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Winners24.com is an Estonian penny auction site that launched in August of 2008.
A reader just wrote to us to tell us about his poor experience with them.
He tells us that he won a Samsung HDTV back in June of last year, Winners24.com told him that the auction had been terminated but then e-mailed back [...]
What is BidsTick.com?
BidsTick.com is a penny auction site that seems to have hidden reserves, held by autobidding bots.
“BidsTick.com was created by the people, for the people!
Bid on the best brands and latest electronics, computer hardware and luxury goods one penny at a time.
Why pay more when you can win for pennies on the dollar?
BidsTick.com
4727 Wilshire [...]
In our opinion, it looks like there might be bot bidders on Ireland based penny auction paddygold.com.
The number of pageviews & the sheer number of bidders bidding on high price items just does not match up:
Paddygold.Com Estimated Worth $1547.6 USD-WebsiteOutlook.com
Title
PaddyGold | Entertainment Shopping – Bid and Win! | PaddyGold.com Auction
Description
PaddyGold offers online auctions of new [...]
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 [...]
The same message we wrote to BigDaddyBid.com goes out to all of you fraudulent developers (Net4Bids? FeistySites?).
STOP writing & distributing scripts with shill bidders! Are these the ones that can be found on eBay for $7.85 ? They’re undercutting mrsinful0909( 38) who is selling the Swoopo clone script for $7.99!
We don’t buy it [...]
Update: Looks like the payee for BidNow24 is the same name as the Yahoo Answer promoter.
Look familiar?
We just found BidNow24 from Yahoo Answers:
This amazing new penny auction concept is allowing us to stretch reality and make the impossible possible.?
The penny auction website BidNow24.com, which has in recent weeks shocked America with its outrageous bargain [...]
Have you tried ZipaBid?
2nd Update: It could be possible that the issues with ZipaBid were caused by technical difficulties and there still are technical difficulties with the site. It looks like Site Clonez, where Zipabids software is from is a pirated version of another Swoopo Clone software. It still looks like it has problems, as [...]
Have you tried BidLew?
This just in from a devout reader & bidder of penny auctions:
How to tell if a site uses bots:
Having bid in 100 plus auctions myself there are certain patterns that human bidders have compared to bots. To start with we are unpredictable, often ego driven, and other time just plain [...]
Expect to see a wave of new penny auctions. Developers are getting in on the trend and selling reverse auction software. On eBay, for a whole $75, you can buy your own penny auction site and for $50 more they will advertise for you to get “1000’s of users.”
The ultimate question: Will they be the [...]
I found cheapobids on May 21st and ever since then there have been the same bidders bidding nonstop and at all hours a handful of the same names keep bidding one after another on a programmed cycle. Cheapobids.com looks like their strategy is to suck unknowing, novice bidders into their trap and steal their money [...]
