Dibzees

**dibzees** · 09-16-2009, 08:16 PM

Hi everyone, a couple friends of mine just launched our website at dibzees.com last night. We're just out of college (U of Iowa) so it's our first business venture. It's been really exciting so far, but we need some constant traffic. We sold a Wii last night and that generated a lot of buzz, but on day 2 we are noticing a huge drop off of traffic as we just can't afford to have big items up everyday.
You guys seem to be the closest thing to experts I've found on the industry. Where would you guys recommend advertising? Effective or ineffective techniques you have seen from your past experience? We're just looking for any type of suggestions. Also, feel free to come check out our site. As you know: low traffic = extra cheap. Thanks guys!

p.s. we are offering bids at cheaper than $.50 (after bonuses). Is it realistic that we can be successful with this cheap of bids? Or are we digging ourselves too big of a hole? Are there any other sites that offer under $.75 bids? I think that's the cheapest I have seen them... thanks again!

**PennyAuctionWatch** · 09-17-2009, 04:01 AM

Hi Dibzees!

Thanks for joining and introducing your site.

$0.50/bid is pretty cheap, Zoozle offers bids at $0.50, so does Swipeitup, I'm sure there are others those are just two off of the top of my head.

We wish you the best and can assure you that you will probably start to see some new members just from telling us about you.

**Ryan** · 09-17-2009, 04:18 AM

The price of your bids won't have much of an effect on the profitability of your business. For example, a site with 10 cent bids will likely get 10x as many bids as a site with $1 bids.

It could be speculated that because of this fact, low cost bids will help keep a low populated site from losing their shirts on products, as bidding activity is higher and auctions stay open longer.

**ProtoProtoss** · 09-17-2009, 05:01 AM

the more bids people have access to will also lead to more poundage on your servers. Look at all the other sites and set bid pricing around theirs, but competively. Besides... I rather pay a $1.00 a bid and have 100 bids, than $.10 a bid and have a thousand. Ultimately people will play the same and spend the same money, but more bids will just prolong auctions, then more people have more time to jump in and steal wins. I personally like to jump in, hurry up and end it win or lose, and move on. I hate sitting for 7 hours straight competitively watching an auction just because.

In addition to bid pricing, if you want to maintain a real successful penny auction, my advise is to poll the forums and listen to player feedback about problems and do what you can to prevent those issues. Customer Support, integrity, honesty, and building business to client relationships will be your best friend in trying to make the most of your site.

**realbidtowin** · 09-17-2009, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by PennyAuctionWatch

Hi Dibzees!

Thanks for joining and introducing your site.

$0.50/bid is pretty cheap, Zoozle offers bids at $0.50, so does Swipeitup, I'm sure there are others those are just two off of the top of my head.

We wish you the best and can assure you that you will probably start to see some new members just from telling us about you.

Actually Zoozle is as low as $0.45

**suzyq** · 09-17-2009, 06:42 PM

Bids are 10-15 cents at for10cents. Ryan's correct -- they place tons of bids over there.

**realbidtowin** · 09-18-2009, 03:17 AM

Originally Posted by dibzees

Hi everyone, a couple friends of mine just launched our website at dibzees.com last night. We're just out of college (U of Iowa) so it's our first business venture. It's been really exciting so far, but we need some constant traffic. We sold a Wii last night and that generated a lot of buzz, but on day 2 we are noticing a huge drop off of traffic as we just can't afford to have big items up everyday.

Guys, I was over watching your 3 auctions tonight and I must say and this is only my observation, that things were a bit strange. Ok this is was what your 3rd day in business you had three auctions as follows

Ipod shuffle and you get 190 bids. That is more bids that most mature sites gets for those things.

Next auction was the $25 bestbuy gift card 55 bids, again pretty darn good.

Finally the $25 Target card 44 bids.

I must say at this rate seeing that you have three acutions with a combined positive cashflow in just 3 days that is pretty impresive, especially with no advertising. Is it just me or is something not quite right here.

I could be wrong this is just my little ole observation...

**eshopper** · 09-18-2009, 10:59 AM

That is impressive. I have won $25 gift cards many times on rockybid when they only got a total of 10 or 15 bids and they are one of the most well known penny sites with plenty of members.

