I find the activity on swoopo.co.uk no different to that of a gambling website. I gambled £25 and won nothing. Of the three auctions I took part in, the timer and bid button locked at just 5 seconds to go on two of them. I could not put in any further bids. I contacted swoopo and they obviously didn't blame any of their apparatus, they simply put it down to internet lag times:

"I'm very sorry your bid wasn't registered by the Swoopo servers in time. To be
absolutely certain that you avoid the problem of "Internet lag times" don't leave
your bidding until the last second, or better still, use the BidButler
to place your bids."

What a cop out!! On my final auction I used this infamous bid butler as swoopo recommended. What a great way to gobble up your bids and throw away your bid money and still there is no guarantee of coming close to winning!

My advice; save your money and stay away from the evils of swoopo!!!