Auctions Days are as follows:
No Auctions on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Auctions commence at 3pm EST and end around 11pm EST with a small 1-2 hour break around 5:30.
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Please Note: Bidazzled will be Pausing Auctions for 2 weeks in April (Approx: April 3 – April 18).
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Effective immediately, the following win limits are in effect:
Win limits are in place so that as many people as possible can enjoy Bidazzled and have great opportunities to win fantastic prizes.
By request, we have made it possible for people to bid on multiple items and not be restricted by any existing limits. However, once you win and hit a win limit you are prohibited from placing any further bids on any other auction items and any existing autobidders will not place bids. So any bids placed before a win limit on an item may not be added to until your win limit drops below the threshold.
Thank you to all for your opinions and suggestions in helping Bidazzled one of the safest and fairest online auction sites on the web.
Please keep suggestions and ideas coming.
Thank you to those for advising us to test 7 per week over 9 per week and for the reason that it is easier to go to 9 than it is to go down to 7.
Our prior win limit program was not functioning 100% (was advising some people that they had reached their maximum wins when they had not) , so we began creating something new.
The new program is in final testing and will be implemented shortly (so no win limits are currently in effect). Here is a sneak peak:
Your current win total will be shown on the header. If the win limit for the prior 7 days is say seven and you have six wins. Then you will be able to bid on as many items as you wish. However, when you win your 7th item – you will not be able to place any more bids on any other items. This means that any autobidders you have placed will stop with the win.
If you sell your won item back to us for bids, you will receive a win credit. That simply means that while you have won your limit, we subtract one of your wins and you are allowed to continue bidding.
We are examining not counting the following wins (and feedback is appreciated):
Please remember that win limits on Bidazzled need to be different than win limits on your typical penny auction site. As we are 100% Risk Free, there is far less need to protect people from a few big spenders. Specifically, people who invest a lot in an auction will exit when their investment nears the retail price as there is no incentive for them to stay. This then opens up an opportunity for someone else to enter the auction and win with very few bids. This is not possible under your typical penny type auction where there is only one winner and everyone else loses. In those auctions, people stay in till the very end.
We would love to have feedback on what you feel is fair and would work best.
Thank you all again for your support.
The Bidazzled Team
Our 100,000th Bid Placement Winner (Winner of 100 Bonus Bids) is:
Runner up with bid # 99,999 bids (Winner of 99 Bonus Bids) is:
Each person lucky enough to place a bid at a 10,000 bid increment wins 50 Bonus Bids
Bid 110,000 = BidRaider, Alexander, Iowa
Bid 120,000 = MyTurnBaby, Jacksonville, Fl
Bid 130,000 = Murph-Bob, Bowling Green, OH
Bid 140,000 = ricanK9, Lancaster, CA
Bid 150,000 = Dawncey, Unicoi, TN
As of today, bids on Bidazzled need to reach our server before time reaches zero (as opposed to our prior 1.5 seconds).
This move is designed to make Bidazzled simpler and easier for people to use. Here is what is going to happen:
Note, some individuals have reported seeing “Ended” and then the auction coming back to life. This is due to a lag which is not uncommon on the internet but in most cases (99%) it is the result of the user running other programs, having multiple windows open or even just 1 additional window on an auction site. These programs require CPU time and can rob your system of the needed updates to keep Bidazzled up to date.
Remember, if bidding on Bidazzled – Prepare yourself and your computer to do so. Follow our optimal computer settings (found on this blog) and the home page of Bidazzled. A quick check list would be:
By popular request, we have adjusted the amount of time added to an auction when two autobidders face off. The new time is 60 seconds.
So when two autobidders face off, all bids will be used immediately until one party is either out of bids or their assigned bid limit is reached.
Let us know how you like it.
That’s cause for celebration around here (we are currently over 99,500).
While some sites do 100,000 bids a day, it took us almost six weeks. Then again, some sites don’t ever get to 100,000 bids. So to celebrate, the lucky person to place the 100,000 bid will receive 100 Bonus Bids!
The person who places Bid # 999,999 will receive 99 Bonus Bids.
Going Forward
50 Bids to each person who places each 10,000th bid.
So 50 bids to the bidder of 110,000, 120,000, etc.
Thank you all for your support of Bidazzled and The Ruch Foundation for small cell lung cancer.
Helpful Hints:
Remember, Bidazzled exists to fund a charity. So while we are not that big…yet, we ship quickly, are USA only and you can relax knowing that your bidding against other people all in a secure environment all while benefiting a great cause.
Thanks and happy bidding.
The Bidazzled Team
Please note:
Our Biddazzled members continued their Live Beta Testing assistance and as usual there were some big winners. Leading the pack was newcomer Koontzfan2 who nabbed a Acer Aspire One netbook for for just $4.50! Congratulations Koontzfan2!
Another surprising win was by Caribou who landed a DS lite for $0.28 while a other bidders were looking at other auctions! Good eye Caribou!
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Come on back this afternoon because there aer more great deal to come!
Everyone one has seen it “Ended Auction” – maybe you won, maybe you didn’t and then the next thing you know – there is 15 seconds left on the auction.
So there is time for last moment bids to be registered on the server and for those bids to be transmitted back to your computers – the server will stop accepting bids with approximately 1.5 seconds left.
This does not mean that all bids placed before 2 seconds will reach the server in time and it does not mean that the occasional auction may come back to life. To understand this, it is important to know how countdown timers work. The countdown timer is a program running on your computer, your computer is also asking for bid updates almost 2x a second from our server. However, if you go to any auction site and have 3 computers side by side – all will show a slight difference in time. It is a very small difference but different nonetheless. The greatest chance for a timing error is if you leave your computer on 1 item for a long period of time and nobody has bid on it till the final seconds. In the absence of bids in the final 18 seconds that would update your timer – it is possible that the variation from actual time to the time on your screen could be several seconds. Easiest Fix: Refresh your Browser Screen.
Other variable may affect the performance and accuracy of your countdown timer. Heavy load on your CPU (running lots of programs or multiple windows), your browser (Bidazzled works fastest on Firefox), local Internet, hardware and many more. Please know that everything that can be done to ensure a rapid response from our server is done. Tests show that 99% of bidders receive updates within 1 second of placing a bid. If you encounter a lag or it is taking longer for a bid to be received – please refresh your screen. If the problem is not resolved – stop bidding (we do not want you to waste bids).
Please let us know if you have any questions.