From the category archives:
With over 15 active auctions ending right now, with an average retail price of nearly $1200, BiditQuick.com (also MyQuickBid.com) states that they are the “#1 Penny Auction Site,” It’s clearly of their opinion that they are the “#1 penny auction site.” On each active auction the timers are basically in sync, what could this mean?
They [...]
Seemingly following in the footsteps of SwipeBids and JumboCloseouts, Speedybuys.com is the newest penny auction that uses marketing “call-to-action” phrases to get users to sign up in a haste, enter their credit card information & purchase an initial $150 bid pack purchase.
In fact, the site is so much like JumboCloseouts that they failed to remove [...]
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 simply don’t know [...]
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 [...]
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 e-mail [...]
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 [...]
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 FractionWholesale and [...]
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 timer. [...]
A reader recently e-mailed us to take a look at the penny auction site LittleBidz.com.
She writes:
“Take a look at LittleBidz because if you check the closed auctions, you will see things are going cheap but when I bid, things goes up high. I didn’t bid for a while now because I am [...]
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 [...]
Just a few days ago penny auction SwipeBids (the infamous), had an auction for a MacBook + an iPad + 50,000 bids (valued at $10k!), seriously, and here’s something odd, the bidder bhipocket was able to outbid himself 3x. For those of you that have tried SwipeBids, is it even possible to outbid yourself?
We’ve received [...]
Has anyone tried bidding on recently launched penny auction (opened June 18th), Bidit-n-getit.com?
It is of our opinion, based on the probability of AuctionWebsitesScript.com (Sonik Technologies) having been the developer of the script that Bidit-n-getit.com runs on, we believe that Bidit-n-getit.com is running bot (admin/fake bidders) to bid against real paying customers, if this is true [...]
Have you tried the UK penny auction Ziinga.com/uk?
Not to be confused with Zynga poker, Ziinga is owned by Auction Management Ltd., Suite 238, Vincenti Buildings, 14/19 Strait Street, Valletta VLT 08, Malta. However, we did find FlopGroup Ltd. also located at the same address as Ziinga, but in a different suite, we did see the bidder [...]
Have you bid on Canada based penny auction UWinBid.com?
Since it’s running on the PHPpennyauction.com script, we took a look at the site with Firebug ( a free web developer tool by Mozilla) and found that the current bidders do not have e-mail addresses displayed in the e-mail address field, (this is a common bug with [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
We’re still seeing many negative comments from disappointed customers of SwipeBids.com, we noticed that they recently gave away a Honda Civic in their monthly giveaway, to a user, Zabswish, who coincidentally is the same user whose friend posted a comment to the article we posted with our findings that linked SwipeBids.com with Just Think Media/Jesse Willms of [...]
UPDATE: We just heard today (6/10/2010) that an ex- PAW forum member “DTK” sold pirated software to Bidmos, we banned DTK a few months ago because script developers told us he was distributing stolen software.
We just received this interesting direct message on Twitter: bidmos: Get 1000 Free Bids only in http://twt.tl/UFsuzfK (Bidmos.com), so we went [...]
Many months ago we wrote a series of articles on the penny auction sites BidPax, BidVoo, and iPennyBid. We first found iPennyBid.com, and told you that it was of our opinion that they appeared to have bot bidders, soon after our initial posting we received a legal threat from them.
Then, we kept seeing negative comments [...]
Quite often Penny Auction Watch forum members are disappointed when they see “poser/imposter” bidders (other bidders using their usernames) on various penny auction sites. Additionally, many members, when checking out a new penny auction, look to see if they can find any familiar bidders. One concern of ours has always been that a site could use [...]
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