As much as we’d like to, we just cannot refund your money spent on penny auctions.
Just today a reader e-mailed us and requested a refund for the hundreds of dollars spent on SwipeBids.com. We told you about SwipeBids last week and how we thought that they didn’t look legit, it looks like they could have [...]
From the category archives:
Legit or Not?
We just received the following comment from a user who registered on the penny auction site SwipeBids.com. It also appears that they may have bot bidders.
Here’s the comment from our reader:
“I was scammed by the site called www.swipebids.com for $150 and $24 two days ago when I did a live chat on that site. I [...]
According to penny auction site Joxed.com, they show 18,626 ended auctions since December 30th, 2009.
But were the items on Joxed auctioned off to real people or bots? It is in our opinion that it appears they have autobidders (bots) shill bidding on their auctions.
Joxed.com has a very low Alexa traffic ranking of 1,874,360 and hundreds-thousands [...]
Update: February 23rd 2010, the owner of HungryHammer wrote to tell us they will be back soon. ?
Remember HungryHammer.com? Some of you may remember it more than others, those of you who were victims of their shoddy penny auction business, which published dozens of press releases and puffed their site up or lied to us [...]
It is in our opinion that the penny auction site CrayZbidZ.com has the autobidder (shill bot bidder) function switched on in their phpPennyauction.com script. If they are trying to make money doing this they truly are crazy. Be careful!
Winners24.com is an Estonian penny auction site that launched in August of 2008.
A reader just wrote to us to tell us about his poor experience with them.
He tells us that he won a Samsung HDTV back in June of last year, Winners24.com told him that the auction had been terminated but then e-mailed back [...]
Today one of our forum members posted about their experience with the penny auction site Centy24.com:
“Hello, everyone! I am new to the penny auction circuit, and I’m so glad to have just joined Penny Auction Watch!
That being said, I just won 30 credits on Centy24.com and used them ALL on a Samsung phone. I [...]
Update: ABidAway.com has e-mailed to tell us that the users that had email addresses @abidaway.com were created by them but were people locally and they set up the accounts for them, and apparently their e-mail addresses too for promo bids…He wanted to clear that up, so you can read his response here: (And bid on [...]
This proud Bidstick.com user just sent this testimonial to Bidstick to post to their YouTube channel a mere 30 minutes after he joined, the video was posted on January 29th. Do you think he’s 18+?
From Bidstick.com’s Terms of Service: “All Users MUST be the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction or at least 18 [...]
PennyBiddr.com auctioned off a a new 16GB Apple iPad, but was the winner a bot?
