July 2010

smartbid
This week lowest unique bid penny auction theSmartBid.com introduced “power hour timed auctions.” Starting each day at 9PM EST is a full hour of timed auctions with no reserves.
“So what’s so special about power hour?
  1. Auctions close by time instead of maximum bids. So, if you have the lowest unique bid when the timer hits zero, you win!
  2. Every time a bid is placed, 30 seconds will be added to the timer. If there are less than 30 seconds left in the clock, every bid will reset the timer to 30 seconds instead of adding 30 seconds to it.
  3. The hints are always very precise (typically within 5 cents range) .
  4. And last but not the least, each bid costs only 75 cents through out the auction.”
SmartBid is giving away 10% extra free bids with the coupon code “POWER” for their special power hour auctions.
Have you tried SmartBid? What have your experiences been? Let us know!

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QuiBids Launches QLive: See Where Bidders are Bidding from

quibids July 30, 2010

Penny auction QuiBids.com has just rolled out QLive, an interactive map that allows users to see where all participants in an auction are bidding from. QLive Details: “There are two different colors of flags that will appear on this map. The red flags denote the current winner of the auction, the yellow flags show all the past [...]

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Bidders Pleased with Buy1Get1GiftCards Penny Auction

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So far our forum members are pleased with the month old gift-card only penny auction, Buy1Get1GiftCards.com. “I just wanted to drop in and say thanks!!  I received my wins already & you guys are doing a fine job!! That was SUPER FAST SHIPPING & Top Notch Customer Service!!! Glad you are here and I love [...]

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Bidders with No E-mail Addresses BigFootBids.com

shill bidding July 29, 2010

Well, we ran Firebug on yet another site running on the PHPpennyauction script BigFootBids.com. We found that the bidders that are currently bidding have no e-mail addresses associated with their accounts (there’s a bug in the script that allows for us to see the e-mail addresse). Since we know that this script has been known [...]

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PennyAuctionBargains.com is a it Legit Penny Auction?

shill bidding July 29, 2010

We just found PennyAuctionBargains.com by way of an ad on Google.com, they say they are the “Home of the Auctions with the Most Winners,” but it’s of our opinion, that they are running the bot script (fake shill bidders) that comes with the PhpPennyAuction.com’s penny auction script that this site is running on. Currently there [...]

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Alleged Shill Bidders on FractionWholesale.com

shill bidding July 29, 2010

Is this a real e-mail address:”ataaaaaaaaa@s33fsgg7s8d.com?” How about “1t4arahabaaraa3aakw5zgaljannfgf3@s33fsg9s8d.com,” “a1aaaa1a1aa@s33fsag9s8d.com?” Have you tried the penny auction site FractionWholesale.com? We did last night, as soon as we placed a bid we were outbid instantly by an autobidder when the timer still had many minutes left to countdown to the last few seconds. We ran firebug on [...]

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Are Penny Auctions Ebid4Cash & Ebidshopper Legit?

bid4cash July 28, 2010

A Penny Auction Watch forum member told us that he won an auction on cash penny auction ebid4cash.com and has yet to receive it and they’re not responding to his e-mails. He also tells us, “Mysterious auctions that show up in the closed section that has not been placed on the main page with a countdown [...]

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JackinaBid’s Secret Revealed

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UK penny auction JackinaBid.com is now open for users to redeem their 5 free bids, but that’s not all, 10 free bids are now being given out just to Penny Auction Watch members, use promo code JIBPAW10 on the registration page. Please note: Jackinabid.com is only open to UK residents. Jackinabid opens for bidding on [...]

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Dime Divas is Closing

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Dime-Divas.com, a penny auction for designer handbags and accessories is closing its doors on August 1st. It’s unfortunate that Dime Divas had to close, it seems their user base was limited as a few users won multiple items at great discounts. We’d like to thank Dime Divas for running a good penny auction site and [...]

