QuiBidsReviews 3,061

RIP OFF. With suspicous activity. I registered then I saw I had to pay, no way! I imediatly lookedfor feedback from others and found this site. I watched and it had same people bidding hundreds of times at. 60 cents a bid. Didnt make sense. 1 person if anyone gets a deal the rest get boned. I believe they have people or bots as others call them biding to force the real poor saps to rebid. I don't think its illegal for them to do that and I couldnt find anywhere where they say they dont. What a gig I want to start a site like that. Just tell the truth! There is another site I swear is the exact same site new name bidcactus probably because of bad reviews. My Mom always told me If its too good to be true it is.

This site is a COMPLETE SCAM... It doesnt matter how you analize it.

Here is my experience:

I bought a bid package (The cheapest) for $48 dollars (80 bids) and instead of bidding on actual goods I bid on more bid packages. (They have 15-25-50 and 100 bid credits).

After spending about half of my credits, I won a few 25 bid credits, bringing me back a little over my original 80 bid purchase. When I won these few credit auctions and went to pay for them I noticed there where extra charges (Handling Fees)... I felt dissapointed and wrote an email to them. To my surprise, they cancelled my account. When I reply back asking why they cancelled my account they responded with a sorry reply and reinstate my account. Well not really... THEY JUST PLACED BACK 40 CREDITS ON MY DANG ACCOUNT!... They claim they can't reimburse credits that have no real value. NO REAL VALUE? WTF. What then I was bidding on with REAL MONEY?

THEY ARE THIEF AND SCAMMERS... Do your homework (and avoid my mistake) and do a google search on penny auctions and see that there are so many with the same structure.

I will not be surprise if America finds out these sites are FUNDING TERRORISM or MONEY LAUNDRY.

AVOID THEM UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO OVERPAY FOR GOODS!

They lure you with photos of macbook pros and ipads and then they take your 50 bucks for "bidding points" and then you find out that everything they have is junk. The two items you would actually want to bid on are being bid on at the same time by so many other people that your chances of winning are about one in a gaziilion. Garbage, garbage, garbage. I feel so stupid for not researching first! They took my $50. Don't let them take yours.

This site is a scam. They misrepresent and lie all over the place. Most of the complaints on this page a circumstantial and not able proven. (but the company is obviously scamming its customers)

However, it is not only able to be proven but also very very blatantly illegal that the site inflates the value price. For example, you bid on something you would buy regardless because you know that the amount you are spending to bid will be credited toward the product price anyway. Take a look at the ipads... the site only puts ipads with only wifi capability up for auction. However, they list its value at a price hundred's of dollars over its value. Their response?

Scott T., Sep 18 12:37 am (CDT):
Hi XXXXXXXXX,

Due to supply and demand we have had to place a markup on the Ipad. Since these have just been released, they have been in extremely high demand, and have been very hard to obtain. In fact, for private customers Apple has placed a one per customer limit on these items. Thank you and have a wonderful day!

Sincerely,

Scott
Quibids Customer Support

This is just not true. Not only can a person go on the apple site and buy as many ipads as they can pay for, it is no secret that the ipad has sold so far below Apple's expectations that the company is strongly considering dropping the cost of the ipad for the upcoming holiday season.

Stay away from a company that thinks its customers are ignorant! Not only that but what is being said about them is true. Watch the site for an hour or two and notice that the same bidders are magically able to bid thousands of times for items.

Yes this is an absolute scam... I am a single mother of 3 and have to pinch pennies and find the best deals on everything my children ask for. I try my hardest to keep them updated with their friends. I have been seeing Ipads for just $24 on the site Quibids, but what they don't mention is you start off paying $48 just for filling out the initial application. So when that came up, I backed out of everything and erased all of my information. This did nothing, the money was already out of my account... BEWARE OF THIS SITE, NOTHING BUT AN ABSOLUTE SCAM. Hopefully you read this BEFORE you filled out the application, and I will definately do my HOMEWORK BEFORE I fill out ANYTHING...

So guys if you're really worried and stuff spending nearly 1k dollars for a 200 dollar item
Its cuz its all about knowing when you think the item will sell out

Sure people start it, then people are always bidding hoping they'll get it cheap.
But just to take the smarter side, estimate when you think theyre going to stop. Take a bid you use 60 cents. If they don't seem to stop then you just used 60 cents don't keep bidding if you think ur going to lose
Keep in mind the amount of bidders in the 5 minutes.

You may even get lucky getting something expensive for as low as 60 cents.
U bid once you win. Auction smart. Let the bid price go high. Estimate. Get lucky. That's how people always say "oh i won this tv for 2 bucks" it was because they waited till the price was high enough to estimate when people will think "oh well i ran out of bids plus i spent too much money on this item im going to auction something else. *leaves*" there fore you pay 60 cents for one item.

This is just a tip. I got an apple ipod touch 8 gb for 5 dollars of what i used. Though it went up to 40 to 50 dollars on bids. But i spent only 5 of my own money.

I saw an add for the site and was curious (mostly because of the promise of acquiring a big ticket item for fraction of the price).

When I first started I made a big mistake by voting early and voting on multiple items. Very stupid of me, I suggest watching the auctions before rushing in to bid. The same items repeat over and over, so don't worry you'll lose a chance to get what you want.

Right now I'm out about $200, and "won" two items valued at around $100 total. So yes... high probability to lose a bunch of money if you don't think this through and rush into action.

But the two items that I did acquire were at the fraction of the retail cost (even if you factor in the bids and the "cost plus shipping").

