has anybody used this site before and is there some sort of catch to it? also how are the firearms so cheap?
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Now, if only the gov't and corporate America would grasp hold of that moral concept............... well, it was a nice thought.....it may be 100% legal , but that dont make it honest .. or needed to be "allowed"
So your telling everyone not to bid then you turn around and talk about how you bid on them sites. Hummmmmmm sounds fishy to me. I have never placed a bid on any of these sites, but if they give away free bids and we had a group of people get together to use up all the free bids, then I don't see an issue using free bids to stick them at their own game.
I'm not tracking how it is immoral? I think it's immoral based upon the deception and tactics that they use. They set-up their sites to take advantage of people.
They post the terms and conditions and you have to agree to them when you sign up. If you don't understand them or you agree to them it hour reading that is your fault.
Same thing as people buying a house that is 3 times what they can afford and and doing an arm loan so they can. No one forced them to sign up no one forced them to bid 65 times. And buy a $10 knife for $75. Everyone makes choices in life some people just are not as good at them as others.
So, by this logic, if I wanted to run a Ponzi scheme, then it should be ok then, I'm not forcing anyone to put their money in; I'm just benefitting by taking advantage of their greed right?
Also, get this - YOU CAN BID YOURSELF UP !! WTH IS THAT???? SCAM, that's what that is!! I used my free bids just to see and sure as stink, you can UP bid yourself !!! They also didn't mention anything in the "rules" about the 30 sec re-occuring timer once a bid is placed. They may have since added that in, but it was not in the disclosures previously. The timer is bs along with the entire penny auction network of scammers.I dunno about guns fer pennies, but I did check out the On Target site.
Seems really convoluted to me.
Near as I can tell, ya can get a penny fer a buck. So every time ya bid, yer betting a buck. Are people really that stoopid?
Then they got this automated bidding system. Supposedly, ya can bet while yer away. So, if 100 bidders all have this 'option', and they all wait till the last few seconds to bid; the 'option' can rack up thousands of bids in a matter of seconds?
And the site reserves the right to pick the winner?
Then of course, no other 'optional' bidding software is allowed?
Stinks like scam to me.
Caveat emptor.