BigDeal.com Has Closed, Did You Get Your Items?

BigDeal.com, the only penny auction with the buy it now option from San Francisco, California is now closed. Just recently BigDeal had stopped offering there signature items and were primarily auctioning bid pack. No longer were they auctioning MacBooks, SLR's, iPads, iPods, iPhones or anything else of value. Most penny auction enthusiast saw there demise coming and the worst was confirmed On August 8, 2011.

BigDeal.com has provided a link to BidCactus.com to allow there users the option of using the remaining balance of there bids on BidCactus. All and any questions should be directed to Bigdeal.com

Is Xbids A Scam Or A Fraud?

According to Rip Off Report Report: #657838

Xbids.com is a online auction site promoting great deals on items bid for. You have to set up an account to be able to bid on items up for auction. The registration process is extremely vague regarding the amount of money needed to set up the account.

I personally thought the account setup was to register my info for a basic account profile. I was unaware money was actually being charged against my credit card ($75). I was thinking I was setting up a form of a Paypal account in order to actually purchase a bid item in out bid for.

After you realize you've just spent money to actually buy bids, you try to figure out how to recoup your loss. The bid process is very questionable. I never really figured out how long an item stays up for bid. I know I went through 125 bids (my entire $75 purchase) in about a half hour, with nothing to show for it. You can't possibly afford the chance to bid on items and endure the bid process without spending a boatload of money up front.

This site is really useless for the proposed purpose of auction bidding. You spend entirely too much money initially with no real chance of winning a bid.

The only winner is the site owner.

Is OOHILOVE a Scam? or A Fraud?

Class Action Lawsuit Jury Trial Sought After Mounting Complaints Against Quibids.com

The law office of Andrew S. Kierstea attorneys for the plaintiff Lawrence A. Locke are seeking to represent any and all users who participated in any auction being offered by Quibids.com. The following class action lawsuit seeks to enjoin all persons in the United States who spent more money on QuiBids.com than the retail price of the goods they received, with an estimated total lawsuit value of over $5 million dollars.

This class action status is being sought after Mr Lawrence Locke spent a total of $51.11 on the Quibids Penny Auction site and was not declared a winner. Mr Locke purports that he spent 1 bid on an HDMI cable, 10 bids on an HP Printer, 64 bids on an LG 55" HDTV and 1 bid on a Nikon camera, but what he didn't disclose is that he probably spent $5,000 dollars hiring an attorney to sue a company he misappropriated 51.00 to? What makes even less sense, are his unreasonable expectations of actually winning large ticket items with retail values exceeding $3000 dollars with only $51 dollars in bids?.

Now any veteran penny auction player will tell you that to bid on those types of items, "you as the player must be willing to pay up to and possibly exceed the retail value of the said item to close the auction". What this lawsuit seems to boil down to is, unrealistic expectations coupled with failed communication causing Mr Lawrence Locke to suffer from a Napoleon Complex in which he initiated a Lawsuit over $51 dollars, and is escalating said lawsuit to class action status. We are sure Penny Auction enthusiasts will be waiting with baited breath as to the outcome of this impending jury trial and we of course will keep you up to date with all the impending developments.

Official Quibids Complaint Documents

Are All Testimonials The Same?

While surfing across Youtube we came across Bidstick's testimonial pages. First we noticed that there was alot of them, then we noticed that there were also alot of comments, they ranged from people fighting over what the person said , to explaining how these types of auctions work to others claiming that the company had  hired actors. We looked up Bidstick's launch date which seems to be only days after the first ever pay per bid auction Swoopo officially launched into the United States, preceding this there were no searches for "Penny Auction"  in Google or any search engine for that matter, because the industry just simpily did not exist.

Penny Auction Watch.com The Once Trusted Auction WatchDog Has Been Disgraced And Charged By The Ninth Judicial Court of Georgia With Fraud And Possible Fines Totaling More Than 6 Million Dollars.

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The Disgraced WatchDog Penny Auction Watch.com has been scrambling after fraud charges were levied against the website citing fraud and alleged abuse of a messaging device by compelling family and friends referred to in the formal complaint as "John Doe 1-50" to enter biased and false information against competing websites in the Penny Auction Industry. Many Penny Auction websites were victims to Penny Auction Watch's.com malicious reports of rampant auction fraud. While the apparent sites being maintained by them received no complaints at all. The Ninth Judicial Court of Georgia has levied many subpoenas against "Penny Auction Watch.com" but principles at the company have not been available to be reached for subpoena or comment, Penny Auction Watch.com has hidden its identity behind Domains By Proxy a common registrar of spam con-men and extortionist, why would a watchdog service choose this option? maybe the fact that they also own several of the penny auctions, an undeniable and inherent conflict of interest has something to do with it.

SwipeAuctions.com contends that the disgraced Penny Auction Watch Dog purposely and consistently sabotaged there companies operations by relentlessly publishing reports of auction fraud thereby fueling a large number of charge backs by there customers against the company leading to the disablement of their companies payment processor, leaving the company inherently with no mechanism to conduct business using any form of electronic payment processing namely there credit card machine. The lawsuit has also been expanded to include Google due to the fact that the owner of Penny Auction Watch, Amanda Lee and cohorts "John Doe 1-50" have been criminally evading the court,  Google has also been named in the suit and Google in our summation would reply with any routine court request to supply information in connection to ongoing litigation within The Ninth Judicial Court of Georgia. Negligent court evasion is not perceived as being favorable before any Judge or Jury in any state of the union and continued subpoena evasion may result in an automatic default judgement determination being levied against Penny Auction Watch.com, its owner "Amanda Lee" Principals And all cohorts "John Doe 1-50", as there IP address's become available.

Complaint

Text of Proposed Order

Affidavit of Karl S. Kronenberger

Certificate of Interested Persons

Civil Cover Sheet

Exhibit A-H to Affidavit of Karl S. Kronenberger


Motion to Expedite


Order of Recusal

Order on Motion to Expedite

Rockybid Maybe Leaving Bidders On The Rocks

RockyBid.com, another confirmed 7 Dollar Swoopo clone may be leaving bidders washed up on the rocks. This auction script has an autobidder built in, what this means in laymans terms is that some or all of the competing bidders are actually computer generated and are designed to counterbid any human generated bid or even counterbid another computer generated bid. This fact is neither disclosed or mentioned anywhere on there site. Rockybid.com since its inception has utilized this, If anyone knows why this fact is not disclosed please let us know. What we would like is that Rockybid.com would state this fact somewhere on there site, so that bidders would at least know, with what type of bidding environment they were really dealing with.