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Interview with Penny Auction BidCentsible

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Bidcentsible.com is a new penny auction that launched just over two weeks ago. Let us know what your experiences have been with them if you have bid there. [pullquote]While our main themes: entertainment, quality products, and affordability are central, we are just as interested in fairness to each Member  who entrusts us with their business. [...]

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Join the Penny Auction Forum!

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Are you a member of our penny auction forum yet? If not you need to register! Just a Few Benefits of Becoming a Penny Auction Watch Forum Member Learn penny auction bidding strategies, tips Up-to-date penny auction news Read reviews to make informed decisions about which penny auction site to join Find member tested, legit [...]

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QuiBids to Auction Honda Civic with Bid-to-Buy

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QuiBids.com has just announced that they will be listing their first car auction for a 2010 Honda Civic Coupe LX. QuiBids offers a “Buy It Now” feature on their auctions so that users are able to use the value of the purchased bids placed on an auction towards the retail price of that item. “Whether [...]

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ClassyMaven.com Allegedly Shill Bidding & Reviewing

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We tested ClassyMaven.com a few days ago with free bids and found that as soon as we had placed bids (this was when there was at least 20 minutes left on the clock) two other bidders instantaneously placed bids against us. Well now we have found that the owner or someone associated with ClassyMaven has [...]

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NailBidder Introduces Blind Auctions & Feature Nights

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Penny auction NailBidder.com is introducing Blind Auctions. This means you can’t see who you are bidding against.  This Thursday, July 22nd, all of the auctions (except for the featured iPad) will be blind.   Every member bidding is assigned a unique and random user ID for that auction. Blind auctions have been discussed in our penny [...]

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4Biddinbidslive.com: Alleged Shill Bidders & Unprofessional Behavior

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One of our forum members (thank you!) has just informed us that he has, allegedly, found shill bidders on the new penny auction Biddin4Bids.com. He even questioned them on the shill bidding (that was found using Firebug- see explanation here) and was lied to and insulted, he was treated very unprofessionally and his account was [...]

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Bids4Penny Not Honoring Auction Wins

July 18, 2010

Penny auction, Bids4Penny.com is currently undergoing a change of ownership and states that they will not honor any winning auctions from July 15th onward and that users should not bid until further notice (note the date & time this was posted 7/16, 21:45): “Please note any winning auctions from the 15th July 2010 won’t be completed [...]

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Is MainBids Living Up to Their Fair Auction Guarantee?

mainbids July 18, 2010

Penny auction MainBids.com displays 11,600 ended auctions, and 9 items are actively being bid on with countdowns nearing zero, 5 more are queued to end within the next 20 minutes. The items that are currently ending are not cheap either, take a look :

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The Ultimate Penny Auction Wish List

penny auction wish list July 16, 2010

Penny Auction Watch Forum user Brutal has just posted an excellent thread asking what penny auction bidders would want from a penny auction site. Thanks Brutal! Take a look at the thread The Ultimate Penny Auction Wish List and let us know what your suggestions are! “Here we are, a group of like minded people [...]

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BargainsandFun to Auction MacBook Pro “FreeStyle!”

macbook penny auction July 15, 2010

Wow, this auction ended with 47 bids!   Penny auction BargainsandFun.com is auctioning a new 13.3″ MacBook Pro around 8PM EST tonight. What Makes this Auction Unique? BargainsandFun is offering two bid buddy features for this auction. One of the bid buddies will wait until the last 10 seconds of the auction to bid, this [...]

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EasytoWinAuctions.com Allegedly Shill Bidding

easytowinauctions shill July 14, 2010

There’s a new penny auction that has been auctioning off cash, EasytoWinAuctions.com, a few of our forum members suspected bot bidders (programmed robot bidders) well we just found out that they have been shill bidding & abusing our forum with a fake testimonial. In the thread discussing EasytoWinAuctions.com, on our forum, a user named CripNine [...]

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