I ran into this penny auction site called duelingbids.com and made the dumb, idiotic decision to purchase 3 bid packs at a little over $5 each without studying the site and doing my homework and I got deservedly burned. After making the expenditure, I realized that I never encountered any opposition when bidding for the bid packs. I then (after the fact) decided to observe the site and I realized that the same user names were"winning" auctions for high-end electronics such as Apple iPads and iPods, Kindles etc. With 1 or 2 bids. I then checked the hard to find "ended auctions" and I saw more of the same: the same user names "winning" auctions with 1 or 2 bids over and over and over again.By the time I had taken all this in, I knew for a fact that I had stupidly allowed myself to be scammed of $15 dollars. Needless to say, I didn't win the iPod I went for as two shills who kept bidding against me—and never against each other—made sure of that. I forgot to mention that the site gives you 100 free bids to join and I think that is what blinded and stupefied me. Greed. But then again, one hundred free bids without any catch is too good to be true. I should have seen that.
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