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Best best is probably to wait until late night/early morning when there won't be as many people on and look for items that are less in-demand really, not all of the obvious stuff like PS3/iPhone etc. Then observe if there is any bidding war going on, if not and there is only a few bids try and get in at the last second or so.
 
International auctions

Bidding is open to bidders from several Swoopo countries on most of our auctions. Doing this allows us to offer you a greater variety of products than we'd be able to do if we were to only allow bidding from one country.
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Having that in mind, doesn't that mean there is no down time?

Is a very good idea and as many have said, which i had come up with that! :p
 
When it says international, does that include US (and if so, is it even popular there)? If not you can still use time to your advantage, you just have to do the opposite of a stereotypical bidder.

For example, bidding at 3am on a Tuesday would be great for an iron but not for a PS3. Equally, bidding at 9am on a Sunday would be great for a PS3, but not for an iron :p.
 
I used Swoopo (when it was Telebid) last summer. Bagged a Wii Fit one week after it was released for £16 (cost of the bids + final price + delivery). Had a £5 off code, so got it for £11. Was delivered 2 weeks later. :)
 
I feel sorry for the people that think they can get a bargain from this... the only people winning are Swoopo themselves.

Sure, you might get lucky and get an iPhone for £50 - but for you to win that iPhone for £50, means that 20-100 people have all spent £5-49 on bidding for that item. A bargain for one person is subsidised by the 99% of other bidders who don't win the item. This is a lottery or raffle and *not* an auction - I hope the relevent authorities are looking into this and making sure that Swoopo are presenting the true nature of their operation to the customers.
 
daz said:
I feel sorry for the people that think they can get a bargain from this... the only people winning are Swoopo themselves.
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Why do you feel sorry for them? if they're getting a bargain there's no reason to, it's the losing bidders you should feel sorry for.

Sure, you might get lucky and get an iPhone for £50 - but for you to win that iPhone for £50, means that 20-100 people have all spent £5-49 on bidding for that item. A bargain for one person is subsidised by the 99% of other bidders who don't win the item. This is a lottery or raffle and *not* an auction - I hope the relevent authorities are looking into this and making sure that Swoopo are presenting the true nature of their operation to the customers.
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I don't see how they're hiding what they're doing, it's pretty obvious after looking on the site for 10 seconds :confused:.
 
It's gambling.

You pay each time for a chance of winning.

The gamble being that you're hoping no one else will buy the next price up from the one you did.

I can't see it as being possible to play the system without being played by it.

I'd never use a site like that.
 
I can't see any reason the authorities would do anything - they're perfectly open about how it works.

I'd be interested to watch it and figure out when the quiet periods etc. are, for example a D90 finishing up at £54 earlier, even if every other bid was yours thats still an £800 camera for £325.

It's something I think you could quite possibly take advantage of if you spent a decent amount of time studying it and the behaviour of people on it, learn which items are definite ones to avoid etc. what sort of existing bidding patterns are best not getting involved in...
 
There's a D90 on there now. I noticed the earlier one being bid all over by someone called Jenneke. The same person is all over this one, and just wanged 70 bids on it. I wonder how much they've spent so far and not got anywhere?
 
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