Back in March we posted on how we found a suspicious blog about a soon-to-open penny auction called Bidazzl.com, by ArrowOutlet LLC. Bidazzl wasn’t even open at the time and we’re not sure that they ever did, yet they had a testimonial blog that had keywords like Bidazzl scam. Well now Bidazzl has opened as ArrowOutlet.com.
It does seem as if they have more bidders than they have traffic:
From Alexa:
There are 1,623,263 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Arrowoutlet.com, and almost all visitors to the site come from the United States, where it has attained a traffic rank of 170,771. The site’s visitors view an average of 2.1 unique pages per day.
The bidder’s on ArrowOutlet.com really seem, in our opinion to be alleged bots (shill bidders/programmed), with names like:
- mrsmcalmond, ofancientz, iambig, aburiddo, honeybea, 365daysbabi, wallgrommit, drunkentiger, fatdude, obnox, elquacko, goldenspie, modestmike, rickyidols among many others.
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I think this site is a ripoff. I won one gift card, and saw the same names repeatedly in auctions, all names mentioned above. I spent far too much to bid far too quickly, and ended up about $250 stolen from my pocket.
So, did you ever receive the gift card you won?
I watched for quite awhile. Many different auctions had similar bidding names – that can’t be just a coincidence! The company is in a no lose situation – if the bidding gets heated, they just increase the time and the people who throw $0.50 bids at the auction might win – using a bidding program probably – but all told, you might save some money and then again you might lose in the end with all the prepurchase and bidding fees.
Don’t play here
this site is a big scam–they state that there winners save 90%-well take a look for your self-if your bidding on a 100.00 gift card that sells for 42.52 that =2,126.00 they made on this gift card–they should restate there ad. plus then you have to pay the 42.52 and a shiiping fee of 7.00—looks like there the big winners and everyone buying bids are the big loosers.
Apparently you buy bids and if you bid on an item but don’t win it you still lose your bid money. Theoretically speaking they can sell an ipad for $49.99 but they can possibly make a $1000.00 from bidders who don’t win the item. This appears to be illegal and or deceptive…correct me if I’m wrong.
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