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MadBid has a rating of 3.0 stars from 398 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with MadBid most frequently mention customer service. MadBid ranks 12th among Auction sites.

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Top Positive Review

“5 star!”

Luz D.
8/27/15

This auction site is the best one I have ever joined! Winning definitely happens and if you don't win you can use your bids as credits towards the end purchase of your desired item. Shipments are ultra fast too!

Top Critical Review

“Macbid rep off”

Michael F.
1/22/23

I purchased a product from them on action got no where with management ask for a corporate address so i could go to court there reply was its on there sight but there is none listed just a bunch of warehouses for action. They are very deceiving company they tell you product worth 300 and i saved 70 % gave measurements on add nothing was correct sold me a box of scrap for 120.00 look at pics and discretion of product all i got was a box of bolts and parts total rip off.

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Thumbnail of user colinj18
GB
1 review
8 helpful votes
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April 9th, 2016

Bought over 500 bids but what it dont tell you is most bids are above 10/15 bids each time you bid! Rip off...

Thumbnail of user peterd91
India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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November 28th, 2015

I asked for help from customer service and they were professional and satisfied what I needed without question.

Thumbnail of user gunaprasads
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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June 8th, 2016

I won many products from madbid. But i received some products brand new but some or not. My overall experience with madbid is good till now.

Thumbnail of user jozsefk3
Hungary
1 review
1 helpful vote
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October 18th, 2017

Average products ( if not out of Stock), expensive unrealistic full prices, expensive home delivery prices

Thumbnail of user am4822
GB
1 review
18 helpful votes
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August 27th, 2015

Why, when the bid appears to have ended does it just sit there for ages waiting for what appears to be the winning bid to be beaten?

Thumbnail of user yuvrajp1
India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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October 5th, 2017

It is very good experience. With bid you can earn discount with which you can buy mobile. I purchased Samsung mobile which is of good quality.

Thumbnail of user joej94
China
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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October 7th, 2023

It looks interesting, I like, recommend it. It is really a good website! Don't miss! I really enjoy it.

Thumbnail of user wendyp39
GB
1 review
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April 27th, 2016

Excellent customer service from Edwin at Madbid- so helpful and sorted problem without any hassle. A big thank you.

Thumbnail of user damient9
GB
1 review
26 helpful votes
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January 24th, 2016

Madbid.com, the only web site I know where you can click on a few buttons, spend hundreds of pounds and get absolutely nothing in return...

Thumbnail of user marcov8
Netherlands
1 review
1 helpful vote
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April 8th, 2016

Madbid has good deals on their site. You can get nice pieces of electronic items at deeply discounted prices.

Thumbnail of user shellym25
GB
1 review
47 helpful votes
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February 23rd, 2015

I was relieved of £99.99 within 30 minutes and have NOTHING to show for it! As a fairly intelligent woman, I have to say I was completely blinded by clever marketing and a clean looking website (Ididn't see it coming). Also, they play on your need or desire for a bargain. In my case, it was the NEED for a bargain, as money has been tough following multiple strokes that has left me incapable of work and disabled in the last year. I desperately needed a T. V after mine broke.

My advice, STAY AWAY! Why I didn't come to look at reviews first I'll never know! Thing is, they plant clever consumer review articles around the place, I think I read mine in a magazine. Consumer reporter tested Madbid for getting a bargain on an ipad I think... he went to the site, bid once or twice and won the item at 80% off retail price. Complete crap! These articles are obviously written and paid for by Madbid. I wish I still had it, I would contact the publisher. This is why I signed up. Grrrr!

Today for the last 4 hours I have watched countless amounts of people place thousands of pounds of bids on a one thousand pound TV. One by one they have dropped off as they have run out of credits. Some of them bid for over an hour. In my experience I know this must have cost each one of them more than £200. You do the maths. Each one of these now walk away with nothing! You pay for every one of those bids. £100 will buy you 1000 credits. The auctions that is taking place right now charges you 8 credits per bid. This gives you only 125 bids. That's a staggering 80p to bid ONCE! So it's no wonder that £100 can be gone in 30 minutes. Reminding you again... you are walking away with absolutely nothing!

Still waiting for a response from Madbid, but I do not expect anything satisfactory to come from my correspondence. The best I can do is warn others not to make the same mistake.

Thumbnail of user nabeele1
India
1 review
11 helpful votes
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May 29th, 2017

We cannot redeem any earned discount into refund atleast? Because there's not much things to shop in the "Shop" and also everything has a shipping price which is exorbitantly outrageous and also does not get included in the earned discount, Also the products that's available in the "Shop" is a cheap quality which is China made which is easily available in the market for 1/4 of that prices quoted in the "Shop". Those are not branded products like for example Bluetooth speaker is not JBL which is easily available in the market for the price you've quoted for a cheap Bluetooth speaker which is not even branded. Please be Flexible as the automatic charge that took place was unauthorized as you were not supposed to have my card details on your file even after me choosing not to save the card details. And I was bidding continuously to win the bid and did not realize that you ran my card and I got credits from that untill I checked my bank statement and now you say that I shouldn't have used the credit package for me to get a refund, this is Fraudulent activity or a way to rip people off.

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Customer S. – MadBid Rep

Hello,

We apologize that you did not enjoy your MadBid experience.

Please be assured that we are a legitimate company and have thousands of happy users who have been with us for years. The workings of our site are transparent on our support portal.

We update our shop every week to cater to the different items that our users would like to purchase. Did you contact our friendly Customer Service team yet to answer the queries about the charges that you mentioned and items that you would like to see on our shop? If you didn't, please do so, we would love to assist you.

