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What is BidsTick.com?
BidsTick.com is a penny auction site that seems to have hidden reserves, held by autobidding bots.
“BidsTick.com was created by the people, for the people!
Bid on the best brands and latest electronics, computer hardware and luxury goods one penny at a time.
Why pay more when you can win for pennies on the dollar?
BidsTick.com
4727 Wilshire [...]
Shelley DuBois of Wired Magazine just published the first article of a two-part story on penny auctions on Wired.com’s Epicenter. In Penny Auctions Bet on Chump Change (Part I of II), Ms. DuBois illustrates the difficulty of running a penny auction site, and (quite accurately) likens them to “… a combination of bingo night, [...]
We are so grateful for comments from readers, thank you!
A reader left this comment on our last post about PennyGrabber.com:
“It is important to point out fact from fiction… Penny Grabber website is being developed by Digital Fruit. (Link removed by admin by request of digitalfruit, see comment on our last post on PennyGrabber)
Don’t get me [...]
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In our opinion, it looks like there might be bot bidders on Ireland based penny auction paddygold.com.
The number of pageviews & the sheer number of bidders bidding on high price items just does not match up:
Paddygold.Com Estimated Worth $1547.6 USD-WebsiteOutlook.com
Title
PaddyGold | Entertainment Shopping – Bid and Win! | PaddyGold.com Auction
Description
PaddyGold offers online auctions of new [...]
The use of bidding bots should (if they are not already) be illegal. The use of them to bid against people (swindling) is totally unethical.
We posted this photo back in August (thanks Duncan!). It’s an appropriate reminder to all penny auction, (pay-per-bid, bid-fee, entertainment shopping, reverse auctions, unique bid auctions, reveal/Dutch auctions) that are blatantly [...]
Lastnight we received advertising money for a banner ad to be placed on the top of our homepage for f0r10cents.com, but I just did a check-which should have been done last night (sorry guys) and we have now discontinued their advertising with us and refunded their money.
The IP address of CHITOWNGIRL, a poster in the [...]
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United Kingdom based penny auction BidPlay.co.uk recently wrote to us to tell us that they just launched. However, knowing that the Net4Bids script does have the bot function in the backend , seeing that Bid2Play uses this script we are a bit wary. Bid2Play’s Alexa Ranking is very high: 13,503,946, meaning they don’t have much [...]
We already know that there are con artists at work utilizing the entertainment shopping phenomenon to profit. With this in mind, you may be interested in reading this fascinating study on the psychology of con games.”The psychology of scams: Provoking and committing errors of judgement” was prepared for the UK Office of Fair Trading by [...]
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Penny auctions need to stop shilling with autobidders. Enough Said.
The same message we wrote to BigDaddyBid.com goes out to all of you fraudulent developers (Net4Bids? FeistySites?).
STOP writing & distributing scripts with shill bidders! Are these the ones that can be found on eBay for $7.85 ? They’re undercutting mrsinful0909( 38) who is selling the Swoopo clone script for $7.99!
We don’t buy it [...]
