Joseph Zyskowski launched One Penny More in July 2012 from Nevada, operating two websites: onepennymore.com for penny auctions and onepennymore.biz for its multi-level marketing component. Both sites hide their registration details. The auction site attributes its content to "Staff of OnePennyMore.com," while the MLM arm names Zyskowski as founder, claiming network marketing experience since 1989.

Zyskowski's public Facebook account gives a different timeline. He graduated from Western Michigan University in 1989 with a teaching degree. He then taught third grade for two years, started a comic book publishing company with his brother Steve, and later worked as a real estate agent in Las Vegas. The housing market collapse pushed him back into network marketing, a move he described as desperation after previous companies changed compensation plans or disappeared without paying commissions.

This desperation led to 5 Dollar Money Bomb, which Zyskowski called his first network marketing company. It collected 100% of its commissions from membership fees. The scheme crashed quickly and vanished. Its domain now redirects to Get Paid to Learn 101, a training site priced at $15 per year that also pays commissions solely from new membership fees.

Before One Penny More, Zyskowski launched Silver1up and Silver2up in 2011. Both required members to pay monthly fees without offering any product beyond the membership itself. New recruits had to "gift" 100% of their commission from their first sale (one for Silver1up, two for Silver2up) directly to their upline before they could earn anything. These programs functioned as pure recruitment dressed as business opportunities.

Zyskowski also started One Penny Gold in 2011, a gold and silver penny auction site. All three of these earlier ventures are now defunct.

A clear pattern emerges from Zyskowski's operations. He has consistently built schemes that collect money from members through dues, rather than through sales of actual products or services. Each relied on recruiting new members for revenue, a model that fails once recruitment slows. He has used different names and minor variations of the same core mechanism, and each scheme has eventually collapsed.

One Penny More follows this identical formula. The penny auction side offers a thin layer of legitimacy, but the MLM component extracts the real money. Members pay to join and are pushed to recruit others to maintain their standing. This history suggests the structure will not last.