QuiBidsReviews 3,061

I was bidding on the site. I read the 101. I read the FAQ's. I watched it for a week. I did all this homework before making my first bid.
When I started to bid, I was not allowed to be the winning bidder on more than 1 item at a time. Yet, I saw numerous names that were listed as winner of many items at once. Another time I was prevented from bidding after winning 3 items in a 24 hour period. I also saw 3 'possible bots' win 6 items in an hour. Why are there rules for honest bidders that the site isn't following themselves?
Another thing it practices is the habit of moving items at the last seconds. If you click on an item in the last few seconds, the site moves them and you bid on an item that moves there, where your item was sitting. That cost bids and sometimes, the auction.
The shipping charges are bogus. Look at the price of shipping/handling. Why is the charge only $1.00 for one set of bids and $2.99 for another set? Why is there a charge at all for winnings on bids? They credit your account. No mailing or handling is involved. The higher the gift card that is won, the higher your shipping. Does it take more postage to mail a $200.00 card than a $10.00 gift card? They are the same size.
I wrote customer service twice, never got a reply.
I watched a 'bidder' bid every other bid up to 200+ dollars. It was still going on when I cut it off. This was on a 2000 TV. That meant that this 'bidder' paid more on bids than the TV was selling for. Why did this 'bidder' not quit and claim the TV at the BUY IT NOW since it was already paid for? This site has too many red flags. It looks suspicious. I think I will inform an investigative news show of this. I know this isn't illegal, but it is unethical business practice. Watch out for those impulses. This is like Vegas or Atlantic City. The house always wins. It should be labeled a gambling site, not an auction.

I RECENTLY BID ON AN 16G IPAD FULLY UNDERSTANDING THAT IF I DO NOT WIN I CAN BUY IT FOR THE RETAIL PRICE, SO IT GAVE ME A SENSE OF SECURITY KNOWING THAT I REALLY CAN'T LOSE MUCH IF ANY MONEY AT ALL. AFTER I DID MY BIDDING AND LOST I DID BUY IT NOW FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MONEY OWED AFTER MY 456 BIDS@. 60 EACH. THE PROBLEM WAS THEY CHARGED ME 699.00 FOR A PRODUCT THAT APPLE SELLS FOR 499.00. CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG BUT I BELIEVE APPLE SETS THE RETAIL PRICE. I WILL TAKE SOME BLAME IN NOT CHECKING QUIBIDS FULL RETAIL PRICE BEFORE I STARTED BIDDING, BUT FROM PAST EXPERIENCE, MOST OF THEIR PRODUCTS THAT I BID ON WERE DEAD ON FOR THE FULL RETAIL PRICE. I HAD WRITTEN TO THEM AND THIS IS THE RESPONSE I GOT:
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,
Chad
Quibids Customer Support

FIRST OF ALL, CHAD IS VERY BUSY BECAUSE EVERY TIME I WRITE TO THEM HE ALWAYS WRITES ME BACK (SOUNDS LIKE A FORM LETTER)
SECOND_ I WENT TO AN APPLE STORE THAT NIGHT AND ASKED THEM THEIR POLICY ABOUT HOW MANY I CAN BUY, AND HE ASKED ME "HOW MANY DO YOU WANT"... AND IM NOT EVEN A PRIVATE CLIENT. LOL
THIRD... FROM EXPERIENCE OF USING THIS WEBSITE AND WINNING OR PURCHASING MANY ITEMS, AFTER ADDING ALL THE BIDS I BOUGHT TO PRODUCT VALUE, YOU STILL WIND UP NEGATIVE IN THE END. IT CAN BE FUN, BUT BECOMES ADDICTIVE BECAUSE YOU LOSE SITE OF WHAT YOU ARE BIDDING ON, BUT INSTEAD, YOU TRY TO NOT LET SOMEONE BEAT YOU.
IN OTHER WORDS... BEWARE

I watched an auction this afternoon.
Bidder A & Bidder B got into a bidding war - back & forth. No one else was involved. Even the clock showed "2 bidders in last 5 minutes". Then suddenly Bidder C comes in and starts bidding. Immediately Bidder B drops out. Not one more bid. So now its a bid war between A & C, with a few random bids coming in now from other people. The price goes up about $4 during this time. Then suddenly Bidder B is back and within a minute Bidder C quits bidding. The price continues to climb. Then Bidder B slows down, which allows other users to get their bids in and suddenly... the clock stops and... neither A, B, or C won... but one of the last bidders who had come in during the last $1 or so of the auction.

So. Did someone just get lucky?

Or did someone(s) purposefully drive up the price and then back out?

Or what?

Maybe you had to watch it to understand... but it really DID look fishy.

Just seems to me that at some point it would've turned into a bidding war between A, B & C... why did B & C come and go so "exactly" at the same times? Just weird.

Bid... but bid with caution!

