BidFire

This site has fraud written all over it! It claims huge saving by showing you that the customer has just won an item for $9.50, in fact the bid was $950.00 US dollars. Each bid is ONE US DOLLAR not one cent as it shows on there website. Also the "30 second rule", you'll love this. Just watch the bidding get down to the last 30 seconds or so. This could go on for hours. My advise to ALL, this site is very misleading and almost criminal

Bidfire is insane. You have to buy bids at a dollar a pop. There are only a few items up for bid. Every bid starts the timer again at 45 seconds. It is virtually impossible unless you have an unlimited amount of bids because you are competing with people all over the place. If you're gonna buy bids, then you might as well fork over them money and buy the product outright. SCAM! They are making a killing out of people buying bids who will never get a chance to win!

I know a lot of people think this website isn't for real. I know, I was one of them! My son won a 64gb Touch iPod and Noise cancelling headphones, and called and told me all about Bidfire. I couldn't believe it. I told him I would be a believer if and when the items actually came. Four days later, there they were. Brand new! Now, I love the website. I can't say that I have been as lucky, however I did win a movie. I am fascinated by just watching all the action.

I just stumbled across this site and watched the bids for a while. The current bid, a $100 instant cash from Amazon, seems "stuck" at 25-23-24 and then back up to 25 seconds without anybody placing the bid. That showed me that this is a scam site and I'm glad I didn't fork over any money for bids. Trust the old saying that if something seems too good to be true, it never is a good thing!

Bidfire and other penny auction sites are at best no more than gambling sites masquerading as auctions. Unless you are in the mood to lose your hard earned money, I would look elsewhere for deals and entertainment.

This site's business doesn't create any value in general. It's like a casino to users who know how it works. I don't got evidence to say they are cheating besides their business model. If you say casinos are scams then bidfire is scam.

If you realized all these and still wanna try your luck, you're on your own.

Most people lost their money in casinos.

Think of it just as: you giving gifts worth hundreds of dollars to people you don't know. The site sells an item that is worth $200,30 people bid an average of $10 each = $300 for a $200 item, they make a $100. If you loose it's like you have paid for somebody else's computer or ipod... cool.

I watched a couple kindle dx auctions both times it was obvious that inside bidders are both pumping the real bidders for all their cash and also that the inside bidders are also the "winners". They stay on as long as there are outside bidders bidding and then as soon as the real bidders finally give up and leave the last two insiders go back a forth a couple times and then one conveniently quits. I've seen it happen with each auction i've monitored. STAY AWAY! I would love to be able to find out if amazon ever gets any orders for the product from this site. I'll bet not. This is utter scam.

They have great stuff like computers and iphones for bid. You have to buy bids at $1 per bid. Each time you bid it goes up 5 cents AND the timer resets for an additional 45 seconds, so they make millions with people buying bids, because the only wat to way is if no one outbids you 5 cents in 45 seconds. They were bidding on a kindle 2, it won for 143.50 (that's 2870. 00 in bids they earned from that one product) SCAM!

I ran numbers and though the site charges way too much per bid, if they have bots, they would need to double the amount of bids to break even. This is NOT a sound solution based on the retail rates. I think then when people post reviews about bots-scams, they are usually due to lack of insight and not based on any real intelligence about what they are talking about. Kinda like our government

Pretty cool website with lots of cool electronics auctioned off daily. I tried it out by buying a $100 bid package and ended up winning an auction on a $399 (retail price) iPod Touch 64GB which included a 50 bid package. My final bid was $51.56. Even though I used up all the original 115 bids plus the 50 free bids later and spent $151.56, I did end up with a really nice iPod that would have cost me $400. This is gaming in every sense, so you won't always win, but it's really cool when you do.

Took $400 dollars of my money on credit card and closed the site not to be heard from.

I have bid for and won an ipod nano, 25 bids, and a fuji film digital camera for all under $100 including the amount I payed for the bids! This site has saved me a ton of money. There is no way I could have gotten these items new for that price. You just have to pic your items wisely. If you don't have a lot of money or bids, don't bid on the expensive stuff, just pick the smaller items. But if you have a couple hundred dollars to spend on bids there is a good chance you could get a $500 Ipad for $200.

Brilliant business Model. 20 to 1 gain on each dollar bid. Also, people think they "have a chance" to win stuff drastically under retail. There's a chance, but it's a small one. To win, you have to be lucky, end of story. You can have a great strategy, i. E. wait till a few people have bid over 100 times so it's less likely they will be able to financially keep bidding, and then go in with 100 or 200 bids. But, new people can always jump in, bid 5 time after you've bid 200, and you give cut your losses and give up. The winners who make out well bid on small ticket items that few people bid on, or those who bid hundreds on times on big ticket items and get lucky enough that another big bidder doesn't join them near the end of their threshold. Have fun, but don't try to use bidfire to make profits...

Another site that makes it seem like you can win a $400 item for a bid of $0.20. The claims of costs are very dishonest. They are making tons of money on people's desire for things that dozens of other people want too. Only one winner and dozens of suckers per item.

Fun site! You are on your on insofar as how you bid but the site is straightforward so far. You can get carried away and loose your shirt if you start bidding without having decided clearly how much you are willing to risk for any item. Customer service has been pretty quick and mostly helpful. It is not a scam and since we live in a free world bidder beware...

There is no set time for auctions to end. If someone bids with 10 seconds left till the auction ends an additional 30 seconds is added to the auction time.

