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Beezid Giving Away New MacBook + $300 Worth of Bids in Redbook Giveaway

by Amanda Lee on July 12, 2011

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Paging through the August issue of Redbook that came out today, we found that penny auction Beezid.com is participating in the Redbook Freebies giveaway. Beezid is offering a brand new MacBook Pro and $300 in bid credits to one lucky contest winner. (Check out our Beginner’s Guide to Beezid guest article).

beezid“A Fab Laptop… Plus Cash – 1 reader will win a 13-inch MacBook Pro, plus a $300 bidding gift card to beezid.com, an auction website for home furnishings, fashion, electronics and more. Total value, $1,500

To enter go to redbookmag.com/freebies between 12:01 a.m. ET on July 12, 2011 (today) and 11:59 p.m. ET on August 15, 2011 and complete & submit the sweepstakes entry form for the Beezid.com giveaway: http://www.redbookmag.com/sweepstakes/18805.
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Have you bid on Beezid.com? Tell us about your experiences in our  penny auction forum.

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Does the Entertainment Shopping Industry Have the Potential to Reinitiate the Online Auction?

penny auctions June 30, 2011

Today, Norwegian entrepreneur Tore Rasmussen, who will soon, with his partner Vegard Kjelseth open an entertainment shopping site, wrote an article on The Evolution of Online Auctions which comments on James Surowiecki’s “Going, Going, Gone: Who Killed the Internet Auction?” Wired.com article. Tore mentioned that James forgot to include penny auction sites and other revolutionary forms of [...]

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Tips to Win on SmartBid

smartbid May 28, 2011

By PAW member muchomaas I. Introduction. Most of you reading this are familiar with the traditional penny auction format. Regardless of the website and the bidding tools, there are two basic components – a timer and a bid button – and one way to win: you bid, and nobody bids after you. Much of the [...]

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Score Bargains at Bidz.com – Not a Penny Auction Site

bidz May 22, 2011

Have you heard of Bidz.com? Launched in 1998, Bidz is an online auction site that offers auctions 24/7 on items ranging from designer sunglasses & scarves (Hermes, Chanel);  jewelry (including beautiful wedding/engagement rings); wallets; watches; artwork; toys & games; Ed Hardy and Dolce & Gabbbana apparel;  household items and even some electronics and more. If you time [...]

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iTicketBid Allegedly Sending out Shipping Notices Months Before Shipping?

penny auctions May 11, 2011

Penny auction bidders have been scoring great deals on penny auction site iTicketBid.com, so great that some are questioning whether or not the site  will ship their wins. One PAW member recently told us that iTicketBid sent him shipping notices months ago, dating back to February 9th, and still has yet to receive his items. [...]

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How to Approach Penny Auctions

runway October 29, 2010

For the most part, novice bidders have very little experience with the pay to bid process. More experienced players have evaluated multiple strategies and determined the best course of action for their individual comfort level. Professional bidders tend to have a very aggressive approach regardless of their opponent. The biggest question is, “How do you [...]

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Penny Auction Gives Back to Wounded Troops & Their Families!

Penny Warriors October 22, 2010

We recently had the pleasure of interviewing decorated Green Beret, Staff Sergeant, Matt Summers. Sgt. Summers received a purple heart after sustaining minor wounds in an IED blast in Afghanistan. After electing to be honorably discharged, he went back to school and obtained his master’s degree. On September 14th, of this year, combining his knowledge and military [...]

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Penny Auctions Explode in Japan

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In October of 2009 we wrote about finding the Japanese penny auction Saruok.jp and we remember that it seemed they had bot bidders (bidders w/o e-mail addresses – found with Firebug). It looks like penny auctions [ペニーオークションとは] have gained popularity in Japan, we just found dozens from the Final Auction penny auction with a woman holding [...]

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Have you tried Beezid.com?