This site is for suckers. I really can't believe that people, after reading how these auctions work and watching a few take place, would ever consider buying bids. It took me all of 5 minutes to realize that this is a scam and the company is making thousands of dollars on items that cost a few hundred. 60 cents a bid? Insane! I'm just shocked that so many people are actually foolish enough to use this site. I wish I had come up with this idea, although even if I had, I probably wouldn't have acted on it, because I wouldn't think that anyone would ever fall for it!

How Quibids is scamming me.

I won three auctions in my history with Quibids. The last was a 25$ Amazon gift card on 7/30/2010. It is now August 1st, that was two months ago. They still have not delivered the product.

My communication with support has involved me contacting them with regards to the missing product. (No one ever contacted me with a problem.) They said that they had to cancel a batch of cards and I would receive a new one in a week. That was a month and a half ago.

I waited two weeks and again contacted customer support who "forwarded the issue to a shipping rep" and said I would receive a card within the day.

Again I waited a week before contacting support. The following conversation then occured:

11:06 AM Laura: ok, we are still waiting on Amazons cooperation in resolving the issue with cards that had invalid codes. Our Amazon representative is contacting them again today. Please understand that the situation is out of our control and we have to wait on Amazon to take care of the issue. But we are doing everything we can to speed up the process. It is frustrating for us, but i know it is more frustrating for you
11:06 AM Laura: we will let you know as soon as we have a resolution from Amazon
11:06 AM Laura: we are sincerely sorry. Is there anything else i can do for you today?
11:07 AM Nathaniel Mahieu: Yes, I would like a replacement code.
11:07 AM Laura: we don't have a replacement code. We are waiting on Amazon to take care of that
11:08 AM Laura: at this point there isn't anything that i can do
11:08 AM Nathaniel Mahieu: Your company is currently operating selling Amazon gift cards every day. If there was a problem with Amazon this would not occur. Nothing is stopping you from issuing me a replacement code until you resolve whatever dispute you have.

This went on for about 20 minutes with no resolution. I still have not received a card. As such there are a few things I want to note to anyone who is researching.

1. This purchase would put me positive, getting more money out than I put in.
2. No representative contacted me to explain that there was a problem with my item.
3. In the terms on Quibids website there is no time line for receiving your item. Because of this they are able to continue making excuses indefinitely, never delivering their items.
4. If this truly was an issue with Amazon they would not be currently selling cards or they could easily issue a replacement card and settle whatever "dispute" exists on their own time. There is no reason that this liability should fall on the user, the company made a promise of goods and will not deliver. This behavior is highly unprofessional and dishonest.

Be warned. Don't expect to be dealing with honest people.

QuiBids is what it claims to be... an online auction. And an auction it is in the truest sense. Continued bidding extends the length of the auction just like live auctions. I think that fact that Ebay has dominated the space we're all used to that type of format which is technically not like an auction by traditional definition.

I was skeptical to say the least but after about one month of actively using the site I can say with complete confidence that many of the deals are legit. I myself have one a Sony PSP 3000 ($200) for $12, a TaylorMade Driver ($399) for $24, and a number of smaller items. HOWEVER, I do question whether BOTS have been employed by someone. I have seen buyers bid on items to the point where the final sale price+cost of bids exceeded the "Value" or retail price.

I would caution would be users to be on the lookout for those. You can sometimes spot them- relentless bidding with little strategy visible.

I am infuriated with this site and frankly think it amounts to price gouging and consumer fraud. I recently bid on a 40 in tv. The value price on the item was $559.00. The winning bidder bid $43.25. The auction was in $. 01 increments. Therefore, in order to achieve the bid price of $43.25 there were 4325 bids at $. 60 a piece for a grand total of $2595. 00. So in total we idiot bidders paid $2595 so that one lottery winner could get the tv for $111.05 plus $25 shipping and handling. What a scam! If all the bidders were working for the four hours it took to finish the auction from the time it first hit 20 seconds we could have all bought the tv outright. Instead the rest of the bidders are out $2483. 95. Time to call the attorney general.

I have been a member of this site for a few months and have won many items. Started of slow with smaller items then moved to the larger ticket items after gaining experience. And yes, it did cost a little in lost bids to gain that experience, but just about a month ago, I won a 2010 Samsung 46 inch, 3D LCD TV for $24.25! Shipping was 24.99. Amazon's white glove service delivered the television, set it up, and insured it worked. I did notice that most of the products I have won (approx 12) have been shipped from Amazon with Quibids on the label, but the box is Amazon and the address is their fulfillment center. This is really a legit operation.

Some folks may be disappointed initially with the site, but either you need to watch it for quite awhile, or start bidding on smaller items and work your way up. I am now over $1,000 ahead. Tell me where you can get that type of television, shipped and set up for less than $50.

I'm done with them. This isn't an auction, it's a thinly disguised gamble. Nothing they could ever offer is worth the stress of competition, the disappointment of defeat, or the self-loathing one (should) feel after having wasted so much time and money. It's just stuff, nothing more, all of which will become obsolete. Better to spend the time finding legitimate bargains and better to give your patronage to merchants more deserving of your hard-earned cash.

