Penny Auctions and Swine Flu, a strange combination you may argue? Well, not really! This is due to a number of reasons, and these form the wider meta business methods that will be analysed in this post.
1) Pandemics = Stay inside!
Why do Las Vegas casinos keep the lights constant, have no windows and a distinct lack of clocks? Simple, so that you lose track of time and spend as long as possible in there; and so spend as much money as possible. Swine Flu may have a simmilar affect on the PennyAuction industry. Look at it like this, more peoeple are going to be staying inside, either sick off work or trying to avoid the disease. These people are going to need something to do, therefore if you run a Penny Auction type website, then this may be a time of increased business. Think about it, if a pandemic infects 1/2 the population (not an unreasonable figure) in the UK this would mean 30 million people.
Whilst for most it is a mild condition, people will still take time of / place themselves in quarantine. During this period, they may be bored or lose track of time. Therefore the excitement of a Penny Auction or other style of fun bidding for a prize and then hopefully winning it may well appeal to them. Therefore it would not be unreasonable to expect the userbase of Penny Auction websites and other simmilar style auction operations to increase substantial this fall! Stay tuned to see wether these predictions concerning penny auctions will prove to be correct.