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Beenverified.com has been advertising heavily on our cable networks. BeenVerified.com advertises itself as a people search engine that allows you to “run a background check on anyone, instantly.

Is BeenVerified.com a Scam?

While BeenVerified.com is not likely to be considered a scam, Their service is comparable to what you can get for considerably less money elsewhere. BeenVerified.com uses a slick advertising campaign, and their people search application is probably one of the slickest looking ones on the market. There are a few conflicting reports about this service on the other hand. In addition to several blatant and misleading information reports, users report that they have tried the service only to find information that was not in the least bit correct.

They have a seven day trial program. At their cheapest plan you are billed $8 a month and charged for 12 months of service. You must cancel your trial before the seven days are up or your credit card will be charged. I don’t really know anyone with the exception of repo agents and detectives that would find a use for a year’s access to background checks.

In addition you cannot reliably check someone out without the Driver’s license and social security number. BeenVerified.com review is borderline Scam and most certainly a iffy service. Save your money.

If you really need a background check on someone, pay Intelius and get their information to make sure you get the right results.

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Here is my official  Virus Protection Reviews for 2012. The following recommendation are based on industry leading reviews and my own personal experience with these products in the field. Personally I am not going to rank these in any kind of order. These are the best and they all shine for various reasons. Use you own judgement to determine which one is best suited for your needs and support requirements.

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QuiBids.com Review – As Seen on TV. Quibids is the largest penny auction website currently operating in the United States. Penny auctions have been around for awhile, but have only recently gotten lots of attention from people outside of the penny auction community.

The way penny auctions work is that you are only able to bid a single penny at any time during the auction.  However, at QuiBids.com, you must purchase each 1 cent bid for 60 cents.  So an iPad that retails for $499 but was won for the grand total of  2,254 one cent bids (or $22.54) which actually cost 60 cents each means that the iPad just sold for $1352.40.

Though the person who wins the item usually has paid less than retail for what they have received, citing $22.54 as the winning bid is extremely misleading.

So is QuiBids a Scam?

All penny auctions, regardless of reputation, are a bad idea and should be avoided.

First of all, QuiBids.com and other penny auction sites require people to pay for the option to bid, but don’t allow them to bid in increments of their choosing.  This means that QuiBids is forcing the price up and profiting all the while.

QuiBids attempts to redeem themselves by offering you the “By It Now” option, which is when you can take the total amount of your failed bids and apply that toward the retail price of the item you were bidding on.  Say you bid $80 total on an iPod Nano that cost $150.  For the remaining $70, Quibids will sell you a Nano.  Well, $70 plus tax, fees, and shipping and handling.

This means that if you get the item from them, the manufacturer warranty is void – if it breaks within the first 60 days, you will not be able to get it repaired or exchanged. If you have a problem within the first 30 days, QuiBids will refund the final auction price you paid, but not a single dime of the bids it took to win the auction.

It’s much better to stick to legitimate auction sites like eBay, instead of wasting your money trying to beat a computer program or bot.

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