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Swoopo Makes Some Changes, Lowers Bid Fee

Monday, December 1, 2008

As you saw in Harry’s earlier post, our Swoopo coverage still tops the charts as some of Technologizer’s most frequented articles. This has obviously put us on the radar of the folks at the auction site, so they have been keeping us informed of the goings on with the company. This latest round of changes [...]

Swoopo Seems Safe From Legal Action in EU

Friday, October 17, 2008

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When we began researching more into Swoopo following our initial post on the unusual auction site, we also looked into whether the business model could possibly be challenged under EU laws, where the company has its primary base of operations. Technologizer got in contact with the European Commission, the regulatory body of the EU. The EC [...]

Swoopo Looks to Set the Record Straight

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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Our original post on Swoopo generated a lot of interest, and a good deal of it was negative. In the interest of fairness, we invited Swoopo to give its side of the story on our pages, as well as explain parts of its business that may have caused some initial criticism. Chris Bauman is the company’s [...]

Got a Question for Swoopo?

Monday, October 6, 2008

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Technologizer’s seen quite a bit of traffic over the past few weeks regarding our initial take on Swoopo, the newest auction site here in the US. A lot of this probably has to do with our search engine position — we are the #2 result when searching for “swoopo” — which no doubt probably isn’t [...]

Is Swoopo Nothing More Than a Well-Designed Gimmick?

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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[UPDATE: We're about to talk to Swoopo. Have a question for them? Tell us here.] I first ran across Swoopo in one of my Google searches earlier this week. What caught my eye was the claim in its ad that it had just sold an iPod Touch for $28.05. My journalistic curiosity got the best of [...]