My Results

Day One

The first day I decided to go after one of the items which I thought would not only be a little easier to win, but useful as well.

A 100 Bid Voucher.

If you win, you get 100 extra bids added on to your account - great, I could use that to continue my test.

I waited for the timer to reach down to the 5 second mark and placed a bid. 10 seconds later another user bid above me. I placed a bid order for the next 10 bids, which seemed to go by pretty quickly. Okay - 11 bids down.

I decided to let a few other bidders battle it out for awhile until the price got up to $1. That's when I set my bid order for 50 bids.

About 20 bids down the road the other bidders gave up and I won! Great, 100 bids won by only using around 30 of my bids - what a deal.

Day Two

Today I decided I would go for something a little more active as far as bidders. An iPod Shuffle.

Again I went in with the idea of spending as many bids as I needed to in order to win the auction. And if I didn't win, then I would simply exercise my Buy One Now option.

This time I waited for the price to reach above $1 and also waited for bidding activity to slow to a crawl.. I put in a couple bid snipers, and when they started firing I knew that it was time to jump in. I set my bid order to 100 bids and sat back to watch.

72 Bids later - I was the winner of a new green iPod shuffle. That means that I got a $55 product for only $36 - sounds like a great deal to me.

Day Three

Now I was getting really bold. Today it was time to bid on something even bigger - I had my eye on a new iPod Touch.

This time I waited until the price reached $2, then started placing a few bids to test the waters. There still seemed to be a lot of activity, so I set my bid snipers and waited. Eventually it reached $3, and the bidding was starting to slow. I jumped in and set my bid order at 100 bids.

Another user apparently had the same idea and we got into what is called a 'bid order war'. This is where the timer moves quicker because the bid orders are bidding against each other. Normally the timer increases 10 seconds with each bid, but in an order war it only increases 1 second per bid.

Needless to say the 100 bids went pretty quickly. I placed another 100 bid order, then another 50 bid order after that. After getting to that point and still not winning, I decided that my best option was to use the Buy One Now.

So in the end I ended up getting a product worth $184 by spending $184 - not a super deal, but I certainly didn't lose anything.

Day Four

Today I decided to purchase a 500 bid pack for $375. This was mainly because there was a new iMac on the website worth $1800 that would look great sitting on my desk. So to start off, I had about 575 bids to work with.

Once the counter reached down to 5 seconds it was like a feeding frenzy, people were bidding like crazy - sometimes it seemed that 10 bids where hitting at exactly the same time. Definately not the time for me to start bidding - so I waited.

The price quickly got to $10, and the bidding slowed down a bit but not by much. I set my bid sniper in case I snoozed too long while I was watching the auction and missed out.

The price got to $20, then $30, then $40. That's where the bids started to slow down and I decided it was time for me to jump in. I set a 100 bid order and watched it go, then another, and another. 300 bids down.

I played normal bidding and bid snipers for awhile - the price reached $50. I put in two more 50 bid orders.. 400 bids down.

Then 425, 450, 500, 540... WIN!

I had to do a double take - I couldn't believe I actually won an iMac at a final auction price of $67 + shipping, plus about $400 worth of bids. So for an $1800 iMac, I only had to spend $500. Now if that isn't a steal, I don't know what is!

I couldn't be any happier with the results. I spent at total of $700 and received products valued at over $2000, plus I still have 75 bids left over.

Tech writer, Pamela Miller of the Consumer Info Weekly team recently put the BidSauce website to the test. She spent four days testing if the site can really provide a great deal. And, the results were surprising

She won $2000 worth of items and only spent $700 for a savings of $1300

The results of our auction tests beat all of our initial skepticism. We found that if a bidder stuck to their goal of winning an auction and didn't just place casual bids, then getting a great deal on a product was attainable.

Step 1:

First Sign Up For BidSauce

Step 2:

Purchase a bid pack, for best results by the larger bid packs, 200+ bids. Follow a regimen of bid until you win. If you don't win, then simply use the Buy One Now option to get it at the normal price.

Hurry and sign up before more people find out about these deals!