Huh, funny you say that!!!! Just watched 2 auctions last nite. One for a PS3 and one for a wii fit thing………there was a name bidding on both, Lawyer…..?, jack or something like that? Seems he won both of them…HMMMMMMMM?????
Brad may be a Gofer? I don’t know, thats why i’m hear. Oh, and I am a member of Beezid, but skeptical at that! I have not bought bids yet. In Beezids defence though, they do not sell a $1500 dolar item for$6.39! They sell it for $.70 for every bid on that item!!! A person who buys 200 bids for say $140 realy wants this TV? They bid and bid just to win it. They bid 100 times! WOW, thats $70……….Now multiply that by say 50 other people biding on it and you have a $1500 tv selling for $3500!!!!! Plus what the bid actually was. BUT I AM STILL SKEPTICAL!!!!!! I need proof of no bots and inside bidding. This could be done succesfully as a company if, they dont cheat it!!!!
I also would like to see proof of bots or not.
This is clearly a scam. Right off the bat, the “penny auctions” are not for pennies. Then, if you bid with, e.g., eBay, and learn a bit later you have not won, you are out no cash. Only the winner is liable for payment. With Beezid, you pay for bids…and if you do not win (and there appears to be a lot of bot activity, not real human bidders!), you are still out the money you have bid. what kind of dumbass auction is this where you pay..even if you were not the winning bid? This is like handing the cashier a dollar for a big bar of candy…and a minute later you walk out w/o your dollar and w/o your candy. Total loss!! and simply stupid!!
mooshymama has bid 268 times with autobeezid and then easily won. who knows how many she had set to go? she has to be a BOT.
Also this “idontstop” or whatever is a bot.
It is a casino. Even if you win, more people would have lost. In the end the casino wins. As soon as I registered I saw what they were doing. I used up my 3 free bids fast then closed my account.
scam!!!!! alert!! do not bid at beezid.com my comp as well as my friends computers frozen and some person who never bid once won the tv and the laptop we were bidding on. it froze with one second left and we lost the bidding. do not bid on beezid!
I would like to know what the phone number is for beezid. if you have it or can tell me where to find it thank you.
tim, the bonus bids were not in my account at the time. there was an offer for the bonus bids in my acct. but i did not call them and ask for the bonus bids to be added until i had used 1000 regular bids. now that i have bought more bids, they are placing them into reg bids at 1:5.
you are right mike and that is my main concern about the site because mrthirddown and a few more are winning 90% of the big ticket items. for instance;
“pleasestop” wins digital camcorder, wii, 23″ monitor, ipod, ps/3, auto refrigerator, between 1/2 and 1/5 then he disappears.
just after he stops bidding, “iwontstop” begins and wins apple macbook, ice cream machine, 55″ tv, xbox 360, hp laptop, wii, wii remote, radar detector, asus computer. he won the asus computer on 1/5 and the rest through about the 11th.
last month, “imnotgonnastop” won all those big tiket items i mentioned in an earlier post to this thread, 12 of them, and he won them between 12/1 and 12/10. then he disappears
and “iwillneverstop” begins and wins 10 big ticket items including a 55″tv, a $999.99 tv, 2- 64g ipods, etc. etc. and won all of those items in about 10-12 days beginning on the 10th. soon after he disappears,
pleasestop and iwontstop take over winning the items i listed above and iwontstop just placed around 500 bids using autobeezid on a $350 nikon camera presently running, (or was running when i came to this board). when the price got to about $10.50, his 500 autobeezids were gone and someone else was leading the auction. at least that was one little bright spot for me to see that he didn’t bully his way to a win on that auction, unless he has started bidding on it again since i came here.
here’s a few more winners since 1/1;
one8099- magellan gps, wii, 2- $100 gift cards, ipod, dyson ball vacuum cleaner ($500), nintendo ds, sony hi-fi system, ps pogo.
tmantallwoods- sony hi fi, 46″ tv, 55″ tv, 47″ tv, (the 46″ is a green lock auction), asus laptop.
then you have concretgreg and merazaconcrete winning some big ticket items but never bidding against each other on the same item. first merazaconcrete wins 64g ipod, nikon slr camera, $100 visa card, dyson ball vacuum cleaner, asus monitor. then concretgreg begins and wins an officejet printer, $600 home gym and $50 walmart card. he just started on the 7th though so im sure he will win much more.
one more disturbing thing about the 1 guy called, pleasestop, iwillneverstop, iwontstop, imnotgonnastop is that he has only tried and won 2-200 bid packs, 1 under his iwillneverstop name and the other under his imnotgonnastop name. both last month. this month, he hasn’t even bothered to bid on bid packs. guess he just buys a bunch of bids and bullies his way to winning all the tvs, laptops, ps/3′s, xboxes etc.
and yes i have reported him but he is driving the prices way up so he continues to buy up his limit in big ticket items within about 10 days and just switches names about every 10 days or after he has limited out under each name so beezid obviously likes him alot. they let him keep on keeping on!
I have also noticed that the same person, consistently bids and wins multiple auctions. It seems hard enough to win one but somehow for example mrthird—–somethin is able to continually win auctions. I have also noticed he will spend over two hundred bids on an auction for two hundred bids. I reallt wonder how legite some of these people using this site are. ALMOST GUARANTEE THEIR BOTS. Oh well im done with beezid.
if you bought 1000 bids and had 200 bonus bids they should have been used up by now.. Every 6th bid = bonus bid if available. Unless the bonus bids weren’t in your account at the time
tim, top right hand side of the home page there is a drop down box. click closed auctions. there is like 4 pages for each day so you will have to look at 70 or more pages to go back a few weeks.
adam, that tv you were watching sold for $125 and change. guess who won it? “iwontstop” probably no kin to iwillneverstop, or imnotgonnastop, or iwillnotstop. (the members that have won 9 out every 10 high dollar tvs that have been auctioned)
thanks for the info on calling beezid, i did get a rep on the phone this morning when they opened and they put my bonus bids on my account about 2 hours later. of course i can’t use the bonus bids without buying more bids so they can take 1 out bonus and add it to my regular bids each time i have used 5 regulars.
i have bid 1000 times on auctions and got 200 bonus bids, (5:1 ratio there also i assume). now for every 5 i buy and use, they will let me use 1 of my bonus bids.
i may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but seems to me that i got 200 unusable bids for 1000 i bought and now i must buy 1000 more for the bonus bids to become real bids. that’s 10:1 ratio in my book.
RE: Auction limits -
Black = No Limit
Green = 10 per 28 days
Blue = 2 per 28 days
Red = 1 per 56 days
Pay close attention to the auction lock in the listing; because you’ll notice TVs are BLUE, not green. So you can win two blue items in a month, and 10 green items. PS3, Wii, “cheaper” Electronics, are usually green. The TVs and laptops are usually blue.
If the person won 12 auctions total including two TVs, then that person won 2 blue auctions and 10 green auctions. BTW How are you able to track that stuff because I wouldn’t mind looking at it(?)
Beezid definitely uses bots to up the bids on items, I have been watching the bidding for a 55 inch lcd tv. I started watching when the bidding was at like $77 and it is now up to $120. There has been one bidder named One8099 who has been on “autobeezid” bidding since I started watching. I am estimating that he “bids” on average 1 time out of every 4 bids. So from the time I have started watching till now “he” has bid roughly 1,000 times on autobid. 1000 bids x 70 cents per bid = $700.
Some sort of regulatory agency needs to be able to see the bid history and follow the money trail of this company. If it is found that they are using bots to up the bids and steal 70 cents at a time from people they need to be fined, shut down and jailed.
I see alot of people posting about BOTS, There has to be something to it.
I would like to see them investigated as well. It would certainly put an end to the rumors.
Godaddy is the registrar of the domain name, Beezid, or in this case, Domains By Proxy is the registrant. Contacting the numbers listed on the whois will not get you in contact with Beezid as that is not their information – the whois info is the info for DomainsByProxy.
I have to say when I did the whois on them after wining my laptop it caught me off guard, had a bit of a bad feeling at first – seeing as the reg info was private [which btw is an option when you register domains], but it is a way to prevent spam via email/phone/mail. From a public relations stand point it would look better if their contact info was in the whois, but again you can get their number from their site so I felt better after calling them and speaking to someone.
