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"As far as we are concerned people who made bids will be getting their money back and under the terms and conditions the individual with the winning bid will be getting a portion of the money raised by the auction."

"I have since been waiting for an email to come through to confirm my win but there has been nothing."

He said: "The phone number I had been using now only gets through to an extension number and answerphone and my calls are not being returned.

They still appeared to be auctioning off two homes in Bulgaria and appealing for new lots as the "Strathy" went to press yesterday (Tuesday).

On-line auctioneer Phoenix Penny Auction was behind the reverse auction of Glenavon House on the village's Main Street.

"The second it finishes – bang, and I was still lit up in green as the lowest unique bid for it.

He also submitted a further £500-worth with a courtesy voucher supplied by Phoenix following a mix-up with their website.

The bidder also had conversations with Mr Hill – to sort out an initial over-payment made by mistake by the bidder - up to the closing date.

She said that they last had contact with the firm a week ago but did not know when they would hear from them again.

The Phoenix Penny Auction website which can be accessed via Google has been selling off properties from across the globe including Spain, Germany, Ireland and England.

However, the firm behind the website are now proving elusive to contact for an Aviemore man who had the lowest winning bid when the contest came to a close.

Mrs Hunt said: "We took part in the auction in good faith but we knew it would be a gamble in terms of being able to sell our house this way."

The company was also running advertising for their bid-down auctions on a satellite TV channel at the time.

The internet auction company called them up in February, earlier this year, to ask if they would be interested in putting their property reverse into a reverse auction.

The individual submitting the lowest unique bid would win the guest house for that amount so picking up a bargain.

The couple, however, are still owners and living in the B&B which they bought nearly four years ago.

The Hunts put the B&B on the market with an asking price of £250,000 but the credit crunch meant there was not a lot of interest.

A spokeswomen for Phoenix informed the "Strathy" in an article which appeared at the start of April that the auction would run until enough bids had been sold or six months had elapsed.

He and others had to pay £4 each time they made a bid for the four-bedroom Newtonmore property on-line.

Bidding on the property with a price tag of £250,000 opened in mid-March and the closing date was set for six months after at the latest.

"As soon as someone else bid the same amount you received an email from the company informing you that you no longer held a unique bid "When the auction finished I still had the lowest unique bid for Glenavon House and also for a 22-acre farm in Wales which cost £7 per bid.

To raise the £273,000 target price, the auctioneers needed to attract 68,250 bids but after one month less than one per cent of the figure had been sold.

"It's all gone deadly quiet."

"It just finishes on the screen – it doesn't state that you have won. I was watching to see what happened.

In addition the intention was that Mr Brian Hunt, and his wife, Kathleen, owners of Glenavon House, would receive a realistic sum for their property.

"I put all my bids just over three weeks ago approaching and on the closing date. I had £548 to play with - but it seems that they were playing with me," he said.

"I now think perhaps another 20,000 people have the lowest unique bids."

But there was no mention of Glenavon B&B under their closed auction section.

Chief Inspector Donald Henderson, of Northern Constabulary's Badenoch and Strathspey command area, urged for those who had put in bids or had dealings with Phoenix Penny Auction to get in touch with them.

They have no connection with Phoenix Penny Auction and indeed paid a small fee upfront to the company for the sale which they refused to disclose.

The "Strathy" tried to contact the firm whose address is given as York Street in London both by phone and email but had not heard back as the paper went to press.

"There were a lot of other people who bid on the Newtonmore house."

Mrs Hunt told the "Strathy" yesterday (Tuesday): "We have been told by Mr Philip Hill of Phoenix Penny Auction that this auction has not worked and the money is now with an independent auditor.

The Aviemore man, who does not want to be named, paid out £48 from his own pocket in bids.

"It had a closing date stating so many days, hours, minutes and seconds until the auction concluded. It is a cracking site; very professional.

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