July 2009

Swoopo the Crack Cocaine of Penny Auctions

July 8, 2009

Mark Gimein, for  Slate’s “The Big Money.com,” wrote an article yesterday on Swoopo entitled “The Crack Cocaine of Auction Sites.” Mark writes: “Swoopo.com is the most efficient, addictive way to separate people from their money. Some winners do wind up with good deals. A few, on the other hand, wind up paying almost as much [...]

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Received an Item from Liberty Bids, but

July 8, 2009

I just received the $25 Walmart gift card from Liberty Bids, but not the $5 McDonald’s card that was won the night before. Liberty Bids still has not replied to my E-mails about the other auctions that showed my user name up when they closed. Yet they just declared a winner on a Wii auction [...]

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What’s Up with Swipe It Up?

July 6, 2009

UPDATE: Please note, we are not being judge and jury, we are only presenting the facts as we see them. An owner of Swipe It Up just contacted us, here is what they said: Hello, Thanks for taking the time to address this email. We believe your site has become or will become the authority [...]

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Great Items of the Week

July 6, 2009

Here are some of the best items we found up for auction this week on various penny auction sites. You can watch crystal clear video with a Sony BluRay player over at BidCactus ending right now! A Canon EOS Rebel T1i DSLR Camera ends tonight at 9:05 EST over at Zoozle. Also on Zoozle is [...]

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Liberty Bids Lie?

July 5, 2009

UPDATE: Still awaiting  reply from Liberty Bids…. A new penny auction site, Liberty Bids, was launched on July 2nd. I won a $25 Walmart gift card and a $5 McDonald’s giftcard, now I have gone back on there and won items that have closed only to find that they did not say I was the [...]

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Zoozle Auctions Paused

July 3, 2009

Zoozle’s auctions are paused until further notice, there is a problem  with their payment gateway due to a fire at Authorize.net’s  primary data center in Seattle.  Hopefully this isn’t a huge problem for E-commerce! We’ll let you know when Zoozle is back! Zoozle is now back! Congratulations to AllforAnM who got a 1 oz Pamp [...]

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YottaBid on Hiatus

July 3, 2009

Yottabid is down, looks like they probably gave too many items away. They said there is an 80% chance they will be back. Here’s what they said in their forum: Hi again, Just a quick update to keep everyone up to speed: We are actually pursuing a couple of major format/coding changes, on the level [...]

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Eco-Friendly Entertainment Shopping

July 1, 2009

On Green Fair by bidding on items you are “offsetting your carbon footprint.” Yes, that’s right-they say there are 416,807 pounds of CO2 not entering our atmosphere thanks to their members. Greenfair.com is an extraordinary entertainment shopping platform with a slight twist. Our Shopping engine will allow you to engage in a nontraditional auction, while [...]

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