I think the best advice for this site is...

1. If you research Quibids and the auctions day and night, are a smart person, research quibids VERY WELL, and use commen sense you have a good chance of winning something on quibids.

2. If you end up doing Quibids don't try for the big ticket items its like winnig a lottery.

3. There are so much better things to do with your time than research quibids so you can save 100 dollars on a psp.( MAYBE)

4. Just go get a job. Invent something. Instead of trying to get quibids to give you items cheap make yourself a future and become what you want to be. Make the money you want to make without relying on Quibids.

5. IF YOU ARE SO MAD ABOUT QUIBIDS MAKING SO MUCH MONEY GO START AN AUCTION SITE LIKE IT AND FIX EVERYTHING QUIBIDS DID WRONG WHILE MAKING MILLIONS

6. There are better things to do than quibids. NOT WORTH It, don't try to go for luck go and try to find a way to earn enogh to buy a hundred ipads at retail price. Work for something

I have been on Quibids for 3 months now. I broke even the first month, lost money the second (my fault) and made money the third month. The thing is only bid for what you would be willing to buy anyways. If you lose use buy it now and buy the item. Never bid unless your willing to buy it. Never bid on the Bid vouchers they are worthless. Your afraid to bid using them because you can't use them towards buy it now so you hardly ever win with them. And last but not least never bid on items you can't afford. I win items then sell on Ebay so I get my money back. Set a Quibids budget and don't go over it and you just might find yourself having fun. Yes maybe they do make a profit but that's just business. Not a Scam. Well maybe the Bid vouchers are a scam. But You don't have to bid on those.

I've used Quibids for a couple of months and at first was very pleased, however, this past month I purchased as well as won several auctions but have yet to receive my gift cards. It's been about three weeks now. I have sent several emails asking for updates on my order and have yet to be answered. Quibids also offers an online chat option, which basically keeps telling me to wait while all representatives are busy before I request a chat. I am utterly disappointed and will be cancelling my account with Quibids

The major criticism of Quibids, and by association the various other "auction sites" is that they are not true auctions. That said, lets just call them "bidding wars" sites. Yes you are not going to win most of tthe time. Yes it costs to play. Yes it is a gamble. What is the risk? Purchasing bids that equals your pay to play. What is the benefit? Average of 90% savings od items you bid on. Can you lose all your money? Yes indeed. Can you win? Yes indeed. The truth is if you can afford to play the game with hopes of winning, then is can be rewarding; not unlike playing slots at the casino. If you are unwilling or unable to risk losing your bid money, this is not the game for you. The odds are against you. That does not make it a scam; it makes it gambling! And yes, I cheer out loud everytime I see the "You have won!" banner!

One other note. Bidding for bids is interesting. 100 bids cost $60. Lets assume you then spend 10 bids to buy 50 bids for $2. You now have 140 bids that cost you $62 dollars (. 44 a bid). Therefore winning bids for bids loads your warchest at a decreased cost per bid. My last auction bids were about $. 09

I was drawn in to check out QuiBids... it's very enticing with the offers of great electronics at dirt cheap prices... but I didn't buy. The question I kept asking was, "How are they able to sell this stuff so cheap?" That question wasn't addressed in the FAQs (it's not via advertising, it's not promo offers, etc). So, there was that nagging question in the back of my mind. You have to realize companies aren't out there just giving stuff away - offering something for nothing. It's NOT DONE. Years ago I fell for an unrelated scheme because of that pipe dream. Fool me once, shame on you, Fool me twice, shame on me. Not falling for it.

It is a complete scam. I would automatically would have believed it to be true, but it was promoted by a reputable news program, so I signed up. I ask that you do one thing before buying any bids. Watch the small auction items, such as the vouchers or gift certificates. Add these auctions to your "watched auction" page. If you don't bid on one of them (let's say a 25 voucher bids), you will see it goes for real cheap. But, when you try to bid on one during the same time. The bidding war begins. How can one go so cheap ($0.02) and the one your bidding on go for $3, 4, 5 dollars. They tell you to start of slow with little bids such as these vouchers, so that you feel the rush and continue to buy bids and win. It would appear that the entire site is rigged. I too, believe that there are employees bidding on these items to bring up the bidding price. Some of us have to learn the hard way. I did. Canceling my account.

Quibid is a total scam... they let you win a small auction then they get you bidding on larger items and the same folks bid they are plants and the hold the last one 1 bid for over a second so others can bid at the same time so you are bound to loose to one of their plants in the end. They also took more cash out of my bank account then I authorized, never gave me free tokens for referring someone to them as promised. They should be investigated and taken to court. Who do we go to for this? They are making millions cause we trust them and we are the chums. I wish I would have researched on google as I have now before I lost hundreds to them. But I trusted the system. Such a fool was I. I will never trust another site on the Internet again without googling and researching the blogs first. Lesson well learned but still want to sue them.