David – I called beezid 5 or 6 times and my call was answered each time, including a call on a Saturday.
On the phones:
1 = Nothing
2 = ABC
3 = DEF
4 = GHI
5 = JKL
6 = MNO
7 = PQRS
8 = TUV
9 = WXYZ
1-877-4-BEEZID = 1-877-423-3943
1-877-4233 is an incomplete phone number thus the reason it does not work. Re: your bonus bids – they work on a 5:1 basis I believe. Meaning every 5 normal bids will result in the next bid being a bonus [free] bid.
End user equipment definately changes your internet experience, however we’re talking milliseconds of time here that it takes for me to talk to the different routers on the way to beezid.com. First, Beezids IP is part of the massive Level3 network. My trace from work goes from California to Denver – which makes sense because Beezid = 4.59.176.x which is Level3, and the registrant address is Boulder, CO. – from there it hits Level 3 in Canada.. Not sure where you’re getting New Jersey from, but the point is there really isn’t much lag at all, and the website isn’t full of flash graphics or ads, so there’s minimal loadtime, cpu usage, and you’re getting the data from once source. If you’re concerned about the North American Internet Status you can check it here: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
When I click on Bid I see my name near instantly, unless there is a massive bid war at which case it’s updating too quickly to see my own name.
haha! found the # on rip-off reports.com. one of the many disgruntled patrons posted there.
1-877-423-3943
of course there is no answer. only an automated response saying their business hours are 9-5 eastern time. at least the # is close to what is posted on their site. 1-8774-beezid. anyone that knows to substitute w,x,or y for a “z” can figure it out. i only worked for a long distance phone company for 15 years so i guess i didn’t get around to the substitute #’s and letter’s part of phone calling.
bob stated, “I just called today to get my tracking numbers i talked to 2 people so there is more than one person there, also they said they will call me back with my tracking number …. thats kinda odd if you ask me but we will see if this is a scam or not!”
what # did you call bob? 1-877-4-beezid or 1-877-4233?53 is not a good #. the #’s listed on whois page for beezid under “registrants contact #” and “owners contact #”, 1-480-624-2599 (phone) and 1-480-624-2598 (fax) are both #’s to godaddy.com who’s reps don’t have a clue what or who beezid is. there are no other #’s posted on their website and they do not answer emails so just how did all these people “call” beezid customer service?
stuff’s gettin’ deeper and deeper!
jim b said, ” I have spoken to everyone who answers the phone there, and because I have spent a lot of money with them and I am a good customer, they always hook me up with bonus codes. After reading this, I called and spoke to Jay in customer service. He assured me there was no bonus code that would give free bids with out a purchase… ever, and that the maximum free bids to bought bids ratio is 1:1. Bonus bids are dropped in at 5 spent bought bids”
jim, you say you called them? the only # i have found on their site is for billing inquiries- 1-877-4-BEEZID which equates to 1-877-4233, (there is no z on telephones). that sound like a good # to anyone? at any rate, that # doesn’t work, you just get a recording that your call didn’t go through. so what # did you use to call them? i would appreciate it if you could let me know because i have bonus bids offer in my account but there is no explanation of how to access the bonus bids anywhere on the site.
the word scam has been used loosely and for the most part, scam is probably not correct. i am not complaining because i bought bids and didn’t win anything as mentioned earlier by one of the other posters. i have won a ps/3 for $9.01 and just before that win i won a 200 bid pack for .86. i received the 200 bids in my account-have not rec’d the ps/3 but not too worried about it. i won it on the 29th.
my complaint with the site is (my opinion) everything is just not on the up and up. jumpster above mentioned a member name, iwillneverstop. beezids rules states you can win 10 of the green lock auctions in 30 days. iwillneverstop won 12 green auctions between 12/1 and 12/10 including 2 of the 55″ (not 52″ as the so called winners claimed they won above), another $1000 tv, 64g ipod, $350 camera, ps/3, smaller $ipod, 2-$100 credit cards, $50 credit card and 1-200 bid pack.
a couple of hours after iwillneverstop won his 12th big ticket item, imnevergonna stop showed up and in the next 10 days or so won all but 1 of the big tvs, 2-64g ipods, ps/3, $350 camera, $1000 tv, 2-200 bid packs, 2-$50 credit cards, karaoke machine, did i mention $2199 tv? anyway, he wins 10 green lock big ticket items. 22 big ticket purchases by, (in my opinion), the same guy.
now, guess who’s bidding? iwillnotstop is bidding and winning. of course tmantallwoods has won the last 2 55″ sharp aquos $2199 tvs in the month of january. he has also won the highest $$$ laptops the past few days.
some posters above mention writing to beezid with their concerns and also getting like 1-1 bids on bids purchased. so maybe it is just me that thinks things are now what they seem because i have written beezid 4 times now with my concerns with my last 2 emails mentioning the fact that i was shown as high bidder on an auction that ended without me as the winner so could i get a few bonus bids placed back into my acct? i have not had the first reply. no emails, no calls, no info regarding my ps/3 shippping, nothing, nada! and i did give them all the info on iwillneverstop, imnevergonnastop including every auction he won. i also asked that even if i was wrong about them being 1 in the same, why would let the first one win 12 auctions in less than 2 weeks when 10 is the limit.
so, for the most part what they say in their instructions, tutorials, etc. is kinda true i think and i believe they will ship items people have won, i just don’t think people not “associated” with beezid other than being a customer will ever win those real high dollar auctions. i do think however that the masses of us “just customers” will continue to buy plenty of bids so we can bid on those dream items and a few of us may win some ps/3′s, xbox 360′s, even a $3-400 camera occasionally but when the majority of us look at money spent vs products gained, our money spent is going to be on the high side while the products gained will be extremely low. but hey, we will still say, “i won a $349 ps/3 for only $9.01″ so the masses will continue to flock to beezid for some of these wonderful deals. great how that all works in their favor huh?
to clear up a couple of things for some- you buy bids, (beezid themselves consider each bid costs 70cents). then every time you use one of your bids, the auction goes up .01, (the only auctions that go up .36 that was mentioned earlier is the 50 bid pack which does not cost you any bids trying to win it- for some strange reason people bid $35-39 dollars which the last bidder will have to pay when he wins- you can buy 200 bids for $120??????????), ok, auction goes up .01 for every .70 bid placed so if an item like a 200 bid pack gets to $20 and they do very often, beezid just got $1400 for a $120 bid pack. same with tv’s, cameras, ipods, etc.
people have said this was a great idea, wish they would have thought of it. there are other penny auction sites, pennycave for 1 which beezid pretty much copied. beezid was just smart enough to run the business in canada and advertise to all us good ol usa boys by way of tv. btw, their advertising is false, to my knowledge they have yet to auction the 2010 challenger they show being won for $9xx.xx something dollars and only 1 kia soul to my knowledge has been auction and it was won for $26 and change (according to beezid) but their adv, says something like $197 bucks which does make it sound a little more believable but not much.
1 more of my opinions and i’m done, if these posters claiming to have won such wonderful items for little to no costs and practically immediate delivery really did win these items, or let’s say the guy that says he makes a $1000 a week buying stuff on beezid and re-selling, if that is all true, why would they be on here trying to get people to believe what a great website beezid is? i would think they would be on beezid grabbing up some more of those tremendous bargains and not be here trying to drum up more competition for themselves. for every person they make a believer out of, that is one more person that is going to cost them more bids to win those items and those items will cost them more. more bidders= higher prices and more bids purchased from beezid. sounds like another win-win situation for beezid. hmmmmmm???????
this is very interesting the only problem that i have is your shipping label says 7 pounds the auction says 8 lbs and the actual weight of a air book is 3 lbs hmmmmmmmmmmm.
to keep this short and sweet, i joined beezid.com after seeing ads on tv. purchsed bids and played guess what……………. i lost. well second lot of bids thinking i was a newbie got me thinking and watching before bidding, seems like the same people were bidding on different items, my auto bid and sniper would not work! i won one auction and never recieved any confirmation, and when the sniper decided to work i still lost with bids to spare.. oh and my bid buttons froze after a few seconds towards the end. i e-mailed beezid two times and as yet have had no reply SCAM…….
we also see adds fro cashforgold which turned out to be a scam. (it was all over the news)
Brad I think you are lying. Just like you said, there are a lot of people bidding for the same item. If I wanted to win, I wouldnt want anyone else bidding. Hence, I would not brag about my win. Besides Its obvious that you are a shill working for Beezid. People, please use common sence. How on earth can a company sell a $1500 item for $6.39. Golden rule: If it sounds too good to be true…..IT ISNT. Dont waste your money.
