I came across their website, and boy, was I impressed! They had all these spectacular deals, including TVs and iPods, and on top of that, they had all these spectacular endorsements, from news shows to The Doctors. I had to have a piece, so I bought 45 bids for $27. All of a sudden, it was as if their system recognized my computer's address and changed the webpage! It went from having hundreds of spectacular deals to selling the cheapest little gadgets, most marked as sold even though they were also marked as having no bidders yet! I was dumbfounded, and then I did a little more research... Usually, I am not so gullible, but the legitimate endorsements and great deals just hooked me... Anyways, this company and it's sister companies NoMoreRack and BidRack have soooo many complaints against them. Within 2 hours of signing up, I went to my bank and cancelled my card, because I read that they often charge you additional fees under the guise of offering you something free first or they overcharge you for your bids. Oddly enough, I saw 2 different webpages advertising 2 different prices for the same number of bids, as if one link led to one price but another link led to another price. I really wanted my money back, but as I had legitimately authorized the payment, I couldn't. So I decided to see where these bids would lead me. As it turns out, every once in a while, SaveBig does open an auction for something cool, in this case an iPod and a Samsung flat screen TV. I was involved in bidding wars for both items... And then, with me as the final bidder, they both went down to 1 sec! (Incidentally, the bidder that gets down to 0 seconds is supposed to win the item) The timers both froze there for at least 20 seconds, with the TV one freezing for nearly a minute. I realized I wasn't going to get my prizes! Someone else, probably one of their own employees posing as a "fellow bidder," probably "won," and I had spent all my bids. The funny thing is, as soon as I had complained and spent all my bids, their company and their sister companies stopped sending me e-mails. I didn't even get a response to my complaint about not winning my auctions, no correspondence at all to even keep up the facade of professionalism. What a SCAM! Stay away from this site!!!!!!! At one point, they may have been a good company, but they are definitely thieves now!!! I am going to report them to the BBB and any other site I possibly can. By the way, there is a story about one person who threatened to report them, sent 50 e-mails over the course of 2 days from herself, her bank, and her lawyer, and was able to get her funds reimbursed, and reported them anyway. (Sadly, my Chase bank was not nearly as helpful as that, since I had authorized the payment.) 1286ca1
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| 1. Written by OC on February 19, 2012 from plano, texas, US and that guy eric bacon was the same lying *** that said i would get my money back!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 2. Written by OC on February 19, 2012 from plano, texas, US The same exact thing happened to me and they said they would fefund my money in an email and nothing has happened and now i guess the websit is shut down. And i was thinking the same thing about one of their employees just sits there and ramps the bids while we buy more bids and never win and the only ones we win are the cheap stuff that we or at least i never got shipped and i had to pay for shipping. I got completely screwed and luckily it was for only 80 bucks plus shipping. i feel *** and got sucked into the great bids. i thought it was legit because there was a link off my gmail. i got screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 3. Written by Lauriebjw on January 15, 2012 from west palm beach, florida, US I was just about to sign up when it asked for money up front...so you have to pay to bid? And then pay for the item? And now I read this....the response sounds like a bunch of crap to me?. |
| 4. Written by Miagirl99 on January 9, 2012 from los angeles, california, US No, they did not. However, I did receive a response from them: "I received your request and understand your issue regarding the timer being held at 1 second. The timer is held at 1 second because not all bidders browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc) are running at the same speed. This is due to slow internet connections, programs running in the back ground, old computers, etc. Our servers wait for everyone’s computer to sync with us. We then view the server timestamp on each bid, and order them. This insures that even if you have a slow connection, if your bid was placed before our servers end the auction, it will be recognized. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask. Thanks for trying SaveBig.com! Eric Bacon SaveBig.com Customer Support" My further inquiries have had no response, and as you can see, he failed to mention anything about returning my $27.00. SaveBig Sucks! |
| 5. Written by dizzybidder on December 9, 2011 from seattle, washington, US BUT YOU DID NOT RECIEVE YOUR MERCHANDISE DID YOU THEY SHOULD REFUND IF YOU DID NOT. |
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