They advertise across the internet as a penny auction and what draws generally web savy people like myself ( I'm a Web User Interface Designer and Web Developer, and then there is the CEO of a Tech company that I came across over the internet who had also had $150.00 scammed out of his account) is they very skillful place graphic logos of well respected companies like ABC, CBS, and NBC for example throughout their ads and along the bottom of their website. This of course gives them the appearance of legitimacy. In many cases along with these respected businesses logos are word of excitement and what can seem if you do look very closely as a ringing endorsement for swipebids. Upon closer examination what you will find is that the comments being made by these companies have nothing to do with Swipebids. I did a whois IP search of Swipebids.
Final point: If Wipebids did not know exactly what they are
doing and was a legitimate business after getting hundreds complaints from
people about this $150.00 unauthorized charge in the short time that they have
been in business they would have corrected it.
But instead they put together a script and screen capture that they give
to their help desk people to try and convince you that you confirmed and
authorized a charge that you know you did not.
And unfortunately I imagine it works on some of the senior who get
caught in their web of deception. You
know immediately when you talk to the support people that this is something
that they deal with everyday all day. They have already been instructed not to
under any circumstances reverse the transaction. It is obvious to me that they have carefully
and skillfully designed a fraudulent scheme to steal money from innocent
people.
SwipeBids
USA#2UPDATE Employee
Wed, September 01, 2010
My name is Jennifer, Head of Customer Service for Swipebids. I assure you our website is not a scam and is entirely legit, please visit the links below for confirmation.
The registration page where your credit card information is inputted
into our system, has 4 locations where we notify customers of our $159
Membership fee. Provided in the link below, you will see 1 right above where
your information is inputted, 2 are off to the left and the last is right above
the "Start Bidding" button, which will finalize your registration.
https://www.swipebids.com/registration_pg2.php
We show on our website quite a few pages of past winners,
included we show the price it was sold at, retail price and you can even
confirm the tracking numbers by clicking on the number itself. We have also
given away numerous cars to bidders within the United States and Australia
which can be verified at the link below
http://www.swipebids.com/all_past_winning_auction.php
We also sponsor numerous children through World Vision, the
link below will take you to the site where we describe how it all works and how
we started by sponsoring 100 children and we continue to add 1 more each day in
our effort to make a positive change.
http://www.swipebids.com/world_vision_charity.php
If you have any other questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me personally at [email protected]
Regards,
Jennifer
Head of Customer Service
Our Winners: http://www.swipebids.com/all_past_winning_auction.php
Our World Vision Charity: http://www.swipebids.com/world_vision_charity.php
Our Customer Service Page: http://www.swipebids.com/contact.php
Good Morning Mr_Brew,
My name is Jennifer, Head of Customer Service for Swipebids. I assure you our website is not a scam and is entirely legit, please visit the links below for confirmation.
The registration page where your credit card information is inputted
into our system, has 4 locations where we notify customers of our $159
Membership fee. Provided in the link below, you will see 1 right above where
your information is inputted, 2 are off to the left and the last is right above
the "Start Bidding" button, which will finalize your registration.
https://www.swipebids.com/registration_pg2.php
We show on our website quite a few pages of past winners,
included we show the price it was sold at, retail price and you can even
confirm the tracking numbers by clicking on the number itself. We have also
given away numerous cars to bidders within the United States and Australia
which can be verified at the link below
http://www.swipebids.com/all_past_winning_auction.php
We also sponsor numerous children through World Vision, the
link below will take you to the site where we describe how it all works and how
we started by sponsoring 100 children and we continue to add 1 more each day in
our effort to make a positive change.
http://www.swipebids.com/world_vision_charity.php
If you have any other questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me personally at [email protected]
Regards,
Jennifer
Head of Customer Service
Our Winners: http://www.swipebids.com/all_past_winning_auction.php
Our World Vision Charity: http://www.swipebids.com/world_vision_charity.php
Our Customer Service Page: http://www.swipebids.com/contact.php