August 2010

Alleged Shill Reviews & Possibly Bidding Ebid4Cash.com/EbidShopper.com

August 12, 2010

In the UK penny auction section of the Penny Auction Watch Forum we found this comment by user megule, megule Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 2 “Hay ya guys.We all know that at the moment there are so many different penny auction websites on the Internet, that’s why sometimes we are confused, because we [...]

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Prizes4Pennies.com Penny Auction

August 12, 2010

Have you bid on Prizes4Pennies.com? Just launched on July 26th, their penny auctions really have been ending for just a few pennies, some with only 1 bid. We recently interviewed Prizes4Pennies’ owner to learn more: Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the penny auction industry? Prizes4Pennies: I first heard about penny auctions from [...]

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Is JumboCloseouts.com a Legit Penny Auction? – Looking to Hear from Users!

August 10, 2010

Have you tried new penny auction site JumboCloseouts.com? For a month new penny auction site a recent Sony Vaio auction received 11,413 bids; an iPad 15,731; a Kitchenaid mixer, 17,311! These are astronomical numbers for a brand new penny auction and it’s even rare to see established penny auctions receive this many bids, it is of our [...]

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We Met with the BigDeal Team!

August 9, 2010

BigDeal.com‘s CEO Nicolas Darveau-Garneau was gracious enough to invite us to their office in San Francisco this past Friday where we met with some of the BigDeal team (7 of 15) and spoke with Nick about BigDeal and the penny auction industry. We discussed BigDeal’s progress, and Nick told us that BigDeal has been rapidly [...]

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YooBeeDoo the World’s First Bid-Block Penny Auction Opens

August 7, 2010

YooBeeDoo.co.uk has just launched today, we had the privilege of testing it out just a few days ago and let us tell you, it’s a brand new penny auction format that we’ve never seen before. We spoke with David of YooBeeDoo during testing last week on Skype, and he told us that one of the [...]

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Roozos.com: Alleged Bidders without E-mail Addresses

August 6, 2010

RED FLAG ALERT! Thanks to feedback from one of our forum members, we’ve found that the penny auction site Roozos.com appears to have users bidding that do not have e-mail addresses. To bid on Roozos.com, as is with most penny auctions, users must first activate their accounts via a confirmation e-mail sent to the user’s [...]

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Skype Founders Invest in UK Penny Auction MadBid

August 5, 2010

According to Alan Colmenares of VentureBeat, Skype cofounders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis’ investment group Atomico Ventures, have just recently invested more than $6 million in a first round of funding for UK penny auction site MadBid.com. “MadBid.com was launched in August 2008 in London UK and we are now the UKs leading pay-to-bid auction site. [...]

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This Site is For You: What Do You Want?

August 5, 2010

Penny Auction Watch is for you, the bidder of penny auction sites. What would you like to see here that you haven’t yet? More of, less of? What are your likes & dislikes? Help us make PAW better for everyone! Not yet a member of our penny auction forum? Join now, it’s free! Thank you! [...]

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Can’t Lose on New Penny Auction ShopBig.com

August 4, 2010

We recently tried out new penny auction site ShopBIG.com. Intrigued by the quick-ship time, ability to purchase items minus bids already spent if we weren’t the winner, and the “community payback” feature, we interviewed the CEO of ShopBIG, Glenn S. Meyers. Glenn tells us, “We separate ourselves from the rest of the penny auction pack with a [...]

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UK Bidders Get Ready: YooBeeDoo is Launching Soon!

August 3, 2010

We first told you about the not-yet-launched UK penny auction YooBeeDoo.co.uk back in December of last year, well we’ve just been informed that YooBeeDoo will be opening this weekend. We just took a sneak peek and well, it really is a “radical new type of online auction,” and let’s just say we think it was worth the [...]

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100DollarDreams.com Levels the Playing Field with Seat Auction

August 3, 2010

Have you tried out the new seat auction site 100DollarDreams.com? We recently interviewed Brian of 100DollarDreams.com to learn how 100DollarDreams provides a level playing field for all bidders: “100DollarDreams.com is not really a penny auction site in the traditional sense, but my partners and I still remain fans of penny auction staples like Beezid and [...]

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NightCents.com- A Penny Auction for Late Night Bidders

August 2, 2010

Are you a late-night bidder? If you’re up late and like to bid you might just want to try the 4-month old, US based penny auction NightCents.com. We recently interviewed the NightCents team after recently hearing positive feedback from our members. Learn more about what they have to offer: Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested [...]

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