Thursday, February 25, 2010

How Penny Auction Differs From An Ordinary Bidding

Offer of a price against a product is called bidding. When the bidding is done on World Wide Web then it is called online bidding. Raising a price is common in traditional bidding process. It may be intentional by the seller or retailer. In a penny auction, the willing bidders pay a non refundable price of bidding. The bidders bid against an item. The initial price is set to one penny that increases by another single penny each time new bid submitted for the same item. The final price is paid by the bidder who bids lastly before the tie is over. The winner of the bid pays amount that is much lower than the retail price of the product.

The main difference between ordinary online auction and penny auction is that on the ordinary auction site the bid money is raised to the higher amount and bidder who offers maximum price wins the bid. Penny auction sites control the mounting price of the bids and restrict them to one penny at one step only. Penny auctions are occupying the auction world. Auction websites are everywhere on the net to

Penny auctions are occupying the auction world. Auction websites are everywhere on the net to offer products and services to the prospective buyers. All carry packages to attract customers. They are also getting their profits by collecting the money paid by the bidders as the bid fee and the final cost of the product.

As the money matters are tight throughout the world, people are diverting their attention towards penny auction instead of ordinary bidding websites. Ordinary bidding cost a huge amount to the winning bidder as it carries the participating fee cost of the product and the shipping charges. These websites have their own interests and sometimes the automated programs are run by the site owners to raise the bid price automatically. Sometimes the employees participate to bid on again and again with a high offer price to buy the item. In this way the final cost of the article becomes high enough as compared to the retail price.

Penny auctions also offer free bids on the purchase of the packet that can be utilized while trading at the reward store. The products there are also available at cut price.

Paying in pennies of the item of your own choice is profitable or wasting time in ordinary bidding play..? The choice is yours.

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