HappyBidDay Blog

Alright Happy Bidders, let’s see who’s been paying attention! This week’s trivia set tests your knowledge on our penny auction features and information. How well do you know your HappyBidDay terminology? Answer all 5 correctly and you’ll go in today’s drawing for 25 Bids!

Contest is open until 5:00 pm EDT, and your answers must be submitted by then to count. As always, comments will stay hidden until the contest is over to prevent spoilers.

Happy guessing and good luck!

1. Buy It auctions give you the opportunity to bid risk-free: if you don’t win a Buy It auction, you  can purchase the item at its regular retail price and get all your spent bids back! (Wahoo!) Once the auction ends, you have _____ hours to make your purchase. 

2. If you want to keep tabs on certain auctions before you bid on them, you can add them to your _______ List. 

3. If you ever see an auction you want to participate in but can’t be at your computer while the auction is live, you can use our auto-bid tool called ________________ to bid on your behalf. 

4. One way to earn Penny Bids for our Penny Auctions (besides playing Tuesday Trivia every week) is by opening an account with our preferred payment service provider. What’s the name of this vendor? 

5. Starter Auctions give our new users a chance to get their feet wet with bidding by allowing them to bid exclusively against other new bidders. You can only bid in Starter Auctions if you have ____ wins or less. 

Let’s have a little fun with words! The word “May” is somewhere in the answer for each of this week’s clues. Get them all five correct and your name goes into the drawing for 25 Bids later today! 

Happy guessing and good luck! 

Contest is open until 5:00 pm EDT, and your answers must be submitted by then to count. As always, comments will stay hidden until the contest is over to prevent spoilers.

1. Andy, Opie, Aunt Bee and lovable Barney Fife live their lives in this fictional town.
2. This term is used internationally in radio communications as a distress signal. 
3. This title is commonly given to the highest ranking government official in town and city municipalities. 
4. In 1620, a group of English Pilgrims set sail for New England on this historic ship. 
5. This foodstuff, commonly used as a condiment, is an emulsion made from oil, egg yolk, and either lemon juice or vinegar. 

Hi Happy Bidders! Did you know that this past Sunday the iTunes Store turned 10 years old? How fast did those 3,650 days go by?! In honor of iTunes’ decade mark, we’re tossing up some music trivia! And to keep things fair (and multi-generational) we sprinkled in a little something for everybody. Happy guessing and good luck!

1. 1960s: Name the group that sang the ’65 hit You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.
2. 1970s:  Name the Harry Chapin song that began with these lyrics: “A child arrived just the other day; He came to the world in the usual way.“
3. 1980s: How many balloons did the group Nena sing about letting go back in the early 80s?
4. 1990s: Billy Corgan is the lead singer and front man (and lone permanent band member) of which band that rose to fame in 90s?
5. 2000s: What singer swept the 2003 Grammys with the album Come Away with Me?