I've won a Swoopo auction!

Well after another night with match sticks in my eyes, I did it! It took me just 32 bids to secure it having beat off stiff competition. Here's the email confirmation: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an email from www.swoopo.co.uk Your personal communication ID: Blocked for my privacy (You can verify the authenticity of this email by comparing this to the ID in your Swoopo account under "My details") ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congratulations: you have won an auction! User ID: BLOCKED FOR MY PRIVACY Auction ID: 125726 Auction name: Corsair Voyager Mini 4 GB Auction end date: 2008-12-04 02:27:55 Hi Adam, Great news! You've won auction number 125726, Corsair Voyager Mini 4 GB So that we can get your goodies to you as quickly as possible, please follow these simple steps. 1) Click the link below to take you to your personal win confirmation page*. www.swoopo.co.uk/member/confirm-auction.html?aid=blocked for privacy 2) Follow the onscreen instructions to confirm your bid and you'll be taken to our payment page. Here you can redeem any Swoopo vouchers that you may have. 3) Once we've received your payment, we'll send you an email to let you know that we're processing your order. 4) Finally, as soon as your goods have been shipped, we'll let you know when you can expect them. That's when the fun really starts! Happy Bidding! From everyone at Swoopo. * Please remember that you cannot change your delivery address after confirming your auction. Update the delivery address in 'My Swoopo' before confirming an auction win. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your current order status: 1) Auction win notification Swoopo order process: 1. Auction win notification 2. Payment confirmation 3. Shipping confirmation -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Didn't he do well!" - erm not exactly

Now I know that it's no PlayStation 3 or Sony Vaio Laptop but it's a start and it's one which I wanted to attain to prove that Swoopo does work. I'll be following this up with some photographic evidence as soon as my USB pen wings its way over to me. A couple of lessons learnt from last night: I did not secure this USB pen for a discount in actual fact I made a slight loss on it. However when you win your first ever auction you are given £10/$10/€10 of free bids for your next auction. But to my surprise! When you go through the process of paying for your item, Swoopo allow you to put the free bids towards the price of the product. Which is what I did, therefore in total the USB only cost me £2.90 delivery charge add the cost of the bids £12.80 and the total saving is from the RRP is a not so impressive £1.29! Hmm, I think I can do better than this!

Go Again...

So with my remaining 68 bids I'm going to try again to better that but first I'm going to do some research and target a product and try to (pardon the pun) swoop in at exactly the right time and pick up a true discount, we will see. One thing is for sure I went up against some stiff competition last night in the form of a player who goes by the username of 'Mrwhat' maybe he too was challenging himself too??? Or could it have been that I stupidly decided to change my username (after swoopo advising me it was too much like my email address) to... wait for it... HARD TO BEAT. Red rag to some pretty hungry bulls I expect. Talk about kicking yourself in the leg! Might have to revisit that name before I carry on again. Check back here soon to see how I get on with the remaining bids. P.S. It will be a few days before I go again as I've got a few things to research first and sleep to catch up on! I'll post up my photo with the winner product asap. Good Luck and Happy Bidding

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