Another thought..
The BEEZID website servers appear to be in New Jersey adn the company in Canada as previously stated.
So, my thought is this. Consider the speed issues of the internet when your online. Not all networks or internet services are created equal, nto to mention people in California will have a longer lagg time between the actuall update and what they see, as well as when their click actually reaches the server.
There is no way to synchronise what you send and receive with the servers that host these sites. Making it more of a crap shoot (aka Roulet)
You may take 2 or 3 times longer to see updates or actually get your click to register in the acution than it might take for me since I am on the East coast. Depending on you service, location, computer specs. and hand eye coordination there could be a ton of difference between us if we clicked at the exact same time. Heck, I coudl click a half second after you and still win if you are on a heavily used cable connection or worse Satellite or dialup.
Anyway, keep this in mind when playing.
This is a serious concern for this type of activity as well as a good reason to use autobidding.
If you are reading my post then you have some sense and you for doing your research, good for you.
First , I want to say SHMEGGIN SNAP..I WISH S THOUGHT OF THIS ! Think of the money they are making. 1 person could be running this business, okay maybe more than on but dayemn right? I woudl expect more of these types of sites..and soon. Get on those site early, that’s where the deals are to be had.
Second, if Beezid or any other like company are advertizing on TV they aren’t hidding much. If they are getting away with something or they screw the consumer to many times or the consumer feels trapped or swindled or the gov’t can’t make money off of them for some reason or the company is getting too rich and powerfull (a’la Knapster, Microsoft, Intel) then it will get noticed and it will get smoked out and it will go to court and it will cahnge. In the meantime, protect yourself and be safe by understanding what it is your getting involved with and realise people make mistakes. (I.e. you and me)
My take on the activity itself is simple. Assume the company is legit, and trust me if it isn’t it won’t last long. Your playing roulet. You know that people win but you may never win in 1000 tries yourself but you know it happens. However, if you play enough times you will win, eventually. People will tell you there is s strategy, and maybe it helps a little to narrow down the odds but it doesn’t change the nature of the game, it is still a game of chance with slightly predictable odds. Very similar to a game of poker and maybe more so than roulet but a game where the house will come out on top for sure.
I think the company is legit despite all the unfortunate expreiences people are sharing, but I am concerned about electronic unfairness. Like the gambling sites out there they need to be regulated and scrutinized for unfair coding or activites. There are too many holes or ways automated code can predict activity in this type of online business and remain undetected. Fair warning to anyone.
I would suggest a few things.
1. READ AND LEARN THE RULES on that companies site completely.
2. Lean what GAMBLING means and what pitfalls it does have. This is a game chance I don’t care what anyone says. I beleive poker is more controllable than “penny auctions” , consider learning that first.
3. Record the winning amounts of as many sales as you can stand to see go by. But remember, as this becomes more popular, prices will go higher.
4. DON’T USE MONEY YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO LOSE !!
5. Prepare to spend more time with this game that you thought was possible, that is if your serious about winning.
6. Remember, it’s just a game but look for ways and think of ways to protect yoruself from mistakes or worse, bad customer service or company practices. CYOA !!
Good luck!
All the economical anomalies that follow this type of business being ran are MIND BLOWING. It makes sense how they make money, but it also makes sense why they would have a bot, just to bump up the price as much as customers will tolerate. I would really like to try this “scam” with the utter most intentions that it will pay off in some way. I’m hoping to possibly try to bid on a low retail price item, so I don’t loose to much money if I lose, or the item does not show up, OR if any problems occur. And one more thing, I really wish I was high when I discovered this forum.
- 420hustler
hey brad?! i thought you recieved your tv days ago?!?!?!?!
dude! that makes no sense what so ever!!! this BOT says he won 52″ tv.. same as all the other winners..? he said he recieved it today.. won it yesterday.. but it took 2 weeks for the shipping??? what school did you go to cause your math is fucked up!
I use Beezid.com regularly. I have won about 10 items and received all of them, typical time frame is a week.
I do not beleive it is a scam, it is a auction and it has very clear tutorials. I have not ever had to contact customer service, so I can’t respond on that.
I do see the patterns that some have spoken of. I also have had the auction I won restart time as stated above. I do know that on another auction site a question was raised about that very issue and they responded with that make sure your computer meets all requirements, they do suggest not using wireless internet, or you may need to refesh the screen.
Sorry but how did you get scammed exactly? Did you buy 50 bids for $40, and then bid on items, but not win anything?
If so, that’s not a scam, that’s how the site works, and there’s a video tutorial that shows people how it functions. You’re not guaranteed to win anything, but you buy bids because let’s face it, if the company sold a $2000 TV for $50, then they loose money.. and businesses aren’t in business to loose money.
BTW, I think Beezid is based in Canada…
This site is very real, and I wish I was the one that came up with it. I have won a item and I did receive it within the 2-3 weeks the site says takes for shipping. Bids can cost next to nothing, I’ve seen a user win 200 bids with 2 free/bonus bids. It’s very addicting but once you watch and look for patterns in the items being sold you can get lucky. If you buy a 200 bid pack for $120 bids only cost 60 cents each. It is my opinion that it is gambling with only one winner, oh wait 2 winners Beezid and the lucky person that wins a item they want. I don’t think they use bots as they have no reason to rip you off. Do the math and put in the time to figure out if it’s right for you. It’s legit and a great way to suck money from people who don’t understand exactly what they’re doing. If you are lucky enough to pull out a TV or a laptop on your first bid pack purchase then get out!!!! It’s gambling plain and simple, quit while your ahead.
Thanks Brad…………..
If you paid thorugh Paypal, then complian to Paypal, lets see if we can make a difference.
I got scammed to, but only for $40. Thank God I read this before buying any more worthless “bids”. I have contacted Paypal,, mabey they will at least sever ties with beezid.com. Did anyone else realize that beezid.com is NOT a US company? Most likely stationed over in Nigeria next to those assholes.
Well, there you see? You have to WORK for beezid.com to actually win/receive your item. Thats all folks………
Hi everyone,
I’m not sure what I can say to convince you all I’m not a “bot” or an employee of Beezid, but for what it’s worth, I won one of the Call of Duty XBox’s they have on the site on 12/28 and it just showed up on my doorstep today (1/7/10) from UPS. I did send two emails to Beezid asking for the status since I never received a ship confirmation email, like the site says, and didn’t hear anything back from them. I was getting pretty discouraged so to get the XBox today was a big relief.
Having said all that, do I think Beezid is a scam – no. Do I think it’s a gambling site – borderline. Can you waste a bunch of money on the site – definitely. From what I’ve seen watching the site, some people are just plain crazy with their bidding habits. I saw someone today use 295 bids to win a 200 Bid Pack. To me, that’s just stupid but I guess at some point they were so invested that they might as well keep bidding until they win, no matter what.
Anyway, like I said, I doubt there is anything I can say to convince people of my win and subsuquent (sp) arrival of the item but it happened. When I hadn’t received any notice after a week and a half, I did a search last night for Beezid reviews and found this site. Just thought I would add my two cents worth since I was beginning to think it was a scam, until about an hour ago.
Whatever happened to just running an honest business and giving people products at reasonable prices? Whether this is a scam or not they came up with an ingenious way to make a crap load of money from a whole lot of idiots. When I saw the commercials I was also excited. I logged on and checked out the site. Then I did the math like a lot of people on here. They might have bots and they might not … they are still making a killing. We all want stupid things like tvs, laptops, and phones. Its easy to get excited thinking you can get them at an incredible price. In the end there is more people losing than winning. So instead of buying chances for $.60-$1.00 just save your money and go and buy it from a store. At least you don’t have to worry about recieving the item lol.
True but sometimes they lose money too, take for instance that same laptop that sells for $999, I have seen it go for as little as 9.02 wich at .70 cents per bid do the math and they lost on that one. I know its kinda rare for
them to lose out but it happens.
