SpeedyBuys.com Another $150 Charge Penny Auction

speedybuys August 24, 2010

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 [...]

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Have You Bid on Swizzie?

SWIZZIE August 17, 2010

UPDATE SWIZZIE’s ATTORNEY SAID THEY DO NOT USE BOTS OR SHILLS. Have you bid on new penny auction site Swizzie.com? Swizzie seems to have a low traffic ranking, 5,639,460 according to Alexa, yet they have dozens of bidders fighting for a $50 Walmart card right now.  Swizzie’s bidders are bidding at around 11-13 seconds the [...]

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

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

scam 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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Roozos.com: Alleged Bidders without E-mail Addresses

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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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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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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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Is LittleBidz.com Legit?

LittleBidz July 11, 2010

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 waiting [...]

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Bidazzl Launches as ArrowOutlet.com Possible Bots Alleged

arrowoutlet July 9, 2010

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. [...]

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SwipeBids Auction for MacBook + iPad + 50,000 Bids Gone Wrong?

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UPDATE: A user has commented to tell us that this site does allow users to bid against themselves. 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 [...]

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Possible Bots on Bidit-n-getit.com

penny auction June 29, 2010

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 [...]

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Ziinga.com Seems Odd

penny auction June 21, 2010

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 [...]

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UWinBid.com Alleged Users Without E-mail Addresses Bidding

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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 [...]

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ZoogBOO Gone Did They Have Skeletons in Their Closet?

penny auction shill bidding June 10, 2010

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 [...]

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BattyBid.com Alleged Bidders Without E-mail Addresses

battybid June 10, 2010

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.

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Could DirtyBidz’ Name be Fitting?

dirtybidz June 10, 2010

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 [...]

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BIDMOS Gave Us 1000 Free Bids

free bids June 1, 2010

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 [...]

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