Over the next 11 days, Nick Lachey will be blogging about his trip around the country on The Everybody Wins Tour, just for OK!. Stay tuned in to his blogs for all Nick’s news from the road as he surprises winners from his new site, Winnit.com.
Hey guys!
Welcome to my new blog! For the next 11 days I am going to be heading all over the country during The Everybody Wins Tour, surprising winners from my new website, Winnit.com, and also volunteering at local food banks to help raise awareness for a really great organization called Feeding America.
I’m traveling all over the U.S. in a big yellow tour bus, so I hope that if you see us on the road you’ll beep, wave and say hi!
Me and the Winnit.com bus hit the road!
We just kicked off the tour in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio with a trip to the Freestore Foodbank where I spent some time alongside volunteers and met some really incredible fans. We’re on the bus now heading to Pittsburgh, Penn. to surprise a Winnit winner with the iPod Shuffle that she won on the site.
Visiting the Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Let me tell you a little bit about what Winnit.com is in case you don’t know: My partners and I came up with this incredible idea for a reverse auction website where instead of bidding the highest amount, the goal is to be the first (and only!) member to bid a price as close to zero as possible without choosing a price that someone else has already bid. The site hosts some really great auctions where we feature products like iPods, Louis Vuitton bags, Nintendo Wii and even a Porsche Cayman! Just last week users won an iPod Nano for $0.10, a Samsung 50” plasma TV for $1.61 and a Louis Vuitton Speedy for $2.07. It’s a really exciting new concept and I hope you’ll check it out here: http://www.winnit.com.
To celebrate the launch of Winnit we decided to hit the road and visit some of our fantastic members that have been winning all sorts of great products in our auctions. I was thrilled that Feeding America was able to join us in putting together this tour because I have been involved with the organization for three years now and I greatly respect the work that they do. Take a look at the Feeding America website at http://feedingamerica.org.
We’re about to stop for lunch, so I have to get going, but I hope you’ll check back here to read more about my cross-country adventure and see some of my own pictures and maybe even some video!
Nick
Catch Nick’s next blog for OK! on Wednesday, Oct. 7!
Just hanging out on The Everybody Wins bus!
How can everyone win?
What about the people that bid and lose?
There will be 10 losers for every one winner.
I can’t believe Nick put his name to a gambling site such as this!
Shame on you Nick, it’s sites like this that send people broke and need to go to homeless shelters for food as they gambled all their money away on chips or bids in this example.
Mike - I just spent a few minutes looking at Winnit - and yes, like in all other auctions - you’ll have one winner when the auction ends, which will get a great deal on that item.
Also - they have a referral-bonus, which means you don’t have to spend money on your bids…
So I would rather say shame on you for making such accusations… You cannot compare a reverse auction with gambling. At an auction, skill is involved… if you put money on a slot-machine, it’s pure chance…
I think it’s great with celebrities that spend their time on charity-work - and handing out food at a food-bank is certainly setting a very good example!
Keep up the good work, Nick!
Mike: Obviously that is a fake name. As you addressed that letter to yourself, did you forget you used the fake name of Mike?
Shame on Nick. I will let the world know about this Scam and that Nick is running it.
Doug, STOP already!!!!!! It’s good people doing a good thing. You do not have to participate if you choose . Personnaly I have bid on several items. No, I have not won YET but part of my money is going to a good cause. It is a win/win for all involved.
Try to enjoy your day,
Lori
it’s a great site! i’ve won a bunch! you just have to have to get the hang of it. and like lori said, everybody wins because of the charity aspect. i’ve lost too, but i just tell myself… well that was just money donated to feeding america, and that’s okay with me.
you control youre actions, if you’re crazy enough to bid a bunch of money when you can’t affort it, that’s not anyone’s problem but your own.
hey k8d7!
what is your stategy? i’ve been bidding and i havent won anything yet
Did you lose a lot of money?
i would appreciate any input.
thanks
How much does to charity?
I will contact the charity and ask.
If funds do actually get to a charity then any money lost should be tax deductable.
Doug,
The fact that any amount goes to charity is a good thing. Obviuosly the site is a business as well…..good for them for being creative enough to think of it! Just think how much better off the world would be if EVERY business gave even 1% to charity. It does add up. Why be so negative? If you don’t agree or like the site then don’t participate. We are in America and you still have the freedom of choice.
