PennyPlex Introduction Q&A

December 3, 2009

New Penny Auction Site Introduction: PennyPlex Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? PennyPlex: I have been an online entrepreneur and online shopper for many years.  I enjoyed participating in online auctions and decided that I had something to offer. I joined with a great team of people and Pennyplex.com [...]

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Bidding Bots Should be Illegal

December 2, 2009

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 [...]

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UK Penny Auction SoMuchCheaper May Have Bot Bidders

December 1, 2009

UK based penny auction SoMuchCheaper.com may possibly have  fake, shill (bot) bidders bidding on their auctions. We hope that if they are employing bot (shill) bidders they realize that it is unethical and they stop using them if they indeed are. SoMuchCheaper: Daily Pageviews 709, Websiteoutlook.com Their Alexa ranking is a low 1,563,751 as of [...]

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BidSauce Penny Auction

November 29, 2009

Penny auction BidSauce.com just opened on Thanksgiving (November 25th, 2009). Bids on BidSauce are sold as BidBoxes in increments of 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500. 25 Bids for $25 – $1.00 per 50 Bids for $45 – $0.95 per 100 Bids for $85 – $0.85 per 250 Bids for $200 – $0.80 per 500 [...]

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BidYell

November 25, 2009

United Kingdom based BidYell.com is open to customers in the UK as well as the US.  One thing that you must keep in mind, is the cost of bids are in GBP (United Kingdom Pounds). Due to the devaluation of the US Dollar, bids on BidYell have increased in price for US customers, and currently [...]

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Interview with Penny Auction Bidserk

November 18, 2009

There are many new penny auction sites opening!  We recently spoke with the  team of Bidserk.com about their new penny auction set to open next month. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Bidserk: What got us interested in the entertainment shopping industry was we came across Swoopo about 9 [...]

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Interview with New Penny Auction Sellmoo

November 16, 2009

Sellmoo is a new penny auction that plans to open on November 20th, we asked Sellmoo’s owner a few questions. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Sellmoo: I came across Swoopo and it really intrigued me, I looked more into the Industry and found it   is still largely untapped [...]

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BidCactus Gives Back

November 3, 2009

BidCactus is now combining their 75 bid pack purchases with a donation to the Breast Cancer Aid Foundation.  For each unique bidder  participating in the auction, Bidcactus will donate $1 to the Breast Cancer Emergency Aid Foundation – with a minimum of $25 donated.  BidCactus tells us that they look forward to continuing to couple [...]

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Bargains on BidTrotter

October 26, 2009

Penny auction site BidTrotter.com has some household items to help get you ready for the cold winter months! Upcoming auctions on BidTrotter include a colorful King Size Bed in a Bag,  6-quart Crock Pot ending at 7:15 EST, a Xbox Forza3 Race Seat at 8PM, Egyptian cotton towels an NFL travel mug, a Sharp Aquos 32-Inch [...]

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Interview with Penny Auction Biddango.com

October 15, 2009

We just interviewed the owner of the soon to open penny auction Biddango.com. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Biddango: I’ve been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years and am always looking for interesting business opportunities. When I discovered Swoopo I was blown away by the concept. It [...]

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New Penny Auction Events and Promotions

October 13, 2009

Announcing the Penny Auction Events & Promo Calendar! Do you know of a new penny auction opening or would like to announce special sales and promotional events? Penny Auction Watch now has a penny auction event and promo calendar in our forum. Feel free to join and post new events to the calendar.

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UK Penny Auctions

October 11, 2009

nickwheeleroz/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 As you may already know, penny auctions are relatively new to the US. Bid-fee auctions first began in the UK with Telebid, which is now Swoopo. With this in mind Penny Auction Watch has started a UK penny auction category on our discussion forum and we will periodically watch and [...]

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Is There an Effective Strategy to Winning Penny Auctions?

September 1, 2009

Here’s what  user tracie_n_AnCapMan in our forum has to say: Very Simple – Win it at all costs, any other strategy is mathematically unsound. Yes that is oversimplified, but You must be willing to lose big to guarantee the win. What causes the win? a few things, the aforementioned Volunteers Dilemma is a large cause [...]

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Have you Tried BidsTick?

August 17, 2009

Have you tried BidsTick? A reader just told us that they won a laptop back in May and have not received it. A commenter on  a Youtube testimonial also said they have not received their item. However, there are many testimonials on Youtube so we are not quite sure. BidsTick has 15 auctions ending right [...]

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DubLi: MLM of Penny Auctions

July 28, 2009

DubLi, The alternative auction that aspires to be the  “largest GLOBAL Ecommerce Auction House in the world”  just auctioned off a Mercedes C300 in  their Car Surprise Auction to the lowest unique bidder for $8000.50. *Click on Screenshot to enlarge* DubLi has corporate offices in Dubai, Cyprus, (two tax havens)  Berlin and the US. They [...]

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Penny Auctions for a Cause?

June 24, 2009

Updates Below There’s a new charity penny auction, CP Pilot Auctions, it was just launched yesterday by Keith Brown to raise money for people suffering with cerebral palsy.  Read more about CP Pilot Auctions here. CP Pilot is still having server problems as the site keeps going down and giving me the “500 Internal Server”error [...]

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The Bid-to-Win Psychological Bullying Strategy to Winning Penny Auctions

June 16, 2009

Penny auction users are using their user names, bidding patterns and auction site forum postings on lesser known penny auction sites to their advantage. We noticed that this was happening over on YottaBid. Yotta Bid, in an effort to establish credibility and show transparency, has a forum where bidders can interact with each other. In [...]

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