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 [...]
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Update: ABidAway.com has e-mailed to tell us that the users that had email addresses @abidaway.com were created by them but were people locally and they set up the accounts for them, and apparently their e-mail addresses too for promo bids…He wanted to clear that up, so you can read his response here: (And bid on [...]
We recently found out about the new penny auction script CloudBidder, CloudBid.com, brought to us by Smart Internet Technologies LLC. CloudBidder gets its name because the software is being hosted on Google Cloud with the Google App Engine.
What is CloudBidder?
“There are numerous popular auction sites like MadBid.com, Swoopo.com or BidRay.com. They all are being run [...]
Shelley DuBois of Wired Magazine just published the first article of a two-part story on penny auctions on Wired.com’s Epicenter. In Penny Auctions Bet on Chump Change (Part I of II), Ms. DuBois illustrates the difficulty of running a penny auction site, and (quite accurately) likens them to “… a combination of bingo night, [...]
We have reason to believe that the owner of penny auction Bidtent.com, Ian Robinson, may have just been bidding against powerbidders on two auctions tonight under the username “comoestas.” He may have even won his own auction on December 13th: http://www.bidtent.com/auctions/view/126
Tonight’s auctions: $50 American Express Card http://www.bidtent.com/auctions/view/148 and a $50 Target Gift Card http://www.bidtent.com/auctions/view/146
Also, user [...]
Today, The Dominion Post, New Zealand published the article Penny Auctions Trouble Watchdogs, raising the question of legality and questioning whether penny auctions are akin to gambling.
A Consumer Affairs Victoria spokesman said that they had reservations about penny auctions,
“In a traditional online auction transaction, the losing bidder is not out of pocket.” According [...]
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We recently exposed TdBids’ fraudulent shill bidding, now the owner admits to it. Read the posts in the forum here.
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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 blatantly [...]