Have a nice day,
Lori
What a scam two days after joining I quit but don’t see my money being put back in paypal. No phone number and when you email there is no reply. - Be careful if it sounds too good to be true it’s probably not true. Very disappointed. Will definitely stick with Ebay at least you know what you paid.
Linda
Wow! Nick just delivered my Garmin Nuvi in his big yellow bus on Monday, and it’s great! I got back on today and did some more bidding and won a Nintendo Wii! My Mom is now getting into it, and Nick was nice enough to give me a bunch of promo cards so that everybody that I give one to gets an additional $10 in their account! And for those who were wondering, Winnit.com is giving ALL of their first month’s proceeds to Feeding America. Also, if you haven’t won anything yet try using the serial bid option after you get the bidding range for the lowest unique bid. Good luck bidding!
Denise
linda.. what do you mean put money back in ur account? do you mean the money you spent on bidding, cuz you can’t get it back. it’s not a scam you just have to know what youre doing, the first day i lost money and i got so mad, like WTF i can’t believe i just wasted money and got NOTHING! but then i tried again and i won! so since then i’ve just been perfecting my strategy.. which, sorry guys, will remain my secret, and i’ve won SOOO much stuff… i’ve won..
2 macbooks ((one was a macbook air!)
4 ipod touches!
3 ps3 slims
1 apple tv
1 hi def camcorder
1 ipod shuffle
1 ipod nano
1 pair of skullcandy headphones
1 xbox elite
1 kitchenaid artisan mixer
AND
1 BOSE home theater system worth $4000!!!!
plus i told my boyfriend about it and he’s won:
1 PS3
1 Xbox
1 Louis Vuitton Manhattan PM bag ((for me!! yay!!))
1 pair of skullcandy headphones
1 didgital camera
and
1 kitchenaid artisan mixer ((for his mama.. aww))
SOOO im just sayin.. this site is AWESOME and Im soo glad that nick lachey went on rachael ray and talked about it ((thats where i heard about it)) don’t get me wrong, i still lose.. i lost an auction today
but then i won 2 auctions so im okay with that 
so good luck to those who go on the site… especially if you’re bidding against me on something lol
Hey k8d7,
Have you been receiving most of the items you won on? I’ve won a few, but it’s been weeks and I still haven’t had the items shipped to me. Plus the support staff are also very slow at replying. Just wondering what your experiences are on that. Thanks!
Hey k8d7,
Have you been receiving most of the items you won on? I’ve won a few, but it’s been weeks and I still haven’t had the items shipped to me. Plus the support staff are also very slow at replying. Just wondering what your experiences are on that. Thanks!
k8d7,
I have the same question as Mach. I won an item almost 3 weeks ago. Does it normally take that much time to ship to you?
Kudos on whatever strategy you are using, b/c I see your name all the time!
Nick, keep up the great work….site is fun.
yeah they take awhile, they have up to 30 business days to get it to you according to the terms and conditions of the site
I won several times too and NEVEF recieved anything!. I tried contacting the support people by email and they NEVER reply back! What a scam!!!!!
Maybe it’s not a scam, but it’s definitely gambling. Now I know reverse auction is the fancy term for gambling. So if you can stomach gambling your money away this site is for you. They have auctions running for days, but if you place a bid early, someone else will eventually bid that amount and you will lose. Seems like only way of possibly winning is to wait last minute and place serial bid. So just my 2 cents, Nick is promoting gambling.
