I ran across www.biggerbidder.com (not net), about 1 month ago. After spending approximately $500.00 dollars on bid points, I decided to investigate this site in detail. What I found is some of the worst internet fraud I have ever seen.
This site is a spin off of the site www.biggerbidder.net, which operates under a different LLC company name, but the contact phone numbers are the same. If you do a google maps using whois.com you will find that the site biggerbidder.net appears to be using the address of a booth in a nearby internet cafe.
I followed the site for over a month tracking products, sellers, bidders and tracked trends. What I found is their is a core group of individuals under the primary member 'biggerbiidder', that are part of an elaborate scheme to perform shill type bidding against newbies. I am not sure if they are employed by this site or just a team of individuals working together, but the outcome is always the same.
Proven results. Biggerbidder offers primarily 95% of all products being sold on this website. This person offers always sells the following items: ipads, laptops, bid points, and some other high-end electronic, as well as many small gift card (McDonals's, Target, Subway, etc). If you ever bid on one of biggerbidder's products, you most likely will NEVER win.
The site has various user names which you will see over and over again, and you will always lose to the SAME players. They all work together. Some names are part of biggerbidders collection of names (Winnerwinner, dealloftheday, and 2ndcanchmall) others are part of the inside group, or Beta Group, which all work together AGAINST unknowing new members who sign up on the site thinking they are going to win an ipad for $15 buck! This 'beta user team' helps with shill biddering (used to bid against unknowing suckers... They run the price up and ALWAYS WIN). They also insure no new members win the 'great' prizes like ipads, laptops, big screen tvs or bid points.
I will list some of the playes that typically win the 'big' biggerbidder products are 'winnerwinner' (same number of characters in the name) & euclid and several others ~ always the same userids. Othr names that will repeatedly win day after day include: DOOEYS (wins 85% of all bid point sale), hillaryteeka, woodtick, topher1, waynefoth, Jake12*, cmetem, missemilys, ototran, teatpotts, jam (jam wins a lot of the blackberry offers; blackberry jam?), WinnerWinner, natehed144, DealOfTheDay, 2ndChanceMall. This internal group of players and or id's work insync to shill bid and also always win. I would personally wonder if this site has really ever sold 1-Ipad to a a member who is not part of the 'beta' team!
Does anybody ever win? YES! Some players offer 5x's or 10x's your winnin bid in Paypal bucks. I actually won. I think my winnind bid was. 02 cents, times 10, I won 20 cents! Lol, but I have NEVER won a large item.
What prompted me to watch this site? About 25 days ago, I have literally sat over a weekend watching 1 specific item, and i-pad. I had nothing to do and I was prepared to win this item. I had plenty of cash at hand and I had lots of bid points, and had multiple automatic bids set. I recall the price reaching around $40.00, the system 'hiccupped' and my auto bid did not take (yes, they had a system error). I would have won, but instead the shill player beat me. I lost!
After the auction was over you an see whom you are biddig against. The winning name was, of course, winnerwinner. I was extremely upset so I sent repeated e-mails to their customer service email address... Guess what, no reply.
Since that time I have performed the same test on different items with very similar results. No matter what auto bids I set, or, no matter how many manual bids I submit, the member of their 'beta team' always win!
I have done alot more intense research looking into their code. I will not go into great detail here, but I find it unusual that they use specific code to keep internet spiders from finding their website.in other words, groups searching for their site will not find them... Important groups like www.ftc. Gov, many other government fraud watch sites, penny auction forums... What are the hiding?
At the end of the day, I recommend stay away from this group. From my intense research I found it to be a total SCAM. If you are not part of the 'beta team' or part of their inner circle, you will NEVER win. They also offer second chance prizes you can buy... Take a look at these prizes. The most they ever give you is 25% of their retail price. I researched most of the 2nd chance items and found you can buy all of them for less almost anywhere else on the internet. Yet again another marketing scheme to pull you in and take your money!
Research the internet for blogs that actually rate GOOD penny auction sites. Ones where shill bidding is not used (this is against the law, btw), and sites where the customer service team actually answers your e-mails!
Remember the internet is full of good people, but there are also a LOT of folks preying on others to take their identitiies or steal your money.
Be careful, but have fun!
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