James May name is commonly known in UK for men and women especially for those who love cars and comedy mashed into one in a very popular series of Top Gear. James May co-hosting the series alongside Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson.

A couple of years back I remember James May was hosting a couple of TV series(James May’s Toy Stories and James May’s Big Ideas). Fascinated by his knowledge, sense of humour and common interests, I think I’ve my new favourite TV host. James May’s Man Lab is a must see show for a man. As we’re moving to a more complex society and specializing in works, we tend to forget basic skills to survive and live.

In my opinion basic skills to survive shouldn’t be forgotten by anyone eventhough we’re living in this sophisticated world. This TV series will remind us how the basic skills are useful to us, teach us the basic things for the skills and last but not least in a fun way.

p/s: A man is not a man when he don’t know the basic things and skills a man should know how to do and have.

Search for James May’s Man Lab at Dailymotion.com to stream the show or bobrelease blog for download links.

This is the site I was talking about when I wrote about Geekybids.com before. It has been a while since I’m active using the site. I still have some unused coins to bid but since it is a mess to get the items I won to be shipped to Malaysia from Japan, I’m taking a long break from the site.

This site is a small part of D2Pass network. You’ll need one coin for a bid. Each coin cost USD$0.49 and lower depending on the number of coins you buy. About the same price as Geekybids.com selling their bids but surely much more affordable for the Japanese as for them it is less than 1/3 of what we have to pay here for them.

The lower entrance bar surely helping with attracting more users. And if you see the site, you could see how the wide range of items offered and majority of it costs between RM50-RM200 which is pretty low for a Japanese.

A few months ago when I was active using the site, items ranging RM500-RM1500 and items with higher price tag dominating the list. I guess those price range are too high for a beginner to start spending their money on and majority of the users don’t like to gamble that kind of money to buy something even for a bargain price.

The site in my opinion adapting very well to attract more low end users which I think is good for their business while keeping top users going back to their site with enough big ticket items. Looking at the recent winners list I’m happy to see some users I spent uncountable sleepless hours trying to win the stuff I want in bidding wars with still actively using the site. That is a testimonial of a good site.

I could call them real users because in so many occasions they were using different psychology tactics to prevent other users to win the items they’re bidding. And I don’t see how a robot could read the mind of a human bidder as well as a human do.

I’ve given the proof that site such as Geekybids.com could be real. And by using PayPal you have the ease of mind if the service provided by Geekybids.com is not true as they said you could always file a complaint and get the money you spent back.

I’m not willing to put any real money to Geekybids.com just because if I lose an auction I will lose all the money just like that while when I was using hot-oku.com even if I lose, half of the amount of coins I spent to bid will be converted to points. With that points I could buy more coins or exchange it with other services they offers which I’m using anyway.

The legitimacy of Geekybids.com certainly is questionable. But I’m hoping there will be undeniable proof of truth surfaces. I can’t wait to use it and scoring some great deals.

I have recently stumbled on this auction site(by recently I mean just earlier today). I had some experience with this kind of auction site when I was in Japan. I was so excited when I found this site but being very careful, I decided to make sure the legitimacy of the site as it is as I considered as a grey  site. Why?

Here’s why… We could easily get 30-50% off electronics at any store. That is the standard offer we could get as that is the cost a store have to cover for their bottom line. If you get more than that it is either an old stock that need to be remove from the shelf. OR there is a shady reason why the seller could give the low price to us.

How does Geekybids.com could offer 90% off MSRP in their auction?

1. Each bid will cost user RM3. One bid is usually will send the price up RM0.10. So the reality is you’re paying RM3.10/bid. Remember that!!

2. I’ve calculated that the auction price(not including your bidding cost!!) must be at least just above 3%(3.225793823401479% to be exact to match the MSRP. A RM1000 product needs to be RM30 (plus minus a few cents) for the company to cover the cost. That does mean there must be 300 bids for that item. If there are 30 bidders and each bidder bids 10 times on the item the lucky winner will have to pay RM30 for bids + RM 30 for the auction price + RM 25 for the ‘shipping cost’. The total will be RM85. That is how you get 90% off MSRP.

I’ve been sitting in front of this laptop for a few hours now and monitoring the auctions. Since it is day time, there are not so many bidders out there bidding on auctioned items. I’m gonna wait a few more hours and see how things going on at night. To tell you the truth I’m smelling something fishy.

There is at least an autobidder on every items auctioned as nail biter auction(you can’t place autobids on nail biter auction).  The autobidder(s) coming in when the auction nearly ends(Going Once or Going Twice count). And they wins every time the auction price is too low.

My guess is once the required minimum price is cleared they will go away but the few auctions I’ve witnessed ended early at a very very low price. That is why I’m waiting for night auctions when usually site’s traffic at the peak(as majority of people working during the day and have time to participate in auctions only at night).

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I’m too lazy to rewrite everything but it has come to my attention that it is only stated RM1/bid in auction result. And that you could buy bids for just RM1.53/bid if you’re willing to spend RM799.99 buying bid pack. I have to mention it because my calculation will be way off with the price. Please at least double the auction price amount to get better estimates.

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Just watching the last auction of today ended. A Sony PS Vita which a nail biter auction won by an autobidder at extremely low price. Tried googling the winner ID and the only match I got is a Top Seller in ebay. Don’t bother to further investigating the person because the ID is registered in the United States. And that person won using autobid while there shouldn’t be one. Below are the products I’ve closely monitored for today:
Alienware Aurora R3
Samsung Galaxy Note
HTC Sensation XE
Apple iPhone 4S 64GB
Motorola Razr
Nokia N9 64GB
Pentax Q
Sony PS Vita

I’m not saying this site is a scam. I’ve seen this kind of site works in the other part of the world and actually winning some interesting stuffs. Had the idea to create one when I came back here but unable to see how I could make a profit from making such kind of site without a big monetary support which I don’t have.

To be safe, please don’t put too much money that you couldn’t afford to lose buying bids. Better if you could manage to bid using free bids only for the first try sot that you won’t lose any money in the process. Calculate the possible winning auction price and bid only when your targeted price is near.