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 [...]
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“613Bid,” one of our forum members, has just investigated penny auction site PennyBiddr.com and requested we post his findings here. It looks like he may be right about this one, thank you 613bid, we appreciate your diligence!!
We already know that the PHPPennyAuction.com penny auction script has bot bidders programmed in (more on this coming soon- [...]
And will most likely stay there. There have been multiple comments defending DigitalFruit.ee, you may be interested to know that many have been automatically sent to spam by our blogging software. Also, “Mickey The Mouse”-Olavi of DigitalFruit has posted the same comments multiple times under a few different IP addresses, which means he was probably [...]
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 of F on [...]
Lastnight we received advertising money for a banner ad to be placed on the top of our homepage for f0r10cents.com, but I just did a check-which should have been done last night (sorry guys) and we have now discontinued their advertising with us and refunded their money.
The IP address of CHITOWNGIRL, a poster in the [...]
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We recently told you about how BlitzPenny.com stole Swoopo’s terms & about pages, they requested that we edit that post because they took that as constructive criticism. Well it seems that Sonik Technologies, based in India, which is the registrant of BlitzPenny.com also sells penny auction scripts. Take a look at a new feature to [...]
CheapObid’s second car auction in two months just ended. Read our posts about the Honda Civic Hybrid that ended last month here and here.
The winning bidder just got a brand new Toyota Prius V Hybrid for a total of 353 bids equaling $176.50. A total of 3,908 bids were placed. The majority of bids were [...]
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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 code. Keith [...]