**realbidtowin** · 09-18-2009, 01:29 PM

Gerntlemen

After reading your terms and conditions there is a conglict as to where the governing laws are for your company as section 15 say's the state of Iowa, and section 19 say the State of California, which is it or is it both? I thought you are based in Iowa?

**realbidtowin** · 09-18-2009, 08:00 PM

One more observation on the Ipod auction the timer went to 0:00 well over twelve times during that auction. I am going to let you guys in on a little secret the are no zeros on a penny auction timer 0=ended.

**nathan1342** · 09-20-2009, 10:26 PM

anyone else see bidzees go down tonight? right in the middle of an ipod touch auction. Have to see if they refund the bids.

**AllforAnM** · 09-20-2009, 11:46 PM

You guys are too nice. On there front page there are 4 ipod shuffles: $0.21, $7.71, $21.51 and $1.91. REALLY?? $21.51 for a shuffle? I call them like I see them.

SCAM! BS! RIP OFF!

That you know so little about penny auctions that you don't know of any sites that are 50 cents a bid means that you didn't do any research on your competition.

I'm glad these thieves are so f'in stupid. It takes about 15 seconds to see the BS. My advice to you is to shut your site down and go get a real job flippin burgers because you are too stupid to be a thief.

**nathan1342** · 09-21-2009, 12:03 AM

Oh allforanM you are really jumping to conclusions. If you look at any known legit penny auction site when it first started that is what most things go for. In the early days they always loose money that just how it works till they can get a customer base built. I was on zoozle the other day and a ipod touch sold for 78 cents. Zoozle has been shown to be legit. So before you go giving them a bad name wait to see if poeple are getting their products.

**AllforAnM** · 09-21-2009, 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by nathan1342

Oh allforanM you are really jumping to conclusions. If you look at any known legit penny auction site when it first started that is what most things go for. In the early days they always loose money that just how it works till they can get a customer base built. I was on zoozle the other day and a ipod touch sold for 78 cents. Zoozle has been shown to be legit. So before you go giving them a bad name wait to see if poeple are getting their products.

Really! $100 says you are from dibzees! WTF are you saying? "In the early days they always loose money that just how it works " If this is ligit, then they made over $1000.00 on an ipod shuffle. Not a chance in hell that that happend.

If you are going to try and con people try doing a bit of research first. Watching Swoopo and

ing over the money you think you can make just doesn't qualify.

Sites like this make me sick. I have reported this site to federal and state agencies already. What they will do I don't know.

I think we real people her on paw should identify the obvious fraudulent sites, we know which one they are, and collectivly write to the powers that be to get these site shut down and the peope behind them accoutable for what they are doing. These people are to stupid to be left on the street. we need to get them locked up before they hurt themselves or us.

**nathan1342** · 09-21-2009, 10:38 AM

Lol i am not from dibzees and they didnt make over $1000 dollars. Their auctions go up by 10 cents every bid so do the math big guy. Their highest auction has sold for 20 bucks. It was the touch. So if we do the math that is 200 bids, so they made $100 dollar off of it. Apprently you havent done any research on their site at all or you would already know that. And again I am not from Dibzees I live in Oklahoma. If you would like to call me on the phone and confirm that I would be happy to chat with you. let me know...

**eshopper** · 09-21-2009, 02:31 PM

To make $100 of an item on the very first week a site is open is very, very unusual. Most penny auctions lose money on every item for several weeks. I can see why people are skeptical.

What kind of advertising are they doing to get so many people on their site that fast?

**AllforAnM** · 09-21-2009, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by nathan1342

Lol i am not from dibzees and they didnt make over $1000 dollars. Their auctions go up by 10 cents every bid so do the math big guy. Their highest auction has sold for 20 bucks. It was the touch. So if we do the math that is 200 bids, so they made $100 dollar off of it. Apprently you havent done any research on their site at all or you would already know that. And again I am not from Dibzees I live in Oklahoma. If you would like to call me on the phone and confirm that I would be happy to chat with you. let me know...

Glad you took my rant so well. Stupid bourbon! It was in poor taste to accuse you of anything. Now that I'm drinking coffee I recognize your name and have seen you bid on several sites. My apologies. Stupid bourbon!

