Online penny auctions

[dragonmegaXX]

Anyone else do them?
I just won my first thing on dealdash.

I won a $25 giftcard to any of 4 nice restaurants near me + 25 bids to use on other stuff and it only cost me $1.94 :3
And I only spent about 15 bids on it so in reality I gained money.


It's pretty fun, and it's almost a guaranteed payoff as long as you arent retarded.

[Cavernio]

Re: Online penny auctions

They seem pretty fishy. I don't know any urls for any either.

[dragonmegaXX]

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They're legit if you know which ones.
My mom's won a $250 walmart card for less than $20 and like five $10 coffee store cards for $.01. They've all already come in the mail and they worked fine.

[Cavernio]

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Free money from the internet brings back memories.
I used to play games at uproar.com (no longer exists now) when I was ~14. I won money from them multiple times. I played something called Puzzle-A-Go-Go. Every 10 minutes there was wheel of fortune/hangman game, and if you won in your group of 3, you got 1 entry. Draws were every 2 hours for 5$. They mailed me hand signed checks.
I then moved to uproar.co.uk and won 3 pounds a few times, after uproar.com became larger and turned into one of those 'you can win 10,000$ with ridiculously low odds if you play our games'.

[Crashfan3]

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I've seen ads for these kind of sites on the television (namely Beezid.com) and I've checked them out. To be honest they look somewhat rigged. Getting an HDTV for $5 sounds neat until you figure out that the bids are $1 each and you end up using a few hundred to try to win the TV.
My guess is that there's a script running in the background that only allows the auction to end after a set number of bids has been reached.

[dragonmegaXX]

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Bids are normally 60 cents each. However the site i use runs deals a lot, and I actually bought 200 bids for only $36( 18 cents each) so it really isnt that costly.

[UserNameGoesHere]

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I would file this under you might get a good deal or you might get ripped off.

Seems like you've been pretty successful with it so far though so congrats.

[lumphoboextreme]

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lol I don't even trust these things and I gambled high stakes online for years. xD

[DotKritic]

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Beezid.com

Watched the bid countdown clock for several items... 1 second left *BID* 12 seconds remaining *BID AT 8 SECONDS REMAINING* BOOM! 12 seconds remaining

[dragonmegaXX]

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Thats how it works....

[Ksl33zy24]

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Worst thing I did was a penny auction.

[dragonmegaXX]

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Mad cause bad