I cant say if this is a scam or not, but do the math. a $999 laptop sells for $49.00, that means 4900 people bid (each bid placed raises up 1 penny) at around $1.00 or so thats $4900 collected for bids plus $49.00 from the winner, thats one huge amount of profit. Now just for fun, look at what these $50.00 gift cards go for, wish I would have thought about this first!!!!
Hello for all of you non beleivers out there I can almost make a living
off of using beezid, I always double my money (not just some of the time-
always) right now I average about $600 a week profit, and have never spent more than
an items is worth, if you just take the time to study the site and pay attention
to when items usually end you will do a whole lot better,
yes some of the times it means waking up in the middle of the night but who
cares when they are doubling their money.
soon enough I hope that I can get to where I make about $1000 dollars a week from
bidding. not realy all that hard to do.
And yes so far everything that I have bid on in the right amount of time has arrived.
Good luck to you all….
Thanks for the plug!
I used a bonus code when I signed up and got 1:1 bonus bids; my first 100 bids got me 100 bonus bids.
I know for a fact that no such code exists
You’re kidding right?
Follow this link:
http://www.beezid.com/auctions/show/closed
The postings there are the opinions of the posters, like here. The first poster later states that he wishes he could remove his post. Anyone who has a problem with Beezid and delas with them comes out satisfied from my personal experience and my online research
It is the furthest thing from a scam, as everything is spelled out and beezid is completely up front about their practices. I urge newcomers to this blog posting to read through all comments. I can’t stand to see something I like get so slammed, so read on. There is a mixture of all opinions. Don’t listen to non-users.
…. and finally, if anyone is interested, the strategy site is: http://biddingwarfare.com/
Whoa! I totally forgot why I wanted to post in the first place. User “iwillneverstop”! Sorry about that.
This user won all types of items, including bids. I went through the closed auctions while he was active and saw that going back a bit, he/she has numerous wins. I too saw that he spent a pile on the TV and here’s what happened in my opinion; being ahead of the game and as he states in his username, iwillneverstop realized two of the most important strategies to winning auctions – 1. Load up on bids 2. be relentless
This user had abused number 2, because in order to spend any amount of money over the retail cost of an item, 2 things had to have happened (barring the lack of common sense): 1. He overspent at the outset of the auction, ignoring the proper application of the sniper feature and 2. He past the point of no return where it only made sense to spend more than the retail item in order to offset his losses. Imagine you’re bidding on 100 and it costs 1 dollar per bid. At 1 point you (if you hammer away) will realize that you must win the auction at any cost in order to offset your investment if you were to lose. You (and ultimately 1 other person, because it takes two to tango) will have crossed the point of no return and will have spent near the actual cost of the item. Beezid customer service has stated iwillneverstop is an overall winner and I believe them, because they have made the contrary statement to me before, so they have nothing to gain or lose in this situation and truth be told, they have droves of new people coming to the site every hour who know nothing of what we’re talking about in this forum. Which I have been following for a little while now and enjoy visiting. Anyhow, best of luck to all of you, and happy new year!!
A small note: how did that beezid customer support person say that the bid cost averages $1? They don’t sell a bidpack at that rate anymore. Ding dong!
Ha! There was never such a bonus code. I have been with Beezid since they launched. My user id has 2 digits! I have spoken to everyone who answers the phone there, and because I have spent a lot of money with them and I am a good customer, they always hook me up with bonus codes. After reading this, I called and spoke to Jay in customer service. He assured me there was no bonus code that would give free bids with out a purchase… ever, and that the maximum free bids to bought bids ratio is 1:1. Bonus bids are dropped in at 5 spent bought bids. I then gave him the info on the above post and he laughed, as did I when I realized at that moment that it is very ridiculous. the problem is that so many people say so many things and so convincingly, that even a seasoned penny auction veteran like myself get fooled. I bid on Beezid, Swoopo, cactus and that’s pretty much it. I follow a set strategy list available online for free (don’t get suckered into paying) and I do very well. I have encountered issues like delayed shipments, customer service agents who don’t know much without asking a manager, and the occasional technical problem… but at the end of the day I have always received my stuff and beezid fixes me up at every turn. safe to say that I am a happy camper.
While reading the above letter, my thought was “bonus codes”? What codes could possibly provide this type of practice?
Well, I have done a search for “beezid bonus codes” and as it turns out (as far as I can tell anyway); that there WAS as one point a code to use during registration that would give the user 1,000,000 FREE BIDS!
Perhaps these “bots” people have been seeing are the ones that were aware of the specific bonus code? I don’t know…
I, myself, like the site; however, I’m awaiting on the arrival of my purchased items before I even consider purchasing any more bids.
Regards,
Jumpster
And this was their respone:
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Thank you for your inquiry. All comments and feedback are valued here at Beezid.com.
Like any business over the internet, the trust factor is at times an issue. Our suppliers and sponsorship arrangements are with large household name organizations such as Google, Yahoo!, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Best Buy, and so on. We advertise online, in print, on radio and on TV. As Beezid.com is a relatively new business, it will take some time to build the trust of the everyday consumer, but we can assure you that building said trust and upholding the Beezid.com brand name is in our best interests and in the interests of our shareholders.
Regarding the concern about someone spending more on an item than it’s actual retail cost, there are 2 answers. The first, you seem to fully understand already. Many of our members have won numerous auctions featuring bidpacks for extremely low prices, which would make the cost per bid much lower than the average 1$. As a strategy, they might accumulate numerous bids this way so when they see an item they desire, they are able to use more bids to obtain it, while still benefiting from significant savings.
Also, the application of Bonus Bids or promotional offers that we often have may account for why certain members may spend more bids than the item’s retail cost.
The second one, is also fairly simple and is, as we found out when we investigated, accurate in the particular auction that you mentioned. Sometimes, someone may invest heavily on an item that they wish to win. They will watch the item for a while, participate in the auction when they feel that it is strategic for them, etc. At one point, they may realize that they have invested more than they are willing to lose, and the only way to regain the advantage is to end up winning the item, no matter the cost. This is what happened with the television set.
We would like to point out that the User that won, though it didn’t go according to his plan, has won with us many times before and was still happy because his savings overall are still huge.
This brings us to the next point about Gambling. This is NOT and will never be advertised as a gambling website. For this reason, we do not offer helplines or tips about gambling. However, we do have auction limits. At Beezid.com we always do our best to ensure that each one of our members has an equal opportunity to become one of our lucky winners and that not only a limited few keep winning. One way to make sure of this is by limiting the number of auctions a user can win within a 28 day period to ten (10). As well, certain products have their own limits based on the Auction Group they belong to. To make it easy, each group is represented by a coloured Lock. When accessing the Details page of an auction, you will notice at the top, above the image, the auction ID with a coloured lock next to it.
Regarding your concern about these users that do not seem to win, we can assure you that that particular user has won quite a few items this month and is approaching his/her limit. Also, some people may get confused since some users, as part of their strategies, have similar user names. (ex: imnotgonnastop and illneverstop).
Finally, regarding your inquiry about Identity theft, I will answer this to the best of my ability, seeing as I do not work for Tech Support or Fraud Detection but for Customer Service. We do have a Fraud Detection team that verifies the activity on different IP addresses, ensuring that there are not multiple users that are all operating under one IP address. In any case where this was caught happening, they have fully investigated and banned any further activity. Also, when multiple wins are recorded in one day (or hour), or when an unusually high number of bids are purchased at once, the user is red flagged and we do investigate.
Again, Beezid.com is a fairly new company and we are trying very hard to build our reputation. We would not sacrifice that for trivial things that would make us lose everything and as you can see, we are fully transparent in order to gain our Members trust.
Hopefully this e-mail has addressed all of your concerns. Should you require anything else or wish for any further clarifications, please let us know and we will be happy to address them.
Happy Holidays to you and yours,
TEAM BEEZID
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NOTE: Long winded…
This is an email I sent to beezid support:
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Personally, I like the site. I understand the concept of “paying for the right to bid” and accept the goods and bads of the reset-timers. Finally, I recognize that any internet connections – whether high-speed or dial-up – are simply not entirely reliable (what with dropped packets and such) and so I can further understand the “complaints” of winning an auction only to see the timer reset a few seconds later…
However, one thing I don’t understand, and perhaps you may be able to enlighten me, is this:
I have been witness to several auctions where the bidder has a virtually unlimited number of bids at their disposal. Take for instance,auction 17694 – LG 55″ 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV. The winner of that auction “iwillneverstop” placed a grand total of 4394 bids. While that number equates to (according to the closed auction’s page) $3,075.80 towards the auction; that figure in and of itself doesn’t concern me. Given the concept of “delayed gratification” I could very easily understand how someone would bid on 200-pack or even free-bid 50-pack auctions in an attempt to “bankroll” a large number of bids.