And you are right that I didn't research the site much. It was the 3rd or 4th new (for me) site that I took a look at. They all looked like scams to me. It just ticks me off.

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**nathan1342** · 09-21-2009, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by AllforAnM

Glad you took my rant so well. Stupid bourbon! It was in poor taste to accuse you of anything. Now that I'm drinking coffee I recognize your name and have seen you bid on several sites. My apologies. Stupid bourbon!

And you are right that I didn't research the site much. It was the 3rd or 4th new (for me) site that I took a look at. They all looked like scams to me. It just ticks me off.

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Apology Accepted.

**nathan1342** · 09-21-2009, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by eshopper

To make $100 of an item on the very first week a site is open is very, very unusual. Most penny auctions lose money on every item for several weeks. I can see why people are skeptical.

What kind of advertising are they doing to get so many people on their site that fast?

Again with people posting before they do any research. I sampled three ramdom new auction sites, Zoozle, Bidrodeo, and Smoozem. They all made over $100 dollars in the first week on multiple items. Smoozem's first auction was for a dell lcd and it sold for $3.51X100=351 bids at 50cents a bid equals.....$175.50. Simpler auctions can be found if you look at the other two sites also.

Seriously people do some research before posting. People read these post and it gives sites a bad name when people just unleash unresearched drivel.

**realbidtowin** · 09-21-2009, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by nathan1342

Again with people posting before they do any research. I sampled three ramdom new auction sites, Zoozle, Bidrodeo, and Smoozem. They all made over $100 dollars in the first week on multiple items. Smoozem's first auction was for a dell lcd and it sold for $3.51X100=351 bids at 50cents a bid equals.....$175.50. Simpler auctions can be found if you look at the other two sites also.

Seriously people do some research before posting. People read these post and it gives sites a bad name when people just unleash unresearched drivel.

That is not a relevent comparison, My observation was on there 3rd day showing a profit on the majority of their auctions that day. Whereas zoozle for example (your comp) did not have a single profitable auction in their 1st week and rodeo only had one but most of the auctions were big big loosers. What I found suspicious was an auction for an Ipod shuffle that went for 190 bids and it was only day three. So your reserch is very subjective.

**nathan1342** · 09-21-2009, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by bid-to-2-too-win

That is not a relevent comparison, My observation was on there 3rd day showing a profit on the majority of their auctions that day. Whereas zoozle for example (your comp) did not have a single profitable auction in their 1st week and rodeo only had one but most of the auctions were big big loosers. What I found suspicious was an auction for an Ipod shuffle that went for 190 bids and it was only day three. So your reserch is very subjective.

You may have misunderstood my last post. I was responding to eshopper who said it was "very very unusual" to have an auction go for more than $100 dollars in the first week. It is true that they were not "profitable" but auctions went for over a $100. They still lost money though.

**dibzees** · 09-30-2009, 01:36 AM

We are certainly not a scam. Of course, I can promise you anything over the internet and it doesn't mean a darn thing. The only way to prove that we are legit is for someone from this site to win something and report that they received their item (and hopefully enjoyed the experience).

Yes, I suppose there are many people that scam people in this business, but I am also sure that there are many people like us that see a great business model without needing to scam people. AllForAnM (sic), as malicious as scammers can be, is it not also malicious to accuse someone without having any evidence and also apparently without much research (10 cent increments vs penny increments). Actually if you really think about it, if we were scammers do you think we would really drive the price up to $1000 profit on an iPod shuffle of all things? Especially days after submitting to this website?

Again, no need to scam when it seems like a can't lose business. I do not appreciate your false accusations. I've risked all of my savings and all of my freetime putting this together, as have my 2 business partners. Please try and imagine doing the same and having someone call you a fraud for no reason.

Sorry, I couldn't decide if I should respond to bad publicity, perhaps someday we can hire a P.R. rep if things go well. But I'd just like to thank everyone that had good input for us and especially those that did their research and pointed out that the naysayers may not have done their homework.

Someone asked about advertising- honestly all of our advertising up until a few days ago was on foot, plastering every college campus in the area with our flyers on dorms, houses, apartments , and campus buildings. I swear every college student in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area has seen our flyer. It's been fun but very tiring... but also it seems to be really effective. I figured that it is better to go after those that have not heard of penny auctions and so we should not advertise as such. We are just now getting into Google AdWords and it has not been very effective so far honestly, but we are looking at refining our campaigns and looking elsewhere to buy advertising. We also had a friend of mine hold up a dibzees.com sign at college gameday saturday morning for 2 hours. Also didn't work too well lol.

