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  • I paid $60 for a bid package at a particular penny site (I'm blaming Oprah, she endorsed it!) Anyway the first thing I bid on was more bids and I won. Then I tried winning some real stuff-before I knew it a good chunk of my bids were gone with nothing to show for it. That's when I started paying attention to items that were being bid on with bots. I found a BluRay ($79msrp) player that was only being bid in singles by one person so I fought them and got it. I'm done though, too much effort

  • I wood like to thank you and hope outher find this site so they can keep their money and not just giving it a away in hopes of wining thanks GRUMPY

  • I think this guy is a prophet. He should start auction rehab club.

    what about Bidder Robot software does that not work either?

  • games of chance are just that...if you like to gamble keep doin what yur doin if you like to get products you want for a good price and save money check out dropoppdotcom its not an auction its a co-op... people helping one another get expensive items for less...dont waste money and time...check out things thoroughly before you give your credit card number and information out...

  • I am PURE luck. I am like that shit from harry potter and the half blood prince.

  • you're all idiots, i've made a ton of money on swoopo (rip) and now Quibids.... ive won laptops, tvs, game consoles......

    i have a spread sheet in which i keep track of EVERYTHING, currently i've spent $8,560 in purchasing bid packs between swoopo and quibids, and total retail in won goods i've got $23,928.00. some stuff i've kept, but mostly sold everything... so far i've gotten $17,300 from selling won items.

    it's called having a strategy and not being an idiot... (and bidproapp) lol

  • @sean8604 Possible, but highly unlikely. Besides, you'd make more money putting half that time into a regular job anyway.

  • @MystryBox i make plenty of money at my regular job, quibids is a 2nd income to me because i do so well. my win percentage on that website is 40%... i've not seen anyone else with stats even close to mine.

    say what you will about penny auction sites, but i've got nothing but good things to say.

  • @sean8604 And whats your strategy for winning? Your comment comes off as very defensive and rude. If I won all that stuff, i'd definitely be in a better mood!

  • @sean8604 what app do you have

  • @AndreNickatinaIsLife The app I have is called "bid pro app"...... just google it..... the same guy that made that made one for swoopo, it was called "swoopo analytics"... i was on that until swoopo filed for bankruptcy...

  • your wasting your time on swoopo. if you want the item just buy it somewhere else with discount. people seeing mac book pro,s 17 on there for small amounts it take hours and hours to try and win, there not going to let a £2500 laptop go for pennies. by the time someone wins swoopo have make 3 times the price of the laptop in bids, plus the winning price .

  • they're all scams and he is right all of them are geared to take your money

  • bid buttlers funny word

  • To win just go on odd hours

  • beezid rocks

    

  • network= DDOS= fine of over $300. not a good idea

  • @mystrybox Of course I Know that I realized that the very instant I started. All I'm saying is Its better than a slot machine or a craps table. 

  • The site I use has never lagged. If you think you are going to a penny auction and win the first time out, you should be wearing a helmet at all times. I did hours and hours of research before I laid any bid down. As it stands right now, after the cost of my bids the cost to buy the item and shipping I'm up $1,580.00. Now this took a lot of time and effort. But I have fun doing it and to me I have better odds than a casino. And if you're not on a site that let's you buy the item with you're inv

  • @RipMcHuge somewhere in that hours and hours of research it should have dawned on you that for every person who wins an item there are hundreds of losers--and that's how they make money. Want to calculate the "odds", just look at the numbers at the end of my video for how stupid these sites are.

  • i won my first bid...

  • @rpgtrainer quit while you're ahead.

  • Thanks for the Info.

  • I can tell that guy was pretty smart by the bookshelf in the background.

  • Thanks bro, u saved me time and money. Was seriously gonna try to bid to get a iPad 2. I'll just save to buy it at best buy or something.

  • jesus! turn down ur mic!

  • @MrAnarchy92 I've got a lot of videos and never a complaint. Maybe you should turn down your speakers.

  • Charlie Sheen is probably the one winning everything

  • Thank you for the info, I never knew that you guys went so far with the automated scripts! Robots!

  • is the site trustworthy

  • @playstationkinect it depends on what you mean by trustworthy. I think it's trustworthy like a gambling site is trustworthy. If you win you'll get your product... the trouble is winning.

