Swoggi Reviews

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About Swoggi:

Swoggi is a common penny auction, targeting men and women alike, differently to other penny auctions, here the users have the opportunity to redeem any lost bid simply buying another bid pack. The products on auction are mostly Hi-Tech products.

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I joined Swoggi after reading a very good review on Time Out London so I thought everything was in order. Only when I made my first bid at an auction I realised the real truth. Each bid was costing me 50 p and they were making thousands of pounds out of each auction. Each bid was moving the price up only by 1 p so an iphone which apparently was being awarded for 100 £ in reality had been paid 10000 £ by all the bidders. So probably the only thing to do if you ever decide to enter this auction is to concentrate on winning some cheaper credits. You can then participate on some of the other items without spending a fortune. I'm trying it myself but ..... (better not to comment any further). My congratulations go however to the owners. It's all very well played and having approuval from Time Out was a game winner. I should definitly be more careful on what I'm reading.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“WHAT A COMPLETE CON, HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH IT. I HAVE JUST BEEN CONNED OUT OF £25QUID SHOULD BE BANNED .CAN SOMEONE NOT PUT IT ON FACEBOOK OR SOMETHING JUST TO WARN PEOPLE”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Less than very poor. Disgusting . Total scam. All email addresses coming back as undeliverable. Taken my money, promised refund no goods no money no contact.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“This is a scam site I lose £15 and I wrote to PayPal for my money back and haven't got a reply yet am so bad with myself you can't register the bid is just fake because I use PayPal all the time I just taught it was safe NO”

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Posted 9 years ago

“an absolute con site...they count on you thinking they use a traditional auction process, they don't tell you that EVERY TIME you bid your account is debited, regardless of whether you are the successful bidder or not...STAY WELL CLEAR FROM THESE CON ARTISTS!”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I fell for this one as well. I have put a complaint into PayPal Swoggi haven't responded yet!!!!! So have just escalated to a claim. I am usually so careful I thought because Swoggi was 'endorsed' by The Guardian it was ok . So angry with myself”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Swoggi is an elaborate scam, I bid over 2 days enough funds for an iphone6 to acually buy 2 new in a shop, but was always endlessly outbid. And the 2 other so called "bidders" must if they existed paid upto 3 times the retail value of the phone -as they bid continuously from 8am to 10pm. Yet, for that day in "closed" auctions this company claimed the same phone was sold at midday for 1\10th it's face value. Yet I watched that site continuously from 8am to 10pm - and no such phone ever appeared. As for the other "so called" bidders, I believe they were bogus accounts operated by the workers of this company to jack up the price and outbid a fool. The fool being me. I have since reported them to the French Police.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“A rip off and a scam, I got caught for €50. should have read these reviews first, Other similar sites on net such as Mac bid.com Thanks for the reviews Will in future look up reviews such as on this site before spending money on net Ned Dore”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I was about to join Swoggi after reading an online review by what seemed a genuine journalist, however something about the writer seemed strange . The name she used didn't sound correct, as she signed it something like James A. Most journalists believe when they write a review they are helping to protect mankind and are very happy to give there real name, so when I saw how this one signed off alarm Bells rang. I looked up the name on the web to see if I could find out anything about the writer and found nothing. This is strange from someone who is supposed to be a genuine journalist. So my suggestion is before you except any review look up the writer on the net to see exactly there qualifications and previous edit work to see if there past matches there present. If they have written for well known publications that you have heard of then fine if not , reviewer beware. On reading the review I read I did not proceed with me joking Swoggi and from what I have read so far I made the right decision.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“This scheme is extremely deceptive, your funds are depleted regardless of whether you win an auction or not. The promoters bank on you thinking you have not used any funds by converting $$ to points..it is an absolute SCAM”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Fell for it I really believed I had set up a £50 limit with PayPal next thing they've taken my money no phone number PayPal are not able to help apart from sending off an email think I will contact the police but must put this down to my stupidity avoid avoid at all cost”

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Posted 10 years ago

“SCAM! AVOID THESE MONEY MAKERS AT ALL COSTS. PAYPAL REJECTED MY COMPLAINT WITHIN A COUPLE OF HOURS. THEY ARE IN IT TOGETHER. DITCH THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM. I AM 15 GBP DOWN SO NOT THAT BAD COMPARED WITH OTHERS. I HAVE COMPLAINED TO PAYPAL AND THEY WOULDN'T REPLY IN WRITING - THEY ASKED ME TO CALL THEM. A RECORDED DELIVERY LETTER IS ON ITS WAY TO THEM. MONEY MAKING SCAMMERS THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM.”