K8D7,
How about some hints on your strategy. I am down over $250 and can not win. I would like to win something to make up for my loses before I give up.
hey guys, yeah i’ve gotten very few of my items. i’ve recieved 1 macbook, 2 ps3s, 3 ipod shuffle, and 1 ipod touch. but in their terms and conditions it states that they have 30 business days to have shipped items so i guess it’s okay. they are just getting started and may take awhile to get the wheel turning the right way ya know? it’s definatly not a scam tho. since my last post i’ve won tons more, i can’t wait for my trip to vegas!!
plus my b/f has recieved his ps3, didgital camera and skullcandy headphones
K8D7, don’t you think you have won enough? How about giving some other people a chance. I mean how many laptops and ipods do you need? People like you ruin sites like winnit, the average person does not stand a chance.
oh grow up, don’t be mad just because im better at it than you and won’t share my strategy. i want as many as i can get, im making so much money reselling everything. what do you mean the average person doesn’t stand a chance? i am the average person! don’t bet on me stopping anytime soon.
hey, just thought you’d be happy to know i just won my 5th laptop tonight. well not so much that you’d be happy to know, more i’d be happy to tell you.
abc123, People like k8d7, myself and a few others on the site are average. We have just done our homework and built our strategies off of that. WE are average people and lose too. Granted I don’t log onto the site very often but when I do I usually win most of the things I’ve bid on. I’ve gotten beat by k8d7 and I have beat her at some auctions; as well as we both have lost to other people **cough cough**rolltide and saysno…. We just strategize against each other…lol That is what makes it fun!
And like they mentioned above if we don’t win so what?? It is going to a good cause. Don’t give up just do your homework and you’ll succeed. And if you haven’t logged onto winnit.com lately, they did add beginners auctions that you can win 3 auctions before you are kicked out to the other side. 
Best of luck.
k8d7, I know you answered that you did receive some of the things you’ve won so far…on average how long did it take before you got your first few things?? I won my first things the beginning of October and still log on and see no tracking….
I just want to start baking and playing all the gaming systems I’ve won and listen to my music on my ipod’s dangit! lol
hey fxtyger42, one of my few winnit arch nemesis lolll. (this girl or guy has kicked my butt on a lot of money auctions) umm yeah it took about a month, but they’re getting SO much better at shipping now. I just won a louis vuitton bag maybe a week ago, i dont remember, but that already shipped. they still owe me things from october thing (namely my bose system– i want that so bad already!) but dont be afraid to write in a complain… i did, a lot
but they’re starting to really get on the ball. i guess they sucked at shipping for awhile because ppl were on tour but now i think they’ve hired more ppl, and they said they have ppl helping them with shipping in new york and stuff. so keep an eye out, i know my bose system and my LV handbag both shipped out already but they haven’t updated my won auctions with tracking numbers yet.
oh, my mistake– i meant i won my bose system at the end of september so, they’re still kinda behind, but i got the rest of the stuff i won in sept. so they should getting to the stuff in the beggining of oct. now.
yeah its girl arch nemesis btw lol….. and dangit I remember you beat me by a penny on the bose system!!! dah!! i was bummed it was one of the first days that i had had my acct lol anyways that is good to hear about them starting to get on the ball with shipping. I wanted to write in and complain or ask what was taking so long but then I knew it would take at least a week to hear back from them so yeah just thought I’d ask you since i saw you on here. I bet it feels like Christmas/birthday everyday there, probably getting something new everyday lol. Can’t wait for mine to start here! Thanks for the info on the shipping!!
Take care!
you guys are scamming. bs on the strategy. there is something goin on with you an i, for one, look forward to the winnit folks figuring it out.
and, seriously, real smart on listing everything you won! lol!
Why is it everyone keeps bitching about k8d7 and the other winners? If you have such a problem, don’t get on the site. I doubt they’re scamming, but probably investing more money than most people will on the site. Everyone wants to cry about it, but if I could invest more, I’d be trying to win just as much as they are. Why don’t all you people who have a problem with this go to Craigslist…..they have a “free” section, so you don’t have to spend any of your money. Kudos k8….can you tell me when you’re gonna take a night off so I can try some of these?
hey dragonjay! thank you! thats exactly whats going on, and how i feel about it. i invest a lot of money and ppl get mad when they lose 20 dollars lol. i loved ur response. yes i’ll letcha know when i wont be biddnig because youre awesome. but i wont let every1 know and i’d appriciate if you didn’t. post me ur email (id make up a new fake email so that ppl on here who are mad dont spam you cuz its public) and i’ll email you because i do take days off, or if not days, certain times when i dont bid, like when im at the gym n stuff
♥ Kd
actually i just realized that anyone could post their email under dragon jay on here. and maybe they’d be ppl who are mad at me and then they would share with everyone so i guess ican’t letcha know.. im sorry
No sweat….I can understand that, but thanks for the offer. I’ll just have to try and beat you on my own.
