Website: www.Haggle.com
Haggle, LLC
601 108th Ave. NE Suite 1200
Bellevue WA 98004
US
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Fax: +1.4252016167
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Domain Registered: April 1996
PAI Member Rating:
(3 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5)
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Haggle.com prides itself for nurturing a community of bidders that share their ideas and suggestions to the site in order to make it better. Indeed, Haggle has a very active user base, one that participates in Facebook discussions and keeps tabs on site developments via Twitter.
Haggle is a fairly new penny auction site that provides online shoppers a place to shop competitively for items and products that are “sold” at very good deals. Some of the items that have been auctioned off at the site include the common gift cards, the hottest video game consoles, video games, notebooks, Apple products, and a host of other high-end electronics.
In a relatively short span of time, Haggle has become a penny auction that boasts of impressive traffic – a feat very few penny auctions have pulled off in their first few months of operations.
Haggle uses a reverse-style auction in which the last bidder that places the highest bid before the timer runs out wins. After signing up, members have to purchase bids to start bidding in auctions. These are sold in bid packs of 20 to 500 bids, and the more bids you purchase, the cheaper they are. The starting price of each bid is $75, but they can go as low as $60 apiece.
Shipping on Haggle is surprisingly quick, something that high-traffic penny auctions often fail to prioritize. Shipping rates are also affordable – it’s $3 for a gift card and $5 for an iPod. Free would’ve been better, but we’ll let that go since shipping is speedy and efficient.
The bad thing about Haggle.com is that it plays host to a large number of power bidders that edge out the newbies. Fortunately, Haggle has taken action against this problem, and has recently introduced their Beginner auctions, which are for beginners who have only won 3 items or less; and Expert auctions, which are for members who have won more than 26 auctions.
Despite the introduction of these auction types, winning on Haggle can still be difficult.