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today date feb-25-2011 ....bad bad i spend $200 on quibids and won "nothing yes i said nothing""" this is a scam ... just like everybody said it has to be the computers program to outbid...... quibids claim that stuff or thing goes for 2.50 5.00 or 50.00 or 100.00 for a $1000 dollars value but the soonest you bid it will never end it will go for undreds more and at the end always a automatic bid wings ..this its ridiculous ....do not do what i did spend $200 dollars wasted and get nothing please be aware buyers ,"""""quibids its just scammers""""" ....i did watch for weeks before bidding on anything i did not just bid crazy but still got nothing and loose $200

Location: Rochester, New York

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I signed up for Quibids a few months ago and was charged $60 for 100 bids; this was obvious at start up. I initially bid on an ~ $20 item and won it for 1 bid which cost 61 cents.

A few minutes later I engaged in bidding on a larger ticket item that I won for a total of about $30; this was great!.

Since then, I find only mediocre items to bid on and amazingly enough even though I bid the same way I did previously, I find that my last bid is not taken at all and the item goes to someone else, or at least, that is what it looks like from my vantage. When I initially began using Quibids the items on the auction site were quite varied and numerous, including many desirable items. Now, when I sign in, I notice that most of the items are cheap and rather non-desirable; this is a distinct difference than when I went to the site after cleaning my PC's cache and NOT signing in and amazingly enough there again were the varied and numerous items and many were quite desirable!

I then signed in, and lo and behold, all of the good stuff is no longer up for auction!!! Amazing....in just a minute's time all the good stuff is gone!

Early on, I checked on other items available while I was bidding on another and found that I was actually listed as bidding on them too, even though I was distinctly not bidding on the other items. Funny, the other bidders that I was bidding against (or supposedly were) were bidding on these items too!

If they were looking to dupe bidders, they could easily program a system with made up other bidders, why have me listed as bidding on something that I am not bidding on at all? Odd stuff, this.

I guess I should count myself lucky for actually getting one good item and a few other small things out of all of this, as many posts indicate that others got nothing but their money taken. When the auction house holds all the cards, and it is all done electronically who even knows if others are bidding and if one hits the "bid" button on time, and the system says it was too late then the house or whomever else wins regardless of my timing on bidding.

I came out ahead, for which I am thankful, but I have sincere doubts about Quibids. My experiences have been odd and I am trying to figure out what is going on with "the man behind the curtain", as things are so darn inconsistent. The one consistent thing I have found is that when I sign on and they know it is me, the auction options are mediocre. When I check in with a clean computer and do not sign on, the items up for auction are so gosh darn appealing!

Be careful using this site.

I came out ahead, but it has quite an unscrupulous "casino" feel to it all.

Guest

Total Scam. I logged in and signed up for th 60$ starter bid pack.

I won my first auction, a video game for PS3. They email me later and tell me the game is not in stock and they will refund my (1) bid but i used 6 to get the item so they just took my money and didnt give me the game. Also, this pissed me off, i was about to win a 50 qbid pack at .07. The timer had my name on it when it hit 1 sec left but then it ended and someone else name appeared, no previous bidder.

I went to a live rep and they said, " your computer is too slow." I have a dual xeon processor with 20 GB of ram.

WTF my computer is not to slow. THIS SITE IS A SCAM

Guest

*** a complete and utter ***.

Guest

Quibids is not a scam company 100% true fact, !!!!!ANOTHER TRUE FACT!!!!!: you can never win anything with out spending more money to bid. because they love to reset bid time.

Guest

Quibids is what I call a RETAIL SLOT MACHINE. I've won plenty or times. Lost even more. A Slot machine is no different. Otherwise there'd be a line waiting for Jackpots.

But I'm definitely ahead $$ wise than if I bought the stuff. It's all new, shipped from various vendors.

iPod 3rd Gen 32GB iTouch, 73" 3D TV (About fell out of my chair), Belkin rotatable power strip. 25 meter HDMI cable. Oakly Sunglasses and a few Sonic $10 and $15 cards and Subway $15 & $20 cards. Kenneth Cole Wallet. Picture Digital Keychain. CVS $25 card and a few other items.

I've spent probably $500 on my "Bids" (What I call Tokens) and have won well over $2000.

Having lived in Casino towns, I've learned to deal with losses. But winning is fun.

They don't let people farm things either. Limit of 1 item over $1200 per 28 days. Limit of 1 SAME item over a few hundred dollars. (When I won my iTouch, I couldn't win the same things for 28 days. When I won my 3D 73" TV, I couldn't win ANYTHING over $1199 for 28 days)

Guest

They make money by pitting people against each other and using there greed against them. Is unethical sure but it's not scamming or stealing or illegal. Use common sense, it's a risk and if you choose to take the gamble and you lose you have no one to blame but yourself.

Guest

I use quibids everyday, have only been a member for a few months and have already saved tons. People look at this site in the wrong way.

You should know you are going ot buy something, then bid on that amount of gift certificates. Also, of course people are going to try and get the big ticket items, it's best to go for smaller if you want a better chance at winning the auction.

Guest

I don't even look at any of these types of sites. If it looks too good to be true, then of course it is. They make their money on suckers like you all who want something for nothing.

