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Let's bring PAW and excitement to Penny Auctions back!
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I believe that the more penny auction bidders that come together and post their honest experiences, exposing the shady-scam penny auction sites, the less and less shady-scam sites will stop being the majority in the penny auction industry. Stand with me.
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- Posted 08 February 2013 - 12:39 AM
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It's been nearly 4 yrs now and PAW is still dedicated to providing bidders with a place to discuss both good and bad experiences with penny auctions, but what can I do to bring the excitement back and offer a better experience for you here? Glad to see some of our longtime bidders back here as well as so many new members! Thank you!
Forum activity sure has gone down some since I first started here, but quite frankly I am not sure what can be done to improve that. There's really only so much you can talk about when it comes to Penny Auctions. After a while it sort of becomes repetitive... Example: new user joins the forum and asks a questions like "why did this guy keep bidding against me and spend x3 retail of the auction price?"....... the answer to this questions has been discussed too many times, that people stop answering and new users get tuned out.
One thing I will say is that when you had your recent Beezid free contest, a lot of users seemed to come out from within the shadows again. So everyone is here, but they just don't post.... Not sure how to solve that, but that's my 2 cents! If I ever think of something clever I'll be sure to let you know.
- Posted 08 February 2013 - 06:15 AM
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I believe that the more penny auction bidders that come together and post their honest experiences, exposing the shady-scam penny auction sites, the less and less shady-scam sites will stop being the majority in the penny auction industry. Stand with me.
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- Posted 09 February 2013 - 03:09 PM
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- Posted 09 February 2013 - 09:54 PM
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Sorry...I don't really know for sure what I'm talking about. Penny auction is running out of topics!
- Posted 12 February 2013 - 06:13 AM
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You're saying that the bidders were cheating? How so?site owners need to be more in contact with each other this week alone talked to 3 owner and told them what to look for and they all busted 5 names out of the same area for cheating before they ship wins they should ask for a copy of a i and a bill and compare notes on the cheats names om very vocal about auction sites if there good i have no problem promoting there site and if there a scum bag site i will say it
I believe that the more penny auction bidders that come together and post their honest experiences, exposing the shady-scam penny auction sites, the less and less shady-scam sites will stop being the majority in the penny auction industry. Stand with me.
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- Posted 12 February 2013 - 06:55 AM
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Yes - you're right. A lot has been said here over the years and not alot of really new/exciting sites right now, at least not that I see...Bidders looking for deals, PA owners looking for users to join their auctions. How can you provide that with your website is how you can make this site more alive I guess. To strike for the balance between bidders and site owners, hmmm...it'll be difficult. Unless you got involve deeper on either bidders or owners side but then it'll be conflict of interest. However, I think you can work with one side to help the other I believe.
Sorry...I don't really know for sure what I'm talking about. Penny auction is running out of topics!
I believe that the more penny auction bidders that come together and post their honest experiences, exposing the shady-scam penny auction sites, the less and less shady-scam sites will stop being the majority in the penny auction industry. Stand with me.
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- Posted 12 February 2013 - 06:56 AM
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Don't get me wrong, there have been a lot of bad sites over the years, and many new sites are clearly not legitimate based on traffic numbers, advertising numbers, number of high value auctions, and the running up of these community bidders who they are well aware will spend to retail and over. The sites that use these tactics are easy to spot in most cases, while some you need to do more research on. Over the years, PAW has spent a good amount of time vetting out these sites based on research. Although many of these were justified exposure, there may have been too much focus on the bad, and not enough on the good sites.
One other thing I think forums, TBL, PAH, PAScore and the like failed to do for the community is to advertise the industry outside of the industry. Site have a responsibility to drive their own traffic, but how much would it help if advertising for PAW and PA's in general were done to educate the masses about penny auctions highlighting the true risks involved in playing, while highlighting the positive outcomes of those auctions that get 70-90% off. Maybe some PSA type spots would go a long way to drive new traffic to the industry and infuse all sites with new members they may not otherwise reach independently. Now I know that over the course of 4 years, PAW has amassed close to 12K members, but how many are one and done visitor, or duplicate accounts. So basically, PA sites that advertise on here or the other sites mentioned are only really targeting people who play and know what the industry is all about. Once that 600+ core community members sign up on a site, there really isn't much more to gain by advertising her or any other site PA related.
