Speedyfinger

Speedyfinger is a penny auction site that has been around for slightly more than 2 years. I've been bidding there more often lately since there are more bidders now. It is incredibly slow and very different from a traditional penny auction site. All of their auctions are reserve auctions, so you have to guess whether the auction is high or low. The most expensive item on the auction is the iPad, so the reserve price could be high or low. I made a lot in gift cards.

Click on my egg to help it hatch

I put up a banner on the right side showing a dragon egg. Clicking on it will redirect you to Treasure Trooper, which is a GPT site to help you make money online. This site helped me get a little extra money every month for me to spend on penny auctions. It is better than spending your own money and lose everything from penny auctions. Treasure Trooper is a great site and I've been using them for 2 years. I want to make it into their VIP Club which requires $500 in lifetime earnings. You actually do get paid to answer surveys, make credit card purchases, and other offers that are completely free. The dragon egg is another mini-game where you can possibly earn extra money.

Tips on winning SpeedyFinger

Here are some tips on winning SpeedyFinger. First of all, SpeedyFinger is very different from other penny auction sites in that every auction listed is a reserve auction. The key to winning is be patient in all of the auctions. Some people go away winning an auction with only a few bids, but others just place bids on auctions and then leave. This is where you take the chance at bidding some at someone else's expense. It may be cruel, but it will prove to be invaluable in getting that item you always wanted.

SpeedyFinger does have beginner auctions where it cost no bids. You just keep clicking your mouse button until you win. It is that simple. Now it is onto the bid packs at the bottom of the screen. Those auctions only cost bids so use them wisely. All of them are guessing games on whether they end high or low. The main purpose here is to build up your bids so you can tackle the featured items with as many bids as possible.
Bid Blitz should only be used to get what you want, but it will drain your bids fast until the reserve price is reached. The main problem with using Bid Blitz is that bidders run out of bids before the reserve price is reached. This is where you take the chance and use Bid Blitz yourself to win the auction. You may win big or lose some bids, but better than the last bidder who used all of his/her bids.

You can also exchange your winnings for bids to tackle on bigger items such as the iPad. I do this all the time and need the bids to get what I want from the auctions.
Just be careful of auctions that disable Bid Blitz because you may either win or lose bids if the reserve price is reached. There are some people who just build up a hoard of bids to tackle the priciest auctions with ease. Free bids make life easier and you have a better chance of winning. Just be prepared in advance and make sure you have bids to win on SpeedyFinger.

SpeedyFinger: great penny auction site

SpeedyFinger is the only penny auction site to offer free bids to beginners. There are free auctions that appear during the day, so you can win 5 free bids easily. One user has amassed over 200 bids for free and used them to win the reserve auctions easily. SpeedyFinger works differently from traditional PA sites, as most of their auctions are reserved.

The owner is trying out timer auctions to see if anybody wants to bid on them. The owner's business model seems to work quite well compared to other PA sites that shut down recently. You can join in too and see if you get the chance to win free bids and hope to hit the reserve to win that gift card. The $10 Amazon e-gift card auctions are the easiest to obtain. As for free bids, be prepared to do some furious clicking and hope to win 5 bids easily. I did and got myself a $10 Amazon e-gift card easily.

College fast approaching, PC upgrade in progress

I'll be living in the dormitory (residence hall) at my local university for my last year with my younger brother. The main reason is that I need to get my bachelor's degree as soon as possible. Another reason is that I need a job to pay for my expenses. Living with my parents is good and all, but I can't depend on them due to them approaching senior status. Georgia is a joke when it comes to finding jobs. I couldn't even find one in the past year. Now that my father has to undergo rectal surgery and my brother seeing a dermatologist for his eczema, it is time for me to pay back to them for all they have done for me. Nobody wants to hire my knowledge and expertise when it comes to businesses and PC technology, which I'm remarkable at.

I'm still buying components for my PC and I bought a solid state drive for the first time. The OCZ Technology 60 GB Vertex 2 Series SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G was incredibly fast and my HDD never had fast loading speeds on boot-up and applications. SSD is the new wave of storage, but the price of flash memory is still too expensive. I still can't afford a replacement laptop like ASUS Republic of Gamers G73JH-A1 17-Inch Gaming Laptop (Black), but it is one of my goals to get a decent gaming laptop. Either that or winning some random contest to get something.