Considering the fact they sell you the ability to place bids, they are in fact just ripping you off as your bid is wasted when there is not set end time for the auction.

I would say stay away from these types of websites. It's similiar to online gambling. You pay for bids just for a slim chance to win something.

Who really knows if this stuff is real or legit but you can be assured that you will spend money to try to win and that will cost you in the end. I would say just stay away from anything like this. Save your money and use legit sites, like ebay.

If you have found a way for the site to work for you and thinks its safe, then do it. I just don't like the idea of paying money for a chance to win and possibly being out that money. It's not for me. But could be for you, that's your call.

If I understand the way this works from the user "Terms," Bidfire doesn't work like any real auction in the real world in that (1) You buy bid points to begin with, (2) You lose any and all bid points you 'bid' during the 'auction,' and (3) You still have to pay the final auction bid price for the item. This appears to be sort of a 'Ponzi' scheme for morons. What legitimate auction would ever dare try to scam the sum of all bids made during an auction? Eh?

The only winner is the people running the site. I think it is a loophole for getting away with gambling and it should be stopped. Yeah one person wins an item, but here is how it goes. I'm watching a bidding right now for an Nintendo Wii valued at $199.99. The current bid right now is $33.00 and has not stopped yet. Now $33.00 in. 05 cent bids is 660 bids. Lets say it ended here right now. For the last half hour I only seen 3 people bidding. It also was pretty consistent that all 3 people were bidding at the same time equally bidding. That means each bidder had to bid 220 bids. In order to do that each person would have had to purchase the 100 bid package that gets you 15 free bids for $100.00 and they would have had to purchase 2 packages. That cost each person $200.00 right for 230 bids. Now that the bidding has ended the last person supposedly won a Nintendo Wii. Wow isn't that great it only cost them $200.00 in bids, plus the $33.00 for the item for a total of $233.00. Remember earlier I told you the item only cost $199.99. Now they paid $33.01 more than the item cost. Now back to the people who run the site. Each person paid $200.00 for the bids. $200.00@ 3 people is $600.00 + the $33.00 for the Nintendo Wii. They made $633.00 less their cost for the Nintendo Wii which is probably about $100.00 plus lets say $20.00 in shipping cost to the winner. That is a profit of $513.00 for them. It look to me it would be better to start your own site. Happy gambling, I mean happy betting. I hope you win something far less than what it is worth.

I believe Bidfire uses bot bidders. If the "bot" wins, then they do not lose the money on the item auctioned. It is simply never sent out! Therefore every legitimate bid on the auction is pure profit.

I recently bid on item, watched the clock end on zero with my bid as the top bid, and as the winner was announced, it showed the only other bidder as the winner! The clock did not reset to 30 seconds as it was supposed to. Very fishy indeed, so I am suspecting the "bot" algorithm had an error. Even if the other bidder was legitimate and not a bot, the fact that the auction ended with my bid as the top, and yet the auction was given to the other bidder is not right. I am extremely suspicious. In addition, they acknowledged the error, but did not honor my win, instead refunding me some bids. I feel they should honor the win, but I'm not holding my breath. I will update this review if they do.

Yes, you CAN win items, but if they are really using bots, which I suspect they are, you are nearly assured of losing money or losing the auction.

Bidfire is a fraud they use bots that are shill bidders! User Marmour is on every bid the last second! You will not win on this website. I have bid on many different things last second and every time user marmour is there to raise the prices and make it impossible to win. I wouldn't be surprised if this User MARMOUR was made by this site. DO NOT USE THIS SITE

BAIT AND SWITCH CON...

The administrators claim that they don't use bot bidders or software to ensure that ON CERTAIN AUCTIONS, no human bidder can ever win (us the customers). But because there's NO TRANSPARENCY, there's no way of backing up their claim other than their own word.
HERE'S THE KICKER... THEY LET HUMANS WIN SOME OF THE TIME IN ORDER TO KEEP CUSTOMERS COMING BACK, BUT THEY ARE KEEPING RECORD OF THEIR LOSSES AND REVENUE AND WHEN THEY NEED MORE REVENUE, THEY USE THEIR OWN BOT BIDDERS WHICH THEY "SAY" THEY NEVER USE.
Sure, they do let human beings (us the customers) win SOMETIMES (I myself have won a few items), BUT just enough to keep Bidfire's bottom line in the black. But then when they need some more money, they make sure that their computer bidder always has the last bid.

This goes directly against their claim that they NEVER use their own Bidfire bot bidders. They do. Just watch an expensive item being auctioned, and you'll notice some very fishy bid patterns and VERY suspicious delays in the clock when the time expires, and *presto*, literally 3-4 seconds after the clock hits 1 second left, and the auction is seemingly over with a winner, the auction mysteriously continues conveniently with a bot bidder suddenly bidding that had stopped bidding several hours prior. Of course there's no way to prove this unless the federal authorities get involved, but SEE FOR YOURSELF re: the strange bidding patterns and mysterious auction extensions.

Again, yes, some humans do win, but only enough for Bidfire to point to them and say, "see? We are legit." Bidfire, you are not legit because you claim you NEVER use bot bidders, yet, you don't provide ANY bidder identity transparency at all for your paying customers to verify your claim.

I am a Bidfire winner. My daughter found the site looking for a Kindle for her mother in law for Christmas. I wound up winning me one. My daughter has one a Garmin and an IPod and her best friend has won a WII (or whatever it is called) and a computer. I was skeptical at first, but we received our winnings and they have all worked out great. I have recommended this site to my preacher even...