What Was Your First Impression?

penny auctions wow August 19, 2010

When you first found penny auctions what was going on in your head? Obviously you were curious, maybe that ad you found for a hot gadget for pennies was what reeled you in, or maybe it was an advertorial in the form of a “consumer tips website,” (questionable form of marketing, in our opinion), maybe [...]

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AOL’s WalletPop.com on Scam Penny Auctions!

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We were recently interviewed by WalletPop.com‘s WebWatcher/Consumer Ally, Beau Brendler for his story on penny auctions and we’re grateful to see his great article creating awareness!  He wrote on the shill bidding and how easy it is to get into this industry to rip people off, what we’ve been warning you about for over a [...]

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Alleged Shill Reviews & Possibly Bidding Ebid4Cash.com/EbidShopper.com

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In the UK penny auction section of the Penny Auction Watch Forum we found this comment by user megule, megule  Junior Member  Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 2 “Hay ya guys.We all know that at the moment there are so many different penny auction websites on the Internet, that’s why sometimes we are confused, because we [...]

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Is JumboCloseouts.com a Legit Penny Auction? – Looking to Hear from Users!

scam August 10, 2010

Have you tried new penny auction site JumboCloseouts.com? For a month new penny auction site a recent Sony Vaio auction received 11,413 bids; an iPad 15,731; a Kitchenaid mixer, 17,311! These are astronomical numbers for a brand new penny auction and it’s even rare to see established penny auctions receive this many bids, it is of our [...]

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Roozos.com: Alleged Bidders without E-mail Addresses

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RED FLAG ALERT! Thanks to feedback from one of our forum members, we’ve found that the penny auction site Roozos.com appears to have users bidding that do not have e-mail addresses. To bid on Roozos.com, as is with most penny auctions,  users must first activate their accounts via a confirmation e-mail sent to the user’s [...]

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Bidders with No E-mail Addresses BigFootBids.com

shill bidding July 29, 2010

Well, we ran Firebug on yet another site running on the PHPpennyauction script BigFootBids.com. We found that the bidders that are currently bidding have no e-mail addresses associated with their accounts (there’s a bug in the script that allows for us to see the e-mail addresse). Since we know that this script has been known [...]

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ClassyMaven.com Allegedly Shill Bidding & Reviewing

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We tested ClassyMaven.com a few days ago with free bids and found that as soon as we had placed bids (this was when there was at least 20 minutes left on the clock) two other bidders instantaneously placed bids against us. Well now we have found that the owner or someone associated with ClassyMaven has [...]

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4Biddinbidslive.com: Alleged Shill Bidders & Unprofessional Behavior

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One of our forum members (thank you!) has just informed us that he has, allegedly, found shill bidders on the new penny auction Biddin4Bids.com. He even questioned them on the shill bidding (that was found using Firebug- see explanation here) and was lied to and insulted, he was treated very unprofessionally and his account was [...]

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Bids4Penny Not Honoring Auction Wins

July 18, 2010

Penny auction, Bids4Penny.com is currently undergoing a change of ownership and states that they will not honor any winning auctions from July 15th onward and that users should not bid until further notice (note the date & time this was posted 7/16, 21:45): “Please note any winning auctions from the 15th July 2010 won’t be completed [...]

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Is MainBids Living Up to Their Fair Auction Guarantee?

mainbids July 18, 2010

Penny auction MainBids.com displays 11,600 ended auctions, and 9 items are actively being bid on with countdowns nearing zero, 5 more are queued to end within the next 20 minutes. The items that are currently ending are not cheap either, take a look :

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EasytoWinAuctions.com Allegedly Shill Bidding

easytowinauctions shill July 14, 2010

There’s a new penny auction that has been auctioning off cash, EasytoWinAuctions.com, a few of our forum members suspected bot bidders (programmed robot bidders) well we just found out that they have been shill bidding & abusing our forum with a fake testimonial. In the thread discussing EasytoWinAuctions.com, on our forum, a user named CripNine [...]

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Joxed.com 18,826 Penny Auctions, Really?

February 21, 2010

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 [...]

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Pennybiddr.com Alleged Shill Bidders

January 18, 2010

“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 [...]

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Posts by Proxy IP Go To Spam

January 16, 2010

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 [...]

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For10Cents Gets an F

December 27, 2009

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 [...]

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For10Cents’ Shill Review-Advertising Discontinued

November 5, 2009

Update: We have spoken with For10Cents and they told us that have fired the marketing person they at was responsible for the shilled review. They also have an A- rating and are an accredited BBB business. -9/11/2010 Lastnight we received advertising money for a banner ad to be placed on the top of our homepage [...]

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BlitzPenny Software Sonik Technologies BOTS

October 6, 2009

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 [...]

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CheapObids Auctions Off Another Car?

June 29, 2009

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 [...]

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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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