Entertainment shopping sure is exciting if you like to save money! Penny auctions are just a small section of entertainment shopping, there are designer fashion flash sale sites like Gilt and daily local deal sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial, where users can get great deals on salon services, restaurants, hotels and more.
Dealinium.com is a [...]
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Entertainment shopping
Entertainment shopping is becoming more and more popular, after all, who doesn’t like games & shopping?
CircusPop.com, one of the first reveal/price drop/ Dutch auctions (the penny auction’s cousin) to open in the US, has launched a Facebook app called PennyDrop! With PennyDrop CircusPop now sells popular consumer electronics such as iPods and Nintendo Wii’s, gift [...]
Although the action-packed Blink auction format is not yet ready, StuffBuff.com is now live and users can start selling their own items on this exciting new eBay alternative.
StuffBuff.com would love feedback from auction enthusiasts. They have provided us with an embed code for a live demo auction that resets every 15 minutes. You can join, [...]
We told you about StuffBuff’s Live Haggle auctions, now that StuffBuff has launched in private beta we can tell you about StufBuffs entertainment shopping product Blink. Like Live Haggle, Blink is a custom application using PayPal’s new payment system X.com
With Blink sellers set a price on an item and the more watchers the item has, [...]
Looking for an alternative to eBay & Craigslist? We told you about StuffBuff awhile back, they will even have a penny auction format (more details coming soon). Today StuffBuff launched in private beta mode and they’ve extended an invite to the first 150 Penny Auction Watch readers, the early beta items will be simulated auctions. [...]
We just received an e-mail from a reader to inform us that former trader Nicolas Dickreuter of penny auction PsychoAuction.com, will soon be opening PsychoBanker.com.
“This is how it works: You can buy the “nothing” at the current price and with each purchase the price will increase by a percentage. When somebody sells it, the price [...]
Based in India, the new entertainment shopping auction BidBugs promises free “bites,” their version of bids, by way of referrals, daily login, random allotment, and social networking promotion. BidBugs may appeal to penny auction bidders, but it is not like a traditional penny auction. To win items on BidBugs a user must have the most [...]
UPDATE: 11-12-2009, StuffBuff is in Private Beta & We’ve released info on StuffBuff’s entertainment shopping Blink Auctions. Read more here.
Michael Langer recently contacted us to introduce his new social eCommerce auction site StuffBuff.com StuffBuff has not yet launched, but they’re so cool that TechCrunch50 chose them out of thousands of startups to attend the TechCrunch50 2009 [...]
RackUp is new auction, currently in beta stage, that falls under the entertainment shopping category. Unlike Swoopo and penny auctions Rackup is not a bid-fee auction, you don’t have to pay to participate. Auctions only takes 60 seconds and there is no risk involved.
Rackup is a gift card auction created by gift card industry veteran [...]
Another post to add to our new Entertainment Shopping category!
A few months back we told you about eBay style penny auctions, Just Lower was one of them that we mentioned.
iBidCondo’s condo auctions brought to mind JustLower.com’s upcoming auction (once enough bids are purchased)Â for the Sanctuary Cove mansion in Queensland, Australia:
So far 31 [...]
iBidCondo: Entertainment shopping enters the real estate world.
Created by president of Constellation Property Group Eugene Marchese, iBidCondo is a new way to buy real estate and give back to the community.
Could this be a good way to move condos in a real estate market ridden with REO (Foreclosure) and distressed properties?
If you do decide [...]
Just found out about SevenSnap from the Penny Auction Insider and thought you would be interested in hearing about it. blog (Thanks, It’s a great blog, check it out!).
Watch SevenSnap’s video, they’ve used a pretty catchy/cheerful song from MIKA:
SevenSnap Sneak-Preview (EN) from Tobias Hieb on Vimeo.
It’s not a penny auction, but SevenSnap does fall under [...]
(Update Sept. 4th, 2009:-JustLower/OzyAuctions just commented on this post, please read their comment, we’ve modified our skeptical comments and leave the determining up to you, our reader, it was largely an oversight on our part to be critical of minor issues. Our tone leaned on the critical side as we are skeptical of many entertainment [...]