Ok, thanks for all of your support, and sorry for being so defensive about the fraud allegations. I hope you can put yourself in our shoes and understand how frustrating that would be. Happy bidding everyone.

The Dibzees Team

p.s. AllForAnM: ''lose'' has one o. sorry, pet peeve.

**realbidtowin** · 09-30-2009, 02:30 AM

Originally Posted by dibzees

We are certainly not a scam. Of course, I can promise you anything over the internet and it doesn't mean a darn thing. The only way to prove that we are legit is for someone from this site to win something and report that they received their item (and hopefully enjoyed the experience).

Ok, thanks for all of your support, and sorry for being so defensive about the fraud allegations. I hope you can put yourself in our shoes and understand how frustrating that would be. Happy bidding everyone.

The Dibzees Team

p.s. AllForAnM: ''lose'' has one o. sorry, pet peeve.

How about responding to my observations posted above regarding your timer and terms and conditions. Sorry just my pet peeve. (I hope I spelled everything correctly)

**zero** · 09-30-2009, 11:34 AM

I believe more sites are out there doing sheisty stuff than sites being legit.
When you look at some sites that just open up they are teaming with bots.
I have never used dibzees but have never heard anything good about them either which leads me to be weary before I invest in the site.

**AllforAnM** · 10-02-2009, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by dibzees

We are certainly not a scam. Of course, I can promise you anything over the internet and it doesn't mean a darn thing. The only way to prove that we are legit is for someone from this site to win something and report that they received their item (and hopefully enjoyed the experience).

Yes, I suppose there are many people that scam people in this business, but I am also sure that there are many people like us that see a great business model without needing to scam people. AllForAnM (sic), as malicious as scammers can be, is it not also malicious to accuse someone without having any evidence and also apparently without much research (10 cent increments vs penny increments). Actually if you really think about it, if we were scammers do you think we would really drive the price up to $1000 profit on an iPod shuffle of all things? Especially days after submitting to this website?

Again, no need to scam when it seems like a can't lose business. I do not appreciate your false accusations. I've risked all of my savings and all of my freetime putting this together, as have my 2 business partners. Please try and imagine doing the same and having someone call you a fraud for no reason.

Sorry, I couldn't decide if I should respond to bad publicity, perhaps someday we can hire a P.R. rep if things go well. But I'd just like to thank everyone that had good input for us and especially those that did their research and pointed out that the naysayers may not have done their homework.

Someone asked about advertising- honestly all of our advertising up until a few days ago was on foot, plastering every college campus in the area with our flyers on dorms, houses, apartments , and campus buildings. I swear every college student in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area has seen our flyer. It's been fun but very tiring... but also it seems to be really effective. I figured that it is better to go after those that have not heard of penny auctions and so we should not advertise as such. We are just now getting into Google AdWords and it has not been very effective so far honestly, but we are looking at refining our campaigns and looking elsewhere to buy advertising. We also had a friend of mine hold up a dibzees.com sign at college gameday saturday morning for 2 hours. Also didn't work too well lol.

Ok, thanks for all of your support, and sorry for being so defensive about the fraud allegations. I hope you can put yourself in our shoes and understand how frustrating that would be. Happy bidding everyone.

The Dibzees Team

p.s. AllForAnM: ''lose'' has one o. sorry, pet peeve.

I Will give your site another look. If I don't like what I see I will say so. If I was wrong, I will be more than happy to say so. My instincts are good and yes my spelling sucks. I have no problem admitting when I am wrong, but I also don't need concreat proof to call someone a scam. I will call them as I see them. This is the internet, live with it. But like I said I will give your site a proper look and give my opinion.

Were the hell is that spell check button for my dislexus azz!

**suzyq** · 10-03-2009, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by AllforAnM

Stupid bourbon! Stupid bourbon!
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AllforAnM -- I was up all night with Mom, auctions starting soon and the coffee just isn't doing it today. Just wondering if you've ever tried mixing the bourbon with bidding?

