Remember iPennybid? We received a legal threat, many negative comments from unhappy iPennyBid bidders and found out that iPennyBid required scans of bidders driver’s licenses. Now iPennyBid is gone and the offline message reads:
“Due to licensing reasons, iPennyBid.com is no longer available in your country. We will post more information when available.”
Licensing reasons? Please look at our past posts and read all of the comments we’ve received regarding iPennyBid.
We received a comment today from a reader who says it looks like the new penny auction site BidVoo.com which is scheduled to open in 2 weeks could possibly be iPennyBid:
“I am a victim of ipennybid. I found out about 2 or 3 times the same bidder bid 5 even 8,9 times continuously without any other bidder following. it bidded by himself. I think the autoprogam may go wrong. And please check out the site bidvoo.com, it’s exectly same as ipennybid (see FAQ). When you type bidvoo.com it comes ca.bidvoo.com (ca means Canada), but it’s located in Los Angeles. Another scam.”
The footer of BidVoo’s site tells us that BidVoo is a corporation “BidVoo, Inc.” They also list an unpublished cell phone number based in Los Angeles (323) 892-0860. A quick business search on the California Secretary of State website for registered corporations shows that there are no matches for Bidvoo in their system.
Here’s the registrant information.
And the domain services for BidVoo & iPennyBid are the same, provided by Zentek International:
What is Zentek International?
“We are a fully Offshore Hosting Services Provider based in Hong Kong, the financial and telecommunications center of Asia, with the freest economy in the World (including very low level of government involvement in business activities, and very low level of restrictions, intervention, and regulation).”
Surely an invalid corporation based in the USA should have nothing to hide?
Registrant:
Bidvoo, Inc.
4365 Lincoln Blvd
Marina del Rey
Los Angeles, CA 90292
US
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: BIDVOO.COM
Created on: 27-SEP-09
Expires on: 28-SEP-10
Last Updated on: 28-SEP-09
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Irwin, David [email protected]
Bidvoo, Inc.
4365 Lincoln Blvd
Marina del Rey
Los Angeles, CA 90292
US
310-337-1465 It looks like Mr. "Irwin" uses the fax number for Atlas Rent a Car in Inglewood, CA.
3103371467 And Apollo Courier of Inglewood, CA.
And does 4365 Lincoln Blvd. even exist?
It doesn't seem to, Lincoln Blvd is full of car lots and car rental companies:
Here’s why it looks like BidVoo is iPennyBid:
- Both sites are currently offline.
- Both use the Plimus payment gateway.
- And they both have subdomains that redirect to your country: us.ipennybid.com, us.bidvoo.com,
- Both have pages on “Responsible Bidding.”
- And here’s the kicker: Both sites have very similar IP addresses and files are hosted on the same webhost company.
BidVoo’s source code links to SevernStream’s IP Address 205.234.213.179: Whereas iPennyBid links to the same site by name:
http://www.severnstream.com/client/848442//themed/ipennybid/img/logo.gif
http://205.234.213.179/S3465//themed/bidvoo/img/logo.png
An IP search on selfseo.com shows that both penny auction websites have very similar IP addresses.
The IP address of www.bidvoo.com is 120.50.40.249
The IP address 120.50.40.249 is assigned to 
France
The IP address of www.ipennybid.com is 120.50.40.155
The IP address 120.50.40.155 is assigned to France
Here’s a screenshot of both BidVoo and iPennyBid from Google’s Cache:
The descriptions are also exactly the same:
So there you have it iPennyBid had too many unhappy customers and decided to change its name to BidVoo. Don’t you find it odd that BidVoo shows ended auctions already yet they’re not even open yet?
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