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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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GB
1 review
17 helpful votes
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January 4th, 2016

Listen, take it from me, I stupidly didn't look at reviews and believe me when I say I wish I had, you may as well take a match or lighter and burn your money, at the end of it you'll end up with the same result, NOTHING! Please please don't do it!

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Mexico
1 review
1 helpful vote
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February 13th, 2017

Great auctions page, very reliable and secure, for example I have won one auction and my delivery arrived very fast. I recommend this website, 5 stars

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GB
2 reviews
28 helpful votes
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June 14th, 2015

I am nobodies fool. Rephrase that I was nobodies fool. I read an article added on the end of a sky news app which I thought was from a "which" type magazine telling me that Madbid actually worked!
I fell for it. Impossible to win anything on these sites what a pile of rubbish!
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON MADBID

Thumbnail of user mikm15
GB
1 review
38 helpful votes
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December 2nd, 2014

Hi Just joined MadBid to have a look for more info but the only valid links are to buy credits. It looks obvious to me that this site is designed to take money by making you buy & bid with credits of which it takes several credits to place a bid. The nearest thing I can offer as a similarity for this is the amusement arcade machines which spew strips of tickets for endless cash stuffing through the coin slot., then to find your two million won tickets which cost you £££££sss will buy you a pencil with a rubber gonk stuck on the end. At least in arcades it obvious your chucking money away but on Mad Bid their telling you its an auction when its actually a raffle that can only be won by the last one to enter. This should be banned along with pyramid schemes and the likes, and since I joined its been endless spam Texts with unbelievable offers of free tickets and guaranteed refunds if I loose. All tactics of scam merchants and tricksters. I don, t part with money easy and have no intention of doing so here. It was obvious from the outset that this site is misleading, The lack of info and having to buy credits to win credits is a big red alert. Stay Away,

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GB
1 review
37 helpful votes
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February 7th, 2014

IT does not get any worse than this!
We offer you a free auction site, WRONG you cannot bid without paying, they should be saying YOU PAY TO BID, IF YOU DO NOT USE UP THE MONEY YOU PAY US, WE KEEP IT, YOU CANNOT HAVE YOUR MONEY BACK.

Then they should say:
We reserve the right to stop the auction or choose the winner, it is not the highest bidder who wins Please remember that one, THE HIGHEST BIDDER DOES NOT ALWAYS WIN!

We reserve the right to charge you for each bid, to allow you to use our auto bid but we charge you for that too.

We have reserves on products in our auctions. We will not sell unless products reach a set price. In other words we want our profit.

The site is a GAMBLING SITE, there is absolutely no skill involved, you may as well try the lottery.

Crap site with no chance of finding a bargain, in fact the buy now prices are often outrageous.

Thumbnail of user angelam47
California
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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May 14th, 2016

As my bids ran out it showed on my scream collect £25 worth bids as i was collecting and uses them unknowingly to me they went complementary as I that this came out my account a total of £450 and I cldny get any help or proper explanation of why this wasn't made clear to me it appears as tho u getting free credits worth £25 and chums up wile u are bidding when u cldny possibly read how it works anyway (although this isn't explained anyways)when I reAlised that's wot they wer doing I was physically sick, apart from getting slapped about from my partner for losing all that money

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Customer S. – MadBid Rep

Angela, We are very concerned after reading your comment. Please contact us straight away at cs.lead@madbid.com so we can understand what has happened?

Thumbnail of user jorger29
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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April 19th, 2016

I spend all my time on this new system and I see how others users win the item, by 1 or 2 seconds I will win but it's incredible many offers! And many disscounts. Thanks Madbid!

Thumbnail of user jonathanw75
GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
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May 18th, 2016

A total rip off, you may, and I stress may, win a discounted item but by the time you have finished buying and losing credits you will find it was not worth it.

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Customer S. – MadBid Rep

Hi Jonathan, sounds like you didn't win the auction you were bidding on. What are you going to buy with earned discount you created?

