firedup.com

If you think that The News of the World and the Sun are quality newspapers you will love firedup.com – the “auction site” that is also brought to you by News International. However, anyone who is not a fully paid-up member of DENSA will soon realise that FiredUp, like its printed stable-mates is big on headlines, but low on content. My quest was to find a few good affiliate sites for a client. We never recommend an affiliate scheme unless we have tried and tested it ourselves, so, armed with a credit card I logged on to firedup.com. The layout was plain and simple – I hate having to wait for tedious Flash animations ...  Read the complete review

I visited this website after seeing the great adverts for it, but was extremely disappointed. I examined the auctions but found that many items were no cheaper than on the high street, which surely defeats the whole object of an auction site, some of the items were actually more expensive on firedup, for example a subscription to PC Format! I did buy some CD's from them in their "buy two CD's for a tenner" offer, and received the CD's with no problems a couple of weeks later. I was really pleased with this offer, as the CD's are new releases and would have cost at least twice as much from a high street store, however, I was tempted ...  Read the complete review

I visited this website after seeing the great TV adverts for it, but was extremely disappointed. I examined the auctions but found that many items were no cheaper than on the high street, which surely defeats the whole object of an auction site! Some of the items were actually more expensive on firedup, for example a subscription to PC Format, which would be cheaper to buy directly from Future Publishing! I did buy some CD's from them in their "buy two CD's for a tenner" offer, and received the CD's with no problems a couple of weeks later. I was really pleased with this offer, as the CD's were new releases and would have cost at ...  Read the complete review

I have used firedup a few times, and admittedly on those occasions I have got some real bargains (a flight to Rome for £35 including tax on a Bank holiday weekend certainly has to be one of them). The site also has some nice technology - the newly launched online haggling being one of them, although how useful it is and how much they will sell using it remains to be seen. However other than the occasional bargain, there is very little else to attract users back to the site. Some of the prices are very high for products that are second rate. Check the front page out for the day's specials, but it's not really worth going any further ...  Read the complete review

Don't even go there, or in this case to fired ups website, to rate it at all is hard. Poor to navigate the prices are unreasonable and the choice of products available leaves a lot to be desired. Fair enough its a relative newcomer to the auction world but unless it books its ideas up it wont be here for long.To be in a position where you would want to use this website when other auction houses offer much faster sites and better services, delivery etc would be fool hardy. please fired up get fired up and dont fall flat. ...  Read the complete review