I'm still doing penny auctions but rather slowly due to limited funding. My winnings are usually small and I can't afford bids to get at least a Wii with Wii Sports Resort - Black, but I want to give it to a friend who is leaving for medical school this Fall. It's not too bad but you definitely need money to play penny auction sites.

Sorry, haven't been blogging due to illness

Yes I haven't been blogging for a while due to my yearly eczema. It covers all over my body and comes out during the summer when the climate is really hot and dry. My eczema rarely comes out in the cold fall and winter seasons, but comes out later in the spring and summer. I have no health insurance and I can't find any work at all in Georgia. Tried networking, talking to hiring managers, and inside connections but no dice. My younger brother and I suffer the same skin disorder and my father is ill. This causes my mother to worry so much about the family's financial future and it isn't looking so well.

I'm trying to figure out a definite way to get rid of my eczema, so I can continue job hunting. I can't show up to work looking like I have leprosy. Except my skin is red, wrinky, thick, and peeling off all over my body. Don't worry, I'm still bidding on penny auction sites and just won a video game for $4.03 total. I still have some luck left in me and I'm observing cautiously on multiple PA sites. I'm no power bidder or jumper due to lack of financial funding, but observing PA sites to have my own PA site one day.

With all the scams popping up, Penny Auction Watch and Penny Burners step up to protect bidders from fraudulent PA sites. Bidfather is the latest penny auction site to appear and has establish 3 wins per day and 10 wins every 28 days to give others a fair chance at winning. Sites with no win limits are just impossible due to either power bidders or bots shilling to inflate the price of auction items. Oddly enough, one site is interested in my consulting services due to my experience with a few PA sites. I'm doing my services for free so the PA site will continue to exist instead of shutting down for good.

I feel embarrassed for having this lifelong skin disorder eczema, but I have to sharpen my mind to prepare for my last year at my university. I'm planning to succeed in business, but finding a steady flow of income after I graduate is my first priority.

PA sites popping up everyday

Yes penny auction sites keep appearing everyday. I don't know how but looks like many people want to go into the business. Seems to be pretty easy but you still must have capital in order to start a business. Compared to other types of businesses, penny auction sites seem to be more affordable and cheaper than others. Maybe I should start up one and see how it goes then. Unfortunately, there are scams of these sites all over the Internet, so you have to be careful and determine which ones are legit and which ones are scams.

Be careful of buying bidpacks with Paypal

Looks like buying bidpacks with Paypal didn't turned out so well after all. When Zoogboo went down for good, people are scrambling to get their money back from buying those bidpacks. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't recover them since mine was cash instead of credit card. There is no protection for buyers since you're just buying intangible goods. Just be wary of buying bidpacks using Paypal instant transfer. Now I'll never recover my money again unless there is some way to recover them. Even I filed a dispute and escalate to a claim didn't help because the seller was using an alias instead of his real name.

Lots of penny auction sites appearing everyday: good, bad, and ugly

Since the global economic crisis, penny auction sites are the rage these days. Replacing traditional auction sites like eBay, penny auction sites give users the chance to win auction items cheaply but must buy bid packs in order to bid on the auctions. Unfortunately, scam sites keep appearing everyday in order to entice users to buy bid packs and waste their money on items they actually don't have. I learn the hard way after Zoogboo tricked over 300 people of their money and ran off. I was unfortunate as well and lost money from that site. You need to have good intuition about whether or not the site is legitimate. Visit forums such as Penny Auction Watch and PennyBurners to keep up-to-date on penny auctions.

Some penny auction sites down

Well looks like some penny auction sites shut down for awhile. Happens all the time since they can't seem to make profits. Zoogboo is obvious anyway. monsterpennybids seems to give up on future auctions due to reserves set too high on items. Snaago has put their site up for sale on eBay, which means the site is in trouble (financial or legal who knows). What's really funny is that these owners show their other side (like Two-Face in those Batman movies)which is more dark and twisted. Doesn't matter anyway when there are countless other penny auction sites opening everyday.

