QuiBidsReviews 3,064

Quibids is one of the best penny auction sites out there, but there is the risk of losing lots of money on it. Many people make the mistake of seeing that Joe from Texas won an iPad for 3 bucks and think that they can buy 45 bids, jump right in and do the same. For every lucky auction winner, there are 50 people who spent the same bids and won nothing. Quibids newbies need to realize that most of those people who have, indeed, won an iPad for 3 bucks have 10,000 bids and only won because they turned on the Bid-O-Matic, bid and bid and bid and bid and scared everyone else away. Try to go up against someone like this, and your bids will be gone before you know what hit you. People who have done so, of course, are why Quibids has an average review of one-and-a-half stars. So if you have 45 or 60 bids and have never won an auction, you ought to bid on smaller things and build up some experience, maybe buy some more bids, and then perhaps try for a Macbook or a TV. Don't do something stupid, lose all your bids and then say the site is a scam. The site tells you exactly how it works if your willing to spend a few minutes reading the fine print rather than just jumping right in.

They are comitting outright fraud! I just watched auctions for 3 DSLR cameras. All different brands with different auction numbers. I found it was a little odd when flipping back and forth it was the same people on each one. Seemed a little too odd, so I set all three windows up to just show the price and bids. BIDDING ON ONE ITEM RAISED THE PRICE ON THE OTHER 2! I started taking screen shots, then tested my theory by bidding myself. Yep, no matter which one I bid on, it showed me as the highest bidder on all three. This unfairly raises the prices for the auctions and mis-represents the truth. Anyone know who I should turn them into?

My grandson enrolled in quibids.com and lost money before I even knew what was going on. Yes, I should have been more diligent in watching his activity, but was not aware he had completed the enrollment. In any case, he spent all but $13.00 of the $60.00 enrollment fee. Upon realizing what was going on, I called Quibids and was told I could not get this money back, but would get the $13.00. I have called my bank and reported this and see that Quibids has returned $7.00 to my Visa account. What a ripoff! It is scary how a supposedly legitimate business can operate in this fashion. DO NOT BUY INTO THIS!

Save your money. Do not get lured in. You buy bids that go so fast and are useless even in trying to win a ten dollar gift card! Rather than the last and fastest person being the winner, people have a minimum of 10 seconds after your bid to outbid you. Get more than 5 bidders which is always the case and all your purchased bids will be gone in no time, leaving you to purchase more bids and lose more money while winning, if anything, nothing of value. Horrible website. NOT RECOMMENDED.

I'm retired. I was bored so I decided to try quibids and I did for about a month. I did win a lot of stuff from their website and recieved it. The problem with quibids is that the money you spend on bids and shipping even if you do win the auction is you could go out and buy the products and in the end you will pay less. Every click is not 1 penny it is 60 cents. I admit it is kind of thrilling but... If you watch the auctions there are certain people that obviously are highly in debt or very rich because they will be on every auction that is available at the time and not just one bid but 100's of bids on each item. I don't know that there are bots. I think it's just people who won't give up no matter how many bids they have to buy. I found that that was the only way you could win most items. I personally didn't take it that seriously and would just start using my real bids and buy the item at the end and a lot of times the people bidding paid a lot more for winning then I did at the buy it now price. It's an out of control site and like I said it is fun but I find it hard to believe that anyone could keep up or afford to buy bids for months or years. And you have to remember when all those people are bidding the site is raking in big bucks. If some big item is at like 32 dollars that is 3200 bids at 60 cents a pop. So for me yes I may be having a frustrating day and I'll go in for something I like and bid it to the brink... but a daily habit? I think they need a 1-800 number for some people on there so they can get off of it

AWFUL! HORRIBLE. I WENT THERE, SIGNED UP SO I COULD SEE HOW IT WORKED, LIKE YOU WOULD WITH ANY OTHER SITE. I SAW I HAD A CREDIT OF 100 (SOMETHING) THEN I SEE MY CREDIT CARD WAS CHARGED 60.00 I spent 60.00 for a 50.00 gift card? TOTAL SCAM, CALLING MY VISA CO. NOW, NOT PAYING FOR THIS. It should tell you "You are about to PURCHASE 60.00 and this will be charged to your VISA, click here to accept", nothing like that. It is a terrible way of doing business. I have a 100 feedback with ebay. Terrible site, stay away!

