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Smartbid is similar to Skoreit in nature, but it works quite differently. On one hand, I think you have better odds on this site than SkoreIt, but the flipside is that the bids are very expensive.

Unlike SkoreIt, SmartBid limits the total number of bids that an item can have as well as the total number of bids an individual can make on an item - this alone increases your chances to win. But, the better items cost anywhere from $1.50 to $3.00 per bid - making it 3-5 times more expensive.

In the end, similar to SkoreIt, I found too many powerbiders on here as well. I spent $50 bidding on a $230 iPod figuring it would give me a darn good chance of winning. Nope. The winner used 81 bids (@ $3.00 each) to win the iPod. I looked through a bunch of their other closed auctions and found many items to be way overbid by the winner.

Save your money, and your time.

I've won 5 gift cards on SkoreIt, but still recommend that NO ONE visit or use this site unless they are VERY careful.

This site will rob you blind if you don't study the strategy very, very carefully. Even then it's still difficult to win. There's WAY to many powerbidders out there that have turned it into a business. They overpay here and underpay there. I don't think there's inside bidders, I just think most people are forgetting that they constantly have bid packs up for bid. If someone gets a 480 bid pack and uses 100 bids to get it, they are 380 bids ahead. If they keep doing that with bid packs plus invest money, next thing you know the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. If you notice, most of the powerbidders are the ones also bidding up the bid packs as well... so then they amass tons of bids and win practically anything they want.

I won about 6 of the $50 gift cards and a couple $15 Subway cards. I learned after wasting $400 that you cannot win the big stuff very easy (at all), even if you utilize sound strategy.

Ultimately, it's gambling and you have better odds playing at an online casino than at SkoreIt.

My BIGGEST frustration is that it's been 10 days since I won 3 different $50 gift cards and they haven't shipped yet... but I've already paid for them and the shipping/handling. They sent out Subway cards immediately after I won but held onto these 3. Tells me they are bidding out items they haven't even purchased yet... that is NOT a good sign. Aside from being a crapshoot at best to win, they don't even have the prizes in hand that they are getting tons of money for. That's BAD business.