**realbidtowin** · 10-05-2009, 04:38 PM

After reading their challenge for Paw members to bid/win/recieve/ and then report back I decided to take them up. I purchased a small bid pack of $100 ($0.41 ea) and started off with a $25 gift card auction, it was a bit strange that all the bidders were from Iowa and some surrounding states, seemed like every other user had hawkeye in there user name. They do not have any autobidding yet, so keeping with my typical strategy control the timer with throttling. I won the card with 38 bids $15, and the auction price was $9.61 so basically I broke even. The second auction that same day was for a 32" Lcd even with the Throttling I lost (I will explain later), my next auction same day was 8gb flash drive, Won that for 34-bids $13.94 with auction price of $8.41 so total cost $21. My final auction that day was another $25 gift card won that for 9 bids with a price of $2,21 so $5 total. Day two played two auctions, the 1st was for a $200 Coach Gift Card, I won that for 110 bids $45.10 plus the price of $29.40, total cost $74. I also played a bit for another gift card but lost.

Now Here is the real scoop they do seem to be very honest I have recieved 3 of my four wins within 4 days and the 4th I have the tracking info, so in my case they have delivered and very fast.

However, the site is not without certain pitfalls as it has some sever performance and software issues, in general each bid takes 3-5 seconds (sometimes Longer) to register, and the server really struggles when there is alot meaning 5-8 bidders of active bidding, I experienced several 20-second to 1 plus minute freezes, thus costing me the two auctions I lost. I did video the auctions and emailed the management and asked them to call me, and they did promptly (communication is great), They are now aware of these issues, and trying to work on them. For now I will not be bidding until the bugs are worked out, if that is even possible. One of the other things to be aware of is the timer will sometimes got to 0:00 and then reset, according to them 0:00 is the end of the auction, this happened on the Coach auction and I had it recorded and they refunded me the bids I place after that happened, they also refunded bids where the auction froze or had severe lag. I hope they do get it fixed as I am satisfied with their integrity and like there style. In the end I spent $128 and recieved $289 in retail goods.

Another note: these are not penny auctions, they are nickel or dime auctions so the auction price can get a bit high thus canceling out savings, just keep an eye on that.

If the site functioned effectivly I would give Dibzees 4 out of 5 stars (lost one for the nickel and dime auction). PLease if you try the site and have lag or freezing issues do not come back here and complain, they are working on it and it is a known issue.

**dibzees** · 10-07-2009, 02:07 AM

Hey everyone,

We just wanted to thank Gary for his review, and more importantly for taking so much time helping us. He's truly an expert in this growing industry and I encourage anyone else thinking about starting up an entertainment auction venture to seek his advice.

As far as the content of our review, Gary is spot on in his review. He pointed out a few things we were aware of and pointed out some things we were not aware of. He also pointed out that the extent of some problems were beyond what we had previously thought. We did know that there was a few second delay to refresh in the auction, which we were told was unavoidable to a certain degree. However, we were not aware that the lag could be as long as what Gary demonstrated to us in a video he sent us. While Gary was bidding live on the phone with us, we realized that the delay to refresh the price/highest bidder for the bidder could be much longer than the few second delay that we saw as auction watchers.

With this being said, we have surveyed at least a dozen of our frequent users with most saying that there was consistently a few second delay and 2-3 others saying they had occasionally seen the types of delays Gary video taped. Why does such disparity of lag between different users exist? Frankly, we don't know and are still investigating. Our developer is aware of the situation and working hard to find the problem and cut the delays.

We host through Rackspace and were told that it would be silly to upgrade with the low amount of stress we are currently putting on our server. When a company tells you not to pay them more, I tend to trust their advice. So, we now believe the problem lies somewhere within the software.

The issue of our timer showing 0:00 is also related to the polling delay. The timer is accurate, it just does not update immediately to the bidder, but those of you that mentioned it are correct in that it should not show 0:00 until it is finished. To address this we are adding an animation for the final few seconds the same way other sites do, (ie "Going, going...").

We hope to have these issues resolved very soon and hope to report good things back in the near future. We appreciate all of your patience, and for giving us a chance. Again, thank you so much Gary for all of your advice on the things mentioned above and also on the things not mentioned. If anyone has any other questions or advice, please email us at [email protected].

