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Swoopo was a bidding fee auction site where purchased credits were used to make bids. Prior to changing its name to Swoopo in 2008, the website was called Telebid. In March 2011, Swoopo's website became inaccessible, and a notice page claimed that Swoopo was experiencing "technical issues." In February 2012, DealDash obtained the domain name for Swoopo.com. ==Mechanics== In order to participate in an auction, registered users had to first buy bids (called credits, and henceforth referred to as "Bid-credits") before entering into an auction. For the US version of the site, Bid-credits cost $0.60 apiece and were sold in lots (called BidPacks) of 40, 75, 150, 400, and 1,000. Each credit is good for one bid. Standard auctions begin 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 runs out. However, because each bid extends the length of the auction by 10–20 seconds, the auction could theoretically continue on indefinitely. Besides making single bids anytime, users can place a so-called "Bidbutler", which is an automatic bidding tool. Users can employ a maximum of 50 Bidbutler bids each time. Once a Bidbutler is active, it will automatically bid in the final 10 seconds of the auction in an attempt to keep the user as the highest bidder. This means if two or more Bidbutlers are active they will repeatedly bid against each other (before the auction time increment is applied) until the one with the most bids left is the "winner". Bidbutler bids hold no more value than single manually placed bids, so once the bids booked for a Bidbutler are exhausted a single manually placed bid can become the winning bid. The money collected by Swoopo consists of the cost of bids placed plus the final auction amount. As an example, a MacBook Pro with a suggested retail price of $1,799 was sold on Swoopo for $35.86. However, a total of 3,585 bids were placed, so the total amount paid by Swoopo customers was $2,151. Swoopo has claimed to make money on roughly half the items sold.〔 In August 2009, Swoopo modified its business model to include a "Swoop-it-now" function which allows bidders who lose an auction to apply all of their lost bids towards the purchase of the item they were bidding on. If a bidder does not win, he or she can get back all their bids by buying the item directly from Swoopo. Users from Swoopo must bid against users in all countries where Swoopo operates. , Swoopo operates in Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, Canada, Spain, and the US. The same auction can be active on multiple regions, with the current price based on the opening price plus the number of bids times the bid increment price. So an item on the US site currently listed at $12 (Opening $0.12 and 99 bids incrementing the price by $0.12 per time) will be listed on the UK site with a current bid of £10 (Opening £0.10 and 99 bids incrementing the price by £0.10 per time). As it is not possible to determine the source of the bids, the amount collected by Swoopo cannot accurately determined. In the preceding example, it could be $59.40 if all bids were US based, or £49.50 if all bids were UK based. The closing prices will not necessarily represent a market based foreign exchange rate. The item under auction may not be identical between regions, though it will be similar. For example, a different brand of USB memory stick may be offered in different regions, though the capacity is the same. (US )(UK ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swoopo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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