  • From my experience in Quibid its pretty much lotto, but there are time when number of bidders drop off noticeably. And some items aren't popular and end consistently at low price. Recently, I won 80 dollar watch for 9 bucks (total cost/shipping) because I saw this item end at 1~5 dollar range over and over and I just went in really aggressive. I think, not surprisingly number of bidders and their motivation to win effect your probability of winning more so than bots or lags.

  • @danhoyles I had a similar thought about the aggressiveness of bidding making a difference, so once I ran my bot to always bid immediately when someone else bid regardless of how much time was left on the counter. I figured it would chase people off to see such aggressive bidding. It didn't work (it actually lost a lot of money over other techniques), but I only did it once.

  • @MystryBox Yea I think the main reason I was aggressive is because I was bidding on things I was just willing to pay full Quibid retail price. I also do this when I've studied several - more than 20 or so past auctions for some specific item so I have good idea on winning price. Also, these were sort of less popular items where number of active bidders was really small most of the time during the auction (like 5~10). Possible other techniques may have been just as effective for these.

  • THANK YOU!!!

  • @0secretusername0 you're welcome.

  • longfire spent 5081 bids on a macbook and lost 2000 dollars

  • 1:00 - 1:11 it's funny because I bet that 99% of the people who play think this exact same way.

  • Right on, man. I myself wrote a simple Perl script that hammers a specific auction in the hopes of always being the final bidder. The odds of success are not really any better than when clicking the bid button yourself.

    Overall, I have found that you have to spend at LEAST 2x times the value of your items won to win anything. And the real winner here? Obviously, the house. Penny auctions are nothing but a legal loophole to get around online gambling restrictions for U.S. residents.

  • I am so glad that I took the time to watch your video otherwise I would have really done something stupid tonight!!! Thank you so much, I knew there was a catch!

  • @cindysoto35 glad to have helped. You'd have more fun and better pay off odds playing bingo.

  • You forgot Option Number 4. Be Swoopo.

    Learn Webdesign, take a loan, put together a team and make a site like Swoopo! It's the combination of Vegas and Ebay and the bottom line is once you've got it up and running you'll ALWAYS win.

  • What if you were to set up 3 different accounts on 3 machines each using bidbutler?

    Sort of bid colluding.

  • MystyBox you obviously didn't do a lot of research. Swoopo is one of the oldest and most well-known penny auction sites and consequently one of the busiest, so your chances of winning with a profit are definitely going to be slim.

    Myself, I've made thousands out of PA sites so I can attest that it is possible to make a saving.

    It's funny how when people don't win they always shout 'bots' :)! Some PA sites have bots of course, but there are still genuine ones out there.

  • @kopperspock oh, I can attest to the possibility of making a savings too. Just as I can attest to the possibility of winning the lottery. The problem is for the one person who wins an auction (or the lottery) many more people lost money, and they lost much more money than the winner made. Overall it's a losing game, just like a lottery.

    And my mention of bots wasn't speculation--I made one and used it (and in the process researched a lot of other people who are using them).

  • @MystryBox Yes most people will lose on the auction (unless it's a BIN), but no-one is forcing them to spend money on it. It is certainly a form of gambling, though the PA sites would never admit that.

    I've witnessed bots on PA sites too, but simple common sense is all that is required to not get stung; if a site has a lot of competition but there is little actual recorded traffic, then in all likelihood it's a botted site.

  • Great video thanks man.

    

  • a unbelievebel rentability...have such an idea...and youre redy 2 chill the rest of the life..sick

  • i saw a guy on swoopo get a one gram bar of platinum for 19 cent now tell me that was a bad deal

  • @asr222 sure, whoever wins the lottery gets a good deal. But there's a lot of losers behind that one winner.

  • @MystryBox  only 18 bids for a gram of platinum? cmon bro, thats nothing..

  • lets take a closer look....a apple mac book is in 4 1 cent,30 people would like it at a low price...now after a few hours the price at 30 euros, per bid YOU pay 50 cents...now not only YOU..but all others do 2. now it started with one cent..till 1euro 1cent..30 people have placed 100 (!!!!!) bids..evrey one = 50 cent...with evrey euro the bid raises..the site/owner wins 50 euros(0,50 E * 100 bids)...so 30 Euros and 1 cent = 1500 EUROS !!!!!!!!!!...4 the sites owner..

