firedup.com

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 ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Evrything has higher reserve price - annoying, end of line stuff, owned by Rupert Murdoch

Advertised shamelesly in News International papers (for this is owned by Murdoch), this is not a good site. All merchant partners who want far too much for their stuff - but show headline prices that are very good. Of course, all these have a reserve price which really winds me up!! For example, I saw a running machine advertised at 500 quid, yet bid up to 600 and still hadn't met reserve. I contacted a supplier I saw on QXL, and he sold me the same ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap CD's
Disadvantages: Customer service practically non-existant

I visited this website after seeing the great adverts for it, but was extremely disappointed. I examined the auctions but found that many items were no cheaper than on the high street, which surely defeats the whole object of an auction site, some of the items were actually more expensive on firedup, for example a subscription to PC Format! I did buy some CD's from them in their "buy two CD's for a tenner" offer, and received the CD's with no problems ...
...with this offer, as the CD's are new releases and would have cost at least twice as much from a high street store, however, I was tempted back for their recent CD sale, and that was very definitely a mistake! I ordered two CD's almost a month ago which still haven't arrived. I e-mailed to complain two weeks ago and was sent a return e-mail apologising and promising I'd receive the CD's in the next few days, but they still haven't arrived, despite ... Read review

Advantages: nice colours
Disadvantages: content

I was attracted to this site due to the advertisement. They seem to have spent more time thinking about marketing than actual content. i am dissapointed that you need a credit card for most auctions so that counts me out of bidding. I wanted to bid for an auction and pay by switch as the seller allowed but you have to enter you're credit card details to bid which i think is really pathetic. i dont possess a credit card and i'm sure I'm not the only ...
...i went tothe page this week and it said free wap phone to the first 500 who joined or logged in. so i logged and found i had won. Or had I? Yeah i'd won a phone but also the monthly line contract that comes with it. Oh and it also bugs me the way it says "win" an auction. For goodness sake, you dont win if you pay for it,you buy it. ... Read review

Advantages: NONE
Disadvantages: NONE

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 ... Read review