On the other hand, I have also been witness to several other auctions where “iwillneverstop” (and others) have placed an exhorbinate number of bids (only to lose the auction).
In fact, with the exception of the television above, I can’t think of a single auction that the user “iwillneverstop” has won. At least, if they had won some, I could understand “selling the item” on e-bay to further bankroll their endeavors… But then, the 10-wins cap in a 28-day period would still result in a zero-sum-gain…
So, the question I ask myself is this: How are they doing it?
I have been thinking and have come to three possible conclusions:
1) Either they are rich beyond any monetary constraints that may be holding the rest of us back (in today’s economy – unlikely but possible), or;
2) Are “addicted” to gambling and need help, or;
3) They are perpetrators of identity theft – using other people’s “credit” and therefore don’t care if they win or not regardless of cost.
While the first possibility doesn’t bother me much; if they have the money, why not. And, depending upon how they got their money, doesn’t much affect me so, let them have their fun…
My qualms come with options numbered 2 and 3…
In the case of the addict, obviously the individual needs help in controlling their addiction. In this respect, my question to you is this: What, if anything, are you doing to help these addicts gain control of themselves before they ruin their lives? I have been all over your web-site and have not even seen a single reference to some sort of “gambling addiction” hot-line. Let’s face it, as other people on the internet review sites have stated, this is a gambling site – disguised as an auction site. The reviews referring to Beezid.com as a “slot” machine ring true to me (and others I’m sure)…
My real problem, however, are those that may be using other people’s names (and credit) to gain for themselves. And in this respect, I ask: What are you doing to prevent such “schemes”?
Certainly there are “signs” of such abuse for either item 2 or 3 above that you *must* be aware of; are you looking for those signs? And if so, what do you do when you realize that something is “amiss”?
Regards,
Jumpster
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Yesterday I found this site and have spent $77.00 dollars (almost)and could not bid on anything at all.(not even close) Each time it took half a day and as soon as I thought I got close it would not register my bid. Just Close!This is not even a good casino. Slots do pay, once in a while.
I’m sure that with the mountains of advertising dollars they must be spending, they have better means to counter the negativity. It seems they are not doing that and I imagine it is due to the negativity mainly coming from non-users who have opinions. Why would they get involved in debating these things in a forum, seriously?
..and you think that beezid is acting deceptively? You are the one who needs to do some research. They spell out every detail on their site and are available by email and phone to answer any questions. Show me an “intentional deception” example here, rather than lack of understanding. Prove there are bots, fake posters, no shipments being received, etc. You don’t know what you are talking about.
You should get them; you can call and ask for a tracking number. They do need to pick up the slack a little and email the tracking numbers.. I never received a tracking number via email which is one of the things it says to look out for. They’ve been advertising like crazy so im sure they are overwhelmed.
Hopefully they are going to take my suggestion which is to prohibit certain user names – some people try to get tricky and register names like None/No Bidder/Time Expired etc. to try and trick people into not bidding!
Well Tim/Timmahh…im very glad you got your items because now i have faith that mine will actually show up…when they do ill send notice
Won a Playstation 3 on 12/20/09 for $12.12, spent around $100 on bids(not just for that auction, in total).. was nervous if I was actually going to receive the playstation. It was delivered today! Brand spanking new! Definitely worth the money in bids!!!
Check the help.. each auction features a lock icon at the top, different colors represent different limits.
I believe my laptop was a “blue” lock; meaning I can only win 2 of those types of auctions per 28 days. Some are unlimited, some are 1 per 28 days; it lets others get a chance to win an item.
Sorry about that; I saw them and then they were gone so I thought maybe you thought I was a bot or auto post trickery or something!
And by the way there are many cases of people in here with responses to the exact opposit of what you mentioned, especially when you made it very clear that it was a big workout for you to read all of the posts? If you did read them you would have left out the part of not seeing any cases of fraud. Since were copying and pasting definitions, FRAUD is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual,Defrauding people of money is presumably the most common type of fraud.HMMMMM read between the lines of your own attempt to benifit Beezid and understand the actuality of words and what is defined in them by other words to be able to understand completely!
Actually one of the best places to post are on these forum based websites so that they will be able to counter all of the negativity,if they didnt then there true colors would show.Why do you think a lot of people do research on products before participating?They advertise on XM Radio,TV,and the Internet so they have to come here for the smart people who do there research before getting screwed to try and get them over the edge.Which is clearly demonstrated here that with the experiences and responses is a very bad experience waiting to happen for people who join,any smart person who sees all of these negative responses in here about beezid would be an idiot to join and im glad there are places like these with everyone coming together to help others and shut assholes like this down.Now if we could just keep it up who knows how much more money and time from not only this site but others as well that we could save.Thank everyone for posting.
Im pretty sure with all that david said he knows how to bid and when to do it,you obviously are one of the p=many paid to go to these forums and post bogus responses in hopes that this company will keep its head above water long enough for you to find another job
Stop saying it is a scam. I have never participated in this site but currently in the process of developing my own (there for I will know its legit
) Think about if you go play poker for money. You have total of 5 people all put in 5 bucks. For sake of argument, lets say winner takes all. You could walk out with 25, at the expense of the other players….it is gambling get over it..if you do not like it don’t play the game…regarding those who have not received their prizes, I believe that is where a site like this could be a scam. If they are actually making money, then there should be no problem for them to give you your prize. I assume they are doing fairly well considering I always see TV ads on big name channels.
Well hopefully this one won’t get deleted.. but anywho – David/Sam; the reason I got it so fast is because the item shipped directly from Amazon; it came out of the Amazon Reno/Nevada warehouse and i’m about 2 – 3 hours away from there.
I mentioned the 2.13ghz w/ SSD because that’s what I got. I freaked out on Saturday 12/19 after re-reading the auction description and noticed the specs were not in line with the current macbook air, thus making me think I was going to end up with something used or refurbished. The girl @ beezid told me [via phone] that their techs aren’t in on the weekends so she cannot tell me what the full specs are. After my laptop arrived I was happy to see it’s the top of the line model; if you look at the auctions now they have all of the updated specs.
Alright.. please don’t delete this response.
ummm.. why did my responses get deleted????
Most posts are checked before they are O.K.ed and published.
as you can see ALL you posts are now viewable.
oh and david re: my other bids.. I did bid on other items; but at the time I won the macbook I was at roughly $170 in bids + $15 shipping + $2.36 for the auction.
I have won a few too many 50 bid packs; I also won an apple remote for the macbook. I tried to win another macbook and lost… Kind of gets a little addicting so you have to watch yourself before you just start clicking bid bid bid bid bid.
ehh I got a little confused.. I guess my response should start with “Hi David & Sam”
oops
Hi Brad – I won the auction, and started thinking it was a scam. I thought to myself “no way.. i’m going to do have to do a paypal buyer complaint”
I called them.. a few times.. probably annoyed them because I was so nervous about it.
The reason I mentioned the SSD and 2.13 GHZ is because the auction listing said 120GB SATA and 1.6 Ghz.. but then I started researching the macbook air and I thought holy crap this is an old one.. what a scam. Well after my call to them on Saturday – 12/19, they said it would be there on Monday 12/21. I thought ok we’ll see what happens.. My UPS guy showed up at work, we went down to his truck and he said “here it is!” I was so excited, even more so to see it’s the top of the line macbook air. I noticed that day, the auction information was updated to show it IS the 128GB SSD 2.13ghz dual core. They just had old specs posted from the Rev.B of the macbook air.. 2.13ghz is Rev.C.
Here is the link to my auction win:
http://www.beezid.com/auctions/14432
The reason it shipped so fast is that they DO ship from suppliers, my mac shipped directly from the Amazon warehouse in Reno, Nevada.. and I live in Northern California about 2 – 3 hours away, thus the reason I got it so quick. They originally told me it should arrive around new years.
