Show HN: A successful penny-auction bot

If anyone has any questions I'll be happy to answer them.<p>Unfortunately working on my startup came first over challenging them legally -- since the value of the winnings was over $5000, I would have had to fly to their local court in order to proceed legally.

i wrote up some content and code (just a greasemonkey script) for doing this on swoopo last year - <a href="http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/03/06/trying_to_game_swoopo_com/" rel="nofollow">http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/03/06/trying_to_game_swoopo_c...</a>.<p>i assume the site you did this with doesn't have the same problem as swoopo did, where their automated server-side bidding mechanism was favored over manual bids?<p>do you have any figures on how long it took to win any particular auctions, how much money it cost, and how many auctions you lost?

I wasn't aware that penny auctions are continuously winnable at all.