“Products Sell for the Price You Want” Penny Auction Script Sold

February 9, 2011

Adding yet another penny auction site/developer/seller to our hall of shame.  Last month penny auction site LightBids.com was sold on Flippa.com for a mere $250. Features? Autobidding bots (= fake scam shill bidders – set up by dishonest, cheats of “entrepreneurs.”) From the description: “It’s very easy to maintain site like that because of a [...]

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PollyWantaPenny.com Cusses Out Customers

pollywantapenny penny auction January 30, 2011

We really think that the majority of penny auction site operators need a lesson in professionalism & customer service 101 - (Not to mention a course in ethics!). Unfortunately, PollyWantaPenny.com’s management is not an exception. “A dissatisfied customer will tell 9-15 people about it. And approximately 13% of your dissatisfied customers will tell more than 20 people [...]

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Skip the Bidding War and Win Penny Auctions with 1 Bid

penny auctions January 29, 2011

Patience & timing is everything on penny auctions, you might really want a particular item and there may be dozens of others that want it too. There really are times on a penny auction site when items end for a very small number of bids, we’ve even seen auctions that have ended with no winner. [...]

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Is That Penny Auction About to Sink?

glacier January 18, 2011

It’s happened time and time again, a new penny auction site opens and bidders get some great deals, but it’s not too long before your experience and the site plummets downhill. Then, before you know it the site has disappeared and you never really won anything. What are some signs of a penny auction site [...]

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PennyPrizes.com Penny Auction with Mystery Items

mystery prize pennyprizes.com penny auction site January 7, 2011

Have you bid at PennyPrizes.com? Penny Prizes is a family run penny auction site based in Bartlett, IL. Penny Prizes has been open for about 3 months now and has had closed 873 auctions. Unique to PennyPrizes.com are their mystery prize & VIP gift bag auctions, mystery prize auctions are auctions that have a value specified [...]

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CityCents Penny Auction for Local Gift Card Deals Launches

citycents January 4, 2011

There’s now a penny auction site for localized deals. CityCents.com has just launched in Baltimore and Washington DC, with plans to expand to provide users with penny auctions for local deals (gift cards) to restaurants, spas and other services. “We are a groupon spin on penny auctions. Find local deals in your city in a [...]

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BidRivals Letting Bidders Be Sellers

bidrivals penny auction January 3, 2011

Malta based penny auction site BidRivals.com has just announced “SuperBidRivals,” a new merchant program that will allow BidRivals’ users to sell products, all they have to do is pay BidRivals the purchase price of any item and BidRivals will list it for sale. From Keith at BidRivals: “This is called SuperBidRivals, the principle is simple, [...]

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Happy New Year!

happy new year January 1, 2011

Happy New Year from Penny Auction Watch! May this year be the best one yet! Looking back over the past year we’ve seen many penny auctions come and go, a few good ones have remained. We wish that the shady penny auction sites will be shut down and the honest ones will thrive. We hope [...]

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Varied & Unique Items on Buy-it-Now Site ShopBig.com!

December 31, 2010

Have you bid on ShopBig.com? ShopBig is a penny auction site that provides a 100% Buy It Now option on all of their items, this means if you spend $30 in bids on a $30 item you can have the item even if you don’t win, another example: you spent 18 bids on a $25 [...]

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Tips for Avoiding Penny Auction Burnout

December 30, 2010

Do you have penny auction burnout? You know, the feeling you get after you’ve spent so much money on penny auctions yet have little to show for it, yes it does happen to some of us . I wont assume that it happens to all of us, because some may be a bit wiser than [...]

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PennyPurses First Designer Handbag Penny Auction Reopens

December 24, 2010

Do you bid on PennyPurses.com? PennyPurses  just recently re-opened after a short hiatus. PennyPurses was the very first penny auction site to exclusively offer designer handbags. PennyPurses specializes in offering Coach, Juicy Couture, Michael Kors, Ed Hardy and Kate Spade among other authentic brands. Since launching in the summer of ’09, PennyPurses tells us they’ve [...]

