“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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Interview with BidSwap.com Latest Penny Auction to Join EAA!

bidswap.com February 2, 2011

BidSwap.com is a new penny auction site that launched in November, they feature a Buy it Now option and are the latest site to join the EAA Entertainment Auction Association (pending audit). Our members have received items from BidSwap and report that they ship quick! Read our interview with the BidSwap team to learn more, [...]

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Skip the Bidding War and Win Penny Auctions with 1 Bid

penny auctions January 29, 2011

Patience & timing is everything on penny auctions, you might really want a particular item and there may be dozens of others that want it too. There really are times on a penny auction site when items end for a very small number of bids, we’ve even seen auctions that have ended with no winner. [...]

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PennyPrizes.com Penny Auction with Mystery Items

mystery prize pennyprizes.com penny auction site January 7, 2011

Have you bid at PennyPrizes.com? Penny Prizes is a family run penny auction site based in Bartlett, IL. Penny Prizes has been open for about 3 months now and has had closed 873 auctions. Unique to PennyPrizes.com are their mystery prize & VIP gift bag auctions, mystery prize auctions are auctions that have a value specified [...]

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Happy New Year!

happy new year January 1, 2011

Happy New Year from Penny Auction Watch! May this year be the best one yet! Looking back over the past year we’ve seen many penny auctions come and go, a few good ones have remained. We wish that the shady penny auction sites will be shut down and the honest ones will thrive. We hope [...]

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Varied & Unique Items on Buy-it-Now Site ShopBig.com!

December 31, 2010

Have you bid on ShopBig.com? ShopBig is a penny auction site that provides a 100% Buy It Now option on all of their items, this means if you spend $30 in bids on a $30 item you can have the item even if you don’t win, another example: you spent 18 bids on a $25 [...]

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Tips for Avoiding Penny Auction Burnout

December 30, 2010

Do you have penny auction burnout? You know, the feeling you get after you’ve spent so much money on penny auctions yet have little to show for it, yes it does happen to some of us . I wont assume that it happens to all of us, because some may be a bit wiser than [...]

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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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Interview with Bidzville Where Items Have Ended at $0.01, Really!

bidzville December 20, 2010

Have you bid on penny auction site Bidzville.com? Recently bidders have won items for as low as $0.01, 1 bid! What one PAW member has to say about Bidzville: “Loving Bidzville so far! Hi all, I’d like to give my opinion on Bidzville.com. I’ve had nothing but positive experience with this site. I have won several [...]

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Gift Cards Really Ending for Pennies on TheOutbidders

OUTBIDDERS December 16, 2010

Bidders are hardly even being outbid over on TheOutBidders.com! Good Variety of Gift Cards TheOutBidders.com is a penny auction site that launched in October and offers primarily evening auctions for gift cards from $25-50. Previous auctions have included: Aeropostale, Old Navy, Target, Overstock.com, Nike, Starbucks, AMC, Outback Steakhouse, iTunes, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Red [...]

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QuiBids Allegedly Offering Different Auctions to Different Users

quibids December 7, 2010

One of our forum members just recently brought to our attention what he calls a “trap page” on QuiBids.com. Basically, it seems as if varied items are being served to different users/computers, different active and sold auctions. We were also able to duplicate this with two computers. It seems like it’s as if there are [...]

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Our Totally Free Practice & Demonstration Penny “Auction” Site Launches Today!

shillo December 6, 2010

UPDATE 12/18/10: JONATHAN SMITH OF PENNYAUCTIONCOMMUNITY.com FORMERLY MIDPENNY.COM sold the Shillo.com script to me illegally when I asked him if he had resale rights. He sold it to me anyway and he was not entitled to do so. I did not have the right to purchase the software according to Scriptmatix, and apologize to Scriptmatix [...]

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What Was Your First Penny Auction Win?

Penny auction Winner November 23, 2010

Have you won an item on a penny auction site yet? What was the very first item you won? I still remember my first win and the frustration & excitement I experienced while bidding for it. It was for a Nintendo Wii Game System, won on April 2, 2009, 3:45 AM, (yes, 3:45 am, I [...]

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New Penny Auction to Sell Real Estate

yayabid November 22, 2010

Yayabid.com is a new penny auction that along with the usual penny auction items, is selling real estate. Not the first time real estate has been sold on the penny auction format, the first being over a year ago on ibidCondo.com,  a penny auction on the “seat auction” format, where users did not pay per-bid, [...]

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Is BidMacs.com Accredited by the BBB?

bidmacs November 20, 2010

Update 12/1/10: BidMacs wrote to tell us that the “Accredited by the BBB & Audited” that we saw on a landing page for BidMacs.com was done by an affiliate marketer and they’ve since corrected this page. Have you bid on www.BidMacs.com?  It’s a 24/7 penny auction site with buy it now.  At 3 am EST, [...]

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PriceShuffle.com “Accepting New Users In Limited Numbers”

Limited Time Only offer November 20, 2010

Have you tried the new penny auction site www.PriceShuffle.com? One of our forum members has and he’d like to hear from you: “Hello everyone. I would like to know if you know anything about this site, priceshuffle.com i was trying to sign up on their site and was filling personal information. they asked for my [...]

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User With Same IP as Steve At SlamPenny.com Posts That He’s Won Items?

slampenny November 17, 2010

Have you bid on SlamPenny.com ? Apparently someone with the site owner’s IP has. Today we received an e-mail from Steve[@]SlamPenny.com from the following IP: 68.99.79.5. Shortly afterwards forum member e6usa registers and posts the following 2 comments (1 after the other since it was still in moderation): “Has nayone else found slampenny.com? It looks legit [...]

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Can Social Networking Work With Penny Auctions?

collusion penny auctions November 16, 2010

A few penny auction sites have instituted chat features and Facebook Connect, they do this to aid in transparency. We think this creates a problem. As evidenced by what we saw on our forum, as early as when this site first opened in May of last year, users can take advantage of private messaging functions [...]

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Spoow: Will I Get My 24k Gold iPod?

Gold Ipod Touch Spoo November 14, 2010

UPDATE 12/22/10: After this post was seen by Spoow I did get a refund of my money, they told me they only had a small number of customers. I still found it odd that they say this yet they seemed to have tons of bidders bidding on their site. You’d think I would’ve learned by [...]

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What’s Up With Pink Owls?

pink owls November 12, 2010

PinkOwls.com is, or should we say was, a penny auction site for designer handbags. Just last month they decreased auctions to 1 per week, now they haven’t had any auctions in a few weeks now. A reader and winner of  PinkOwls recently sent in some very interesting observations that we thought we’d share with you [...]

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