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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 wrong, I’m not here to sham, but fact is fact… All the above features mentioned by pennygrabber: AutoBidder, Cashback, 24h Auction, Fast Auction, Fixed Price Auction, Zero Auction, Bonus Auction and PennyGrab It Now, come practically standard or are options as is mentioned on the digitalfruit software page:http://www.digitalfruit.ee/Penny+Auction+Solution/id/57/

PennyGrabber is not bringing anything new to the pennyauction world… apart from the ’social’ side. and truthfully, would you like others to see you lose on an Auction? I would not. That is why psuedos are created for anonymity. If social was the way to go, swoopo would have implemented it along time ago, they have the means, the manpower and the research to know what is best and what is not. It is way to early to go social with this concept. But hey… this is my own personal opinion, we are all entitled to one, and I know that some visiting this page might disagree.

I noticed that their design (especially the icons + buttons) looks quite familiar to that of http://www.pennyauction.com.my/. Perhaps it is the same owners, or it is the same designer that did pennyauction.com.my meaning that pennyauction.com.my also uses the digitalfruit software?”

The source code for pennyauction.com.my looks similar to that of Pardoo.com’s, and we do know that Pardoo.com was developed by DigitalFruit.ee. PennyAuction.com.my could also be developed by Estonian Developer DigitalFruit.ee, we’ll see what else we can find out.

Just a freelance quote found from Google:

We want a full working penny auction site like www.digitalfruit.ee did for most impressive penny auction site, especially example www.pennyauction.com.my …
pro-freelance.com/tag/auction-site/

Take a look at the two screenshots: PennyGrabber.com & PennyAuction.com.MY (Malaysian Penny Auction)

Although we do not know whether or not PennyGrabber.com will use DigitalFruit’s (or whether PennyGrabber.com will indeed launch using DigitalFruit’s software)  ”Intelligent Investment Protector (IIP)”feature since they’ve not yet opened, we certainly hope they do not!

Yes, we can (and have) spot DigitalFruit.ee’s bots; the IIP is no match for PAWI  ;).

DigitalFruit.ee on their Intelligent Investment Protector (IIP): Right from an e-mail from Olavi of Digitalfruit.ee:

(Edit 1-16-10  View screenshot of original e-mail from Olavi

“Solution made for site owner protection for initial startup period where bidding level could be lower than expected. IIP tries to replicate human behaviour as closely as possible and making almost impossible to detect as bot.

There will be 2 main values for revenue control system:

• 1) BEP level (break-even point)
  2) MAX level (Max plausible price)
• There is big name pool for Internal bidders (its variable and can be changed by admin). Name pool is always compared against real users to escape situation where Internal and real users do have the same username. Name pool has no bidders amount limit.
• Max level will be used to escape product price rising suspiciously high. Those products can be put on auctions again. If max level is reached and last bidder is Internal bidder then it will be winner even if BEP level is not reached.
  Internal bidders are taken from central “name pool” ~15 per every auction, at least 5 of them will be replaced in every 2 hours. (time is centrally adjustable).
• To simulate real user behaviour Internal bidders make occasional bids before BEP level is reached, otherwise it will look very suspicious if bids from certain users are placed only on 0 time. Real and Internal players’ bids are kept in different tables to escape value mixup.
• IIP has 5 values what define how does it bid: Appearance (how often it will appear in specific auction) , Risk level (how aggressively its playing), Strategy (how often it will bid and how to follow other bidders), Stage (how often player will play in different auctions)
  Price: starting from 1570 EUR” -From DigitalFruit.ee”

As we told you before, Investment Protection/autobidding bots/whatever you want to call it is STILL stealing. Notice how Digital Fruit repeatedly assures the purchaser that suspicious behavior will go undetected?

Like we said, we do not know whether or not PennyGrabber.com will be using a script from DigitalFruit.ee, nor do we know if they will turn on the IIP, but for their sake and all of ours, we certainly hope not!

Share your thoughts on PennyGrabber and DigitalFruit.ee

Thanks again to the reader who pointed this out.