Many online gaming portals are getting into bidding auctions to encourage people to place free bids on items such as cars, plasma TVs, wii's and similar items. To win an item you simply text a bid to the auctioneer on your mobile phone which can be up to £2. The person with the lowest unique bid will win the item at the end of the auction. The problem with these auctions is that you are asked to leave your mobile number and sometimes further details after which you are bombarded with messages asking for more bids. Bingo Supermarket considered offering this to our readers but after we trialed the service amongst the team, we found the messages to be intrusive and worried about the levels of telephone bills that could build up after the initial bid. A sample message received 3 days after our free bid read " sorry but your bid has 3 other people with the same bid however, the auction is closing soon and we have 2 unique bids not been placed under £2, text back now to place your bid". This was an obvious attempt to get us to place multiple bids and bear in mind with 200 combinations and the chance that many more bidders were delivered the same hint, this could become very costly and a few die hards that are so close to winning a mini cooper could end up spending fortunes. If 2 people were to invest £300 in placing every combination under £2, then all bids under £2 would not be unique and 2 people have wasted £300 each and still enticed to spend more on chasing the bid. Our recommendations before trying these sites out is to be very wary of the charges and be careful who you give your mobile phone number to, £1.50 plus standard text charges apply is quite steep. We would also like to say that because the game is either classed as a game of skill, or a free draw therefore not a lottery, the games and the companies behind them are not regulated unlike the bingo industry.