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- Phone: 888-756-7330
- Address: 1818 N Farwell Ave / Milwaukee, WI 53202
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SkoreIt Promo Code
- Use code “BIDNOW” for 10 free bids. Valid for new users only.
Detailed Description
SkoreIt! partners with a Fortune 1000 company to ship our auction items to you in pristine condition, and in nearly every case, by the next business day. All our auctions list exclusively brand new, unopened merchandise.
We sell BidPaks in quantities of 25-1600 at prices as low as 60c a bid.
Our auction items currently include digital cameras, cell phones, GPS & navigation, home theater & audio, and other electronics.
We carefully designed our BidAgent auto bidding service to be the least wasteful in the industry — the BidAgent will not needlessly waste bids before the timer reaches the level you specify.
Our ‘fair bidding policy’ is our solemn promise that only you, our end customer, is allowed to bid on our site.
We provide email and toll-free phone based support.
Bids Start As Low As: .60 cents
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Special Features:
- Buy it Now Option
- Customizable Bid Agent (you can give the Bid Agent specific instructions on when to bid)
- Competitive Win Limits (3 wins per 24 hour period / 12 wins per 28 day period)
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@jeremy, insaneasylm, swi24 -
For new those who are new to penny auctions, it seems illogical for anyone to use more bids than an auction is worth. What new bidders need to recognize is that certain bidders overbid to establish that they will not lose an auction. This means that sometimes they have to overpay, but they develop a reputation that allows them to win other auctions for cheap.
This topic has been discussed at length here: http://pennyburners.com/community/showthread.php?t=857
Many commenters here are quick to label SkoreIt as a fraud or a scam, but it wouldn’t make sense for a site that was scamming people to make it obvious.
The Penny Auction List is committed to featuring safe penny auction sites. SkoreIt has an excellent reputation with experienced bidders, so we would encourage new users to play on sites with less traffic first before trying (and then criticizing) a highly-competitive, high-traffic penny auction.
I’m not gonna say Skoreit is a scam but it’s pretty damn fishy. I was watching this one particular watch for weeks. It was up like ten times, almost always the same time of day and never sold for more than a buck. So I bought 100 bids figuring it’d be an easy win. Guess again. I used all 100 bids and I ran out at $2.78, the watch sold at $2.86. The next day, the same watch sold for $0.42, back under a buck like always. WTF?
I just joined today after seeing Mike and Mike do a promo. First let me say that I did see some things sell for a great price. Like a $549 camera selling for $9.42. Of course @ .60 a bid, skoreit made their money back while many people put in many bids and won nothing. I also saw an IPAD go for around $75. The winner placed over 1800 bids on it and wound up actually spending over $1200 for a $500 item. Something is real fishy here.
Everything I bid on wound up finally selling higher than the same item I did not bid on. Like a 480 bid pack I was involved in bidding for sold for $54, and one I didn’t bid on sold for under $10.
That is bogus and I don’t care if you sit here and try to tell me it is strategy, and these people purposefully overbid in order to make a reputation for themselves as overbidders. All bids cost money and the same handful of people are on there bidding on every item.
Ludicrous.
The concept is simple enough, but the Skoreit website is buggy at best. I lost all of my bids when the buyer agent engaged but the screen showed that it didn’t — and I even canceled the bid agent! Also, as Nick Strozewski said, there is some really fishy bidding going on. In addition to the bidding agent stealing my bids I watched and analyzed the bidding patters and prices, seeing what the $50 gift cards go for. And on the auction when I bought bids and waited for the price to get to the point where it normally sells it sold for only a few cents higher than where my bids ran out. Even if it’s not technically a scam, in practice it is.
Mike C,
Sorry to hear you lost the auction you were bidding on!
We’d love to hear from you about your BidAgent problem at customerservice@skoreit.com or 1-888-756-7330.
Please note that bidding patterns change constantly due to varying customer activity. We have heard from some customers that have had success with your strategy and others that have not. Our aim is to provide a fair playing field and to leave the strategy up to you and our other customers!
-SkoreIt! Customer Service
Oh fuck off SkoreIt customer service – your site is a scam.
Jay,
We can’t vouch for your experiences on SkoreIt, but it sounds like you didn’t do well. It’s a highly competitive penny auction, so it does require a bit of luck.