Thumbnail of user johnm397
GB
1 review
34 helpful votes
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December 31st, 2014

This site is designed to take money, not sell products, the product is a side isuue. The key to their profit it the bidding process, what auction makes you pay to BID! They have tiny bids so their are hundreds, if not thousands per item. I bought £50 worth of credits and they were gone in lesss than an hour, money gone.
The site did not make it clear that this is what happens and they did not make it clear you were going on AUTO bid when you clicked on bid. IT IS A COMPLETE SCAM.
PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THEM, there are no bargains

Thumbnail of user hasnab1
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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March 3rd, 2016

Have won a number of items since being on the Madbid platform. Keyword is to be patient, get too excited and you win nothing. Be patient and you will be amazed at what you can win.

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Customer S. – MadBid Rep

Thanks Hasna

Thumbnail of user spiridonr
GB
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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April 12th, 2016

I use the site for quite a while now and I have won quite a few things in a reduced price, and the ones I haven't won, I have accumulated a purchase discount. With other words an all round winner.

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India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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April 20th, 2016

Madbid provides good customer service though it a little slow but its good and you can really ge some good products at really low prices like i got macbook bundel.

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Customer S. – MadBid Rep

Thanks Saranjit, very useful feedback for our customer service team

Thumbnail of user ramak13
India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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July 9th, 2016

I joined madbid 3-4months back... i got to know about this website by my freind... so i thought to try once my luck but after joining i got to know its not about luck but purely patience that ll work here... after waitiing for a long time i won a sony playstaion... so i am very happy with madbid. It is a very good website... but we need to be extrmely patient and moreover we should bid wisely nd spend credits... nd products also very good brand new... but little drawback is there should be an option to spend free credits first and paid credits later bcoz free credits expire in 30 days and paid credits 180 days... if madbid look into it. It s most trusted auction site

Thumbnail of user anniea16
GB
1 review
40 helpful votes
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January 30th, 2016

After signing up, it was only necessary that I bought credits. I bought the lowest pack for £27 odd and received 200 and odd credits. On buying my credits, I was charged with a delivery charge of around £1.99. I then won another 200 credits, yet again I was charged with a delivery charge on £1.99. After this, I continued to bid, being clever I watched one thing at a time when bidding at the time, I was watching 1000 credits being auctioned. As I was watching this and clicking "bid", the screen would move about and I would find myself bidding for something else that wasn't relevant at all to me. Due to this, I used all of my credits up and had to buy more costing me around £35 and then my delivery charge which isn't necessary. I carried on bidding for these 1000 credits but then again found myself bidding for unnecessary auctions. After this, I found I had wasted around £70/£80 on absolute nothing and it was all because of the Madbid site. I understand it was my choice to buy the credits and I appreciate that fully, however, I am really annoyed at the site and its technological problems. Because of this I will never use the site again and would not advise anyone else to use it. Pure scam in my eyes.

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GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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January 18th, 2021

They call this site the penny auction and trust me it really is as I just won the 360° Vecto Wireless Water Resistant Speaker Orange RRP £129.99 for just 1p
With the other items I won I waited for the right moment and then dived in and hoped for the win, you must be prepaird to lose many credits and only bid what you can afford. I give this site 5 STARS

Thumbnail of user apoorvs1
India
1 review
33 helpful votes
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September 5th, 2015

Useless site! Everything looks too good to be true. It's almost exceptionally difficult to win a bid on this site. Even if you're going to win a bid, they will not allow it if they don't like the price of the bid. After the last second it would say checking becuase in reality it's waiting for another bid to overbid you. All kinds of dubious things were happening when I was bidding. I had selected the auto-bid option for only one bid. But after sometime when I returned there was a second auto-bid running. It was bidding for me on a product which I didn't even know was in the auction. End result: I lost about 500 credits for no reason. On top of that they don't even reply to your e-mails. The site is riddled with errors! Sometimes these errors can cause a lot of problems for you. Once you buy their credit points your money is trapped becuase you cannot get much from the discounts you earn, they don't have much variety in their stock so you have to select products you probably don't even need.

My suggestion is don't waste your money on this site. You only have a 20 percent chance of winning.Go to bid- ninja and see the figures. Even the top bidders on this site have a win percentage of 20percent. Plus the shipping cost and conversion to dollar increases the cost

Thumbnail of user neils53
GB
2 reviews
17 helpful votes
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February 22nd, 2016

I used madbid but did'nt win what I wanted. I earned credits to get a discount on Karcher K4 premium jet washer. I got this as a present for someones birthday, I gave it to them this weekend and when box was opened found damage and not all the equipment that should be there was there. The box had been opened and repacked which must have been don by an Apprentice as a monkey would have made a better job. This washer was not even for the UK market as it has a two pin EU plug on it. My honest opinion is that they sell secondhand goods at highly exagerated prices. I gave the site 1 star as you cannot give -10 stars. KEEP YOUR MONEY AS IT IS A CHEATING WEBSITE.

