June 2010

BidFireworks.com Allegedly Caught Cheating Will NOT Be Tolerated

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Have you bid on Bidfireworks.com? Have your experiences been similar to those of one of our readers? Unfortunately it looks like his concerns may be well founded,  read about his experiences and then our findings below. “I have been visiting you guys for quite a while now, and finally decided to sign myself up! It’s [...]

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Warning Penny Auction Sites Using PHPPennyAuction Script

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We’ve seen it happen at least a dozen times now, penny auction sites using the PHPPennyAuction.com script have sent out e-mails to their members that have in turn exposed their member’s names & e-mail addresses.   To all site owners using the PHPPennyAuction.com script: you may want to think twice before you send e-mails to [...]

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ABC Penny Auctions is Closing

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Looks like we now have to add ABC Penny Auctions to the ever growing list of out-of-business penny auctions. ABC Penny Auctions just sent this to their members (multiple times, non-stop unfortunately & BTW they also exposed everyone’s e-mail address): ABC PENNY AUCTIONS WE ARE VERY SORRY TO ANNOUNCE WE WILL BE CLOSING As most [...]

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Lady Gaga Necklace Auction from Poker Face on Winnit.com

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Grammy Award-Winning Artist Lady Gaga has donated her “Poker Face” Necklace for a charity auction on Winnit.com, beginning today, June 15th. A necklace designed by Brian Lichtenberg and worn by Lady Gaga in the music video for her #1 single “Poker Face” will be auctioned off to the lowest, unique bidder on Winnit.com, the reverse-auction website [...]

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CheapOh! Network Rolling Out Soon & Penny Auction Update

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Penny auction CheapOh.net has sent us a site update, they tell us that CheapOh! will be re-opening very soon and that users should be able to purchase bids now and recover their lost accounts if they were members previously. In addition, after recovering their accounts, all old members will be awarded 20 extra bids, as [...]

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Penny Auction Bidders: Do You Like Penny Auctions with the Bid Buddy Option?

bidrodeo June 13, 2010

This is for those of you who have been bidding on penny auctions for awhile, and the newbies too (welcome!): Do you prefer penny auctions with the bid buddy/butler/autobid (set your bid and watch) option or do you like to manually bid? Do you feel intimidated by users on bid buddy? Discuss this in our [...]

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Could There Be a Shill Bidder on BittyBidz? UPDATED with Explanation from BityBidz!

bittybidz June 12, 2010

Update: BittyBidz.com has responded to this post in our forum with their explanation  [please read - click here] and we have moved their site out of our Red Flagged section.  Please join our penny auction forum & review BittyBidz! Have you ever bid on BittyBidz.com/.net? (BittyBidz.com has recently merged/is merging to BittyBidz.net). BittyBidz is a [...]

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BidCactus Posts Summary of Charitable Donations

bidcactus June 12, 2010

Since November of last year, penny auction BidCactus.com has raised $28,512 for various charitable organizations by auctioning off special Bidpacks each month. To date they’ve raised money for: The Breast Cancer Emergency Aid Foundation, Feeding America, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Save the Whales, Autism Speaks, and currently the USO -United Service Organizations. BidCactus is taking suggestions [...]

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Bidrodeo Super Sunday

bidrodeo June 12, 2010

Tomorrow, June 13th Bidrodeo will be holding a Super Sunday promotion. They’re adding 3x more auctions, just for the Sunday, including a MacBook Pro auction for the first time on BidRodeo. They’ve also told us there will be plenty of iPads and a lot of Rookie auctions. Discuss & Review BidRodeo.com in our forum!

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NailBidder is Giving Away 100 Free Bids

nailbidder June 11, 2010

Have you bid on penny auction NailBidder? NailBidder is currently running a 100 free bid contest! To enter all you have to do is either: Share Nailbidder on Twitter by Retweeting RT : @Nailbidder, the best penny auction site. Period! (ps. these are NailBidder’s rules- let us know if you think NailBidder is a good penny auction [...]