Guest

QuiBids - scam or not -this is definitely gambling - so boring. Like others I paid my money to 'buy bids' won a couple of Target cards for a few cents each (plus postage/handling)then gambled the rest of my bids away trying to secure something else!

Then low and behold a week or so later i get an email telling me they can't supply the cards and have refunded the small amount I had paid for them.

Supposedly I have my bids refunded back as well but I won't be throwing anymore money away here - I will be telling EVERYONE I know not to go near this site. :(

Guest

total criminals. wh all should burn i ***.

They are liars. DO NOT SIGN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guest

Another proof that it's a scam. After watching the bigs and realizing I just wasted 69$ to buy bids I figure I will just bid it all on an ipad i wont win and use the buy now feature so I don't waste my original money...

2 days later I get an email that they don't have any ipads in stock despite auctionning numerous a day.

Bunch of douchecanoes

Guest

QUIBIDS? JUST PURE LUCK__ TIMING :zzz

Guest

I watched Quibids for several days before I signed up. During that time I saw multiple items not selling (no bidders) or selling for only 1 bid. I signed up and won a couple small items ($10 + $15 gift cards) but soon realized that there were never any items closing without any bids. I opened Quibids from a different computer, didn't log in and searched for $10 Gift Cards. Over 1000 items were found. I did the same search from my other computer (Logged in) and only returned about 400 items. On the non-logged in computer there were many items that were won for 1 bid and some that didn't receive any bids... On the non-logged in computer, I saw the same username bidding on multiple items, but on the logged on computer the username only appeared to be bidding on one item. The interesting thing was once I logged in the amounts of items always matched the lower number. I was able to duplicate this several times. I took a before and after login screen shot that clearly shows the number of items different but the webpage address was the same.

Is Quibids having a technical issue or are they running multiple websites to misrepresent the true number of active bidding?

Hmm, before I login target cards are closing at 0.01 and running every couple of minutes, sometimes multiple within 1 min, and after I login the competition runs the price up to 0.20+ and sometimes aren't available for 15 minutes or longer... My vote is misrepresentation...

If you want to reproduce my findings:

1. Clear cache, history, and cookies

2. Best case, use a computer that is on a different IP connection than your normal computer.

3. go to quibids.com and do a simple search AND look at recently completed auctions. Note the quantity of items.

4. Login and re-search

5. numbers should be pretty close,

You won't be able to this process multiple times a day. Must be an IP address memory.

Guest

i dont even know how to participate in the site..can someone explain it to me, how it works, right from the top...:) Thankss.

Guest

I just signed up for Qubids, and it took me about 2 minutes of bidding to figure out how it works. It's not a scam, but it is unethical in my opinion.

First, THEY ABSOLUTELY TELL YOU it is 60 cents per bid. But the bid increments are only 1 or 2 cents! So think about it, a $300 invicta watch sells for 20 dollars, that means (assuming 2 cent increments), that 1000 bids were placed at 60 cents per bid, making Qbids $600 total, plus the final bidder pays $50 buck plus shipping for the watch. Quibids makes out like a bandit, and a "community" of people spend $600 dollars to give the "winner" the privelge of buying the watch at $50 + S&H.

Its not illegal, but it is like going to a casino, many people have to loose so that one person "wins" and the casino makes its profit. I believe this to be unethical in a strict Christian or communal sense.

Guest

Absolute scam ! They would not let you adjust bids while buying their own bids voucher. Even though the original bids were actually paid for - At 60 cents per bid.

And it is really hard to win anything.

Here is a shocker -

I bid on two different 50 bids voucher, supposedly worth $30, and each bid went to 5.5+ ! That means, that auction was worth 550 X .6 = $330 for a $30 voucher for JUST quibids.com Bids - 1000% more than the actual price !! If this is not scamming consumers, I don't know what else is.

Guest

This site is absolutly ***... 1 cent at a time till you win... what they dont tell you is that it cost 60 cents to bid 1 cent....

Guest

Absolutely, it's a scam! I was taken two days ago and didn't realize my credit card was being charged $60 for 100 bids.

When I contacted their agent, he said they could only refund bids not used. We need to shut them down.

Guest

Actually, so far this site has worked out pretty well for me. Its all about timing.

If you jump when there are 25 different people bidding on the same item, ofcourse it is going to seem like it never ends. Everyone there wants that item, and they all have the same mindset, "Ok, I can spend as many bids as i want, as long as i still get this at a reasonable price" which for something like an iPad can be a couple hundred bids. And if someone wants it bad enough, they arent going to give it up to you very easy. You just have to study and very carefully choose the auctions you bid in.

I have won atleast $400 more than i have spent on that site so far, you just have to be rational and analytical about what you do there. Thats your own fault man, sorry!

Guest
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I can understand why people feel it is a scam and all, bc we are all human, sometimes we failed to read the disclosures or misread or whatever. But i did notice they do disclosed 1cent bet is at a 6penny increments/value.

THE thing i don't undertsand is - why they are perfectly a legit company and sounds like they have sucked so much rookies and money from people being naiive and failed to read everything does not deliver merchandises as promised. (Ran across some BBB complaints that they weren't sending the right things and broken or damanaged or making their loyal customers upset..) They make more than enough money and enough incentive to keep those bidders happy by shipping the "correct" and "new" condition merchandises to the winners or in MOST CASE (buy now) bidders (???).

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