BidBud Reviews 

An excellent tool that I've been using for over a decade when bidding on Trade Me. I tend to forget the final auction time & BidBud will bid for me & often for less than my scheduled bid through BB. Unlike TM when I've put in an 'auto bid' it can drive the price up well before the auction's end. BB can surprise the opposition right at the end! Love it! It's been a 'godsend' in saving me both time & money. If I change my mind (before the auction) I can always remove my upcoming bid. A wonderful Kiwi innovation (thanks Andrew!).

So much easier to use than the Trademe platform. Everything through BIDBUD seems to work at 3 to 4 times the speed of the Trademe platform.
Great that I can set a bid when I see a listing come up and forget about it until BIDBUD tells me the results.I recommend this site to everyone. I used to get so frustrated with Trademe before someone said "TRY BIDBUD"

So useful, I always forget auction end times. Also great for editing my ads quickly and the search feature is better too

Use Trademe? You can’t live without this!

still a fantastic site. as trademe gets worse and worse to use it just does everything so quickly and without any faults. trademe still cant get new look layout working right after 2 years. thank you

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 don't know about it.

This site won't allow me to use Trade me to log on???

A great tool and has so many functions. Well done.

It's what Trade Me should be and more.

Very effortless. Love it

Excellent support for both buying and selling. TradeMe is a little different in that the auctions autoextend, but you can set and forget a bid in BidBud. I also prefer the interface for managing some aspects of my listings (creation, keeping an eye on them, leaving feedback etc.)

Full marks to BidBud for making my Trade Me bidding so much easier and effective. It's similar to the auto-bid function of Trade Me but has more options and allows me to schedule a bid just before the auction closes, instead of just putting in an auto-bid which takes effect immediately and encourages other traders to bid early. BidBud also lets me quickly check a trader's non-positive feedback without having to manually scroll through hundreds of positive feedbacks.

Love bidbud, easy to use and always wins my auctions!!

Always a winner - cracking program, couldn't imagine TradeMe without it! Thank you.

I have been using BidBud for a number of years. Up until recently I was only a buyer and I found BiBud very advantageous in winning auctions, and also increasingly easier to navigate and use than trademe, especially as trademe kept changing it's format and making itself less easier to use. I have recently begun selling and have been using both BB and TM as I am still getting used to the whole process of selling and feel I need both sites to do certain steps in the process. BidBud now feels more like home to me after all these years using it, and trademe feels more alien.

I was an early adopter of BidBud and although I don't buy and sell a lot, it is an essential tool for whenever I am bidding on an item. I am delighted with the various improvements and the bidding algorithms. Brilliant piece of software for hands off TradeMe bidding.

I've used bid bud to win auctions many a time!

Brilliant website!! Won a few auctions now! :) Several very good tools to help win auctions.
My only critique would be that I have to keep going back to Trademe to view enlarged pictures, as Bidbud's don't enlarge them very much...also Trademe's magnifier over the photos is very handy too...it would be so good if Bidbud would pick up this tool.

Cheers...Trev

Works well for me, been using it for 6 years