I'll put up a list of penny auction sites you can rely on (hopefully) the right side. I really did win a few items, but cash deposited into your Paypal account is the easiest and doesn't require long delivery times.

1 year anniversary at Penny Auction Watch: a contest for free bids!

Looks like Penny Auction Watch is having their one year anniversary and celebrate it by having a contest to one lucky person. This person will be the winner and have free bids to many penny auction sites. The winner will have to chance to win a great item for a low price with those free bids. Penny auctions are the new wave of auction sites.

Bad rumors around Zoogboo

There have been disturbing rumors around the penny auction site Zoogboo. It seems their site seems to have problems with showing history of past auctions and showing who the previous winner is. Also, the winner of the auction should have been the last person who placed the bid, but instead it is the second person below it.

Customer service is another story as well. It seems that the site owner only responds to certain emails, but ignores others or goes into the spam folder. Some of the winners claim that the site owner doesn't respond to their emails and shipping goes out for these items with tracking numbers. Many other penny auction sites have taken steps to take care of their customers instead of ignoring them. Penny Auction Watch and Pennyburners warn people to avoid the site, but there are still people bidding on the site.

I personally avoid the site until Zoogboo overhauls their website with dramatic changes. It seems the programmer didn't do a good job of the layout and past auction history is missing to determine who has reach their limit.

Strategies and tips to winning penny auctions

Ever wonder how you could win those items at penny auction sites so easily, but while everybody else throws their bids away at high-priced items? Here are a few observations I notice from penny auction sites.

1. Most sign up with the same username on multiple sites, establishing a reputation among bidders.
2. Bidders are more likely to win on PA sites that receive less traffic compared to more popular sites.
3. New PA sites keep popping up everyday and many bidders will go to the new site to win easier.
4. Juggling between PA sites is risky if the auction items are going to end at the same time.
5. Study your opponent's patterns on various PA sites and make sure they're about to reach their win limits.
6. There are always jumpers in PA sites, so you have to outbid them easily. Otherwise, that one jumper could've won the item with a free bid.
7. Do not go into a bidding war knowing you will lose your money and bids fast. This is the number one reason people seem to forget.
8. Throwing one bid when a new item appears is a waste since other people will always bid on the auction item in the end.
9. You got to have a plan and strategy to winning the auction item. If your opponent has won bid packs and cash, then they will most likely go after the high-priced items.
10. If you still can't win an item from a penny auction, then you haven't been studying hard enough to figure out your opponents' bidding patterns. You can't charge in there blindly and win.

Hope these tips will help you. I approach penny auction sites with caution since most of the winners don't seem to have jobs which IMHO is a waste of money since all they're doing is racking up credit card debt real fast. They have to sell their winnings in order to make a decent profit. Don't take PA sites lightly since they can be addictive (similar to gambling addiction).

Penny auction sites - a way of making money

There are so many PA (penny auction) sites now that it is not even funny. Some of these people make a living buying items from PA sites and then selling their winnings on Craigslist and eBay. You can usually tell because all these items are brand new and untouched if selling on eBay. From DSLR cameras, Macbooks, iPads, laptops, gift cards, and just about anything could be found on PA sites. Reselling them on eBay also brings a large influx of income just so they can buy more bids on PA sites easily.

Some PA sites are giving away free bids just by referring new people to their sites. One example is ALicense2Bid where they are giving away 5 free bids just by referring people and buying any bid package. The auction items listed are really good but $1 a bid seems very expensive. Another site is Bidrodeo. This site is more friendly and gives away 5 free bids if you sign up from a referral. Another 5 free bids will be given if you buy any bid package, so you get 10 free bids.

BidonCash only gives you 1 free bid which isn't much, but you can refer people and get 10 free bids if the referral buys a bid package. This PA auction is only for bid packages and cash. Yes you heard me, cash. Too bad they don't use Paypal, but for cashout you can do a bank wire or Eco Card (sort of like Paypal but you can get the cash by bank wire or a virtual Mastercard like a real Mastercard for online purchases).

Most of these people have to have a steady flow of income, so they must have money in order to win these PA sites. Strategy is a necessity on PA sites since you have to know your opponents and know if you can win the auction. Otherwise, you may waste plenty of money on bids and never win anything at all.