You might want to consider talking with SkoreIt about your frustrations, or trying out a penny auction with less traffic.
Best of luck to you,
The Penny Auction List
I just won at skoreit but didn’t know they didn’t take paypal which is a pain but I’ll pay using a money card like green dot or something.I think the place is just competitive ,I have been doing these auctions for a few years now and I will tell you that this site is better than fn bidstick who admits he uses robots to boost his sales, I see no shenanigans here really just a lot of bidders
For the amateurs that complain about these type of sites being scams, you are the exact kind of people these sites look for and want to participate. Simple read up on game theory, nash equlibrium, and red-queen hypothesis–just to name a few.
Skore it seems like a scam in every way. Three times I was bidding on items. An X-Box and two gift cards. I was keeping track of all the names that I was competing with. In every auction as soon as I ran out of bids the items sold for the next price up. One cent more than I bid. How is that possible for three straight different items? Big time scam.
I am completely new to bidding sites and only looked at SkoreIt! because I heard about the free bids. My husband and I both signed up and used the 46 free bids each that we got. After lots of careful watching and playing when items seemed to be going for very cheap, we walked away with two 120 bid packs, 3 gift cards totaling $100 and a Toshiba netbook worth $300. Total out of pocket was about $39. Sure, we lost most of our 240 bids we won, but that is all part of the gamble. It is truely a gamble to use a site like this, but you can luck out sometimes. We had a great experience with SkoreIt and have recommended it to lots of friends and family — but with a disclaimer that IT IS A RISK. If you’re not willing to risk losing, then don’t play. Again, I’m a complete amateur at this and I did just fine. Patience, careful watching of opponents, and good usage of the BidAgents (without really using them like BidAgents) can help you win. Good luck!
I heard about SkoreIt! on Mike & Mike and decided to give it a shot. I used my promo bids but didn’t win so I bought a couple bid packs and wound up winning a couple small bid packs and a $50 GC. The way I see it is these auctions are only worth it for the pros. Yes, a casual bidder can get a great deal if they are extremely lucky, but for the most part it seems like the same people win time after time. I studied one item for weeks and noticed that about 99% of the time it sold around $7 – $10. I used a bid agent for a few different auctions of this item and set the min price to $15. All of the auction sold for around $7-$8. Next I tried lowering my min to $10. Same result. Finally I decided to make my min limit at $7 and the item sold for $22. I did this again and the item sold for $25. I watched a few more and the item sold for around $7. I am either just extremely unlucky or something is fishy. And I understand the overbid strategy, however when you see some people constantly overbidding it make you questions the legitimacy of the site.
I just heard the promo code “ESPN” advertised on Mike and Mike this morning. I just tried this promo code 10 minutes after hearing this and it said this code is expired. They still advertise this code to get people to sign up, only to find out the code is expired and hope people will just buy credits. This is false advertising and makes me think this site is a scam without even getting as far as placing a single bid.
This site has one of two things – SHILL BIDDERS or TOTAL IDIOTS. A user is only allowed to win 3 items in 24 hours. Yet there are bidders who simultaneously dump hundreds and hundreds of bids on 4, 5, 6 , and 7 auctions at a time. And they aren’t new users who don’t know about the limits. They are people who have been doing this for weeks and months. When they get their 3 so-called wins they are still down hundreds or thousands of dollars. Yet they come back and do it again. And again. And again. I saw someone who lost at least $5000 taking into account his 3 wins. Yet he was right back the next day to lose another grand.
Also, shill biudding is a CRIME. I do not know that skoreit shill bids, but there have been other sites that have shill bid and skoreit looks suspicious. Some of these site owners have to be prosecuted for it to stop. For those lawyers looking to do some good, try filing a class action lawsuit against sites that might be shilling and see what you learn in the discovery process. That would be good for the honest sites as well as the consumers. And why doesn’t the government step in to make sure these sites aren’t illegal gambling sites? The info at the top of this page says skoreit has a Buy It now option, but that is not true. 99.5% of the auctions on skoreit are gambling because they do not have the Buy It now option.
Ive spent around 200 bucks on bids and have got around 1200 in stuff. Im ok with that!