  • @srang12345 Yeahhhh... not quite if the price is at 1 Euro then everyone TOGETHER placed a total of 100 bids and if you're going with 50 cents per bid then thats 50 Euros for the "site owner".

    But yes you're correct the only one in the equation who always wins is the company in our case "Swoopo" :P

  • so 30 people will loose this auktion...they have payed 1470 Euros so tht one can get the mac book 4 30.....now normaly a mac book in the end would have at least a worth of 500 euros...500 euros in cents is 500/0,01 = 50000 (!!!!!!!!bids) 50000 * 0,50 cents = 25000 euros 4 a 2000 euros worth mac book...(25000-2000=23000 for the owner!!!!)thats why you will find extra new nd expensiv stuff on the site..so that you think youl make a cheap deal..while the real winner is the bank..even without system

  • haha great video!!! :D

  • today came across a website and at first i didn't understand how it was possible, asking my self how they made $ so i looked it up to c if it was a scam and nothing, well i went ahead and decided to try it out worst case i would call the cc, anyways so start looking to see how i can win stuff, until i saw how it worked. to keep it short they make a fortune, i feel so foolish.

    im starting to think theres nothing out there to make money online.

    I rather put my money on blackjack for better odds.

  • If you buy the swoopo app, the app tells you everything about the auction you need to know. Also they tell you when your bids equal are almost over the price of the item and tell you to buy it now, so you don't lose any more bids.

  • @MrDaylong does the app tell you the auctions are a stupid waste of money?

  • Theres a website called Beezid.com. The whole concept i didnt understand so I checked it out. I did not buy any bids or even attempt to bid on anything. All I did was watch an auction and immediately started noticing the robots. On just one auction that was in the final seconds the robot would actually outbid himself to keep the timer resetting and every so often some other random bidder would throw one in.

  • i used 300 bids but i won...it was a 250 bid pack i felt stupid

  • @SL4VE0WNER1904619 that happens all the time.

  • This is Purely Gambling And Nothing More.I had to Learn The Hard Way.Don't Waste Your Money Guys.They Will Try To Suck You In.Theres No Such Thing As Easy Money!

  • i was just watching this site, i watched for periodically for ever 11 hours and a person called eagle 597 bid over 1,500 times, the item itself is worth 500

  • @joejoejoejoejoesmo I've seen the same thing. Often auctions have several people that paid more than the item is worth. Human nature is funny... you think you're getting a deal and instead end up wasting money.

  • @MystryBox haha i know before i was on another site and there was a mac air for auction i think, it was 75 cents per bid and each bid added one cent. the mac started at one cent and ended at $1,100, this made me realize how genius these sights were, you take a 2000 dollar computer, put it online, and sell it for $83,600!!! thats a $81,600 profit on a computer!! why can't people realize what they are doing?!?!?! hahaha!!!

  • ur better of doing surverys for pointsthan this crap, at least u know you wont make a loss since ur just filling surveys and its free....

  • Recently a camera was won by someone for $107.75. Now if you do the math that is 10,775 bids when each bid cost around 0.65. If you do the math that is just over $7000 for that camera with original price was less than $1000. The person who won it saved a lot of money but look how much money swoopo made from people who lost on that bid.

  • @acdcampm the person who won the camera might not have saved much if any money. He might have even paid more for it than retail.  It depends on how many bids he put in before he won it.

  • @acdcampm why do you care how much money swoopo makes? i mean if people are willing to spend their money on the chance to win such a discount, then so be it. no different from someone playing the slot machines.

  • I saw an HP computer sell for over $100 on swoopo and I'm thinking: if it cost $0.60 per bid and over 1000 bids were placed to get it $100, omg... Genius I tell you. Whoever created the site is genius. I'll be sure to stay away from it forever. Because control has nothing to do with it, which is what sucks people in. "I'm a very controlled person" doesn't matter.