Just a quick update. Since placing this review I have heard from Madbid and they are going to replace the washer. I am pleased with this result but they could have replied to the customer supprt ticket I filled in on Saturday instead of after this review.

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Customer S. – MadBid Rep

Thanks for the update Neil, I hope the replacement washer is working ok for you

Thumbnail of user suzzyn
GB
1 review
28 helpful votes
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July 6th, 2015

Madbid is the worst site i've ever used. What the site should be called is "moneygrabbers.com". They con people out of their hard earned cash.
It's disgusting how this site can get away with presenting themselves as a penny auction site when in fact it is a gambling site, it's beyond me. At least gambling sites state what they really are unlike these charlatans who pretent they are doing people a favor by deluding them in to thinking they u can win through auction top quality bargains for a small price when in fact u end up paying well over the odds, thats if u win anything atall after spending hundreds if not thousands of credits, but it's ok cos they give u earned money in exchange for used credits to spend in their madshop, again looks like ure getting discounted bargains but no ure not, copy the items into google search or ebay and amazon and u will soon see that u can get these items much cheaper with free delivery also which madbid do not supply. Also i've noticed on Madbid that the same bidding names pop up over and over again sometimes on 4 or 5 different items at a time. I would never suggest they are bots but they sure behave like them.
Take my advice and stay well clear of this site and sites like Madbid. Save ur hard earned money for the likes of ebay or amazon.

Thumbnail of user josee24
Mexico
1 review
1 helpful vote
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April 25th, 2016

Last month I won a De Longhi Nespresso and a Kindel, it was fun and I get this two products in less of 15% of their retail price.
Don´t missed this oportunity to win, its easy and fun
Greetings form Mexico
Jose Escalante

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Customer S. – MadBid Rep

Hola Jose, thank you for your feedback

Thumbnail of user michaelw194
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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November 14th, 2015

At the end of the day, there is only one winner. And its ( NOT YOU) So if you have money to give away, there are lots of charity's out there that would be glad of it.

Thumbnail of user steveb191
GB
1 review
16 helpful votes
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May 23rd, 2016

After hearing all the great hype about mad bid, i must have been mad to sighn up with my 50 pounds that run out very quick and not winning anything.
Then on top of that the plot thickens they only went and charged me another 30 pounds auto top up with out my consent charged to my bank.
And after all weekend with great anxiety and panick attacks thinking iv been robbed i decided to phone them and the polite lady told me i could claim something for free and yes they had the cheak to charge me 10 pound for postage and packaging.
So for the 90 pounds that i spent that made me ill i ended up with a phone when i wanted a smart TV.
And the phone i got was suppose to be rrp 150 pounds brand new YET on ebay iv seen them go FOR 40 POUNDS.
AND get this they have the cheek to tell me they are items that have been won on MADtosighnupBID.
THEY BELONG ON CHUCKLE BROTHERS OR WATCH DOG
I HOPE THIS HELPS ANY ONE VULNERABLE TO MODERN DAY CON ARTISTS

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Mexico
1 review
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June 27th, 2016

My product arrived as early as expected, I liked the service, very good logistics, recommend page 100%

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My product arrived as early as expected, I love it.

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Thumbnail of user pedroc26
Portugal
1 review
4 helpful votes
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March 27th, 2016

No auction requires bidders to pay for the same item, only the winner. This is another type of "auction"... get real people!

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Customer S. – MadBid Rep

Pedro, have you played Madbid?

Thumbnail of user balwinh
China
1 review
0 helpful votes
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October 7th, 2023

MadBid gave me an excellent service and I wanna to have review about like they are, this is very important to anyone.

Thumbnail of user davidh382
GB
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June 30th, 2016

I was a bit sceptical about this website so I had to try it. Its fun bidding, its great when you win, and the customer service is good too.

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