Glad I’m not the only one. Like others on this message board, prior to bidding, I spent a good amount of time tracking various auctions on items of interest. I put spread sheets together to track certain items; for the time of day of the auctions, the total bids, the auction prices, etc…
Finally, I was ready to start bidding. Items upon which I bid, that were, in previous auctions, routinely “selling” for less than $3.00 dollars, sold (in auctions where I participated)for much more, and in every instance, the auctions closed right after I gave up bidding. I call this the “oh, so close!” enticement–”they” want you to beleive that you came close to winning so you are enticed to try again–and go a little bit further. And it worked on me–but each time, the auction prices reached previously unprecedented (based on my research) levels–until I stopped bidding–and then ended.
Also, as noted by others, I noticed that the same handful of bidders were involved in all of the auctions in which I was biddig–and in others that I was watching.
I’m not an idiot, and I dont beleive that there is any way that anyone can come out ahead in this format, no matter what their “system,” unless they try one time and get extremely lucky and then quit–like any form of gambling. That is if its even legit, about which I have my doubts.
Lesson learned. I wont be back.
This site is not a scam, you people complaining are just suckers.
I know skoreit.com is a highly competitive but it just seems counter-intuitive then to suck in new users who are just not ready for the competition. There is no real way to learn the ropes and it should come as no schock to anyone that new users leave feeling cheated. They lost money! Scam or no scam if you don’t prepare people for what they’ll be up against and they lose money they’ll feel cheated. You simply can’t blame them for feeling that way.
SkoreIt is definitely not a scam. I’ve won 3 things, each for under a couple of bucks out of my pocket (w/o shipping) in about a week of trying.
I’m not going to give any of my observations since that wouldn’t help me any, but there are noticeable tactics to increase your odds at winning. Look at the people you’re bidding against for instance, if they have insane high bids…don’t bother challenging them most likely (of course, this is exactly what they want).
The advertising is a little deceiving for Skoreit, but if you read up on the site and truly watch the action, you will see how it works. And just because auctions for product X “seem to” sell at price Y, doesn’t mean that is the norm. It is most likely an anomoly.
I don’t want to give away any really good pieces of advice, but I will say this:
Know your limitations. I have won some 30 products so far in about 3 months. I have also learned to let a product go when I see a bigger fish come in. Remember that you don’t have to win something every day and pace yourself. 12 wins per 28 rolling days means just because you may have missed out on some good deals, others will be available in the coming days.
Never show what you are bidding on, or what you are watching.
And lastly, this essentially is a gambling site. And one of the most important things to know with gambling is that you don’t have to win back your losings right away. If you can stay away from that mentality, then you should be ok.
I will say when a guy losses $580 on a playstation 3 move bundle for when retail is $400. I would like to talk to this person and ask his rational of losing money? It seems that what ever it is needs to be verified and I ask what occurs to auctions that are never finally settled? If I wasted good money against a bidder and he never claims the winnings why would I recoup my bids? There are better ways to execute this type of system make money doing it and have people walk away winners. This is just a carnival game.
i tried skoreit using the promo code mikeandmike before spending any of my money… the site seems legit… i watched many auctions and there is no scam it seems like just seems to be alot of idiots fighting to see who will pay the most for the items… im not willing to play with my money but i will try to bid on things to get rid of my free bid i won from the promo… then if i loose i will walk away and if i want a ipad i might go buy one instead of paying the same amount on bids and s/h
Okay, so I have been on Skoreit for about 6 months, used several names (open a new account after I closed an acct, one acct at a time), tried several strategies. I tried to be the Bully Bidder, The Jumper, establish a rediculous overpaying history and bottom line…I come out losing everytime. This time, I tried a specific item…golfballs, did well some but got hammered on two specific occasions that in essence equaled to just about retail on all items won when it was said and done. Over the last two days, I have watched specific golf ball auctions, so I jumped in and all 3 of 4 ended, one bid after I stopped bidding. Very suspicious…as soon as I receive my last win (OT) which I paid retail for (retail 2 years ago), I will close my acct. Bottom line, Skoreit is making a ton of money and it is gambling, I should have just paid retail or bought it on Ebay, becuase 6 months later, I am upside down big time. Should have learned my lesson 6 months ago, beware newbies, odds are you will not win.
