What else attracts users on the Internet, if not a "freebie"? The opportunity to get something is cheaper than the market price, and even better - just win it and it’s completely free ... Agree how pleasant it can be. At the desire of the user to get some kind of unconditional benefit, for many years a variety of fraudulent schemes have been created that lured people from money and personal data.
Basically, nothing has changed now. If you take part in the “Win iPhone for SMS” promotion, then most likely your funds will simply be debited from your account and you will not receive any phone.
In this article we will talk about a completely different resource. He, as it might seem at first glance, is another scam and lures money from visitors. It is called Bonusmall. "Divorce or not?" - This is the main issue that worries its visitors. The question is quite logical - the opportunity to win some thing (for example, a player or a smartphone) for mere pennies looks too beautiful. However, people win! And on the Internet there are reviews of auction winners confirming the reality of the whole scheme.
In the framework of this article, we will try and we will understand what the Bonusmall site is, how it works, and whether there are real strategies to win it.
What is Bonusmall
So, as you already understood, in this article we are reviewing an unusual auction. On it, users are offered to receive goods at a cost cheaper than its real price. Moreover, among such goods are expensive things that actually cost many times more.
If you look through the pages of the site, you will see different categories (mainly this is technology and electronics). However, gift certificates and discount coupons are also sold here.
Under each of the products you can still notice the time until the end of the auction, as well as the nickname of the user who made the last bid. Typically, nicknames are constantly changing, and time continues to count again. Obviously, understanding all this is not so easy, so we are looking for information on how to win at Bonusmall auction.
How to win here?
The rules of the site indicate that the winner is the one who offers the highest bid. This is obvious: the point of auctions is precisely to give the product to the user who gave the product a great price.
However, this resource operates according to the “Scandinavian auctions” scheme, which were once very popular. Here, each participant has a certain bet rate (10 kopecks). Accordingly, the price of the goods increases so much every time someone puts on it.
However, each bet costs 10 rubles. Therefore, to increase the auction price of the lot by 10 kopecks, the user (in fact) pays 100 times more - 10 rubles.
The initial cost of the goods is 100 rubles, and the auction end timer here is updated every 10-20 seconds. Thus, all participants try to be in time and make bids in the last seconds of the end of the auction. It is updated, then everyone waits again, then again update and so on.
What can you win?
You might think that such a form of auctions will be conducted with budget goods that are not of particular value. No matter how! On the site where the Bonusmall auction is held, as already noted, mainly electronics and various gadgets. In addition, there are gift certificates for purchases in large chains, as well as bonus betting packages.
The trick is that all auctions are divided into the categories of "ordinary" and "for beginners." In the latter, in particular, only users with minimal experience playing at the auction can participate. In them, respectively, a lower level of competition due to the fact that new players do not yet possess strategies for winning goods at a sufficient level (if any). And in general, products for beginners, as a rule, do not go as hard as they can be observed at the top positions. Just the perfect option to try your hand and start bidding!
Auction Rules
Bonusmall auction rules themselves (how to play, what you can and cannot do) - this is a fairly small amount of information. In fact, there is nothing to remember here - you register, place bets and try to win. There are, of course, many who want to grab the goods at the lowest price - they all try to kill each other in the struggle for the lot, because of which the auction timer is constantly updated, and the price rises.
In the event that you win a product, you will only be required to pay its value (meaning the price at which you snatched it). Delivery will be carried out by the organizers.
Another question is how to be for those who are not so lucky and who have already made a bet on a certain amount (for example, 10 bets, which is equivalent to the spent 100 rubles). The organizers respond to it this way: a person who has spent a certain amount on bidding at Bonusmall (free bids, of course, are not taken into account), can purchase the goods at its full price minus the amount already spent. Thus, even in this case, visitors do not lose anything and can “take” their money simply by purchasing a lot. Bonusmall - a divorce or not? Probably not. More like a regular online store with the ability to get a prize.
Delivery of the won goods
As already noted, with the delivery of the goods won to winners, everything is simple - it is free.
A completely different thing is delivery, which in the event of an independent buyout must be paid by the user. According to the general rule, delivery across the CIS countries of goods whose cost does not exceed 5 thousand rubles will cost 500 rubles, while for a lot that is more expensive than the specified amount, the user will have to pay 1000 rubles.
This point is important to clarify in advance so that then there is no unpleasant sensation when your account billed by the store suddenly increases. Some may even think that Bonusmall is a hoax. But do not worry - the auction has a really large number of users, confirming that everything is honest.
Auto Tricks
In order for the price of goods to grow, and users to be even more actively involved in bidding, the organizers came up with an automatic system for setting a new price per lot. Simply put, we are talking about "auto delivery" - a system that makes it possible to place bets for the user within a certain amount. The use of such a system, of course, depresses many participants, because it is almost impossible to beat the bots of other users! It begins to seem that Bonusmall is a divorce ... Or not, it just immediately becomes clear that it is very difficult to win here.
