August 2009

Suggest a Product for BidRodeo

August 19, 2009

Bid Rodeo is looking for product suggestions! Join in on the discussion and tell Bid Rodeo what you’d like to bid on (and win ). So far these items have been suggested: Xbox More variety of games for these systems not the same ones over and over. Visa Gift Cards (my favorite nothing less than [...]

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RockyBid Auctions Off Go Kart, 4 Winners!

August 19, 2009

Only two hours left to bid on the Sahara Go-Kart on Rocky Bid, it may be a great chance to try them out too, if you have not already, because there will be four winners! The last bidder will get the Go Kart +50 free bids. The runner up, the last unique user who bid, [...]

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BidMonk Free Bid Auctions

August 19, 2009

UPDATE: September 15th, 2009, Not quite sure where BidMonk went but it looks like they’re gone, they refunded winning bidders bids and will not be shipping out items. BidMonk just announced that they will be having  Free Bid auctions! They are giving out 200 free “freebids” a day in their promotional period.  There are two [...]

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You May Want to Try BidTrotter!

August 18, 2009

As a result of hearing that members of PAW have had good experiences with BidTrotter (*please if you don’t mind, enter referring user name: “watcher” when you register, thank you!) we decided to tell you more. Here’s what we received from them two months ago: Hello, I just wanted to extend my appreciation for you [...]

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Introducing Blu Ray Bids

August 17, 2009

BluRayBids is a new penny auction site that will soon be opening. It seems like they are making an honest effort to be a legit penny auction. I, along with Jancye from the forum have received items that we won with only 1 bid (free bids at that) on their one day, preliminary auction. BluRayBids [...]

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Famdabidosy Auctions-?

August 17, 2009

Update on Famdabidosy Auctions, it looks like their payment button is fixed and they did a site re-design. I personally received an item from Famdabidosy last week. —- Originally posted on July 21st, 2009. We recently received an E-mail from a reader (We love hearing from you!) who told us that they have won on [...]

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Have you Tried BidsTick?

August 17, 2009

Have you tried BidsTick? A reader just told us that they won a laptop back in May and have not received it. A commenter on  a Youtube testimonial also said they have not received their item. However, there are many testimonials on Youtube so we are not quite sure. BidsTick has 15 auctions ending right [...]

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Filing Complaints

August 17, 2009

If you think you have been scammed by a fraudulent penny auction site, i.e. spent money and never received an item, think they may have bots, have proof that they do, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) should know about it. The FTC is the consumer protection agency of the United States. To submit a complaint [...]

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Liberty Bids Changes Bid Price

August 16, 2009

Not only does Liberty Bids have hidden reserves (they say it was a server problem that’s why I didn’t win when the timer ended with me being the only one up-on multiple items?). Seem to have shill bidding bots (yeah they suddenly kick on when no one knew there was an auction going on, lie [...]

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Is CentMonkey Legit?

August 16, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theshadowknows/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 If you only had a daily average pageview of under 400 would you be auctioning off $10,663.71 worth of items at noon on a Sunday? CentMonkey is. Some of their auctions right now: $5,000 with 108 bids. MacBook Pro  that has so far received 55,720 bids, A Canon camcorder with [...]

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A Bidding Monk

August 15, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/waterwin/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 BidMonk, the penny auction site with the peculiar name, has re-launched  today with new features.  They were down for a few weeks to fix technological problems that occurred during their first launch. As more penny auctions are launched we will see each one try to compete against the others. BidMonk, [...]

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The Perfect Bid/Silver Tag Back

August 15, 2009

SilverTag/aka/ThePerfectBid is back. Have you ever won anything on there? They are encouraging people to sign up for TrialPay.com in order to get 25 free bids. It seems like they have a pretty dubious referral program “Don’t forget that every time you refer someone to ThePerfectBid you increase your chances to win! Refer someone now [...]

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The Average Everyday Penny Auction Bidder?

August 14, 2009

A member on our forum asked a great question: “During my lunchbreak, I often come home and see if I can bid for a few minutes before having to head back to work. On the weekends, I try to bid as well. But I notice that some bidders appear to be on there all the [...]

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Happy Hour Friday at BidCactus

August 14, 2009

It’s Happy Hour Friday on BidCactus (check out the cocktail umbrella!). Buy a 50 Bidpack and get 5 bonus bids from 4-7pm EST today. Discuss BidCactus (Disclaimer: Links to BidCactus are affiliate links, if you click on the links to BidCactus and purchase bids PAW will receive a commission.) http://www.bidcactus.com/?ref=503

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2 AM and I’m still awake bidding on Penny Auctions?

August 14, 2009

It’s 2 AM  and guess what? iPennyBid.com has two auctions ending right now and 4 more ending within the next 3 hours, really. And it looks like many people are up bidding right now too. iPennyBid is not the only auction site with auctions ending right now, PennySold, who by the way, has threatened to [...]

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Penny Auction Forum

August 13, 2009

Have you joined the Penny Auction Forum yet? If not, what are you waiting for! Join today it’s free. Our forum is a place for users to Review penny auction sites (Did you receive your items? How easy was it to win?) Find new ones Talk about problems you’ve had with fraudulent penny auctions Share [...]

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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches

August 13, 2009

Or did they choose this one to make great riches? PennyAuctionSite.com is a new one we’ll be watching. It looks like it was just launched today. They’re based in Estonia. Bids are $1 each and credits expire? August 31st. Please Note: There are many, many more penny auctions we are watching, you can find some [...]

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Swoopo: The King of Entertainment Shopping

August 13, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/annabananabobaloo/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 Swoopo made a profit on revenue of $32 million just last year.  Swoopo came to the US in September of last year and they’ve been around since 2005 in the European market. They have over 2 million members on their US site (swoopo.com) and an Alexa traffic ranking (8,124) that [...]

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What did we tell you…

August 13, 2009

The Economist just published an article on penny auctions Mind the Pennies: The rapid spread of “entertainment shopping” spurs indignation. Washington Post, ABC News, The Economist, we’ll  soon see more media outlets expose penny auctions. The piece  Illustrates the difficulty of turning a revenue and the downfall of having too many bidders. They make mention [...]

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Thou Shalt Not Shill

August 13, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 Penny auctions need to stop shilling with autobidders. Enough Said.

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