  • excellent information thanks,

    it was nothing i didn't know but to see the results of your findings in numbers speaks for itself.

    personally checked out swoopo.ca today and really noticed my internet failing and resetting my modem entirely in the last 5 seconds on there .

    If you want to risk it find the right places to do it .

    Thanks , Awesome video

  • good think i was at math class

  • THE PRICE ON THE WEBSITE IS FAKE

  • ever heard of its too good to be true?

  • Ah, but I did win...several times! I now have a camera I came in late to the auction and used only ten bids, I have a gas card I got for $.10, a lego set for $5.30 and all for under $30 worth of bids! No lie! I think you just have to be lucky and try different sites

  • I'm saying I have the control not to spend that much money, does not man I will win...........

    If(big if) I win, I'll share a picture,, and price, so I can't be called a liar, lol

  • @gibbsfan19 best of luck.

  • how did you get your script on their servers?

  • @gibbsfan19 the scripts ran on my computer. Anyone that could run a script on their servers could win for sure.

  • @MystryBox I may not be thinking correctly here, but if the script ran on your computer, how did it collect the auction data?

  • @gibbsfan19 the auction data is available for a script to track the same way it's available to view during an auction. You run a script that watches the auction as it progresses.

  • @MystryBox I want a PS3, the bid packs their auctioning seem to go easy and cheaply today, so if I can win a few hundred bids, I should be able to bidbuttler and win the PS3, I must be careful though, such things can be addicting, thanks for your insights.

  • @gibbsfan19 if you want a PS3, buy a PS3. If you try to win one on Swoopo (or similar sites) you most likely won't win. Your odds are winning are similar to the odds on winning at bingo. The only difference is you can keep paying to keep playing... basically losing more than the PS3 would've cost you to buy it outright.

    If you ignore this warning please come back and tell me how it went so I can tell you that I told you so, heh.

  • @MystryBox I think I have the appropriate self control, especially since I don't have that kind of money as an unemployed college student

  • @gibbsfan19 it's not a question of self control. Regardless of your self control the odds are bad. Your odds of winning are very poor (similar to the odds of winning a bingo game or lottery). If you don't have much money do you think it's a good idea to waste the money you do have playing a game with bad odds? My advice (for what it's worth) is save your money and buy a PS3 when you've saved enough. If you play with swoopo most likely you will lose your money with nothing to show for it.

  • @gibbsfan19 it's not a question of self control. Regardless of your self control the odds are bad. Your odds of winning are very poor (similar to the odds of winning a bingo game or lottery). If you don't have much money do you think it's a good idea to waste the money you do have playing a game with bad odds? My advice (for what it's worth) is save your money and buy a PS3 when you've saved enough. If you play with swoopo most likely you will lose your money with nothing to show for it.

  • @gibbsfan19 it's not a question of self control, it's that the strategy you're attempting is bad. You can have all the self control you want and it won't help you win a lottery. And the odds on winning an item at swoopo are similar to winning a lottery or a bingo game. Unless you're very lucky you will lose your money with nothing to show for it.

  • wow cheapobidz is way better then this 

  • I'm glad someone cleared this up...all these auction sites get lots of people. thanx :)

  • Pretty good statistical analysis but I just started on using penny auctions but from what you're assuming people bid like idiots.. which I'm sure 90% do. BUT i don't and I'm not convinced that you can't win. As for the 6 people bidding last second then not bidding the next time, you should be familiar with the Bystander Effect theory... everyone expects the others to bid so none of them bid. I've been one of those people before =). I will try again soon but not waste any more than 27$ to play

  • @mecanizm good luck. I thought the same thing at first. The odds are too heavily against you. When you figure out that it's not worth your time come back and let us know.

    Also it wasn't the bystander effect because my bot was lagged out of auctions so I know lag is the issue.

  • You seem like a very smart person

  • The first five minutes and forty seconds were pointless, but good video dude.

  • WIN ME AN APLE IMAC && ILL PAY U???

  • WIN ME AN APLE IMAC && ILL PAY U???

  • Thank you! That clears it up for me, nice clear job and something that is a little rare these days -Real Research. I was wondering why you just don't delete the bizarre comments like "I made a ton of money" instead of responding to them.

  • @NewJocular thanks for the comment. And I do delete the really bad posts.