For example, you can indicate how much you are willing to deliver for a particular product and to what final amount you would like to increase the value of the lot. This is convenient, but in practice (since auto delivery works 2 seconds before the end of the auction), it would seem that at the end of the auction a lot of people appear who participate in the auction and do not allow the lot to be won. The auction comes to life, and the simplest (at least for Bonusmall) tactics do not work here.
What are the benefits of the organizers?
In fact, a large number of bets are beneficial to the organizers. At first glance it might seem that giving, say, an iPod Shuffle player for 170 rubles is unprofitable, and that the auction works for itself “minus”. However, there are “Bonusmall secrets” that hide the main thing (or rather, do not hide, but simply disguise) - the actual amount of funds received by the owners of the resource.
See for yourself: each bet of 10 cents costs 10 rubles. This means that in order to "get" from 100 to 170 rubles per player, users already had to pay 7,000 rubles. Considering that such a technique can reach much larger amounts at auction, consider for yourself what kind of profit can come out. We can definitely say that the organizers of Bonusmall (divorce or not - it has already become clear) do not suffer from such a course of things.
Bonus Packages
Finally, there are also packages of bonus (or free) bets. They are both sold at the auction itself, and are offered to users for completing additional actions. For example, if you publish a link to an auction somewhere on the VKontakte page, you can get 30 free bids (a one-time fee, but can be received without any extra labor). There are a lot of examples where you can get free bets - this is the search for errors on the site, attracting friends and so on. You can see right away that Bonusmall, whose strategy is clear, is trying to attract as many people as possible. And, in truth, they do it well. To understand this, just watch how quickly auctions are updated.
Is it worth playing?
Do you still think Bonusmall is a divorce or not? This is reasonable, everything looks very tempting. But, believe me, this is just a trick of the organizers. In fact (and in practice you will understand) to win here is quite difficult. Too many people want to get the treasured thing as cheap as possible, and too high a price for each bet - 10 rubles. Although in your form, you must admit, the price of a lot does not grow so significantly - by some 10 kopecks. This entices the bidders. They see a small cost and think about what awesome conditions are at Bonusmall ... It’s hard to think how to win here.
But “difficult” does not mean “impossible”! Sooner or later, every auction ends. And even with a small probability one of those many who made a bet, but won, you can become. However, it looks like a lottery - it’s almost impossible to think of a strategy suitable for Bonusmall (how to win here). There are only general recommendations, following which you can increase the chances of winning. But they can hardly be called effective - they will help (according to statistics) anyway, only one ...
Winning Tips
So, if you think about the general essence of the auction, you can understand this pattern: the last bid will win. Your task at least always be the last in order to close the auction with your action. Whether you get it or not is another question. The main thing is to put in the last seconds, as close to the finish as possible.
In addition to this (general) principle of trading, one more good tip is the option of trying to win 50 free bets. These packages go on sale all the time, but the competition for them is relatively small. Thus, you can try to “grab” your modest, but also pleasant bonus, and after that be inspired for further victories.
Finally, try to participate in those auctions that you could theoretically buy. This, of course, is not so simple - to buy everything in a row, but in general, the idea should be clear to you. If you lose a significant amount of money for bets that lose - you can at least “deliver” to buy the lot.
Payment methods
Since the auction is the need to make a proper bid first and foremost, it is important to mention the payment methods available to the user. So, on the official Bonusmall website several of the most popular payment systems are listed: Robokassa, Yandex.Money, Visa and MasterCard, as well as Qiwi. This diversity should be enough to ensure that the domestic participant was comfortable buying bets, for example. Or, in this very way, you can pay the full price of the lot (in case of its redemption).
Winner Reviews
In order to stimulate you as readers a little and to give optimism about this resource (after all, as you noted, we noted above that it is difficult to win here), we note that there are real reviews from those who are lucky. This shows that real people win, and not those who are associated with the administration of the resource or, more simply, work there. No, bloggers and members of various communities discussing the Bonusmall topic talk about lots that they managed to buy cheaper than their market price; The participants of the VKontakte groups confirm the same thing ... We managed to collect different types of reviews from completely different audiences - forging them, or writing custom information there would be very difficult. Therefore, we can confidently note that the gain is real. Another thing is its low probability and the efforts that need to be made.
Contacts for communication
Again, another proof of the veracity of the auction organizers is contacts. Where did you see that on a site offering, for example, to win an iPhone, the real address and telephone number of the administration should be indicated? Yes, it never was and cannot be! Unlike Bonusmall.
The official telephone number of the resource management representatives is clearly indicated here, which you can call from Russia for free and ask a question that interests you. You can believe this phone is real.
In addition, there is other information about the resource - this is the official legal address (the company is located in Perm) and skype, and even the registration data of the legal entity acting on behalf of the auction. Obviously, this is too complete information for a resource that can be suspected of fraud.
Therefore, do not worry about the transparency and honesty of Bonusmall. Better take care (if you want to participate in this) to find a working strategy for getting lots (if you can). Or just place bets, gain experience, perhaps someday luck will smile at you.