For10Cents’ Shill Review-Advertising Discontinued

November 5, 2009

Update: We have spoken with For10Cents and they told us that have fired the marketing person they at was responsible for the shilled review. They also have an A- rating and are an accredited BBB business. -9/11/2010 Lastnight we received advertising money for a banner ad to be placed on the top of our homepage [...]

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Penny Auction Bid2Play UK

November 4, 2009

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 [...]

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The Psychology of Scams

September 27, 2009

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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Thou Shalt Not Shill

August 13, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 Penny auctions need to stop shilling with autobidders. Enough Said.

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Net4Bids & Feisty Sites Script

August 4, 2009

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 [...]

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Is BidNow24 Legit?

July 29, 2009

Update: Looks like the payee for BidNow24 is the same name as the Yahoo Answer promoter. Look familiar? We just found BidNow24 from Yahoo Answers: This amazing new penny auction concept is allowing us to stretch reality and make the impossible possible.? The penny auction website BidNow24.com, which has in recent weeks shocked America with [...]

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ZipaBid Ripoff, or not?

July 27, 2009

Have you tried ZipaBid? 2nd Update: It could be possible that the issues with ZipaBid were caused by technical difficulties and there still are technical difficulties with the site. It looks like Site Clonez, where Zipabids software is from is a pirated version of another Swoopo Clone software. It still looks like it has problems, [...]

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Beware of Cheapobids.com

May 27, 2009

I found cheapobids on May 21st and ever since then there have been the same bidders bidding nonstop and at all hours a handful of the same names keep bidding one after another on a programmed cycle.  Cheapobids.com looks like their strategy is to suck unknowing, novice bidders into their trap and steal their money [...]

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