  • SWOOPO Is a SCAM.

    I's spent $600 on bid packs for 3 auctions at Swoopo. I waited until the very end of the auction and can NEVR Win. BUT as soon as I stopped bidding, the Auction ended within 2 or 3 bids from my last bid. Look at everyones name thats bidding, such similarities. HAS TO BE GHOST BIDDERS. SWOOPO IS A SCAM. Save your money & spend it at a Legit Auction Site. I am going to make 500 web sites Stating Why Swoopo is a Scam. I HATE SWOOPO SCAMMERS THIEVES CHEATS SCAMMERS

  • @DrCarrySparkz$600???? n1!

  • The person who invented "swoopo" and "bidray" and other penny-auction websites are geniuses. The companies make so much money off of suckers, it makes me want to start one.

  • @MaxBenedek It is a brilliant concept and I wanted to make one to do the same but after looking into it theres already about 100! and IF you could see ANY profit from it, it wouldn't happen until almost a year of buying, reselling, and shipping items for no profit and alot of time.

  • Nice Video mate thats so true!

  • has anyone ever won something on beezid.com send me a message if yes

  • Thanks for the vid. Very helpful and saved me what could have been a huge headache. Very much appreciated

  • Your videos title says how to win swoopo auctions, you should have titled it You cant win swoopo auctions.

  • Theres an amazing website that lets u win everytime and u get a discount on many items,too! its called AMAZON.

    :P

  • Swoopo is a scam. I spent $500 at swoopo in 10 days have won nothing. I waited until near the end of the auctions i was interested in. Could not win a thing. Swoopo is a scam. Swoopo has phantom bidders ( Fake bidders that win ). Don't be a idiot like me. save your money. stay away from swoopo. its a Scam. I hate Swoopos

  • Yea this is true it isn't even an auction and the government should shut these scams down. The best sites are actual auction sites that don't reset the timer like Ebay or Yahoo auctions.

  • there is one and only one way to win - against the robots, the bid butlers, the manual button clickers, and the network lag issues....

    Nice video. Well done.

  • I won two mac air books with a 200bid pack on the same night!! One went for 340usd and the other 190usd happy days

  • @Doctoratkins I don't believe you.

  • @MystryBox I know I was kidding they are a load of shit. I never went beyond my one free bid. This is the type of site that makes people really rich!!

  • @MystryBox LOL

  • lol... haha

  • They must have payed you to make this video.

  • @RealRapMusic187 actually I'm sure they'd rather I never made this video.

  • hey man your right!! I was watching thw big deal website.. and ther was an item --retale price was $34.50 ...and it was weird becouse these teresa won it but for the amount of $244.33 why?pay so much for an item thats 34. dollars?i think it was a robot or some thing but ...some one really lost alot of money ther ...no winners!!!

  • I might as well just bag up money and throw it away in a trash can.

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  • Wise words.....

    So...I got this e-mail on my spam box from quibids.cm and decided to take a look, I never heard of it and decided to try it out, spent 27 bucks to register and buy the basic pack.... 5 mins later all the money was gone lol.... The chances of me going back to any of these sites again 0%. The only people winning on thi is the auction site owner.

  • Hi. are won something in penny auctions?

    Can you explain me how i can won?

    Thanks

  • i think som1 shuld bid no1 should out bid them then the next ptize someone bids n no1 out bids them then ppl do this 4 evr for many free things! pass this around plz even for Bidstick and Swoopo!

  • I obviously didn't read ALL of the comments, but no one has addressed this issue: it would seem VERY easy for this or any other of these scamming companies to "shell" bids in order to get even MORE money. For example, I can send you a letter on the White House's letterhead, but if I know what it looks like I can easily duplicate it, so who's to say that it really DID come from there? In other words, who's to say that the "bidders" are REAL bidders?

  • @sternrulez that's true but would destroy the company if it got out (and there are always disgruntled employees for any company). Besides, if the main idea works (and it seems to as you can see tons of idiots bidding on these "auctions" at any moment on the website), they don't need to cheat. They're already making tons of money doing basically nothing but taking advantage of people that don't get it.

  • Pretty much only the house wins.

  • Thank u 4 letting me know dis...u saved my time and money. Thank u!

