BidBud Reviews 

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TrustScore 5 out of 5

4.9

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My Go-To ap for when I’m really serious about winning an auction.It allows me to to enter my top price that I am prepared to go to but with the ability to pull out at any stage of bidding If so change... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Exceptionally good stuff! Not often something works so perfectly in the technological age. I've saved literally $1,000's in just over a year. Don't tell everyone though - works best when the masses do... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have used BidBud many times now and always find it works perfectly. An incredibly handy tool for such a forgetful and busy person as me and also great for those late night or early morning auction c... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

BidBud is the best way of getting the best out of TradeMe. The functions that are available in BidBud, which are not available in TradeMe, make the management of auctions easy and allows strategies... See more

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BidBud is a TradeMe enhancement that has many time/money saving features.


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TrustScore 5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I love Bidbud

I love Bidbud. It’s so much better than the Trademe interface, and makes it both easier and more enjoyable to use.

19 August 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I love Bidbud.

I love Bidbud. I've won lots of auctions that I usually would have missed out on. I prefer browsing through auctions on Bidbud as it's much more user friendly than Trademe.

18 August 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The bidding through bidbud is perfect

The bidding through bidbud is perfect! I can determine my maximum and then walk away, so I wont get caught by a bidding war with regrets afterwards. Fantastic! Would like to see easier switching between account if possible.

15 August 2020
Unprompted review
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Thanks for your review Marianne. As for easy switching between accounts, by far the best way to do this is with your browser's built in user switching capability. Assign each Trade Me account with each user and then you can switch accounts in a couple of clicks, or have multiple instances of your browser open, one for each account.
See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824 for details for how to do this on Chrome, for other browsers, the process will be similar.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bidbud is highly reocmmended

Bidbud is an excellent piece of software that makes Trademe much more versatile and lets you queue bids automatically. The search options are much better than Trade me, especially with their recent changes.

10 August 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My Go-To ap for when I’m really serious…

My Go-To ap for when I’m really serious about winning an auction.It allows me to to enter my top price that I am prepared to go to but with the ability to pull out at any stage of bidding If so change my mind but please don’t use this app as I don’t want your competition!

9 August 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very useful interface to Trademe.

I've been using Bidbud for at least 5 years now, it has been invaluable for selling a buying stuff on Trademe. Such a simple and fast way to use Trademe without all the fluff! I would happily pay for it, amazing that it is still free.

Reading another review I had to update my review in that I 100% agree that it makes Trademe bearable. I probably wouldn't bother with Trademe if it wasn't for Bidbud making life easier and the things that bug me about using Trademe!

7 August 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Hard to believe how consistently good…

Hard to believe how consistently good BidBud has been over the years. I wouldn't bother with Trade Me without it. In fact I'd rate it as top website over all subjects.
The developer accurately understands the needs of users and is immediately responsive to suggestions. BidBud rapidly fixes what Trade Me breaks.
It is also extremely versatile and you can customise it to fit your requirements, from a simple but highly effective tool to simplify buying and selling, to a sophisticated method of achieving results.
It makes searching and viewing items much easier than the Trade Me site and has great facilities for saving searches. It doesn't pester you with repeat emails for stuff already sold and is much more efficient.
It has great reliability with hardly any downtime. In the rare event you strike something unusual you can contact the developer and get a fast response about the issue.
And it is kind to your pocket. It ensures you can secure items, sometimes by bidding only 1c more than a competing bidder, and removes the human temptation to overbid. It saves time as well as money by monitoring auctions for you unless you want to watch them.
Although originally aimed at buyers, it has great features which make loading and maintaining auctions easy. There is also a feedback monitor so rogue bidders can be removed according to the options you set.
Overall, I wouldn't do Trade Me without it.

4 August 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great app

Great app, only ever let me down once in the years I've been using it, Kudose to them...

2 August 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bid Bud is great

Bid Bud is great - set your bid and just walk away, Its great for grabbing a buy now if one gets added as long as it doesn't exceed your maximum bid. I like that a bid is not placed until the last 2 minutes and the different bidding strategies. Very easy to use

31 July 2020
Unprompted review

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