Here is a pic of the laptop and my shipping label..
http://www.fuzi0n.com/imgz/forbrad/mymba.jpg
http://www.fuzi0n.com/imgz/forbrad/mymbaship.jpg
I seen the tv ad about Beezid, I thought it would be similiar to Ebay. But thats not the case. Because think about it. Once you bid the timer sets up to 20, 30 or even 1 minute. The timer is key to how they make their money. I did see that two people were going back to back for at least an hour. That’s a heck of alot of bids. Alot of money being spent. To me, that’s fishy indeed. I am yet to purchase a bid pack, and I don’t think I will plan to. I do in fact believe though that their is a bot or someone who is sitting in their cubicle for Beezid bidding and bidding over and over again until a legit person is sick of it and stops after losing 50,100, or even 200 dollars. It’s genius what they have going on. Something I won’t get into, and you all shouldn’t either. You’re just adding on to how easy it is to see a good deal too fast and get suckered in thinking its really is legit and that you could save a bunch of money, but later on you’re paying more if not the same amount it would cost for the item you bid on in the beginning.
That’s just my two cents.
Wow! It was a big workout to read all of these posts. There are plenty of people on both sides of the fence and I would like to chime in.
1. Beezid would have to be absolutely insane to be using bots, shills or insiders to bump prices. The business model is simple (and some of you get it), they make money on selling bids! Hello?! at 60 to 90 cents per bid, on most of their auctions, they are making an absolute killing. So they would have to be nuts to have bots.
2. Phony posts. Ok, so you are telling me a company that advertises on television, radio and online, drawing huge attention to themselves is posting… here?
There are way too many people here who simply don’t understand how this works, even though other posters have explained it repeatedly. Crying scam because you can’t win or you spoke to the same cs agent twice is ridiculous.
I don’t have anything negative to say about Beezid, because they are up front about everything all over their site. Do some homework and snoop around instead of jumping in, head first and being upset about coming out as a loser. The same principles that apply to any game to define the winners and losers apply here. Would you sit at a card table and put down money if you didn’t understand the game? And, if you did, what do you think would happen? Get serious people, Beezid might not be the place to get the best deals for everyone, but it certainly is no scam and there is no reason the owners would jeopardize their business when the numbers are so big.
Beezid is answering the phone, shipping items and honoring sale prices according to many of you. So what’s the scam? The problem is your definition of scam. A scam (as defined online) is “a fraudulent business scheme”. I see no indications of fraud, nor any claims of any. You don’t like Beezid’s business model? Simple solution: stay away.
This site is a gambling scam, everytime i bid just before it closed the site rebooted on my computer and when it came back up the item was sold. Gave $40.00 to gamble really because i got nothing for my money and i am convinced that this site is a huge scam and I got ripped off.. We need to file a class action suit against them.
This guy Brad is definately working for this company. Doesn’t he have anything else to do but cry about how he won?? Move on Brad or at least get a new screen name!
In reguards to Beezid and its practices this website has posted many complaints about unethical and suspicious business practices. I agree this site is a total scam!
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/beezid.aspx
I think the reason this is a scam is because of bots and/or employees. Let’s say the “item” says it sells for $8.01. It could retail for $50 or $1500, it doesn’t matter to them. Because I think in reality probably only 1 or 2 people are bidding on an auction, and maybe just 2 or 3 bids, while the other 796 bids were by the bot. So, if we all agree there are bots/employees fluffing the bids, then they aren’t making any money at all from the “sale”, they make all of their money from the poor user and their “dollar for a penny” bids. Of course there are the users who will bid a bunch, this is their payoff, but still, they’ll lose the bid. Just don’t give us the argument and math saying “well just multiply the sales price and the $.80 for each bid, see look it’s $15k they made” all the bids were fake!
negative no emails yet…i have a feeling if you want something to get done with these guys you have to call them…and i have no idea if you are watching your “brand new sharp 52″ I hope you are because if so they are legit and i will get my shit…lol
David has a good point…i just got off the phone with beezid (Receptionist was extremely nice btw) and my order, which was purchased on the 22nd, is still in processing…maybe its the holiday season but im not expecting it anytime soon…i hope that my item ships but who knows…
tim above says he won an apple macbook, (notice he adds 2.13 ghz ssd to make it sound better), on monday 12/14. received it on monday 12/21. it looks legit because timmah won an apple macbook on 12/14 for $2.36. only thing is that the auction ended at 6:38pm monday nite and the following is copied from beezids website regarding shipping;
Most of our items are shipped directly from our suppliers as soon as we’ve received your payment. Although the delivery time can vary based on the products, most of them will take between 2-3 weeks to get there. As soon as your item has been shipped, we will notify you by email. In the rare event that you have not received your item after the normal delay, please contact our support team and we will immediately take care of getting your item to your doorstep. Our priority at Beezid is your continued satisfaction.
2-3 weeks normal for shipping says beezid. tim wins monday nite so it couldn’t be shipped till tuesday and he receives it in 3-4 business days.
another macbook sold that monday at 12.22am (22 minutes after midnight sunday) for $104.32. 10,432 bids on the macbook just after midnight and tim wins one that only 236 bids were placed on at 6:38 in the evening.
i believe tim won the macbook but only as a bot for beezid. i was watching auctions during that time and timmah was bidding on much more than just a macbook and was bidding alot more than the 200 bids he claims he purchased.
he just proved to me that he and brad and the other simple named guys posting the exact same thing on different websites are employees of beezid. no doubt in my mind.
anyone that believes these guys go ahead and purchase some bids and win some great stuff for cheap then come back here and tell us all about it.
I’ve seen these posts on like6 other sites
EXACT SAME STATEMENTS
and they say a 70 cent bid…wasnt it a freaking penny auction???
also these posts are very (i mean EXTREMELY) detailed at times….like that one that goes “I then bid on this same TV (Sharp AQUOS /52” Class / 1080p / 120Hz / LCD HDTV).” VERY interesting that he explains everything the tv has to offer. who in their right minds would put all that 1080p crap. Did i mention two of the posts have the EXACT SAME TYPE OF TV. Companies do this to advertise badass things to make it look legit. also if you know bot technology, you would know that names like Brad or Adam are simple, and other people who are REAL would choose random names to be known to be legit. So please do not use beezid, it is a fake.
(copy and paste to take down beezid) No More Beezid, No More BeeCRAP!!!
ur rite every person claiming they won and received an item. happen all 2 b the same 52″ inch sharp lcd tv.
WTF!!! MAJOR SCAM STAY AWAY FOR UR OWN SAFETY!!!
I joined on today on the 25th and began watching the individual auctions when they get to the timer stages.
I have noticed a couple of concerning trends.
1) Why does anyone bid before the timer stage? It serves no purpose that I can see.
2) When someone autbeezid’s their bids they will only serve to act as a bot. Are they actually a bot or an employee just bumping the price.
3) If people are winning, there is no incentive based on the money they are making for not purchasing and sending the won product.
4)Someone would say this is a scam because of poor bid management. It is much like gambling and part of the game is to recognize who you are bidding against and make the appropriate bids to win in the end.
Good Luck on your endeavors with Beezid. I am going to give it a practical try.
your right how do you really know we arent working for them? How do you really know anything on the internet is real. You will never know all I can say if you want to believe it or not im sitting here in my living room watching my new tv while im typing this. Have you emailed them if you have are the emails they send you going into your spam box by accident. The return emails wont say beezid on the headline it should say something like support. I asked for my shipping number several times before I realized they did send it just the email they sent back was a different title
Its not a scam I got my tv for cheap sorry you havent won anything you have to be smart about your bids and not waste them
You know your statement does not add up based on your final sale price of $0.42 or 42 total bids. Did you bid against yourself?
Im not saying beezid is or is not a scam, thats up to you to decide, but the way they make their money is simple. Bids cost $0.60-$1.00 per bid. Now say you are bidding on the 52″ tv ($1500 value), that every one talks about. Say its at $250, so thats 25,000 bids to get it there. So 25,000 bids times a minimum of $0.60 a bid that equals $15,000 (25,000x.60=15,000). So they just made atlest $15K on that one item. Now with that in mind say you used 24 bids and won it at $250, you just spent atleast $264.40 (24x.60)+250=264.40. Now, sure you just got a great deal, and beezid just made atleast $15,264.40 off that one tv. And thats if every single bid on that tv were the minimum $0.60 each. Now just think, im not even a beezid customer, i saw a comercial and it interested me, but it sounded to good to be true, so i did some lookin around first and found this site, and i figured i would share my thoughts. But i personaly probly wont become a member because ive read like 3-4 people who got the exact same size tv witch makes me a little skeptical that beezid employees (or bots) are scanning the internet putting these “good” postings up. But if you think about it, its a win win, they make a TON of money and you save alot of money, so i dont see why they wouldn’t send you your product.