February 25, 2010

BeeZid.com has been open for a few months now, they have a rather impressive Alexa Ranking too: 31,741, 5,908 in the US. BeeZid has a 2010 Ford Mustang and an iPad on queue to be auctioned TBD. Here’s Beezid’s TV Commercial: Penny Auction Watch members are discussing their experiences with Beezid in our forum, if [...]

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CrazyBidNow.com HSN Meets Penny Auctions

February 15, 2010

Think Home Shopping Network meets penny auctions, that’s what came to our mind when we saw the new entertainment shopping auction CrazyBidNow.com today. Nevada based CrazyBidNow.com, on their about us page, tells us that their combined auction format, along with live streaming video, is a fresh approach to “Live Auction Entertainment and Live Shopping Online.” CrazyBidNow.com [...]

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Winners24.com Not Responding to Winner

February 13, 2010

Winners24.com is an Estonian penny auction site that launched in August of 2008. A reader just wrote to us to tell us about his poor experience with them. He tells us that he won a Samsung HDTV back in June of last year, Winners24.com told him that the auction had been terminated but then e-mailed [...]

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BidBang.com Greek Penny Auction

January 29, 2010

Cent auction BidBang.com hits Greece. BidBang is operated by MALKOT EPE,  Parthenonos, New Erithrea. Hours of operation are from 10:00-17:00. Bidbang users receive 3 free bids on registration. Have you bid on BidBang? Tell us about it!

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BidsPlay.com Interview

January 28, 2010

Penny auction Bidsplay.com is now under new management and will be opening on February 1st. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? At first, it was because of the opportunity  to get items at huge discount prices, when I was a purchaser on penny auction sites. Penny Auction Watch: How [...]

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PremioEfectivo/EffectivePrize Penny Auctions Latin America

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Penny auction site PremioEfectivo.com / EffectivePrize.com will soon be open to Latin America,  United Kingdom, Spain, Canada and the US .Below you will find our interview with PremioEfectivo in both Spanish and English. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in bringing the entertainment shopping industry to Latin America? PremioEfectivo.com: English: The answer is simple, in [...]

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Guess the Bid and Win

January 11, 2010

BidRodeo.com is running a contest today for 250 free bids. To win just guess the final bid price for today’s Dell Netbook with your 3 final price guesses, post your guess on their facebook page and tag yourself in the contest picture. The exact guess gets 250 free bids, the closest guess without going over will win [...]

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A Penny Auction with Casino Games

January 5, 2010

We just stumbled upon  MissPenny.com, “The world’s first fully licensed and regulated Penny Auction!” “The world’s first fully licensed and regulated Penny Auction Gaming License: http://validate.cyberluck.com/validate/4b2e3f3f-30a4-4e45-8160-14760a00002a In order for you to be sure that we supply safe, secure and fair auctions and games, Auctionbringer Investments N.V. is the first Penny Auction actor to hold a [...]

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New Penny Auction: BargainsandFun.com

January 5, 2010

We recently interviewed the owner of the new penny auction site Bargainsandfun.com. He tells us that he has removed all instances of bots from his script, and believes shill bidding to be unfair and dishonest. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Bargainsandfun.com : I was looking around for a [...]

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For10Cents Gets an F

December 27, 2009

For10cents.com, the very same penny auction site that appeared to have left shill comments on the Penny Auction Watch forum,   resulting in our terminating their ability to advertise with us gets an F from the Better Business Bureau of Chicago. From  BBB.org: “BBB Rating for For10cents.com Based on BBB files, For10cents.com has a BBB Rating [...]

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Live2Bid

December 11, 2009

The owner of the new penny auction site Live2Bid.com recently introduced his site  on our forum and invited PAW members to test. Live2Bid plans on opening tomorrow after a successful night of beta testing tonight. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Well, I have sold on Ebay a lot [...]

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Do You Like Long Timer Resets-Vote in Our Poll!

December 9, 2009

One of our forum users started a great poll to tell penny auction sites that timer resets of 1 and 2 minutes are just time consuming and boring. “I just do not get it, as much information that is here on PAW for the auction site owners regarding what the bidders want is so completely [...]

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