QuiBids.com Reviews – Legit or Scam?


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QuiBids.com is the largest penny auction website currently operating in the United States. Penny auctions have been around for awhile, but have only recently gotten lots of attention from people outside of the penny auction community.

Penny auction websites attract people to them by promising expensive, big ticket items at unbelievably low prices – for example, QuiBids shows a new iPad, which retails at $499 for the most basic model, selling for $22.54.  But this winning bid of $22.54 is misleading.  This isn’t the truth of how much it costs to win that iPad.

The way penny auctions work is that you are only able to bid a single penny at any time during the auction.  However, at QuiBids.com, you must purchase each 1 cent bid for 60 cents.  So an iPad that retails for $499 but was won for the grand total of  2,254 one cent bids (or $22.54) which actually cost 60 cents each means that the iPad just sold for $1352.40.

Though the person who wins the item usually has paid less than retail for what they have received, citing $22.54 as the winning bid is extremely misleading.

So is QuiBids a Scam?

All penny auctions, regardless of reputation, are a bad idea and should be avoided.

First of all, QuiBids.com and other penny auction sites require people to pay for the option to bid, but don’t allow them to bid in increments of their choosing.  This means that QuiBids is forcing the price up and profiting all the while.

On eBay, the seller and buyer have the auction monitored by the website, which is the trusted third party.  On QuiBids.com, there is no trusted third party.  QuiBids is the seller and the auctioneer.  It works in their favor – and their favor only – to drive the price up in these small 1 or 2 cent increments.

QuiBids attempts to redeem themselves by offering you the “By It Now” option, which is when you can take the total amount of your failed bids and apply that toward the retail price of the item you were bidding on.  Say you bid $80 total on an iPod Nano that cost $150.  For the remaining $70, Quibids will sell you a Nano.  Well, $70 plus tax, fees, and shipping and handling.

With the added “fees,” tax, and S&H, that Nano will cost you more than it would at Apple, and usually much more than it would at a discounted retailer like Amazon.com or Target. In addition, QuiBids is not an approved retailer of Apple – or any major brand name – products.

This means that if you get the item from them, the manufacturer warranty is void – if it breaks within the first 60 days, you will not be able to get it repaired or exchanged. If you have a problem within the first 30 days, QuiBids will refund the final auction price you paid, but not a single dime of the bids it took to win the auction.

It’s much better to stick to legitimate auction sites like eBay, instead of spending lots of frustrating time and effort on penny auction websites like QuiBids.com.

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Average Rating for " Quibids " is 1.72 out of 5 based on 220 reviews.
  • As I have told them I won and lost but I have noticed many same individuals bidding and bidding at all hours nights and days, which lead me to believe, they are a scam. They don't want to lose money such as auction Live Auctions$25 Shell Gift CardAuction #A832926253. There's a bidder that has outrageous statistics. He wins and I have seen other bidders as soon has the account jumps in they quit because they know they can't win. I believe that this is a Quibids fake account in which they made up so they don't loose $25. They claim its because he wins bid busters. Duh, Win win win. Don't buy bids. They are just ripping you off. There's a few other fake accounts noted but this one is at all hours and many days. I emailed them and they state he is a long term account. Wow, what an excuse, so am I and many others. Busted on their own statement.
  • Q BIDS GOT ME BACK WITH A FREE BID OF 50 VOUCHERS>THE FIRST DAY AFTER QUICKLY EXHAUSTING MY 50 VOUCHERS, I BOUGHT $ 75.00 WORTH OF VOUCHERS. I BID ON A $100

    AMAZON GIFT CARD. I RAN INTO SEVERAL PLAYERS BIDDING WITH INEXHAUSTIBLE BIDS WHO WERE ALSO PLAYING SEVERAL OTHER BID ITEMS ALL OVER $50! THEY WERE WINNERS IN THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE BIDS! SHILLS ????? NO MORE Q BIDS FOR ME!
  • I first tried this site out almost a decade ago. They offered a refund for the $150 subscription if I wasn’t happy. After realizing that it was pretty much impossible to win a bid, I asked for a refund. They refused.
  • A Big time scam scam every day scam scam
  • TOTAL SCAM!!! the article is spot on about their deceptive practices.

    AVOID AT ALL COSTS. YOU WILL BE RIPPED OFF.

    you have been warned.
  • Complete scam - they ask your credit card details to join and then charge it $50 so you can bid. Beware! and those live bids start going up quickly - you will need hours and lots of bid money to win anything.
  • Qbids is a scam-received an email for these scam artist from the same source as male enhancements and overseas dating. even their address is fake-its just a ups store. Save your money and look at all the negative reviews-these guys are spammers and scammers
  • Lead in page is a total farce. Nothing but fictional auctions that once you've been suckered in to buying bids don't actually exist. I saw an auction for a Macbook Pro on the intro page. When I tried to bid it took me to a registration page where I had buy bids. The only option on that page was to buy 100 bids for $50 (there are other bid packs available after you get going, but you can't start out smaller). Then when I tried to get back to the auction I wanted to bid on it didn't exist. Guess it just cost me $50 to earn that Quibids really is a SCAM!
  • This place is a rip off do not use this unless you want to lose your money. Waste of time and money don't waste either. Only place I have ever seen when you bid on something and you don't win it you still lose the money that you had bid on the item. RIP OFF. STAY AWAY
  • Quibids charged my account without my buying bids. Have asked for my money back within an hour of them charging me but they will not respond. They list no phone number and will not answer any questions.
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