At 2009.12.12 16:55, High Octane said:
Hmmm, Interesting!
They are possibly going around posting as different people on different sites as a winner in order to promote as well as making look like its a legit site.
Anybody else seeing these posts?
Rofl, it’s that guy
Brad and Tim, how do we know you aren’t working with them? I find beezid website to be very fishy because they won’t even give me my shipping number.
I know what you mean I just recieved my brand new sharp 52″ LCD tv yesterday!! Frickin awsome getting a 1500 dollar tv for only 130 bucks (shipping, cost and bids)
If you havent noticed they make their money off the bids people buy not the actual items
check your spam box in your email. You will recieve it. I just recieved a 52″ sharp LCD tv I won yesterday. It took about 2 weeks for the shipping
Its real they make their money from people buying bids. so each bid depending on what package you buy averages around 70 cents per bid so beezid is making a killin but your getting the won item for a huge discount. Its a win win situation as long as you dont go overboard on bidding
I just recieved my TV yesterday!! It was brand new and on the reciept I got it was shipped directly from the manufacturer which in my case was Sharp.
I think all of you that are thinking its a scam it isnt true. You all have to realize that you arent the only ones trying to get a high dollar Item for cheap. I recently won a bid for a 52″ Aquos LCD TV for $6.39 and just recieved my item yesterday! It was brand new in the box and works very well! I know I got very lucky and must of been online when there werent a whole lot of people cause I only used 44 bids on it which were 70 cents per bid so on a 1500 dollar tv I only spent around 130 for it.
I agree. Just because they make 13,000$ on a 1500$ TV doesn’t make them a scam site, it makes them genius. The sad fact of the matter is that I can see how many people would not realize that each bid cost $1, not .01$. After seeing the commercial I though tit couldn’t be true, so I checked it out and thought myself that it costs $.01 per each bid on the item from everyone, but nothing for me to bid. Also they said you could join for free with the code DIREC1, but it seems you can always join free, just not bid free. Scam, no. Deceptive, yes.
Also note:
Most people think PayPal is fail safe because you can always get your money back. This is not true. PayPal’s policy regarding Ebay items differs greatly from their policy for other payments. This is because either ebay owns paypal or paypal owns ebay, I forget which. So just be careful when buying even with paypal!
Hi everyone, I too was a bit scared of beezid.. but it’s legit.
Last Monday I spent about $200 on bids/auction price/shipping and today a brand spanking new macbook air 2.13 ghz ssd arrived!!!!!!
I was starting to wonder.. is this place fake? Did I get ripped off? NOPE!!!!!!
They totally make money collectively through people bidding and buying bids, but individually people get killer dealers.
SO HAPPY!!!!
If the average bid costs $0.70, then for example a $100 gift card which wold for $10.00 would have made them $600 in profit. Now this makes sense and shows that their business model is not too good to be true.
Once you analyze further though, you realize that some “bidders” are not rational at all. For example, they have 200 Bid Packages and I seen 2 users to back and forth over 200 times. Who would do this? A machine. The site is definitely controlling the bidding process, therefore a scam. I would imagine that if not enough bids were placed on an item, the system would automatically re-bid to win so they are not out of pocket.
Just because they make a profit does not make it a scam. If they rake in $2000 to sell a $1000 item, that’s good business for them. If you actually bid and paid $200 for that $1000 item, that is good for you. Neither is a scam. The scam is when you “can’t” win, bots are making sniper bids and most aggregiously, items do not ship (which is actually a crime). Sounds like all of these things are happening. When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. You could safely say a $211 50″ LCD meets that definition.
Look, it simply is a scam; Beezid couldn’t turn a profit if they sold things at their advertised prices. Economics may not be my forte but I do understand that in order to stay in business you have to sell at a higher price than what you buy.
Ever do a Whois search? Whois.net is a site that tells you who owns specific domains and sites on the web. For instance, search for LaserSurplusParts.com and you get info that this site is registered to WagnerTech and other info such as business address, phone, e-mail, etc.
Look up Beezid.com however and the only info you get is that of DomainsByProxy.com, a Scottsdale, AZ company that registers domains for clients by proxy, (duh,) keeping the actual owners info secret. Search Whois for any company you can think of and 99.9% of the time you get real information. Google.com is owned by Google, AutoZone.com is owned by Auto Zone… you get the idea. Why would Beezid’s owners hide their identity? What else could they be hiding?
Kudos for getting this discussion started but I would advise anyone who feels they have been ripped off to contact the Better Business Bureau which does have offices in Canada. (Beezid’s contact page lists a Quebec mailing address.)
Good luck and thanks for the info!
After spending over $300 on bids and losing I started to win bids yesterday so I’m ahead of the game based on retail prices. According BEEZID I won too many yesterday and can’t bid again for 28 days?????
I thought we were all on an “equal playing field” and could bid and win anytime; not so according to BEEZID there are limits. What kind of B.S. is this? How can an open site control who wins and who loses? Isn’t this illegal? On top of that they have over 90 bids that I have paid for and can’t use for 28 days! Hopefully I’ll get the items I won before then. I complained to BEEZID and was told I could bid on “black” auctions so I checked. Out of 34 auctions going at the time only one was a “black” auction and that was selling a 50 pack of bids????????? What good is that if you can’t bid.
BEEZID has questionable business practices and someone should investigate them………………
HOW HONEST IS THIS SITE????????????
I actually did receive my ps3 game today. This is not a scam just a company with horrible customer service.
beezid is a scam and the guys that say they won work for beezid. the highest price paid for that tv back thru 11/29 was $149.xx and anyone that can be lucky enough to win that item with their 3 free bids would be in a casino and not at work. 21,164 bids placed on that tv and wala! some guy wins it with 2 bids while he is at work. must be a nice place to work.
the second guy may have won the tv for 6.39 but it happened to be exactly one week from his post, not about a week ago and he happens to have won the tv that by far sold for the lowest amount. people bid 15-20 bucks on 200 bid packs and he won a $1500 tv for $6.39. here are the other prices they sold for about that time, 12/5/09-$72.22, 12/6/09-$111.25, 12/7/09-$32.63, 12/8/09-$54.86, and miraculously 12/9/09-$6.39
on 12/1/09-$148.96 which means beezid got $10,576.16 for a $1500 tv. an apple macbook sold for $104 and change with a retail value of $1800. they only got $9904 plus for it. ipod sold for $54 and change with a retail of $399. they only got $3834 plus for it.
i’ve tried to win 200 bid packs at the lowest selling times, midnight-5am. bid on the 1am auction and it wound up going for about $16.00. thats 1600 bids. was 2 minutes late for the start of the 2:30am auction and it sold for .24 cents, tried the 4:am auction with the attitude i was going to win no matter what. i watched in amazement as one bidder overbid everyone from the very start of the auction. he bid over 400 times on his way to winning 200 bids for $19.00. i bid 126 times myself and outbid him when he won. i accidentaly double clicked “bid” which has happened many times and a box comes up that says you are currently the high bidder. only means that you can’t outbid yourself. well, the box comes up saying i am high bidder at the same time the auction ended with their bot winning. who else but a bot would waste over 400 bids to pay for a 200 bid pack? and the bid i made that should have kept the auction going and that made the box come up saying i was high bidder did count off of my total bids.
every time i bid on auctions within the last 2 seconds my bid is counted as long as there are others bidding around that time also but every time it is just the high bidder and myself, the auction ends and my bid is not counted.
one last but not least thing; the 50 bid packs that you can bid on for free, (doesn’t cost you any bids), consistently sell for $31-35. why? you can buy 200 bids for $120 so why pay $140 for them? and the winners of the auctions for the big ticket items seem to win 1 or 2 of each big ticket item. they win a tv, laptop, digital camera, playstation, ipod and xbox with some winning 2 of the same items while none of the other names you see placing hundreds of bids ever win anything but 50 bid packs for $35 bucks.
believe what you want to believe but i know from what my own eyes have seen that this website is nothing but a scam.
