WARNING: NO Privacy on iTicketBid.com

privacy June 4, 2011

UPDATE: After publishing this article my account was suspended and banned on iTicketbid. I wrote this article after finding out that they divulged my personal information to a 3rd party- the banned message reads: “Your account is disabled: Collusion and attempting to manipulate auction outcome by using a 3rd party. Your information was NEVER given [...]

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Bidstick Auctioning a Real Live Marmoset?! – Are they Licensed by the USDA?

marmoset June 3, 2011

Right now penny auction Bidstick.com is supposedly auctioning the oddest thing we have yet to see on a penny auction, a real live Marmoset. The header reads, “BidStick.com – Selling Marmoset at huge discounts” Bidstick is allegedly responsible for using our trademark on YouTube, the shilled review site pennyauctioninvestigator and pennyauctionwatch.us, blatant TM infringement filled [...]

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Penny Auction Affiliate Marketers Abusing CraigsList

ipad May 23, 2011

Over the past few months we’ve been hearing about users finding penny auction sites from phony ads by affiliate marketers flooding Craigslist, but haven’t been able to actually find one to e-mail and see for ourselves. Here’s one of the ads that this particular affiliate marketer in Washington State has up on Craigslist, the ad [...]

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Another One Gone: BidTrotter.com

bidtrotter.com February 23, 2011

2-year old penny auction site BidTrotter.com is now gone. Just last month users were reporting a drop off in communication and failure to receive items, now many consumers are left in the dark with their money in the hands of BidTrotter. One reader just told us that he’s lost as much as $2,000! The following comment [...]

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BidRack.com Allegedly Stole Images to Create Phony Testimonials

bidrack February 18, 2011

A few weeks ago we tested out the new Canada based penny auction site BidRack.com, by the same owners of sample sale site NoMoreRack.com. I thought I had won a top-dollar designer item only to find out that the site was running in undisclosed beta mode, back then they even showed a page of winners [...]

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“Products Sell for the Price You Want” Penny Auction Script Sold

February 9, 2011

Adding yet another penny auction site/developer/seller to our hall of shame.  Last month penny auction site LightBids.com was sold on Flippa.com for a mere $250. Features? Autobidding bots (= fake scam shill bidders – set up by dishonest, cheats of “entrepreneurs.”) From the description: “It’s very easy to maintain site like that because of a [...]

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PollyWantaPenny.com Cusses Out Customers

pollywantapenny penny auction January 30, 2011

We really think that the majority of penny auction site operators need a lesson in professionalism & customer service 101 - (Not to mention a course in ethics!). Unfortunately, PollyWantaPenny.com’s management is not an exception. “A dissatisfied customer will tell 9-15 people about it. And approximately 13% of your dissatisfied customers will tell more than 20 people [...]

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AjaxpHpPennyAuction.com Sells Script with Bot “Test” Bidders

December 28, 2010

The AjaxPHPpennyauction.com penny auction “Swoopo Clone” script is being sold with automated bot bidders, the admin console of the demo site (and also of live sites) states that these “automated users” are for testing purposes, but what’s stopping a less than honest penny auction operator from turning them on? If you’re a new to penny [...]

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SimpleBids.net Unethically Giving Out Free Bids for 5-Star Rating

December 23, 2010

=$? Just in from the PAW forum: PAW member thisonesmine just posted, “So, I just got an email from SimpleBids. I can’t stand the site as it is, with all of it’s bots and what not. The email states that if you give them a 5 star rating on PennyAuctionScore.com, they will give you 25 [...]

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CheapOH! VP Embarks On a Misinformation Smear Campaign Against PAW After Article

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On Tuesday, December 14th, I posted an article on how the new “unbiased” (“with the best review information with no biased views on any retailer.”) penny auction review site, at PennyAuctionInformation.com was registered to the same address as the western US offices of penny auction CheapOh.net. Additionally, the e-mail contact listed on the domain registry [...]

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Scam Penny Auction Sites Need to Be Shut Down

help sign December 14, 2010

We’ve already said this many times before and yes, we’ll say it again (feel free to not read it if it makes you angry), the scam penny auction sites need to just be shut down. Posted today in our forum: Discuss & review penny auctions in our forum, voice your complaints and share your opinions [...]

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Did Justine Ezarik Really Change Her Name & Win An iPad On BidMacs.com?

justine ezarik November 24, 2010

Update 12/1/10: BidMacs wrote to tell us that this was done by an affiliate marketer,  and they’ve since corrected this page. Update: After I asked them about this last night after posting, the image was removed. We’d like to ask Justine Ezarik,  Internet celebrity and vblogger, of iJustine.com, a question. Did you change your name to [...]

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Intimidation Tactics by Way of Facebook Connect

bigdeal November 21, 2010

A few days ago we asked the question of whether or not social media with penny auctions is a good idea, the majority of our members say that it’s not a good idea and can facilitate collusion, another says it’s impossible to collude due to the large volume of bidders. Now, today while on a [...]

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Enough is Enough!

lies November 20, 2010

Where else can someone make so much money and not even really have to work for it? Ok, maybe that’s just a stupid question, but really think about it:  Anyone can go into the penny auction business and make a huge amount of money, it’s harder to make it when you have low traffic and [...]

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BidzHut.com Shills Then Cusses Me Out

cussing November 18, 2010

So, I sat down to check the morning e-mails and wanted to share with you how I was greeted by a penny auction site owner, hope it brightens your day as it did mine: First, BidzHut.com’s owner joined the forum and started posting multiple times all over the forum to promote spam his penny auction [...]

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Stop Committing Fraud! We’re Tired of It!

fraud tshirt September 21, 2010

Both Bidtimelive.com and Bidtime25.com are now gone, they haven’t responded to customers in months and they haven’t shipped out owed items. Why not? When speaking with Jay at Bidtime a few months back he told us that all customers would be taken care of, it’s been over 4 months now and still there are customers [...]

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Seems Like DigitalFruit’s Intelligent Investment Protector (Bots) Are Still There

bots September 19, 2010

Photo Credit www.thegoldguys.blogspot.com Many months ago we were harassed in the comments section when posting about DigitalFruit.ee‘s bot function , they said our post was wrong about DF’s programmable “bots,” (shill bidders- set by the company to bid against real users) even though e-mails to them showed that they did have the IIP, someone said it wasn’t [...]

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The Gong Has Been Struck on GongBid

September 3, 2010

Just yesterday a forum member by the name of “pintos” joined our forum and posted a positive review  to the thread about Gongbid.com, a UK based penny auction site: “Yesterday, 12:53 PM pintos pintos is offline Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 1 Thumbs up play and still play there Great site with quick support [...]

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Some Penny Auction Bidders Are Bullies!

Thumbnail image for Some Penny Auction Bidders Are Bullies! August 30, 2010

Lewd and malicious remarks and implied threats are being sent out by some less-than-ethical penny auction bidders. If you’re a regular reader or forum member [join!], you probably know just how much we dislike dishonest penny auction site operators and just how many that are out there. Yes, there are so many more that we [...]

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MyLuckyBids’ Pleas of Desperation When Shill Bot Script Breaks!

Thumbnail image for MyLuckyBids’ Pleas of Desperation When Shill Bot Script Breaks! August 20, 2010

How the newest member of the PAW Hall of Shame got there: MyLuckyBids.net/.com Remember a few months ago we wrote about penny auction site MyLuckyBids.com/.net and pointed out that the script they were using, PHPPennyAuction script allowed for bot bidders?” Apparently they’re a bit biased towards their own site and claim that they are the “safest [...]

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