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[coyoteman5]

Yeah has anyone used or looked at a site called guns 4 pennies Kind of wondering about people experience with it.

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[Greenbug]

Just checked it out. Looks like you have to pay for a bid package? It must cost you "x" ammount each time you bid. Seems like the auction never stops since everytime a new bid is placed the auction timer resets and starts over again? Seems like a racket to me, of course I know that I am not so lucky to place a $98 winning bid on a Nighthawk custom 1911.

 

[DieselScout]

If it sounds to good to be true it is. Everyone is out to make a buck and nobody online is going to give you anything. Typically there is a per bid charge or the "pennies" you bid with cost dollars each.

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[CarlMc]

Say a gun retails for $500. Since you essentially buy a lottery ticket just to bid, the company makes several thousand dollars for each product they sell. ISTR Quibids is the same sort of thing. There was an article I read on the topic just the other day that stated these outfits are popping up like crazy because the profit is absolutely insane.

Or, in more common rhetoric: A fool and his money are soon parted.

 

[SteveXKR]

There was discussion on it before here.
Consensus seem to be that you have to be really lucky to get anything at a decent price, and otherwise you'll spend a fortune on these 'penny' bids..

 

[edogg]

Penny auctions, while not necessarily a scam, are not a good deal. Between paying for your bids and the auction clock resetting every time a bid is placed, it's easy to rack up quite the bill and not even win the item.

 

[huthuthike]

My wife and I have been using quibids for a while. Probably spent $60 and have received $200 worth of gift cards. Bids cost you 60cents (but you can earn free bids), only increase the price by a penny and reset the clock (10-30 seconds usually)for the auction. You can easily spend $6 (10 bids) or lots more trying to outbid someone else for the right to pay $50 for an ipad. You have to think about what you are doing. The math is easy, that $50 ipad represents 5000 1-cent bids - 60 cents per bid times 5000 = $3000 for quibids. They bought the ipad for $600 and come out way ahead. The auction winner may have spent 60 cents or $60, they probably came out ahead. The ones who don't win are the ones who spent $200 and didn't win the auction. They have lost the money they spent and have nothing to show for it.

 

[chemist]

Yeah, it's gambling, pure and simple. Like CarlMc said, all you're buying with your bid is a lottery ticket.