I just called today to get my tracking numbers i talked to 2 people so there is more than one person there, also they said they will call me back with my tracking number …. thats kinda odd if you ask me but we will see if this is a scam or not!
Anything that defies the properties and laws of supply and demand is a scam.
It only took me about five minutes on beezid.com to realize that with all of the idiots that bid on items they don’t have to cheat anyone. Look at it this way each bid cost around .80 cents, Ball said he won a $25.00 Starbucks gift card for .42 cents multiply 42 times .80 and that means the bidders actually paid beezid $33.60 for a $25.00 gift card a $9.04 profit for Beezid with Ball’s .42 cents added. Adam on Dec. 3 wrote that he won a $1.699.99 Sharp 52″ TV for $211.64 a terrific deal, however multiply 21.164 by .80 and you will get the number 16.931.20 so it actually cost the bidders $16.947.20 so that Adam could win a $1.699.99 TV for $211.64 even if you take away the $1.699.99 cost of the tv and add Adams $211.64 beezid still made a tidy profit of $13.954.50 Heck, I wish I had dreamed up beezid with all of the dolts in the U.S. today I would be a millionair by the end of the week. I grew up in Florida and my folks drummed it into my head that there was no pot of gold at the end of a rainbow and that only a total idiot would keep running towards it. My advice is simple save your money and buy what you want from a reputable local company or if you like to gamble go to Vegas and support our economy and not Canada’s thru beezid. I also heard beezid’s ad on the Howard Stern show but I would not take what he is paid to say as gospel, do you really believe he is bidding on anything on beezid if you do please contact me because I have this bridge in Brooklyn that I will sell you cheap.
Jim
I won 1 auction and ended up paying about 30$ for a ps3 game (won for .86 cents). Lets see if it actually comes, I emailed them today for a tracking number and still no response.
Ya I won that same tv about a week ago (still waiting for it to be delivered) Wanted to share I won it for $6.39 I couldnt believe it either. Glad to hear there is someone that said they recieved the item!
Let us know if or when your receive it!
I paid $40 for I believe 50 bids or something to that effect. I did “win” a $25 Starbucks Gift Card for something like $.42 (I used up all of my bids). With the $5.00 shipping, I paid in total $45.42 or a $25 dollar giftcard. We’ll see if I actually recieve it. I will post back if it ever comes. If not I will have the opportunity to file a complaint with PayPal.
Ball
IMO Beezid is a SCAM, a clever one at that. It is literally an electronic slot machine, it is in every sense of the word gambling. Except there are no winners. It is impossible to win if the item clock continuously resets everytime a person places a bid, which is IMO complete BS. If you navigate away from the page and come back the item will show someone has won and that amazingly the auction ended and at an incredibly ideal price. Guess which auctions actually bid up to retail price? Yeah the auctions where you bid on getting more bids!!! The only thing for sale at Beezid is bids!!! That is all you will receive. In theory this site can be run without any items in its stock. You could be bidding on a picture from a stock photo, if you can’t win then there is no need for the company to actually have the items in stock. If they ever get investigated they can do ss Adam mentioned, they can cover themselves by stating they obtain certain items from Amazon. You are also bidding against bots, the bots win, the bots won’t let you win, these are the rules. This site is a racket and is racking up the dollars. Every bid is a dollar and like gambling you keep putting in the dollars thinking maybe this will be the one. It is very addictive and quickly becomes irresponsible. You’ll notice that if you encounter ppl that have “won” it is only for the significant items, i.e. the 52″ LED TVs, the cars, the high ticket items, why is it that no one seems to be bragging about some of the lesser electronic items i.e. the toys, laptops, the gift cards etc. Beezid does not “sell” the typical items that a person would go out shopping for. I.E. if I were looking for a particular item say a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner, I would shop around, then I might check out ebay etc. At Beezid you get to bid on what they display at that particular time, it is 100% impulse buying. This is what makes the HSN and other impulse buying networks successful, people see something nice and think they are getting an out-of-this-world deal, in other words they think they must have something that they ordinarily would not purchase. Unlike HSN you will not ever receive the item but Beezid will certainly get your money! If you do manage to win, (at least according to that which is dispayed at the end of the auction) if you can withstand the countless resetting of the timers, do you actually get the product you supposedly won? If I place a bid on ebay, I get to look at the performance of the person I am buying from. If their performance is around 100% I have a very good comfort level that when I win the auction I will indeed get the product I won and paid for. Peace of mind. I also have the means of a rebuttal which ebay is very good about resolving I have never been let down yet on ebay for someone with a performance of 100% or close to 100%. Here at Beezid that is not the case. Beezid is a company, at ebay they are ppl like you and me, we all want a good rating. Beezid could care less, they have nothing to lose because they are not an individual. At this point in time I would have to give Beezid a very low performance rating.
Ball
Hmmm, Interesting!
They are possibly going around posting as different people on different sites as a winner in order to promote as well as making look like its a legit site.
Anybody else seeing these posts?
I want to know is this real or is this fake
I was getting ready to register for beezid but decided to do some research before i did. Glad I found all this information to save me some money.
Just as a side note…I saw that out of all these posts, 1 person reported winning and receiving an item, a 52” tv. Strangely, on three other website reviews I found about Beezid, 4 other people, all with different names, reported this exact same statement.
Strange.
I also wanted to say, I don’t think Beezid actually houses any items. My item came from Amazon, I think what happens is that people bid on items, and then Beezid orders that item (Turning a huge profit) from Amazon
I did Win! I was at work, and saw a commercial for Beezid, on the History Channel while I was @ work. So I decided to check out the site. I couldn’t believe the prices of some of the items. I clicked “Bid” on a TV, it said that I had to register, so I did, I then bid on this same TV (Sharp AQUOS /52” Class / 1080p / 120Hz / LCD HDTV). My first Bid was $211.62. The 20 second Count down Timer reached around 15 seconds, someone else bid as soon as they did I bid again, this time My bid was $211.64. I watched the 20 second timer count down to Zero, and I won! I couldn’t believe it. I never even had to buy any Bids, because you get 3 when you sign up. I ended up paying $211.64 + $90 shipping. A grand total of $301.64, delivered to my house. Not to bad for a $1,699.99 TV (Sharp website Price.)
I understand that almost no one gets that lucky, but I just wanted to post that I did receive the Item that I won.
Wow, if only I had read your stories before I, too, got hooked. I won one item the first day that I haven’t received yet (gift card). Since then it has been a money pit where similar experiences of loosing in the last two seconds when I thought I had won. This is not me being a sore looser as I place a bid that doesn’t show up in the last few seconds or prematurely gets awarded to someone else. If you watch for some hours you will see a few users that bid a huge number of times, truly more than the value of the item, on many different items. Are these real idiots or automated computer bids? I also wonder if some of the winners are truly registered users or are employees or bots where the large ticket items remain “in house” to just be listed again. I wish this company could be investigated to expose their deceptive practices. Bottom line, I wish I had never heard of it and hope to warn others to STAY FAR AWAY from BEEZID!!
Tried this website a few weeks ago. . . after the initial euphoria of the possibility of winning something wore off and after suggesting the site to others, I closed my account and feel responsible for the possible mistakes my friends might make by registering for this scam site. . . let them keep my remaining bids as it’s worth it for me to just get out and have Beezid out of my life. . .I’ve still got ebay!
I like this web really much.
This is such a great web.
And it is not like other money bound place, the information here is super important.
I am definitely bookmarking it as well as sharin it with my friends.
I too purchased bids a few weeks ago-I watched-I learned the patterns-I too saw the same 2 or 3 items come up for auctions. And when I saw that the winners won at the blink of an eye, I began emailing beezid. I never got a response. I googled beezid and only saw 1-complaint. Within a week, I googled beezid again only to find pages & pages of people being scammed. On 11/17/09 @ 10.15AM I called beezid \’again\’ and spoke with the SAME rep who answered my call the week before (what are the odds). I demanded a refund and told them I was going to bird dog this scam company into the ground. The rep (who wouldn’t\’t give his name) said I would be refunded for my bid package within the hour. As you can imagine, I\’m holding my breath!
AVOID THIS SCAM AT ALL COST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If it seems too good to be true…
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, & smells like a duck. It is a duck