Thanks,
The Dibzees Team

**suzyq** · 10-07-2009, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by bid-to-2-too-win

it was a bit strange that all the bidders were from Iowa and some surrounding states, seemed like every other user had hawkeye in there user name

They're from U of Iowa -- said they targeted every campus there with flyers -- Iowa Hawkeyes.

Good luck, Dibzees!

**realbidtowin** · 10-07-2009, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by suzyq

They're from U of Iowa -- said they targeted every campus there with flyers -- Iowa Hawkeyes.

Good luck, Dibzees!

duh, ya think I did not do my homework before I spent money with them.

I was pointing out that it was odd seeing an auction with so many similar names and locations. I also explained to them that this could be percieved as bots or even the friends factor (shills) by unknowns, we all know that bot/shill sites are often terrible at selecting username for their bots. This site HAS NO BOTS.

**suzyq** · 10-07-2009, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by bid-to-2-too-win

duh, ya think I did not do my homework before I spent money with them.

I was pointing out that it was odd seeing an auction with so many similar names and locations. I also explained to them that this could be percieved as bots or even the friends factor (shills) by unknowns, we all know that bot/shill sites are often terrible at selecting username for their bots. This site HAS NO BOTS.

Oh, btw, I know you always do your homework. Just pointing it out so others would not get the wrong impression because it does look odd.

I wish they had more info on the closed auctions like maybe the date and time?

**realbidtowin** · 10-09-2009, 09:56 PM

Justa wanted to give a shout out, All my won Items have arrived, Not bad

**delta2717** · 10-10-2009, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by zero

I believe more sites are out there doing sheisty stuff than sites being legit.
When you look at some sites that just open up they are teaming with bots.
I have never used dibzees but have never heard anything good about them either which leads me to be weary before I invest in the site.

I have used this site, and won several items and received items very quickly. I try out alot of these auctions site's probably about everyone out there. I have had no problems with dibzees and have seen alot of people win things far under value. This is one site I will return to, unlike some of the other site's I have visited. If anyone is looking for a nice clean site with excellent customer service. I recommend this site. aka delta2717

**dibzees** · 10-15-2009, 01:13 AM

Thank you delta, we really appreciate your recommendation. Obviously, this is the only way we can set ourselves apart in an industry full of questionable and crooked sites. No matter how shiny the site looks and or how low the prices are, no one is going to trust our site's legitimacy until good reviews from reputable users start to show up. Customer service has been a main focus of ours since writing our business plan. While our software is not perfect yet, we have noticed that quick delivery of items and quick responses has helped tremendously with customer retention. Thanks again, and enjoy your winnings!

**dibzees** · 10-15-2009, 02:29 AM

While I'm here I wanted to let you guys know what's been going on behind the scenes at Dibzees since Gary's review. There's been a lot of progress and a few minor setbacks.
First, the progress: While still shaky, our timer lag has reportedly getting better. We have checked back with a few customers and while most can still recall times when their is lag, the general consensus is that it has gotten better. We still have not been able to avoid the timer occasionally showing 0:00, and we know this is a problem that needs to be fixed. We are working on it. Also, as Gary recommended, we have sought the advise from a few other sites. Ryan from BidBlink has been very helpful and I would really recommend doing business with them as he seems to be a very honest guy. He does not have to help us, but has done so by giving us referrals and other recommendations to improve our site. So while their is work to be done, the ball seems to now be rolling in that direction.
Now for the setbacks, well one setback really: Yesterday, during our featured auction, we experienced an obvious DoS attack that took the site down for about 10-20 seconds. Of course, this was just long enough for our timer to end. To address the situation we, of course, credited all of the bids back to those that participated in this auction. We have a prime suspect in mind who did not cover his/her tracks very well, and are mulling further action against that individual. We are consulting with our hosting company and others in the industry to prevent such attacks in the future. Also, if anyone else reading this has any other suggestions that could help us (with security or anything else), we'd love to hear them. Please Email us at info@dibzees.c[email protected].
Thank you everyone for your continued feedback and support!