Will this bring back excitement to the industry or forum? Who knows? Maybe not. But it may bring new people who haven't found PA's into the industry with an honest and open vision of what is really to be expected.
- Posted 26 February 2013 - 01:20 AM
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My two cents: I got bulked into some "mob" I was never in. In forum life AND in real life... I am friends with everyone. As soon as that "guy" came around moderating, It didn't seem like a home. Now it's boring.
Well said, BF! Hope all is well with you!
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- Posted 27 February 2013 - 02:37 PM
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I guess one thing that would help would be to have a thread on which sites still exist, which ones are legit and which ones seem not to be...
- Posted 27 February 2013 - 10:43 PM
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You can't control the flock without the fear of the wolf.
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- Posted 07 April 2013 - 01:48 PM
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We're launching this week and are introducing some new concepts. Such as local pickups as well as the ability to essentially build a social coupon based on your referrals. The more your refer, the more your coupon will increase in discount value. It's a new concept and one that I expect to grow slowly but surely.
You can learn more about it at the link below. But yes, I do agree the industry has taken a black eye and is pretty much on its deathbed. Even Quibids' traffic has dropped precipitously. That's the main reason why we partnered up with several well known merchants to be able to offer local pick-ups for auction wins. Just trying to offer something different and inject some legitimacy into the business model before the reputation regarding penny auctions simply become irreparable.
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- Posted 07 April 2013 - 05:27 PM
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PAW was in the enviable position to cater to both consumers as well as penny auction owners. However, the fulfillment of that potential was never realized. Speaking from my own experience as a current penny auction owner at EvoTronix.com, our marketing efforts were hardly appreciated. We paid for our own forum space here on PAW, but was hardly ever able to actually post to it. Several other issues such as not having prime ad space such as the header, be made available for penny auction owners to place our banner ads.
In my opinion, focusing more on the positives when reporting on a nascent business model, would have served to benefit all of us. Instead, the negative issues always, always took precedent and remained at the forefront. As a result, most consumers are now simply finding it difficult to stay interested enough to even spend the bids they have remaining in their account, much less continue to invest in the sites to help them grow.
- Posted 07 April 2013 - 05:45 PM
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I believe that the more penny auction bidders that come together and post their honest experiences, exposing the shady-scam penny auction sites, the less and less shady-scam sites will stop being the majority in the penny auction industry. Stand with me.
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- Posted 08 April 2013 - 09:40 PM
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#17
This is great feedback, Evotronix also, I am going to put that into action, let's talk I'll send you an email and I am very sorry about the posting issues.
No problem, Amanda. It's time we all start working towards resuscitating the industry and get consumers excited about entertainment shopping again as they once were. It hasn't gone mainstream as yet, but that's the goal we're shooting for. I'll look out for your email. Thanks.
- Posted 09 April 2013 - 04:24 AM
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Definitely still here for that reason. Let's brainstorm ideas!No problem, Amanda. It's time we all start working towards resuscitating the industry and get consumers excited about entertainment shopping again as they once were. It hasn't gone mainstream as yet, but that's the goal we're shooting for. I'll look out for your email. Thanks.
I believe that the more penny auction bidders that come together and post their honest experiences, exposing the shady-scam penny auction sites, the less and less shady-scam sites will stop being the majority in the penny auction industry. Stand with me.
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- Posted 09 April 2013 - 06:45 PM
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Honestly there needs to be some type of board similar to the Gaming Control Boards with Casinos that validate not only coding and scripting from cheating but also winners... It could also combat cheating amongst bidders & the "friendly collusion".
If websites are not constantly driving in new traffic then it will fall victim like its many predecessors and get gobbled up by "familiar bidders"
- Posted 10 April 2013 - 10:51 PM
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- Posted 11 April 2013 - 05:14 PM
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