Complaint Review: PriceShuffle.com - Chandler Arizona

I read this and I quote..

" I am happy to say that their customer support team was very helpful after getting past the people on the phone."

So, were these people on the phone some kind of "anti" support team?

Priceshuffle contacted me and issued a full refund.  As far as there site goes it is some what ambiguous to say the least.  I am happy to say that their customer support team was very helpful after getting past the people on the phone.

All of this is assuming the auction and bidders are real, which I find it extremely difficult to believe.

There was a cheap remote controlled helicopter that sells for $59  in department stores that is listed for auction on PriceShuffle.com  If common sense doesnt sound the warning bells, then book sense is going to have to step up and do the job.  Youre going to have to do the math!

Elementary school is finally going to pay off!  If it costs the bidders 50 cents per bid to make a 1 cent bid increase, then Price Shuffle would collect  50 dollars per every 1 dollar auction price increases ($0.50 X 100 = $50.00).

I watched an alleged bidding war rage for 30 minutes over the helicopter. I have no idea where the starting bid began, but this is too stupid to put too much effort into so for legal purposes, lets just assume I saw the whole auction begin at 10 dollars. 

During that time, the price went up from $10 to over $13.  That means Price Shuffle collects at least 150 dollars in bid fees in addition to the 13 dollars for the actual purchase of the helicopter.  Thats a total of at least $163 for the item + $9.99 for shipping to get something that costs only $59 in many department stores.

Here comes some more 3^rd grade math you thought youd never use $172.99 divided by $59 equals 2.93 or, a 293% increase.  Who would pay 293% more for a toy and think this program is legitimate????   

By the way, the same math works for credit cards, payday & title loans, rent-to-own stores, and buy here-pay here auto dealerships!

For those of you who get caught in the same traps over and over, theres more sites identical to Price Shuffle.  Some even WARN you about Price Shuffle!  Most of you will end up there on your own anyhow, wondering how things like this keep happening to you, but if youre in a hurry to get scammed, another website is:

 http://consumernews-reports.com/shopping/penny-auctions/news.php?t202id=51904&t202kw=price%20shuffle

..when you submitted credit card information to this site BEFORE ever using it??


You see you would not be in this situation to begin with..if you had not submitted any of this information in the first place.

I am not in any way defending this site..their days are numbered because they are blatantly a scam site...but others can be helped more by understanding they should not fall for scams in the first place..and NEVER EVER submit credit and debit card information out online unless they investigated first and know the website is legit. If you do not submit credit card info..you will not have to worry about the hassle of fighting tooth and nail for a refund later on. And if this company decides to close down, or is forced to close down like swipesbids and swipeauctions and other similar fake scam auction gambling sites..they will simply inform you that no more refunds are going to be given. And you can't squeeze blood from a stone.

I got into this mess today !!!. Online chat rep didn't explain that i will be charged $149.75, instead he/she offer to give 100 bids free. I was under the impression to use those 100 free bids. When i start placing bid on one product, i logon to my account and i saw, i have more than 100 bids, I contacted customer service right away ( up to that time they didn't give any free 100 bids), customer service rep give me free 100 bids and i asked him to credit back the bids which are charged to my account and he advice me to e-mail to [email protected] and i did ( waiting for response) . I want price shuffle to credit what is charged and the bid option which i didn't even select and was selected automatically. I would like someone to look at it and help innocent consumers becoming target of this smart SCAM.

..if my girlfriend asks for my credit card..it is a safe assumption that there will be charges. If I give her the card and there are charges..then I got as expected.

Just like if a scam gambling fake auction website asks for a credit card..you can assume there are going to be charges..am I wrong?

Don't give out credit card info online unless you investigate the site. If you do not give out this type of information online, there will be no unexpected charges of these types.

Yes..no doubt at all...this fake auction gambling farce of a website is a total SCAM..but it was easily avoidable.