BidRivals Focusing More on Europe and Australia - Less on US

The online penny auction site BidRivals is shifting their business away from the United States and creating a larger focus on the European and Australian markets. BidRivals will still have auctions for the US but will have much more for Europe and Australia. The penny auction site also will be ending their affiliate program with 3rd party sites in the US. Their affiliate program ends on October 24th 2011. BidRival's core markets are in Europe and Australia. Only a small percentage of their customers are from the US. By focusing their efforts on their core markets they hope to strengthen their market share in those countries. BidRivals will still remain one of the few global / international penny auction sites. The movement away from the US market just goes to show how competitive the penny auction industry right now. Hundreds and hundreds of penny auction sites have popped up in the last 2 years and 99% of them have gone out of business. Even the larger sites like Swoopo, BidFire, Bidash and BidRodeo are out of business. Sites there are still open (with the exception of Quibids) do still struggle. For example, Pointnbid's auctions usually always end at <$0.25. The owner is most likely losing money every day. The economic recession has drawn people to find better deals, thus turning to the penny auction market. However, if customers are not winning enough, they usually do not return.

Fezaz is a Penny Auction Scam

I love penny auctions and I support several penny auction sites. I don't like to say that penny auctions are scams. Most penny auction sites and their owners are honest and good people. However, I do from time to time run across dishonest penny auction sites that don't send their products, use bots, sell rip-off merchandise and so on. I hate to say it, but Fezaz fits in the scam category.

The owner contacted me 3 months ago asking to advertise on my blog. We worked out an agreement and he said that he mailed me a check. After 3 weeks of not receiving the check, I emailed him again and he said he just sent another one and he sent another months payment with it. After waiting an additional 3 weeks and receiving neither check, I sent him multiple emails inquiring about my payment. I have not received a reply in 5 weeks.

My thoughts are this: If Fezaz is so cheap and dishonest to people that they have made a business agreement with, they must also be dishonest to their customers. I recommend not shopping on Fezaz or shopping great CAUTION. The company lied to me and they easily could be lying to you. Penny auction sites such as Fezaz that are not legit, tend to go out of business very quickly. It doesn't take too long for customers to see that the site is dishonest. I recommend not purchasing bids from Fezaz as they could close their doors any day and run away with your money.


Penny auction sites that I would recommend are: Quibids, Bid66, SavvyBidding, UltimatePennyBid, OrangeBidz, BidsOMax, and HappyBidDay.