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Bigggle the First Progressive Penny Auction Opens Today

Thumbnail image for Bigggle the First Progressive Penny Auction Opens Today December 23, 2010

Bigggle.com, the first penny auction site to offer patent pending progressive auctions, launches today. Bigggle offers a buy it now option on all items except for progressive auctions and bid packs, the buy it now is a 50% discount on bids spent.  For i.e.: Let’s say you bid $25 for a $25 gift card, 12.50 will [...]

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Interview with Bidzville Where Items Have Ended at $0.01, Really!

bidzville December 20, 2010

Have you bid on penny auction site Bidzville.com? Recently bidders have won items for as low as $0.01, 1 bid! What one PAW member has to say about Bidzville: “Loving Bidzville so far! Hi all, I’d like to give my opinion on Bidzville.com. I’ve had nothing but positive experience with this site. I have won several [...]

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CheapOH! VP Embarks On a Misinformation Smear Campaign Against PAW After Article

Thumbnail image for CheapOH! VP Embarks On a Misinformation Smear Campaign Against PAW After Article December 17, 2010

On Tuesday, December 14th, I posted an article on how the new “unbiased” (“with the best review information with no biased views on any retailer.”) penny auction review site, at PennyAuctionInformation.com was registered to the same address as the western US offices of penny auction CheapOh.net. Additionally, the e-mail contact listed on the domain registry [...]

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Gift Cards Really Ending for Pennies on TheOutbidders

OUTBIDDERS December 16, 2010

Bidders are hardly even being outbid over on TheOutBidders.com! Good Variety of Gift Cards TheOutBidders.com is a penny auction site that launched in October and offers primarily evening auctions for gift cards from $25-50. Previous auctions have included: Aeropostale, Old Navy, Target, Overstock.com, Nike, Starbucks, AMC, Outback Steakhouse, iTunes, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Red [...]

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Our Totally Free Practice & Demonstration Penny “Auction” Site Launches Today!

shillo December 6, 2010

UPDATE 12/18/10: JONATHAN SMITH OF PENNYAUCTIONCOMMUNITY.com FORMERLY MIDPENNY.COM sold the Shillo.com script to me illegally when I asked him if he had resale rights. He sold it to me anyway and he was not entitled to do so. I did not have the right to purchase the software according to Scriptmatix, and apologize to Scriptmatix [...]

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Investigation Into All Penny Auction Sites is Imperative

walle December 5, 2010

With developers making bot scripts readily available and even packaged into their software they sell, it’s easy for penny auction sites to siphon money from hundreds if not thousands of customers, who’s to say that they even have to ship ANY items? In a previous post we published “Requesting An Explanation,” in it was presented [...]

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More E-Tailers Adopt Entertainment Shopping!

pennydrop December 4, 2010

We don’t have to tell you that many entrepreneurs have been revolutionizing the future of e-commerce. Like Frank Han, CEO of Swoopo said in our interview, “I like to think about Swoopo as being apart of this e-commerce 2.0 revolution that includes Woot, the Gilt Groupe, Groupon & LivingSocial. I think that penny auctions fall into [...]

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What Was Your First Penny Auction Win?

Penny auction Winner November 23, 2010

Have you won an item on a penny auction site yet? What was the very first item you won? I still remember my first win and the frustration & excitement I experienced while bidding for it. It was for a Nintendo Wii Game System, won on April 2, 2009, 3:45 AM, (yes, 3:45 am, I [...]

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New Penny Auction to Sell Real Estate

yayabid November 22, 2010

Yayabid.com is a new penny auction that along with the usual penny auction items, is selling real estate. Not the first time real estate has been sold on the penny auction format, the first being over a year ago on ibidCondo.com,  a penny auction on the “seat auction” format, where users did not pay per-bid, [...]

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