{"id":613,"date":"2014-10-20T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/madbid-comes-in-for-a-hammering-as-bidding-credit-soon-disappears\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T19:04:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T12:04:31","slug":"madbid-comes-in-for-a-hammering-as-bidding-credit-soon-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/madbid-comes-in-for-a-hammering-as-bidding-credit-soon-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"MadBid comes in for a hammering as bidding credit soon disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nReader wants a refund after \u2018stupid mistake\u2019 of trying to bid on online auction site MadBid.com I recently responded to an article purporting to show that auctions held by a company Madbid.com were the new way to buy online. I\u2019m not sure where I picked up the link but the article was in the style of a reporter who had been tasked to look into these penny auctions \u2013 and, of course, picked up two bargain buys.Once you join and start bidding, in my case with a credit of \u00a349.99, you realise that whatever credit you set up soon disappears and it would be easy to throw good money after bad. Continue reading…
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Reader wants a refund after \u2018stupid mistake\u2019 of trying to bid on online auction site...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-9T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85192,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/keen-bidding-at-latest-bayleys-auctions\/","url_meta":{"origin":613,"position":0},"title":"Keen bidding at latest Bayleys' auctions","date":"April 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A West Auckland corner retail store and an Auckland CBD apartment building were the stand-out sales that went under the hammer for over $3 million each, at Bayleys' second Total Property portfolio auction of the year.\"A total of...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Keen bidding at latest Bayleys' auctions","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":101215,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bidding-is-on-for-the-most-expensive-home-ever-to-hit-the-auction-block\/","url_meta":{"origin":613,"position":1},"title":"Bidding is on for the most expensive home ever to hit the auction block","date":"November 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Real estate auctions, once used for foreclosures and distressed sellers, is now moving upmarket. 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