As much as we’d like to, we just cannot refund your money spent on penny auctions.
Just today a reader e-mailed us and requested a refund for the hundreds of dollars spent on SwipeBids.com. We told you about SwipeBids last week and how we thought that they didn’t look legit, it looks like they could have [...]
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We just received the following comment from a user who registered on the penny auction site SwipeBids.com. It also appears that they may have bot bidders.
Here’s the comment from our reader:
“I was scammed by the site called www.swipebids.com for $150 and $24 two days ago when I did a live chat on that site. I [...]
New Auction Limits on Wavee.com to include Bid Bundles:
Maximum of 5 wins in a 7 day period for items valued up to $500 MSRP, including bid bundles
There is a separate maximum of 2 wins in a 7 day period for items valued above $500 MSRP
Sellmoo.com is a new penny auction site that has been in development for many months, they are planning to open tomorrow. Read our interview with Sellmoo’s owner to learn more about how he got into penny auctions and what Sellmoo will offer.
What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry?
I came across Swoopo and [...]
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 you’ve [...]
We recently interviewed the COO of SkoreIt.com, a new penny auction that opened on February 16th and wanted to share this with you so that you can learn more about Skoreit!.
What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry?
We were enthralled with the model when we observed the first U.S. based penny auction businesses launching [...]
Over on Scriptlance.com another prospective penny auction site owner is asking for autobidders, http://www.scriptlance.com/projects/1266707964.shtml
-Autobidder module that can be turned on and off from the admin panel. I should be able to designate, on each auction, the number of autobids to ensure a percentage profit for each auction. This take into account the number of [...]
We would like to thank Cobidder.com for sponsoring two prizes for today’s surprise giveaway!
Congratulations are in order for our forum members Leon and iFunnyiLaugh!
The two winners, chosen at random with The True Random Generator at random.org, will both get 20 bids each to try out CoBidder.com (and are still eligible to win in the drawing on [...]
According to penny auction site Joxed.com, they show 18,626 ended auctions since December 30th, 2009.
But were the items on Joxed auctioned off to real people or bots? It is in our opinion that it appears they have autobidders (bots) shill bidding on their auctions.
Joxed.com has a very low Alexa traffic ranking of 1,874,360 and hundreds-thousands [...]
Haggling in Marrakech / / CC BY-SA 2.0
Ok, it’s not exactly that kind of haggling. Haggle.com is a competitive shopping penny auction that InfoSpace Inc. (INSP-Seattle, WA) launched last November.
Bids on Haggle can be purchased in varying amounts ranging from 20 bids for $15 ($0.75/bid) to 600 bids for $330 ($0.55/bid), and users can e-mail support [...]