The Dibzees Team

**dibzees** · 10-15-2009, 03:30 AM

Maggie,
Yeah, there's still some lag issues we need to work out. As well as being able to bid from the home page (our developers have had problems trying to implement this). As far as the $12 Visa Gift Card goes, it baffles us. The same goes for the Target card that went for over $7. This is on the same night that we had 2 other $25 gift cards go for $1.20 and $0.30. Not to mention we had a $170 knife set go for under $2 and our $250 item went for $8.70! Believe me, being on our side of things, I wish these aggressive bidders would pick their battles more wisely!
The main reason I wanted to respond to this, though, is to let everyone know that we are going to penny increments very soon (right now we are at nickel increments). So check back throughout the week for an announcement on our homepage. Of course, I'll post here as well. Thanks for reminding me, Maggie... just wanted to let everyone know!

**wassup** · 10-15-2009, 04:05 PM

First thing to do is get rid of that scrolling javascript ticker. Apart from being really 90's, you don't want extra resource-hungry javascript running on the client when your'e doing time-important stuff like auction bidding.

Also your response headers for the auction update script give an expiry date of Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT

May not cause problems, but doesn't instill my confidence in your "developers".

**bidbidbid** · 10-16-2009, 03:00 AM

Originally Posted by dibzees

While I'm here I wanted to let you guys know what's been going on behind the scenes at Dibzees since Gary's review. There's been a lot of progress and a few minor setbacks.
First, the progress: While still shaky, our timer lag has reportedly getting better. We have checked back with a few customers and while most can still recall times when their is lag, the general consensus is that it has gotten better. We still have not been able to avoid the timer occasionally showing 0:00, and we know this is a problem that needs to be fixed. We are working on it. Also, as Gary recommended, we have sought the advise from a few other sites. Ryan from BidBlink has been very helpful and I would really recommend doing business with them as he seems to be a very honest guy. He does not have to help us, but has done so by giving us referrals and other recommendations to improve our site. So while their is work to be done, the ball seems to now be rolling in that direction.
Now for the setbacks, well one setback really: Yesterday, during our featured auction, we experienced an obvious DoS attack that took the site down for about 10-20 seconds. Of course, this was just long enough for our timer to end. To address the situation we, of course, credited all of the bids back to those that participated in this auction. We have a prime suspect in mind who did not cover his/her tracks very well, and are mulling further action against that individual. We are consulting with our hosting company and others in the industry to prevent such attacks in the future. Also, if anyone else reading this has any other suggestions that could help us (with security or anything else), we'd love to hear them. Please Email us at [email protected].
Thank you everyone for your continued feedback and support!

The Dibzees Team

I dont know what the hell you talking about man. But I won that choose 3 out of 1 auction last night. Now i understand why my bids are gone out of my account and why my emails are not being responded to. You guys should stop blaming that your site was hacked. Just admit that your site is full of glitches. I have been bidding on sites such as rockybid and bidrodeo and never had a problem with them. You said you refunded bids but all my bids out of my account are gone. If you are not going to ship the product than refund my bids or credit the money to credit card . If your not that I will do a charge back from my company. An if what you say is true (that your site can be hacked)than as AllforNM said you should be flipping burgers. As everyone can see from your posts you guys have no clue to what your doing. Thank god I didn't buy lots of credits.

**realbidtowin** · 10-16-2009, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by bidbidbid

I dont know what the hell you talking about man. But I won that choose 3 out of 1 auction last night. Now i understand why my bids are gone out of my account and why my emails are not being responded to. You guys should stop blaming that your site was hacked. Just admit that your site is full of glitches. I have been bidding on sites such as rockybid and bidrodeo and never had a problem with them. You said you refunded bids but all my bids out of my account are gone. If you are not going to ship the product than refund my bids or credit the money to credit card . If your not that I will do a charge back from my company. An if what you say is true (that your site can be hacked)than as AllforNM said you should be flipping burgers. As everyone can see from your posts you guys have no clue to what your doing. Thank god I didn't buy lots of credits.

Did you yead my review of this site? They have some software issues, and they are working on it. The attack they are referring to is DDOS attack and it hase been happening to every site including the ones you mentioned. Before complaining give them a chance to respond and be accountable, you have not done that. I had some similar issues and they took care of me and promptly shipped my won items. Like I said I am not currently bidding there because it does not suit my bidding style with the timer issues, However I will be 1st inline once they get it fixed.