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DealDash was founded in 2009 by William Wolfram, a 16-year-old Finnish entrepreneur, who had lost $20 bidding unsuccessfully for a MacBook on an earlier penny auction site. Wolfram had generated approximately $500,000 in affiliate sales a year earlier buying popular YouTube videos for $50, borrowed from his mother, then collecting revenue from ...
A 2010 TechCrunch article about penny auction site MadBid called this business model "a license to print money." [3] Eighteen months later, a reporter for The Guardian wrote, "legions of penny auction sites have folded, including Swoopo, Rapid Bargain and Bid Boogie." The reporter spoke with a representative for MadBid, who denied that the ...
Standard auctions began with an opening price of $0.12 and every time someone bids the price increases by $0.12. Other bidding fee auctions use different values - "penny auctions" use $0.01, 6¢ auctions $0.06, etc. The price of bids and the incremental values vary depending on the regional version of the site used. The auction ends when time ...
Benjamin Franklin once said that a penny saved is a penny earned. Save the right penny, though, and it's worth more. Take a look on eBay ( EBAY ) and you'll find hundreds of listings for auctions ...
Dicey Penny Auction Sites Penny. The Better Business Bureau has issued a slew of consumer warnings recently, so to make it easier for you to keep on top of them all, Consumer Ally decided to ...
Imagine a world of 20-cent lattes, $11 iPads and gas at 19 cents a gallon. That is the reality that entrepreneur Barry Shore is looking to create with YouNeverLose.com, a penny auction site that ...
Neighbors would gather in large numbers at the auction and place bids of only a few pennies, while intimidating anyone who attempted to bid competitively. [1] In the end, the bank that owned the farm would get whatever was bid and the neighbors would return the farm and its contents to the farmer.
In 2009, the Strawberry Leaf penny broke records for the most money paid for a penny at an auction, going for $862,000. The Strawberry Leaf cent is extremely rare, bearing a four-leaf strawberry ...