  • Your explanation is good. People need to know that these types of sites like beezid.com actually do exactly what you say ,"small seemingly rational actions adding up to a large irrational one". If you consider a TV they say has a list of $1699.99, and the auction price shows $196.07 (as it goes by one cent increments) means beezid.com has already taken in $19,607.00 (one bid, one buck). The only thing that pisses me off more than these rip-offs is I didn't think of it first. LOL

  • that second method u said, there is a legal way to do it but you still have random chances in a sense. if you know what your doing you simply set up a special connection on the internet causing several sites to ping the 1 site rapidly. this isnt legal simply because pinging is a form of testing connections. you can ping with cmd on your computer but there are programs that can cause mass ping to a site causing lag or even crash.

  • @TK0978 if you ping (or do anything similar ) in order to cause denial of service it is illegal. It's called a denial of service attack.

  • I should've listened to you...

  • Why did you title this "How to Win Swoopo Auctions" .. You seem angry at the website. Obviously you don't know how to win, and it makes you angry.

  • lol what a rubbish video it didnt actually tell me how to win

  • Thats why ebay is more popular and best trusted ;)

  • good man. Learned a lot from you. I appreciate your help to help me save time and money. lol

  • ur so coooool

  • try freebiejeebies u get things 4 free :D

  • @Scoop1232 did you win anything for free and if you did what did you get?

  • Terrific analysis. Thanks for helping us to understand this whacky craze.

  • I have an hour to wait til the bidding is supposed to be over. It's only gotten to 23 cents. I am the top bidder right now... Wish me luck!

  • @awesomerobloxian1 good luck.

    But why not play bingo? The pay-off structure is the same, you don't have to wait hours for a winner, and you get to have fun filling out your little bingo cards.

  • Wanted to see if this was legit. Checked an auction. Came back 6 hours later. It was still going lol

  • @OMGClayAikken yep. that was 6 hours of hundreds of people losing their money but one guy (who might still lose money).

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  • Nice tip man.

  • @Tycid ur right ! Boo Hoo to your ego booster btrainscool! MystryBox Thank you so much for the information! I didn’t find you egotistical at all, in fact, your intelligence is sexy, I love a man that makes sense and saves me money, I almost fell into irrational thought/spending...and I pride myself in not being a gambler! HA LOL Thanks again ;p

  • Great video, keep up warning people about Swoopo.

  • those six people most likely ran out of bids..their eyes were bigger than their stomach and they went for it all.

  • @MystryBox Seems these companies thought of every loophole to run legal gambling operations (i.e. calling it an 'auction' rather than a 'lottery'. Isn't a lottery really a bunch of people paying out their hard earned $'s to bid for a larger money pot, all the while their bids increasing the pot? Hmm... :-) Thanks, man!

  • Sites with "Lowest Unique Bid Wins" that have a fee per bid are basically the same thing as swoopo with a slightly different way of choosing the winner. The structure is only one winner and a lot of losers losing their money for a chance to be that one winner. Same sort of rip off as swoopo... and I'm deleting your post as I think you're really just spamming for one of those sites.

  • Thanks for the info..i bought bids b4 i saw your video from another site but its the same process ....and i was looking at the auctions these sites are sucking up all the money...although I havent spent much I do get the idea now ahhh...but thank God I havent spent a lot of money...There is this auction going on for 2 things "ipad 16 gb" and "42" hd tv" since the morning I was watching it ipad costs $499, and they have gotten 49.33 bids thats total $4933, and for tv the got $12728

  • the title of the video is 'how to win' yet you patronize the viewers by halfway through telling us there is no way to win, its just serendipitous... well then title the video properly instead of tricking people into watching what you have to say.

  • @btrainiscool the video is titled specifically to catch people doing google searches with that sentence. I then do them a favor and explain the facts.  Then they usually thank me. Sorry if you have a problem with my helping people.

  • @MystryBox i do have a problem, because you didnt help me win auctions at all in your video. yes, you go through how the whole thing works, cool. but really, you just wanted to talk about how well informed you are for almost 10 minutes. **BIG EGO BOOSTER YAY** why dont you call the video swoopo:explained/examined or something to that nature, this is tube trickery.