Smokoo shuts down

[HideInLight]

People can waste their money on crap like that if they want to, if they don't want to listen to reason.

 

[Azbubu]

Bidfair bought them just to shut them down?

 

[elvis_presley]

Bidfair bought them just to shut them down?

No. Misleading headline. They're basically moving all their customers onto the Bidfair platform - and Smokoo redirects users there. Smokoo still exists, the name just changed.

 

[elvis_presley]

I say good for them.
If people want to give them money, then best of luck to the penny auctioneers.

Agreed. Casinos are far worse and do more damage than penny auctions ever will. They're both crappy things to con weak minded idiots out of money, if one exists, then so can the other.

 

[Speedster]

It is not the weak minded idiots I am concerned about but rather the uninformed individuals who're under the impression they're bidding on a bargain only to find out later it is a scam.

 

[Merlin]

It's baaaaack...in a new form...

The Smokoo D0T com domain is still registered to the original owner, but the unsolicited mailing I received today and the matching ad' at the URL point to a .co.za address...

 

[The-_-Joker]

It's baaaaack...in a new form...

The Smokoo D0T com domain is still registered to the original owner, but the unsolicited mailing I received today and the matching ad' at the URL point to a .co.za address...

Same here, I also got an email. Was it the one about Thailand?

 

[Merlin]

Same here, I also got an email. Was it the one about Thailand?

Yep.

 

[The-_-Joker]

Yep.

And it appeared in my spam, haha.

 

[techead]

What about these other ones?

www.wantitcheap.co.za

 

[ToxicBunny]

*ponders*... that thailand thing is a CityMob/wantitall/justplay competition.. wonder what Smokoo have to do with it.

 

[techead]

*ponders*... that thailand thing is a CityMob/wantitall/justplay competition.. wonder what Smokoo have to do with it.

Huh? How do you know smookoo have anything to do with it?