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16-01-10, 12:33 PM
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Ubique
Join Date: Jul 2003
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an alternative to ebay?
Just found this site www.swoopo.co.uk that seems to be selling electrical stuff, games consoles and games etc for bargain prices. You have to buy bids (at 50p each) and the things are going amazingly cheaply - a brand new Nintendo DSi has just sold for £38.40!
Any one heard of this site? What's it like, is it a con we should avoid or what?! Please tell me almightly org! 
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16-01-10, 12:52 PM
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Re: an alternative to ebay?
i used one like this a while ago, complete scam, people have programs that bid for them so they win, u just end up spending lots of money for no reason
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16-01-10, 12:57 PM
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Re: an alternative to ebay?
A con, because you have to pay for your bids, so it's nothing to do with the wining price but how many bids you buy.
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16-01-10, 01:21 PM
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Re: an alternative to ebay?
Total con!
Just ask yourself: is it too good to be true? If it is, then it isn't true 
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16-01-10, 02:13 PM
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16-01-10, 05:25 PM
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Re: an alternative to ebay?
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16-01-10, 05:50 PM
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Re: an alternative to ebay?
yerp.. total con... avoid like the plague.
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16-01-10, 05:52 PM
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16-01-10, 05:58 PM
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Re: an alternative to ebay?
Lol if you thought that was a good website! Massive con!
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16-01-10, 06:23 PM
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Re: an alternative to ebay?
Its NOT a con, its just very clever - exactly like madbid.com which came after it, and has already been discussed on here (and swoopo was mentioned in that thread, giving this one a slightly Germanic Taint).
Its not a con, because at the end of the day, the person who (using made up numbers) bids to buy a PS3 for £100, gets a PS3 for £1000, it doesnt matter that to get to £100, £500 pounds of bids needed to be placed, but as long as the person winning spent less than £100 of that, they still get a PS3 at a saving. I wish I had thought of it.
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