It is legitimate, but you're paying a lot more than the final auction price. Most online auctions (like eBay) work by letting users post products, set a minimum bet and award the product to the highest bidder. That's how skoreit.com works, with three major differences. 1) No users may post products. Skoreit.com owns all the products up for bid. 2) Every bid only increases the auction price by 1-2 cents, and increases the time left in the auction by a few seconds. 3) (and this is the biggest caveat) Skoreit.com charges you for every bid. The website sells "bid packs", usually for about 60 cents per bid.
This creates an interesting dynamic. Most products start at 1 cent, so if you see an auction that's gotten up to 10 dollars, that's roughly a thousand bids, and at 60 cents per bid, the website has already made 600 bucks! Of course they don't mind selling an iPad for 10 dollars, they've already made much more than they lose on the product! So it's a coup for the website. However, that doesn't mean the users are all getting screwed. If you have the patience and only bid toward the end of an auction, you could possibly win an auction using only a few bids. So if you only bid 5 times (about 3 bucks) and get a product for 50 dollars off, you've done very well. But it takes time, patience and savvy to do well on skoreit.com. Suckers who bid 100 times, and don't win, just lost about 60 bucks. That hurts. The site is legit, but be careful, and be strategic.
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