For example the ending bid price on one of the items was $0.61. I bid 12 times, which cost me $7.20, and the shipping was $8.99. So I spent a total of 16.80 for an item that retails on Amazon for $63.02

On the other item I place only one bid and the final price was $0.60. So the item ended up costing me about $6.00 with shipping.

It's definitely probably to get items cheaply BUT, there is also probability that you will spend a bunch of bids and not win anything.

I do see the same names bidding on a bunch of items. It looks like they waste a bunch of bids.

My advice... don't place a single bid until an item has 1 second left on the clock. If you see constant bidding just watch, don't outbid. You are just running up the ending price AND wasting money.

My main concern with this website is that you are bidding against completely anonymous users. You have absolutely no clue who these "people" are, what their bidding history is, what they have won, etc. Compare this to Ebay, where you can get some idea who is selling, who is buying, etc. The problem with this is, not knowing who these bidders are creates some amount of doubt as to whether they are real people at all OR whether they are real people trying to win an item as opposed to trying to pad the bids.

I have been observing iPad, MacBook and iMac auctions for a few weeks now, and I have noticed several user names that keep appearing over and over and over, usually as Bid-O-Matics. They don't just place one, two, ten bids at a time. They bid over and over and over for hours at a time! Since the auctions last for soooo long, I don't always actually sit there and watch it till it ends, but I add the auctions to my watch list and go back and check who won the item. I have NEVER seen any of these names win anything. You might say "maybe that's why they keep bidding"... quite possible, but if you are really that intent on purchasing something, you would not spend all that time and money trying to bid on it at a cost of $0.60 per bid! Maybe you would try once or maybe even twice, but a person of even just average intelligence would probably stop after two tries and maybe $200 worth of bids at most!

Of course, I can't prove anything that is going on. This is just an observation. Recurrent aggressive bidding from several "bidders" on multiple items, different days. Just seems a bit fishy to me. Personally, I would stay away from this site.

There is definitely a big time scam. I have a friend who designed a similar site in india for indian consumers. The program includes a default user (not real human) who bids continuously until the target money is reached for the quibids guys. If the site senses there are not going to be enough bids, it declares the default user to be the winner and dissolves the auction. Besides, if 10 people are bidding and each of them spends 20 dollars on an average, they make 200 dollars just like that. Each individual may not feel as bad given that he just lost 20 dollars, assuming the auction to be fair. Just like casinos, the only people who make money are the site owners.

This website is such a scam. I started off trying to bid on a 100 bid pack. This one name bid over 100 times to win the 100 bid pack. That didnt make much sense. Then I set my sites on a 64gb Ipad. This auction started around 8am and lasted until 4pm. I watched this auction all day. There were 4 names that bid on this item for the whole 8 hours. These 4 names accounted for 80% of the bids (about 10,000 bids). Then all of a sudden these 4 names stopped bidding and another name bid a couple times and won. I then decided to go bid on a mac laptop. This auction had bee going on for over 10 hours. By now I know this site is such a scam, but I thought I would just get rid of my 84 bids and never go back again. It was down to just me and this other name bidding the most. I placed all of my 84 bids and the second I stopped, this other name one. Interesting all the other names that were bidding stopped too. This all happened within a second. Very strange. I was very mad. I looked at one more auction I had been watching and saw the same user name bidding up another item. This is the same name that bid 1000's of bids on the Ipad then disappeared. He reappeared in another auction to drive up that price. I will not go back. Don't waste your money. Site is a total scam. I don't think real people are really winning any of the big items.

Don't waste your money. It seem like they use bots despite what they say as I watch one bot using what they call there bid-O-matic (an automated biding option) bid just before time runs out even for end on end (30 mins) when they have a limit of 25 bids every time you set it to bid and a supposed to place a bid at random intervals of 1-20 secs, but the max the time on clock can go to after a bid is placed is 10 sec. I don't see how that is possible if it truly works the way they claim. Add to that all the bids made by this person using the bid-o-matic didn't place a single bid himself/herself it claimed to be placed by the bid-o-matic. So this person must have the luck of the gods if the had the time to reset their bid-o-matic with the confidence that with it's random interval biding that it would make it in time before the timer when to 0. I watch as every few secs (20 or 30 or so) the timer would hit 1 sec with a person placing the bid when the bid-o-matic makes just it time to add more time to the count. SUSPICIOUS? VERY! And in the end guess who won... the bot... big surprise. I believed that it is set up so that it calculates the amount and have a bot bid until they cover the cost of the item at least or the bot wins, at least for the pricey items. It my not be so for the lower end item as it is much harder to tell if bots are used as the bidding doesn't go as high, but I think that some of the lower end items also have bots at random as I have won a 15 bid ($9.00 item) for $. 05 ($1.05 with their handing charge). However this far from the norm as I have similar it with no success. I probably would have had better success with $1.00 scratches.

All in all you have a much better chance of getting a deal on something elsewhere unless you have the luck of the gods, but then you should go play the lottery instead a much better use for your luck.

I was curious and tried the site out. I got two $25 gifts cards for under $3 each. You definitely have to be patient and careful. I don't think it's a scam but you could lose money quickly if you're not careful. Also, I stay away from the big ticket items like the ipods and tvs. You can really lose trying to win these. Maybe one day I'll try these items but right now I'm satisfied with my $25 gift cards (gonna give these for Christmas gifts) - I really can't beat that. I don't constantly bid. I've noticed about what a $25 gift card will sell for at it's highest so I wait until everyone else has bid to about that amount before I start bidding. I'm sure it isn't for everyone but I would hesitate to call it a scam. I won and I received my items. If I lose, then that's only my fault of not knowing when to stop bidding or drop out of the site if I start losing.