The MadBid Team

Thumbnail of user alejandrob15
Chile
1 review
1 helpful vote
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February 23rd, 2017

Very interesting, I got my tablet at the best price ever!, Lots of interesting things to get. I will continue with the biddings.

Thumbnail of user peterw64
GB
1 review
36 helpful votes
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September 4th, 2015

IF YOU BUY CREDITS AND DONT USE THEM THEY ARE WIPED OFF. I WAS SAVING MY CREDITS UNTIL I FOUND SOMETHING TO BID ON AND THE CREDOTS WERE STOLEN BECSUSE O DID NOT USE THEM. DO NOT USE THIS SITE.

Thumbnail of user lillyd5
GB
1 review
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April 30th, 2015

Registered and bought £49.99 credit and did some bidding. I did not win anything but the message appered "you have not enough credit". It was at the weekend so I could not ring them I rang Pay Pal, they confirmed that the money succesfully went to Madbid! But where was the money? Paypal told me that they will write to them in the mean time they adviced me to send them the e mail too. Which I did but no reply and pay pal had no reply eighter. Finally I have called them and found out that basicly as soon as you start bidding soon your money disapperas even though you do not win anything!

Did not relaise I was involved gambling website. How can they call them self auction company when you do not win anything but still pay for it! Could not beliieve this kind of compay are exist in UK. They refused to pay the money back. Aperantly it is on the terms and conditions and I should not sign it without reading it. I know I will not get my money back but just want to warn others. Liverpool Lilily

Thumbnail of user saurabhp4
India
1 review
22 helpful votes
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August 18th, 2015

Don't be get fooled by them, you will endup losing all your money and get nothing out of it.

Thumbnail of user felipeg13
Mexico
1 review
1 helpful vote
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July 15th, 2016

Feeling part of an auction is always exciting and interesting; madbid gave me chills and happiness

Thumbnail of user fazr
GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
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December 1st, 2015

***** TWO KEY RULES TO FOLLOW *****

1. Understand the game before you play.
2. Don't be trigger happy with your bids.

Firstly I want to point out that I am no way affiliated with MadBid or any other company they may be known as.

I have had an extremely positive experience with MadBid as I've won a few auctions.

I've won an iMac for £70 ish.
I've won an Oral B toothbrush for £40 ish.
I've also won a set of Bluetooth bathroom scales for £22 ish.

Had I purchased these items from the high street I would have paid in excess of £1,200.

So I guess the main thing to point out is this site isn't a scam. It's quite difficult to understand, however if you take the time out and dumb it down you CANNOT lose...!

Here is why I've been successful.

I set out to buy a MacBook Air from Apple. Cost price of this was £749. MadBid had the same MacBook on their site for £748. It was £1 cheaper to start with.

So what I did was "invested" my whole £750 into the site. What I did though was waited till a credit offer was available before piling all my cash into the site at once. The credit offer was 4 for the price of 1. So if I bought 1,000 credits I'd get 4,000.

I then started to study the site to gauge what the average final auction value was for the items I was bidding on.

Once I had a good idea of what the end auction prices were closing at I'd set an amount of bids that I wanted to use for that auction in the hope that I'd win.

Over the space of about 2 months of won the items I've listed above. Along the way I had burnt through £750 worth of credits with still no MacBook won.

Well here's where the twist is with the site that most people fail to understand it.

Every single penny I'd paid into my paid credits (£750) was being banked by the site. Yes... Banked...! So I could then go on to purchase my MacBook Air for £748. Which was delivered today... Thank you MadBid.

Last night I'd decided to buy the new Apple TV so again I put my £130 into the site and got a load of credits. I'll now try my luck in winning something else. If all else fails I'll still end up with my Apple TV for a few quid cheaper than Apple. If I'm successful I'll end up with a few more goodies on the way.

Remember the points I made above:

1. Understand the game before you play.
2. Don't be trigger happy with your bids.

Thumbnail of user andreaf21
GB
2 reviews
36 helpful votes
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October 21st, 2014

Duped, and almost scammed all my friends with this one :( really wish I had seen this first.

Thumbnail of user ireki
Poland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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July 28th, 2016

Good fun and you can win a lot of interesting things at very good prices

Thumbnail of user marianb15
Netherlands
1 review
0 helpful votes
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May 20th, 2016

I am new here but was excellent informed by telephone. Now I start mysterieuze bidding today.

Thumbnail of user gaenorw
GB
1 review
38 helpful votes
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August 9th, 2014

Keep away from this site I lost money on this and got nothing.

Thumbnail of user aidanc17
Ireland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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October 2nd, 2016

THIS IS A GOOD PASTIME. THE BUZZ THE RUSH WINNING THE PRIZES AT A FRACTION OF THIER COST
TRY IT OUT YOURSELF AND SEE FOR YOURSELF

Thumbnail of user ramak10
India
1 review
16 helpful votes
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April 27th, 2016

Madbid is worst and looting money from the people, MADBID IS A BIG FRAUD SITE, PLEASE DONT REGISTER AND BID.

Thumbnail of user peterd90
Luxembourg
1 review
1 helpful vote
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November 23rd, 2015

It's usually quite fair in the dealings with its customers.

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Founded in the UK in 2008, MadBid.com is the largest European pay-to-bid auction website, operating in 5 European countries including Italy, Germany, Spain, Ireland and UK. With over 2,000,000 registered users and nearly 1,000,000 unique visitors pe...

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