For years now, we've seen penny auction websites compare themselves to ebay. The general marketing message behind this comparison says this: "If you like ebay, you'll penny auctions". Quibids ebay Comparison Above, we see a sample comparison which Quibids.com uses in marketing promotions. In the promo, Quibids explains to consumers that their auctions: Ship [...]
Since (nearly) the beginning of the penny auction era, Quibids has been a leader. As we outline in our review of Quibids penny auctions, Quibids has always maintained fair consumer policies, transparency, and most of all, tons of auctions with high-end products. Over time, some users notice that the competition on Quibids.com can be a [...]
For the past 3 years, we've compiled information, editorial reviews and user reviews of the top penny auction websites. In today's blog post, we'd like to focus on the penny auction reviews which have been submitted by you, our loyal readers. Love 'em or hate them, penny auctions are here to stay and we want [...]
New to penny auctions? For this week's post we're focusing on tips and tricks which for the most part, only beginner penny auction participants can use. First, it's important to understand that penny auctions are keen on one fact- acquiring new bidders is key. This means that it's often the case that new bidders are [...]
Quibids recently released a new type of auction called "Locked Auctions". Today, we want to review the basics of how Locked Auctions work and then talk about other penny auction websites which offer similar auctions features. What are Lock Auctions (Penny Auctions) on Quibids? On Quibids.com, some auctions become Locked after a certain number of [...]
HappyBidDay is and has been one of our favorite online penny auction sites for many years. This penny auctions has managed to balance "fair" competition and also stay in business, which is suprisingly rare in the penny auction business. For today's post, we want to focus on a few bidding tips which may help you [...]
For years, the most popular penny auction website have offered customer rewards programs which usually go something like this: Refer a friend Your friend spends money You get free bids It's not a bad deal. After all, we all want more bids for less money to improve our ability to be competitive in the penny [...]
Over the past year, we've seen a number of penny auction website implement a winning guarantee of some kind. In general, the penny auction winning guarantee is something offered to ensure (or at least improve the odds-of) a new bidder wins at least 1 auction. From the Penny Auciton's standpoint, this reduces refund requests and [...]
As time goes on, penny auctions all start to look the same in a few ways. Well, we'd like to bestow the honor of "It's about freakin time" today to OrangeBidz, who finally offers a winning guarantee to NEW BIDDERS. How the OrangeBidz Winning Guarantee Works Applies to new bidders only. Not a member, sign-up [...]
It sounds a bit ironic, doesn't it? The entire penny auction concept is centered around the center idea that we (the bidders) pay for bids in order to participate in penny auctions. Recently, one of the top penny auction websites opened it's doors to free bidding. Now to clarify- SOME auctions are free. How HappyBidDay [...]