Lets take an example here, if an Apple Ipad 32GB worth $499.00 and someone won it@ the price of 25.00, by that said 2500(total bids because each bid raise a penny)*. 60 cents/bid cost = $1500. 00+$25.00 => $1525. 00 price; thats the actual price they charged to that particular ipad WOW!, which means eveyone is a looser in that whole bidding process except the winner if he/she did not spend over 790 bids on this item. Think about it, you just never know when its the right time to bid at the end unless you are a psychic and people are so eager to win and keep bidding on the products and not realizing how much it is costing him/her and rest of the public. Give or take the probability of anyone winning a bid is only 5% depending on how much bids you are willing to spend on the item, by that said it is a GAMBLING! Even if you win for less any item but in the long run it wil cost you fortune because you are so addicted to this bidding process. But think about it dont you think it is a rip off by QuiBids to charge public $1500. 00 for a $499.00 iPad. And, they are success because we the people are letting them rip us off

The site tells you that once you have bid up to the price of the item, you can not bid any longer but can buy now. Using this reasoning on at least three occasions, I watched a site until the bidding was down to two or three bidders. Knowing that these bidders were getting close to their bid limit, I entered the bidding but found that the bidding kept going against one last bidder who should have long ago bid out. I think the site has an employee bidding against you with no bid limit. What a rip off.

DON'T GET LURED! This site is a legal scam site, although I don't know how it could be deemed as such. I purchased bids, without the understanding (they have it advertised in tiny print), that they would charge my account for successive bids. I was happily clicking away on a laptop until it asked for more money. Before I realized what was happening, it had charged my checking account for $80. DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF TO GET SCAMMED! This is a TRASH site!

SCAM SCAM SCAM - Every person who tryed to write a good review in response to this comment MOST LIKELY is LYING about their association with Quibids. MOST scam artist realize that there will be ALOT of negative reviews especially if they know they are a scam. So whats the most logical solution? Try to thwart those NEGATIVE reviews with some positive ones... The following statement and previous review wraps this SCAM site up in a nutshell:

I would stay as far away from Quibids.com as you possibly can.
The thing is that eventually (I would imagine) someone will win (could be a ringer that wins) but what they hope for is getting a group of people bidding on said item; for instance a camera that cost $1200. 00 U.S. They get 20 or 30 people bidding and everyone pays $120.00 or let's say $150.00...

Everyone "loses" their money (you get to use it to buy the item at full price, which probably is marked up anyways) because they've made a bid.

20 x $120 = $2400. 00
30 x $120 = $3600. 00

20 x $150 = $3000. 00
30 x $150 = $4500. 00

Then all the people who have lost their money but get to buy...

I wish I would have thought of this scam (not really)

STAY AWAY!

I did not give quibids a dime. Math problem; new Honda Civic, Winning bid; $1800. 00. Guibids received on this one bid, $109,800, the price of (6) six Honda Civics. Every bidder on this auto, helped pay for this car at ($. 60) sixty cents it and every bid.
That old adedge very much applies; "IF IT SOUND TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT'S A LIE. Guibids is a SCAM. A hundred years ago, we would have a mass hanging.
STAY AWAY FROO 'QUIBIDS and ALL LIKE IT...

This is a rip off for sure, I bid on a food saver and didn't win, they offered it for sale since I had already spent so much in bids I bought it. Ha, what a farce, I received email later that they no longer had any food savers and refunded my money and bids. Then the same thing happened on a 55" TV. I bid and after several hours of bidding I gave up and just bought it. I am still haven't heard anything except it is being processed, Well I call and finally talked to Kevin who said they had to contact the supplier and see if they can even get one. How nice of them to sell something that they physically do not have, or can't guarantee to ship. In the mean while I have had to re configure my entertainment center to accommodate this size of TV. Which has wound up costing me more then it would have if I would have just bought it from amazon. This is a rip off and twice I have bought in to trying to get something at a great price only to get burned. I am so done. It seems a fraud and should be against the law to sell something that you don't own or can't guarantee. How is it this company can continue in this unlawful practice?

I did not use quibids, but in reviewing a lot of the other's comments, it seems as if Quibids is exactly the same as those arcade games in which you press a button to move a mechanical arm out over a bunch of stuffed animals and then try to lower the lever to win your stuffed animal. Anyone who has ever played this "entertainment" knows how stacked it is against the player. This site preys upon the very worst in human nature -- the gambling instinct -- and feels no guilt in doing so. Everyone should refuse to use such a predatory site and save their money for legitimate auctions. DON'T MAKE ANY MORE MONEY FOR QUIBIDS! PUT QUIBIDS OUT OF BUSINESS!