Comments on: Penny Auctions for a Cause?

By: Closed Penny Auctions

Closed Penny Auctions — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:39:14 +0000

[...] CpPilotAuctions.com [...]

By: Penny Auction Startup Myths & Flaws: Introduction — Penny Auction Watch

Penny Auction Startup Myths & Flaws: Introduction — Penny Auction Watch — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:00:51 +0000

[...] CpPilotAuctions.com [...]

By: Update on CP Pilot Auctions | Penny Auction Watch

Update on CP Pilot Auctions | Penny Auction Watch — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:40:15 +0000

[...] Pilot Auctions, the one that had the “hackers” is still down, but here is an update from the owner, Keith [...]

By: Another Site Owner

Another Site Owner — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:04:41 +0000

Yeah okay, total scam artist at work here. There are no 3rd party programs that give you free bids and bid for you, only bid bots in his software.

You don’t need to make any “upgrades” to disable bid bots, it’s a setting in the back end that requires you to make up user names.

I wonder what he’s so exhausted from? Not getting any sleep worrying about being caught?

Refund everyone 10 Bids?? WTF is that nonsense? A proper course of action for running bid bots is to refund everyone their money and shut your scam down.

P.S. So if the auctions have a “reserve” that extends the clock until enough people click bid, why would anyone click bid??!?

By: auctionwatcher

auctionwatcher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:34:19 +0000

Thanks for your comments, Jesse and Mark, they are much appreciated.

No it doesn't seem right to only give back 10 bids all auctions should be voided and all bids refunded. Not sure how he could miss them either, maybe he found this post and decided to do some damage control? We don't know, maybe he is honest maybe not. Would like to think he is trying to run an honest operation but not everyone is.

If Cp Pilot is legit they deserve to be treated that way and promoted in a positive light, but if things don't seem right (which so far they haven't, and continue to be weird. People need to know before they lose their money to a scam.

On reserves: He says for items with reserves the clock will extend and not end until it meets the reserve.

Thanks again for the comments they're appreciated.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:25:25 +0000

Shouldn't he refund all of the users' bids? Giving back 10 bids to someone who spent a bunch of money lost bidding against automatic bots doesn't sound right. I also don't see how you could 'miss' automatic bidding bots on your site, since they wouldn't actually be registered users.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:56:23 +0000

Something seems real shady about this guy. He sells ebooks on how to make money on the internet. I hope he isn't hiding behind this charity to make a quick buck.