November 2009

BidCactus’ Bidpack Auction for Feeding America

November 21, 2009

Just the other day we told you about penny auctions that are donating to charity, here’s the details for BidCactus’ charity auction: “Many people are struggling with hunger this year. How can you help? Look for the special 75 Bidpack auctions that say “Food Bank Donation.” For every person that participates in the auction, BidCactus [...]

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RockyBid Beta Test Update

November 20, 2009

RockyBid tells us that their beta test was very productive, users helped them isolate their technical problems and they’re now working to correct them. We wanted to let you know that we heard (unofficially ) that RockyBid may be having another beta test this Sunday (11-22-09).

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New Forum Category: Hot Updates from Penny Auctions

November 20, 2009

Attention penny auction sites & bidders! We just added a new forum category to our entertainment shopping forum. The Hot Updates from Penny Auctions forum is available for any and all entertainment shopping auctions to post promotions & announcements that they would like the Penny Auction Watch community to  know about.  Check it out!

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GoCrazyBid UK Penny Auction Sonik Technologies

November 20, 2009

UK based penny auction GoCrazyBid.com recently opened to residents of the UK, France and Germany. Read the press release: ”London, United Kingdom, November 18, 2009: The launch of Gocrazybid.com is good news for all those who are interested to win high quality branded products at giveaway prices by placing the best possible low bids on [...]

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Penny Auctions Funding Charitable Causes

November 18, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/manullang/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 We applaud all of the penny auctions that are giving back to the community! BidCactus has raised and donated a total of $4,773 to the Breast Cancer Emergency Aid Foundation. The next charitable organization that your bidpack purchases on BidCactus will fund is Feeding America, with thanksgiving coming up they [...]

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Wavee is Out of Beta

November 18, 2009

A few weeks ago we interviewed Jacky Lai, the founder of Atlanta based Wavee.com. We wanted to let you know that Wavee has successfully completed weeks of beta testing  and just yesterday launched nationwide. About Wavee: “Wavee creates a rewarding shopping and auction experience. The site introduces the concept of “Shoptions” (shopping options), which allows consumers [...]

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Interview with Penny Auction Bidserk

November 18, 2009

There are many new penny auction sites opening!  We recently spoke with the  team of Bidserk.com about their new penny auction set to open next month. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Bidserk: What got us interested in the entertainment shopping industry was we came across Swoopo about 9 [...]

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Beta Test on RockyBid Tonight!

November 17, 2009

Just in from RockyBid.com “ROCKYBID.COM NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!! Word has finally reached us from the IT pit that they will be running a public BETA test of the new site tonight.   First auction closes at 10 PM eastern standard time, and is open to anyone with an active Rockybid.com account. What will Rockybid.com be testing? [...]

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BidPax Testimonial

November 17, 2009

A reader and customer of BidPax.com (which was iPennybid) recently wrote us to tell us about their experiences with them and tells us he thinks BidPax has their own fake testimonial website: BidPaxScam.com, which interestingly enough pays for Google Adwords. “Hi PAW, Plimus is useless. They force resolve our dispute so i’m not able to [...]

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Have you tried DFWBID.com?

November 17, 2009

Elana Centor, of the blog FunnyBusiness, recently posted a great article on BlogHer.com chronicling her bidding experience and strategies she uses on DFWBID. Elana also mentions that bidders need to take caution when trying out online auctions, we want to thank her for mentioning Penny Auction Watch. Thanks Elana! “The decision to launch my penny auction strategy requires constant [...]

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Quick2Bid UK Penny Auction Interview

November 17, 2009

We recently interviewed Viraj Karia, CEO and founder of just opened UK Penny Auction Quick2Bid.com. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Quick2Bid: As an entrepreneurial team, we have always been very keen to create a unique online business that brings people together to give them excellent value, whilst donating [...]

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Interview with New Penny Auction Sellmoo

November 16, 2009

Sellmoo is a new penny auction that plans to open on November 20th, we asked Sellmoo’s owner a few questions. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Sellmoo: I came across Swoopo and it really intrigued me, I looked more into the Industry and found it   is still largely untapped [...]

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A Gift Card for a Penny Auction

November 16, 2009

Penny Auction Bidblink is the first penny auction (that we’ve seen) to sell gift cards for bids. For $25 you can give a gift card for 200 Bids and receive 100 bids yourself and 10% of proceeds goes to charity. BidBlink has also started selling JustGive gift cards that let the winner choose which charity [...]

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PennyJersey Needs Beta Testers

November 15, 2009

Attention Sports Fans! New niche penny auction PennyJersey.com, a sports memorabilia & equipment bid-fee auction, is launching soon and they need 50 beta testers. Ok Folks, we have been waiting a long time  for this and BETA testing is finally here for PennyJersey.com. The excitement is contagious and just wait till you hear what we [...]

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Horneto Tells Us They Don’t Us Bots

November 13, 2009

The “P2p Money Penny Auction” Horneto.com just wrote to tell us that they do not use computer generated robot bidders (shills), they also told us that they were not HasteNo.com they just purchased their software. Read what they have to say: “Recently the solutions of the cent auction have become more and more popular in [...]

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StuffBuff’s Blink

November 12, 2009

We told you about StuffBuff’s Live Haggle auctions, now that StuffBuff has launched in private beta we can tell you about StufBuffs entertainment shopping product Blink. Like Live Haggle, Blink is a custom application using PayPal’s new payment system X.com With Blink sellers set a price on an item and the more watchers the item [...]

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RockyBid Update

November 11, 2009

Just in from RockyBid.com: First of all we want to thank all of you for your continued interest in our site as we work through the final stages of our upgrade. We want to assure all of our valued users that we are working night and day to get the site up and running smoothly [...]

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StuffBuff Private Beta Invite

November 11, 2009

Looking for an alternative to eBay & Craigslist? We told you about StuffBuff awhile back, they will even have a penny auction format (more details coming soon). Today StuffBuff launched in private beta mode and they’ve extended an invite to the first 150 Penny Auction Watch readers, the early beta items will be simulated auctions. [...]

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Should Popular Penny Auctions be Unpopular?

November 10, 2009

This guest blog was sent into us by David at www.pay-per-bid-online-auctions.blogspot.com. “Should Popular Penny Auctions be Unpopular? That’s a strange title and probably deserves an explanation. Penny auctions and other fee based auctions hold a rather unique place in the world of ‘shopping’. In most shopping situations the more popular a shop is, the greater [...]

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TidBidz Gone-Fails to Fulfill Items

November 9, 2009

We tested (as we do for many new penny auction sites) the penny auction TidBidz.com. A reader told us he had received items from them and thought them to be legit (he sends his apologies). TidBidz.com listed many items and had starting prices above $30, we “won” a Flip Camera, a Sony Digital Camera, an [...]

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