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Posted 10 years ago

“Dont under any circumstances register with Swoggi.Com they are affiliated with Paypal who process the finiancial transaction buyers think they are buying free credits when in fact their credit card is being charged. I have extensively researched Swoggi.Com through various sites and all the feedback is negative. Consumers are being duped into buying thinking they are protected by Paypal but as its online and no actual material items are purchased Paypal will dispute your claim and rule in favour of Swoggi. I was locked out of my account twice by Swoggi and only when I escalated another complaint to Paypal did they respond saying I had €33 euro left and less their cancellation fee they could refund €18.00 in fact the original disoute closed by Paypal I never heard a word about a refund until I contactec Swoggi. Annoyingly no mention of a credit but that they reopened my account with free credits under a name which was similar to mine but I never registered with. Even the most basic websites whether they be a subscription acknowledge receipt of your subscription not in Swoggis case which should have raised alarm bells! I have opened a new dispute with Paypal and outlined in detail my dealings with Swoggi. Surprisingly Swoggi responded "we have tried to refund your account but it is locked in a dispute please reopen your account and we will refund your account" yet the acciunt before I escalated it to a second dispute was supposedly refunded. I will be interested to see what response Paypal will have I have dealt with Paypal on many transactions as a protection and I cant believe that they could continue to do business with this company. I have contacted the relevant authorities in my country who have advised that there is no protection to cover "auction sites". You are covered by Paypal if you purchase through Ebay an auction site but not for this site which seems strange. I have also escalated a dispute through my credit card company as its total fraud.”

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Posted 10 years ago

“I actually signed up to Swoggi after reading a review in a reputable daily newspaper who gave the site the thumbs up! Thankfully i only bought £15 worth of credits and then watched a couple of the auctions and soon realised that it was highly unlikely i would ever win an auction and I could easily spend an absolute fortune buying more credits in order to be able to bid. I asked for a refund but was told I couldnt as there was a £15 admin charge but they happily suggested I buy more credits to have a chance of winning!! Unbelievable, this site is one big scam, don;t be tempted and save your hard earned cash!”

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Posted 10 years ago

“I've lost £50 too, this is out of order!!!!”

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Posted 10 years ago

“i never used it and i never would, i feel people are quite greedy trying to purchase items for next to nothing !! this greed has led to your own personal Loss !!”

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Posted 10 years ago

“Swoggi biggest scam going ,I got drawn in by an article from a reporter who must have been paid by swoggi, I am surprised by the number of people who have been conned by this company,what surprises me even more is Paypal does not intend to do anything about it.I suggest that all the people who have been conned terminate their accounts with Paypal if enough of us do it , Paypal may take notice.”

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Posted 10 years ago

“No doubt like many others before me I foolishly believed that the law and or Trading Standards would ensure that these type of auction sites were legitamate so I invested £250 worth of credits in Swoggi. After 24 hrs of watching with anticaption on the three different items I bid on, absouletly nothing was happening so I thought OK give it a few more hours (still nothing) so I cancelled my account and wrote to Swoggi asking for my money back. I was informed that they could only refund me £160.50 because the remaining £89.50 was was to pay for the bids I had already made on supposedly timed items which kept resetting the clock, that went on for ever but never went anywhere. Stay well clear this is a total SCAM SITE that should be shut down by Trading Standards as quickly as possible.”

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Posted 10 years ago

“Really wish I had read these before stupidly paying £50 for the privilege of being ripped off. I have contacted paypal who say they can't refund my money as the company has supplied what it says is will, the opportunity to bid. When questioned, Paypal get quite a few complaints on this company, they should do something about it. Don't go near this company!!”

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Posted 10 years ago

“Somehow, I followed a link-I believed from Money Saving Expert-& before I knew it I had signed up via PayPal. I guessed straight away it was a scam, but too late to get all my money back- £15 lighter. Now, I know they are using a similar name as the Martin Lewis site- deception,fraud -Time Trading standards shut them down”

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Posted 10 years ago

Swoggi is rated 1.1 based on 196 reviews