Good luck to you and fxty….unless you’re going up against me…then I hope your power goes out. See ya on the winners list.
Totally agree with you Dragonjay!
Thank you!!
hahaha LOL @ the power goes out thing, i like this guy
LOL! That’s hilarious! Good luck to you too!
I can assure you my bids have been significant. Winnit support told me that the top player has a “tandem” strategy with their “spouse” and that they are trying to come up with programs to eliminate those types of tactics as they seem unfair to other players. hey, good for you…you are probably making about $10k a week off this. that is fantastic. but, you mention you are not their best customer. the best customer for winnit.com is the customer that is giving them $ and losing. they aren’t making a dime off of of their “top players”
My thing is that I just want to make sure everything is on the up and up. i am o.k. with losing but, this is a new site, and i get skeptical when the same people always win. wish their was some sort of audit or an auditing company involved…then i’d feel better. i really like the concept, but i am not sure the trust has been earned yet.
oh ,theyve never told that to me but ive never asked about it, i dont have a spouse, just a b/f and we never bid on the same items, i said im one of their best costumers, which am, because yes i win but i spend llots and keep loading more and more money, and because i bid so much other ppl have to bid more to win too, if i didn’t bid on an auctino it’d go for a lot less, like in the beginning of this site, i used to be able to win a ps3 for a lot less because there weren’t only like 2 big bidders, then there were more and more so we alll have to spend more to try to win. its because of theyre big players that so many ppl lose so much money to them, if we weren’t on the site the auctions would go for so much less, idk if they’d make enough to cover the cost of some of the items they put on there.
i understand your concern, i was a little concerned with the slow shipping, i thought it was some kind of scam in the beginning because it took forever to get stuff. but you dont need to be mean to other bidders, thats all i was saying. i was getting ganged up on by a few ppl and it was really unfair, thats all.
the whole in tandem thing doesn’t make sense to me to be honest, say the wife bids from 01-50 and then the hubby bids from 51-100 on an auction, why wouldn’t one of them just bid 100? what if one of the persons computer freezes, thats happened to me, or bid doesn’t go thru and someone wins what the other person didn’t bid,then they’re just out 50bux, whereas if theres an error and only one person was bidding and they’re bids didn’t go thru at least they didn’t lose anything…
idk, but yeah no my b/f doesn’t even go on there anymore, he just wanted to win stuff that he actually wanted — and xbox, a ps3, a camera and headphones for himself a louis vuitton bag for me for my bday and a mixer for his mama for xmas. and he got that stuff so he hasn’t been on in weeks. I go on there to make money because i have the time and its a lot of fun for me, its fun to stratigize– bidding, the suspense of waiting for that damn page to refresh and see if it says “Congrats to k8d7″ lol — and then who doesn’t love getting stuff in the mail right?
im a nice person, just a normal girl, and no one likes to be picked on and thats what it felt like on facebook for awhile, and it wasn’t just you it was 4 or 5 ppl getting mad and taking it out on me because i win a lot, but i dont make ppl bid, thats their choice and thats not a reason to be rude to someone, i wouldn’t be mean to someone because they beat me on winnit ya know? oh well it doesn’t matter anymore. i asked winnit to remove those things about me because i wanted it to stop, and it seems to have discouraged ppl from being so negative, which is good.
but yeah they didn’t earn my trust until
A. i won and
B. fedex delivered my item
k8…dragonjay here. when you get a sec, would you email me at dragon.jay@hotmail.com ?not too worried about being bothered w/ emails from here…not too many people posting, and I just created this one so it’s a throw away email.
fake ,trust me, i won a ps3 and they wont ship the item after 40-50days
Recomandation? ebay,amazon etc etc, at least you know what you pay…
I don’t understand why everyone is giving K8D7 a hard time, I just started on the site and she wins a lot, but good for her! She’s bids smart. Good for you!
I think this is a scam, how is it that in a couple seconds the bid jumped from $2 to K8D7 winning with over $4. K8D7 is so part of the Winnit site. Good if the money goes to the charity, but it’s crap that it gives us false hope. Waste of money!