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ZoogBOO Gone Did They Have Skeletons in Their Closet?

penny auction shill bidding June 10, 2010

Many weeks ago we moved reverse penny auction ZoogBoo.com to the red flags section of our penny auction forum after hearing numerous customer complaints. We had an uneasy feeling about them from the beginning,  but some users gave them the benefit of the doubt and tried them, now many are trying to get their money [...]

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BattyBid.com Alleged Bidders Without E-mail Addresses

battybid June 10, 2010

Have you bid on BattyBid.com? If so, what have your experiences been? One of our forum members recently discovered that BattyBid had bidders without e-mail addresses  bidding on June 7th.

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PennyAuctionSoft Possibly Forum Member Posing as Customer?

pennyauctionsoft June 10, 2010

UPDATE: 6/11: BuyBidz told us that they were using the WIFI connection at PennyAuctionSoft’s office, that’s why the IP matched… Post your experiences & reviews of PennyAuctionSoft. There’s a user of our forum, BuyBidz, that has been responding to questions and comments about the penny auction script company PennyAuctionSoft.com, he seems to be insisting that [...]

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Could DirtyBidz’ Name be Fitting?

dirtybidz June 10, 2010

Update: June 13th, Thanks to a forum member, we just remembered that DirtyBidz’ name was [also] fitting just recently when the site was an adult toy penny auction, also owned by Joxed Global. Discuss DirtyBidz in our forum.This morning we found the penny auction site DirtyBidz.com. DirtyBidz has numerous penny auctions for gold & silver [...]

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Penny Auctions Making News!

bidrodeo June 9, 2010

That’s right, more & more penny auctions are starting to get noticed! Today, the year old penny auction site BidRodeo was featured in an article for Reuters, the article tells of how Weronika Cybulska, co-owner of BidRodeo.com went from losing her job in marketing with a NY jewelry manufacturer to building  BidRodeo into a million-dollar [...]

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A Lowest Unique Bid Auction to Help Terminally ill Children

wish foundation auction June 8, 2010

Have you tried The Wish Foundation (not to be confused with the Make-A-Wish Foundation) UK’s new lowest unique bid penny auction, WishFoundation.org.uk? They’re currently offering a brand new Mini Cooper in the lowest unique bid format, and they plan to donate £10,000.00 to charity, but they do have reserves on their auctions. “The Wish Foundations complete [...]

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SimplyBid is First Penny Auction to Offer iPhone App

penny auction iphone June 8, 2010

Set to launch on Saturday, June 12th,  UK based penny auction SimplyBid.net is the first penny auction, that we have seen, to offer a penny auction iPhone app in the Apple Store. The app is now available for users to download & use to bid on SimplyBid from both the iPhone & iPod Touch. The founders [...]

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BidsTick.com Now a PennyAuctionInvestigator.com?

bidstick June 7, 2010

Five minutes hadn’t even passed between the time we finished our post on the apparent shilled “watchdog” blog site by Sonik Technologies’ dba AuctionWebsiteScripts.com’s WatchPennyAuctionScams.com and our discovery of PennyAuctionInvestigator.com which we believe is somehow affiliated with penny auction site BidsTick.com. We found PennyAuctionInvestigator.com from a comment that was left on the RarityGuide.com Forums, we [...]

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New Penny Auction NailBidder.com

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Recently launched penny auction, NailBidder.com came about when a penny auction bidder found many complaints about other penny auction sites, its owner thought he could provide a penny auction site that would go beyond the norm and be a beneficial addition to the penny auction industry. NailBidder.com tells us that there will be no more [...]

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Wavee to Add Ladies Department & New Items

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UPDATE 11/17/10: Users are now reporting charges they didn’t know about of $179, or so from Wavee.com. Has this happened to you? Let us know. In honor of their female bidders, Wavee will soon be introducing a Ladies Department! In Wavee’s new Ladies’ Department there will be more designer purses, totes and accessories, also there will be a product option [...]

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