The Auction Squirrel Seems Legit

October 2, 2009

It’s always refreshing to find new penny auction sites that are ethical and professional. The Auction Squirrel launched last week (Get 3 free bids when you register Disclosure: By registering via our referral link to The Auction Squirrel PAW will receive a few free bids). Penny Auction Watch members have already received many items. How much [...]

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Bid Rodeo Adds Afternoon Auctions

October 1, 2009

Many users asked for afternoon auctions and Bid Rodeo listened!  In an effort to give more people a chance at winning, Bid Rodeo has scheduled a trial run of a few afternoon auctions: Thursday, October 1st: – ending about 1 PM EST : Garmin nüvi 255W Portable GPS Navigator – ending about 3 PM EST [...]

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Nailbiter Week & Spoof E-mail Warning from RockyBid

September 24, 2009

Just a reminder, it’s still nailbiter week on RockyBid, you won’t have to fend off bid buddies! Also a word of caution:  Fraudulent E-mails are being sent to RockyBid users from someone trying to steal account information. Read this message from RockyBid.com: “Because we are having a nail bitter week, after 1 hour of a [...]

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Fun Penny Auction Item for Chocoholics

September 23, 2009

If you have a sweet tooth,  you may want to check out GoBid at noon PST for this sweet penny auction item that we haven’t seen before: “Who knew that such great things can come from such a small bean.  The cacao bean brings forth the elixer of the Mayan Gods.  The gift of chocolate [...]

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Outcome of GoBid’s Item Suggestion Contest

September 13, 2009

GoBid picked 10 items from users in their Pick a Winner Contest. The winners received 25 free bids. The auctions that were chosen will be offered each day at noon PST starting Monday September 14th, 2009. Week 1 Monday- Snowboard & Bindings Tuesday- Chumby Wednesday- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition Thursday- Portable [...]

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Good Customer Support Experiences

September 12, 2009

One of our readers just started a thread on the forum to highlight positive customer support experiences with penny auctions: “I just received excellent support from Zoozle (thank you Jackie). In the past, I have also received great support from BidTrotter. So, I would like to start this thread to share your good customer service [...]

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Happy Hour Friday on BidCactus

September 11, 2009

It’s Happy Hour Friday on BidCactus (check out the cocktail umbrella!). Buy a 50 Bidpack and get 5 bonus bids from 4-7pm EST today. Discuss BidCactus (Disclaimer: Links to BidCactus are affiliate links, if you click on the links to BidCactus and purchase bids PAW will receive a commission.)

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Coolest Penny Auction Item of the Week

September 10, 2009

RockyBid has a Moped ending tomorrow, Fri, Sep 11th 2009, at 22:00:44. This may just be the coolest penny auction item this week! The moped is not available if you live in CA (emissions) or the UK.

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Zoozle Penny Auctions Get Gucci

September 10, 2009

Many women love designer handbags, penny auction site Zoozle took this in mind and is now offering an authentic Italian made Gucci. The classic Chain Medium Hobo Gucci handbag is set to end this Sunday. Will you get a $800 (estimated) handbag for only a few dollars? Look out though, like we’ve said before women [...]

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Penny Purses Has Stock

September 10, 2009

A few of our readers have won and received handbags from Penny Purses, it seems they’ve been doing very well and are quite popular.  They purchase all of the handbags that are up for auction and have them in their possession prior to listing them on the site for sale. On Penny Purses’ very first [...]

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RockyBid Update

September 8, 2009

Update regarding RockyBid’s penny auctions: A Message to Our Members… Okay, so you’ve noticed some weird and unexplained activity lately. Yes, we are experiencing some growing pains but we’re not happy that this is negatively affecting your bidding experience We’ve always been open and honest with our members and that is why we feel it [...]

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Zoozle is Back!

September 8, 2009

Zoozle is back! They’ve increased their security and  made some changes to remove the glitches and everything seems to be running a lot smoother and fast now. “It was sad for us to have our Labor Day weekend netbook bash spoiled by the hosting problems, but we will try to make it up this week [...]

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BidRodeo Attacked

September 8, 2009

It seems like hackers like to mess with penny auctions, first RockyBid now BidRodeo. Bid Rodeo’s site was  under malicious attack yesterday. They were able to block the malicious requests. As a result bids were refunded that were placed on items where the bidders did not win.  All of the winners on the auctions yesterday [...]

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Mercedes C300 on Jungle Cents

September 7, 2009

We wrote about Jungle Cents back in June: Seat Auction Offers Unlimited Bids. They do still have the Mercedes C300 up for auction, however only 7 out of 1,800 seats have been purchased and seats cost $22.50. The FREE auction for the iPod shuffle needs 37 more seats. Why aren’t you getting a free seat [...]

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BidCactus Blog & Video Contest

September 5, 2009

Penny Auction site BidCactus is currently having a blog contest for the best blog post, 50 bids will be awarded for the best post. BidCactus’ monthly video testimonial contest is still going on too, the winner will receive 50 free bids. This video didn’t win 1st place, but I thought it deserved a mention: Please [...]

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Labor Day Weekend Laptop Bash on Zoozle!

September 5, 2009

Zoozle has just kicked off their Labor Day Weekend laptop bash. They are offering 3 laptop computers a day, today through Monday. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wza/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The first laptop of the weekend is an Apple MacBook Pro which just started 19 minutes ago It just ended with 185 bids total, Congratulations Sarge you got [...]

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BidRodeo: Bid Buddy Max 2 Minutes Right Now on PS3

August 25, 2009

Bid Rodeo is trying something new on their PS3 auction that’s currently active right now! And they want to hear what you think: Any time two or more bidbuddies fight, the maximum time that will be added to the auction will be capped at two minutes. (Disclaimer: Links to BidRodeo are affiliate links, if you [...]

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Where was everyone today!?

August 21, 2009

No really, Today was the launch of BluRayBids.com and I practically cleaned them out because hardly anyone came on to bid today! Please guys, they’re trying to run a legitimate penny auction! I won 2 bluray disks, 2 Walmart gift cards and 25 bid pack and didn’t even purchase bids. I got the majority of [...]

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Suggest a Product for BidRodeo

August 19, 2009

Bid Rodeo is looking for product suggestions! Join in on the discussion and tell Bid Rodeo what you’d like to bid on (and win ). So far these items have been suggested: Xbox More variety of games for these systems not the same ones over and over. Visa Gift Cards (my favorite nothing less than [...]

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RockyBid Auctions Off Go Kart, 4 Winners!

August 19, 2009

Only two hours left to bid on the Sahara Go-Kart on Rocky Bid, it may be a great chance to try them out too, if you have not already, because there will be four winners! The last bidder will get the Go Kart +50 free bids. The runner up, the last unique user who bid, [...]

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