OF COURSE the odds are you won’t win. Why would the site exist if the odds are you do win? Most people LOSE money on this site. DUH. That’s the only way skoreit stays in business. I’ve seen bidders spend $5,000 on ONE auction and still not win. That’s nobody’s fault but the dumb bidder. ALL casinos and most state lotteries return more per dollar spent than skoreit does.
Hey I got a hundred and twenty bids for my b-day because I showed intrest in Skoreit after seeing a tv comercial for itbut I have never done any penny auctioning. I wish anyone who has experience in these auctions would give me a little advice as to which sites to visit and spend my time and money enjoying. Thanks a bunch
I have not tried this and probably won’t, because I believe in the old saying, If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is!
It seems to me the cons outway the pros. Most likely you are not going to win, but they get your money anyways. Why are you people just giving away money?
@babydoll,
Since SkoreIt has an Own Today feature, it’s difficult to argue that people are just giving away money. The worse case scenario is that a bidder pays retail price…which hardly seems like a con.
Please research how these sites work before writing them off.
I’ve been on Skoreit for a long time. There are no bots or shills here, they are a very big and competitive website with lots of users. Most of the time when you are studying closed auctions and seeing that they are “normally” closing at a set price doesn’t mean anything here. MOST, not ALL, people that continually win use a “tag and defend” strategy meaning that they will bid on, or “tag”, the auction they are interested in as soon as it goes live 12-14 hours in advance. They then “defend” that auction by continuing to overbid anybody else that tries to win it from them. When you jump in at the “normal” ending price, the original tagger will continue to defend what they consider “their” auction against you or anybody else that comes in. Yes, sometimes that means they will overpay for a product but try to think about it this way: Lets say I bid on a $100 gift card that is non OT (Own Today) and I’ve put in $90 worth of bids. If somebody jumps in now and I back off I’ve just lost $90 with nothing to show for it. However if I continue to bid and end up winning for $150 then since I’ve won the card, in essence, I’ve only lost $50. The other benefit for this strategy is that other bidders can see that I am willing to pay over retail so they are more likely to leave me alone in the future and I can get cheaper wins and eventually not only get my money back but start to see a profit and win better products. This is only one strategy and there are many different strategies out there but most of the time the people that are having trouble winning when jumping in at the “normal” ending price, you are most likely jumping in on a bidder that is using this strategy, has already invested their time and money in the auction and will not give it up easily. Hope this helps.
I know I’ve already written a lot but one more piece of advice for newbies…START SMALL! If you are new and don’t have much if any history and you try the above strategy on the bigger products (iPads, large gift cards, etc.) most of the bidders that have been around for awhile, do have a history for those products, and don’t know your username won’t show any respect for your tag and will over tag you and try to take it from you. You may end up winning the auction but it’ll most likely cost you a lot. Start getting a few wins under your belt with the smaller products and gradually over time work your way up to the larger ones while at the same time developing your own strategy and you’ll see that you’ll have much better results in the long run. Good luck and have fun!
Skoreit Bidder summed it up very well in his posts.
I consider myself a medium fish and am content with that. I know my limitations and will never go after any really big products. I have developed a reputation but sometimes you do have to send a message. If that means that I will overpay for a product by $100-$200, then I will do so.
I was watching an Ipad auction yesterday and was amazed to see 2 really big fish fighting for it with seemingly no limitations:
https://www.skoreit.com/Auctions/Detail/180233
Outtamyway and Nickkidez were going at it, back and forth. When I went to sleep they each had close to 4,000 bids. BUT, Outtamyway had more bids which means he “claimed” the auction early on, and Nickkidez tried to jump in and steal it. It’s clear that Outtamyway was not happy. He even jumped in on Nickkidez’s 480 bidpak auction just to send him a message of “wtf are you doing?”.
The lesson is be careful who’s auction you try to swoop into, or you’ll get steamrolled.
But my one good piece of advice for people is, if you see someone in an auction and their history shows that they have 11 wins, generally stay away from them. I have noticed that when going for that 12th auction win (the site allows a max of 12 every rolling 28 days), people are willing to go bonkers to get it.
It says better business agrees with this. I dont see that at all. Even at regular auctions you dont have to pay to bid until you win the auction. So this does not make any sense at all. SCAM SCAM SCAM!!!!!!