April 2010

PAW Falsely Accused

April 23, 2010

  Allow me to set the record straight, in an effort to stop the blatant smear campaign that has been started against me and PennyAuctionWatch.com, on a newly started penny auction forum by a previous forum member of PAW: The user eshopper has posted the following allegations to this new penny auction forum: “Instead of [...]

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Live2Bid Acquires FooRaRa.com

April 23, 2010

Just in from from penny auction Live2Bid.com. “After some careful consideration, the owner of Live2bid.com decided to purchase FooFaRa.com which includes the domain and script.  With this acquisition; a new bidding website will be created that fuses together the Efficiency,  Stability, and Precise Timing of FooFaRa.com with the Customer Service, Fast Shipping, and Credibility of [...]

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What is Jumping Really?

April 22, 2010

Many penny auction bidders post about  how they don’t like it when other users “jump” in on auctions, the following guest article, gives a seasoned penny auction bidder’s perspective on “jumping” in penny auctions. I am seeing the word “JUMPING” being thrown around here quite often and there have even been a couple threads about [...]

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ATTN: Penny Auction Owners

April 19, 2010

Are you a penny auction owner and want to discuss this up and coming industry? Join the Penny Auction Owners Forum! What is the penny auction owners’ forum? A free place for penny auction owners to discuss the competitive shopping/entertainment shopping business, including but not limited to: script discussion developers support ability to alert other penny [...]

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Sonik Technologies’ New Penny Auction Script with Bots

April 19, 2010

On April 10th, Sonik Technologies’ (AuctionWebsiteScript.com) released version 4.0 of their penny auction script, this script release contains the optional auto bidding (bot) function, for those new to the penny auction world, a bot function (robot module) is a computerized script that creates fake bidders to bid against paying bidders to drive the prices up. Question to [...]

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New Site: CalleCents.com Copying BigDeal.com & BidCactus

April 18, 2010

Just recently the owner of the soon-to-open penny auction CalleCents.com has been posting negative comments about BigDeal.com, the competitive shopping auction site.  If you take a look at CalleCents.com you will see the stark similarity between the two sites. BigDeal.com opened in November of 2009 and is backed by millions of dollars in venture funding. Not [...]

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RockyBid Referral Promotion

April 18, 2010

For a limited time, RockyBid will now give you $50 worth of bids if you refer a friend and they buy $39.99 or more worth of bids. There is no limit to how many friends you refer. Discuss your experiences with RockyBid.com in our penny auction forum!

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Changes at BidBlink

April 17, 2010

Penny auction Bidblink.com has just made some changes to their auction prices and format. Here are the details Bid pricing changed from 10¢-15¢ to a flat 40¢ per bid, that will… … speed up auctions … allow support of nailbiter auctions … allow discounts on Buy Nows to be more attractively priced Maximum auction time [...]

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New Cars for a Penny?

April 16, 2010

Looking for info on Fast Penny Cars? A new penny auction site for cars.   Check out what is being said on our forum about FastPennyCars.com Ok, not exactly a penny, but would you bid on a penny auction site that only sold new cars? Recently a member of our forum posed the following question: What [...]

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UnRealBidz.com Penny Auction Opens Soon

April 15, 2010

We recently interviewed Dan with penny auction UnRealBidz.com to learn more about this recently opened entertainment shopping auction. When will UnRealBidz.com open? Our grand opening  will be April 23rd. What  kind of items do you offer/ have lined up?  Do your auctions run on a schedule? We will offer Electronics, Home & Garden, Outdoor Sports, [...]

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BigDeal.com Adds Designer Handbags

April 14, 2010

BigDeal.com now has penny auctions for designer handbags. Bids on BigDeal are $0.75/each and there is a buy-it-now option so users really don’t have to lose when bidding. The current lineup of chic designer handbags includes an Elliott Lucca Sintra Tote, Retail $268.00, a user just won one of these for $95.40; Coach Poppy Cherry [...]

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100 Penny Auction Reviews!

April 14, 2010

We just received our 100th review to our new Penny Auction Reviews Directory. Review your experiences with entertainment shopping, reverse auctions and help us reach 100+ more reviews soon! Your contributions will help thousands of penny auction bidders. How to post a review: – Go to the Main Forum page, and click on the review [...]

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Has Anyone Won on BidFun.com?

April 13, 2010

Have you tried BidFun.com? Did you win and receive an item? Well, we’ve found a large number of comments online on various sites with comments from users suggesting that Bidfun has shill bidders. BidFun has international sites in France, New Zealand, Australia,and  the UK. Bid cost: $1 BidFun.com’s Alexa Ranking: 159,332 A few bidders/winners from today: [...]

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Winnit Introduces Monthly Membership

April 13, 2010

Lowest unique bid, penny auction Winnit.com has just introduced their new Winnit Gold Membership option. Gold Membership will be available to members for: $19.99/month or $99.99 for 6 months or $179.99 for 12 months Benefits of Gold Membership Gold members will have the option of purchasing items at their retail price minus bids places in [...]

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Swoopo Gets Naked

April 12, 2010

The first entertainment shopping site of its kind,  Swoopo has offered over 200,000 auctions since 2005. In observing the current entertainment shopping landscape and surveying bidders,  they’ve found the following concerns that users have with penny auctions generally and Swoopo in particular: Auctions took too long Questions of shill bidding, were real people winning auctions? Some didn’t [...]

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BigDeal.com Lives Up to Its Name

April 11, 2010

Allow us to introduce you to the competitive shopping auction penny auction, BigDeal.com. BigDeal is backed with an experienced team and millions of dollars in venture capital funding from investment groups such as the Mayfield Fund, First Round Capital,  and Foundation Capital. The Penny Auction Watch team has received won items from BigDeal.com and is [...]

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Fraudulent User: Fk_bittowin

April 8, 2010

Bidrodeo.com just wrote to inform us that the forum user/bidder “FK_bittowin”  was a fraudulent bidder. They received a confirmation from American Express that this user is not what he wanted them to believe and that his purchases were fraudulent. If you are a penny auction site owner / bidder be on the lookout for this [...]

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Now Out of Business: WinnersMountain & FooRaRa

April 7, 2010

Two penny auction sites went out of business today: WinnersMountain.com and FooRaRa.com, both sites were unable to obtain a large enough user base to stay afloat and thrive in the penny auction industry so they have decided to close.

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Could There Be Shill Bidding on ChooChooKazoo.com?

April 7, 2010

A little over a week ago we posted an e-mail interview that was conducted with ChooChooKazoo.com, shortly thereafter a post about multiple users using penny auction site ChooChooKazoo.com’s internet connection to join the PAW forum, one of which had made the mistake of posting about their experience under ChooChooKazoo’s owners username, that post was published [...]

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Our First Bidder’s Interview

April 6, 2010

We recently interviewed Ashley of DailyRunnerOnline.com, we found her article Online Auctions – Rip Off or Hot Deal?  In her blog she mentions the penny auction sites Swoopo, Bidrodeo and Beezid. Unfortunately Ashley was not able to win an item on penny auctions and felt that users on penny auctions don’t play fair with intimidating [...]

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