July 2009

iPennyBid alleged scam with shillbidders?

by Amanda Lee on July 31, 2009

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IPennyBid is a new penny auction that currently has 6 items ending right now simultaneously. In my opinion it looks like they might have shill bidders.

The domain for iPennyBid was just registered on July 11th, 2009. Try to convince us that they really can afford to have 6 items running at the same time and actually have real people bidding right now at 1 am EST, August 1st.

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Registrant:
Jerry Reddig
16 Achille Crescent
Casselman, ON K0A 1M0
CA

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: IPENNYBID.COM
Created on: 11-JUL-09
Expires on: 12-JUL-10
Last Updated on: 23-JUL-09

And if that’s not enough to convince you, we’re still not too sure how reliable and up to date the data from websiteoutlook.com is, BUT in contrast:

iPennyBid: Daily Pageview 65

BidNow24: Daily Pageview 196
PennyAuctionWatch: Daily Pageview 944
BidRodeo: Daily Pageview 2031
BidRay: Daily Pageview 11843
Swoopo: Daily Pageview 142949

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