A reader and customer of BidPax.com (which was iPennybid) recently wrote us to tell us about their experiences with them and tells us he thinks BidPax has their own fake testimonial website: BidPaxScam.com, which interestingly enough pays for Google Adwords.
“Hi PAW,
Plimus is useless. They force resolve our dispute so i’m not able to get a [...]
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Updated: A reader just posted a very valuable piece of information, a traceroute for BidPax points to iPennyBid the same penny auction that we have received numerous complaints about.
And here is a screenshot of BidPax sent in from a reader in New Zealand (Thanks!):
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A few days ago we told you that penny [...]
Remember iPennybid? We received a legal threat, many negative comments from unhappy iPennyBid bidders and found out that iPennyBid required scans of bidders driver’s licenses. Now iPennyBid is gone and the offline message reads:
“Due to licensing reasons, iPennyBid.com is no longer available in your country. We will post more information when available.”
Licensing reasons? Please look [...]
UPDATE: Pardoo IS indeed shill bidding their auctions. The first comment left on this E-mail was from Pardoo, and we have proof. Read our latest post.
Penny auction Pardoo officially launched today, there was a pre-launch campaign with discounted bids. There are currently 6 auctions ending simultaneously, they include: a Sony Vaio P Series Laptop, A [...]
Vroomlive’s Vroom concept is similar to DubLi’s Xpress auctions except it looks like the only time you get the item is when you are the last person to bid aka Vroom when the amount reaches zero.
From VroomLive.com:
How It Works:
What is VroomLive?
VroomLive was started by several entrepreneurs in Dublin, OH, who grew tired of wasting money [...]
We just got message by way of our awesome forum, (which has just been converted over to vBulletin!) of a new penny auction coming soon: Bid Raptor.  We think it’s pretty neat when penny auctions show themselves by posting in the forum, even cooler when they tell us they WILL be legit. We sure [...]
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A reader just told us that they found iPennyBid from an ad on Facebook. (We’re on Facebook btw, click the link to add us!)
(Read our previous posts on iPennyBid: July 31st, August 11th)
The amount of bidders and the user names look pretty suspicious for an auction that’s only been in [...]
It seems like everytime I look at iPennyBid.com around this time of night they have the same 6 auctions going.
Has anyone won & received anything from iPennyBid?
IPennyBid is a new penny auction that currently has 6 items ending right now simultaneously. In my opinion it looks like they might have shill bidders.
Canon Powershot SX10IS 10MP Digital Camera
Xbox 360 Console
Xbox 360 Console with Halo & Fable II
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Unlocked Phone
Garmin nüvi 780 4.3-Inch Widescreen GPS
Sony Bravia 40inch LCD Television
The [...]
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by auctionwatcher on September 15, 2009
UPDATE: Another WINNING bidder, the one mentioned below that did not receive their winning item, they were refunded but was still also required to scan in their driver’s license.
iPennyBid is the first and only penny auction site that we have heard of to require a scan of a photo ID.
It looks like iPennybid’s [...]
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