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Online ads are appearing on popular websites, claiming great deals of up to 80 percent savings on iPads and other electronics with online penny auctions. While the discounts are tempting, do your research before bidding. With penny auctions, participants ...
The Federal Trade Commission has released a consumer alert dealing with online penny auctions ("Online Penny Auctions: Nothing for Something?"). Penny auctions may provide good deals. However, you need to understand how they work and how to recognize some ...
Ads for the penny auction site QuiBids and Happy Bid Day make it look easy to get expensive items for just a few dollars. One for QuiBids says, "Imagine getting a new Apple iPad today for just $23.74." While an ad for Happy Bid Day states, "Imagine paying ...
The offers seem irresistible: an iPad 2 for $50, the iPhone 4 for $50 and a whiz-bang SLR for $100. Recently, there has been a rise in penny auction sites touting such deals. They go by names like Quibids and SwipeBid. Unfortunately, too many people learn ...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Online penny auctions are growing in popularity and one Oklahoma City business is cashing in on the trend, but even this local company warns buyers there are plenty of risks. "We Googled 'penny auction' and had over 300,000 hits on that.
Online "penny auctions" are quickly gaining popularity, and though they claim to offer consumers the opportunity to win quality merchandise at low prices, the Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota is reminding people that purchasing bids ...
SEATTLE -- We ve all seen them or at least seen an ad for one. Penny Auctions are supposedly a place where you can get an iPad for $33 and bid on other items. The most common question I m asked: Are they a ways to save? And my answer is absolutely not!
A pair of 2007 UA graduates launched BidTavern, a penny auction website with a twist, on Monday. Bidding fee auctions, or penny auctions, are a fairly new concept in the online shopping world, and take a much different approach to the conventional online ...
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