If you think that The News of the World and the Sun are quality newspapers you will love firedup.com – the “auction site” that is also brought to you by News International.
However, anyone who is not a fully paid-up member of DENSA will soon realise that FiredUp, like its ... Read review
Advantages: Non-Its offline permanently Disadvantages: You can't shop
The auction site firedup.com is no longer on the internet. I logged on the other day and it said that it was no longer on the internet.
I suppose you could say it was fired down.
Anyway I am just writing this to save people a lot of time and bother. Do not bother visiting this site. They could of at least told us eager internet shoppers out there!
I should reckon that the site was a load of crap anyway. The next best thing now is to register with ... ...were any of you firedup.com members. If you were, did they tell you that they were closing down? Let me know.
I do not think that firedup.com cut the mustard to be perfectly honest. It was only made out to be a cut above the rest. I would now recommend QXL for all internet shoppers out there
Send me a memo 'cos I would like to know what you think.
markcollins ...
markcollins 20.06.2001
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Advantages: It's not with us any more Disadvantages: See above
...candle has burnt out on FiredUp.com Thank you for all of your support in the past".
Unfortunately I cant write a review the same way as everyone else has as they all got to use the site but having had a look through what people have writen I think I may have been saved a lot of hassle.
All I can say is it has a very nice "sorry we're closed" screen. ...
andrewj100 01.05.2001
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I have successfully purchased from this site 3 times, twice to buy CDs which were much cheeper than high street prices. The first time this was very successful but the second time they sold me a CD which they didn't have in stock and I had to wait over a month in order and phone several times to eventually get the CD. I have sinced used the site to buy tickets for the firedup events, in this case tickets to a London jazz club. The tickets were at ... ...for which I was the only bidder. So definately a good site to visit if you wish to get cheep tickets to london venues. The rest of the site however is much worse. A lot of the items are advertised with the bidding starting only very slightly below the normal seeling price (this can usually be found by following the link to the selling company from the lot description). As a result many of the lots are sold at greater than normal prices. The website ...
GT1010 20.02.2001
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Advantages: None Disadvantages: poor choice of goods, high prices, unreliable bidding system
...quality newspapers you will love firedup.com – the “auction site” that is also brought to you by News International.
However, anyone who is not a fully paid-up member of DENSA will soon realise that FiredUp, like its printed stable-mates is big on headlines, but low on content.
My quest was to find a few good affiliate sites for a client. We never recommend an affiliate scheme unless we have tried and tested it ourselves, so, ... ...can tell you is that firedup.com has been a great disappointment
· the wine took nearly three weeks to arrive
· it cost far more than I expected
· the “case” was only half a case
· the web site was unreliable
· most items were straight sales – not auctions at all
If you want to take my advice, do not even bother to log on to firedup.com.
The only consolation I have is that I can now drown my sorrows in some rather nice, rather ...
john.sw 03.02.2001
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Advantages: Can buy some valuable stuff at the right price if you spend the time to search Disadvantages: Download time quite slow, and some goods very expensive
Firedup.com is different to the other online auctions, in that you know that you are doing business with e-retailers rather than individuals. Some of the prices do seem to be ridiculously expensive. They are selling CDs for over a tenner, whereas you can get them for £8.99 for CD-Wow.com. Are they relying on customers with no time on their hands to buy these rip offs?
I have had a very good experience of dealing with Firedup. I was able to buy a ... ...a price cheaper than in most online bookshops, and I was able to negotiate directly with Ottakers about reducing the p&p by half.
A bad experience was when I bought a parking timer key ring via boystuff.co.uk. However, the company was very apologetic and gave me the timer for free.
I noticed a 2 for a tenner offer on CDs and missed out on that offer. It is a shame that they do not offer something like this more often ...
endicojr 02.12.2000
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