QuiBids Holdings
Reviews and Complaints

I have been trying to contact quibide customer service but each time I select 0 as the automaterd recording says my call gets disconnected. I was charged $60 for I dont know what not to mention dont even know how I have an account aith this company. I demand for the account in my namr be closed as well as to be crediterd baclk the $60 thatbwas charged to my card asap! I have attempted to try live chat as well but again no luck in actually going through as its suppose to when selecting the icon!

I'm absolutely disgusted with this terrible website! I have made some bids on QuiBids website and won an item. Their rep said I'll get my item within one or two weeks but nothing ever arrived. When I contacted these scammers they claimed my item was shipped to me. When I asked for a tracking number they said they did not have one and asked me to be more patient. Weeks passed and nothing. Their rep said there was nothing he could do and that he also had no idea what happened. The most terrible service ever!

A quibids employee logged into my account and deleted the far majority of my voucher bids that I had spent 3 years earning. To collect and save up that amount of bids, I paid Thousands of dollars in real money to Quibids and spent countless hours on their website bidding in their auctions.
They told me I "had collected too many bids" and that it wasn't fair to them as a company to have such ammunition to bid and win with. This is absolutely illegal of them to do! They stole my bids from my account! I had worked hard and paid a LOT of money buying their bids to rack up all my voucher bids. What can I do. They will not answer my emails or give me any kind of straight answer by phone.

Also, they greatly INFLATE the prices of their products to make auctions last longer and to flat out make a profit on the buyer of that item. See attached screen shots.

I registered for quibids thinking that it was similar to eBay. In the registration page it takes you through 3 steps; fill out your personal information, add your credit card and you will receive your item. I assumed they were going to send me something for registering but instead I was charge with 60.00 for bid purchases. I lost my money that I could've put to good use. I didn't realize till it was too late after I submitted. The title on their site for registration is misleading. They are frauds. This site is a scam and now I'm out 67.00 which included tax.

i happened to see quibids online. so i thought why not give it a try. i bought a 100 bids worth $60. what i noticed/observed that some bidders were bidding way more than they price of an item. how can they bid more that the price of an item? they usually stop you when you reach the total amount of the price you are bid. i don't really get it. they must have a "BOT" bidders. i will never buy bids again. they should investigate this website. THIS IS A BIG SCAM! they're stealing peoples money. may bad karma be with all of you Quibids.

Although I have won a couple things that were cheaper than retail, they aren't things I really "needed". Paying $0.60 for a bid, just to watch someone else do the same. 10 bids later and you've lost $6 and still don't win. You have to be "all in" to hopefully win. When you don't they do account for the money towards "buy it now", but then you are paying 100% retail with zero discounts. You have to pay $60 just to join. After I use up my "bids" (read as throw them away) I will delete my account and warn family & friends to save their money.

I just sign in as I sign in on Ebay and Amazon, and when I went to check my account they already took out $60.00 from my account, and I did not purchase any items so far. then I read that they charge 60cents for each time you bid, it means if your purchase any item or not, they charge it from out amount, which you provide it,
all other site charge their fees after you buy, but this one charge you any way.
please don't fill out any form on quibit.com

I set up an account with Quibids so I could hopefully get a good deal on an auction or at least see what deals they have. I decided there would be no harm in setting up an account because in the past I had set up accounts on reputable websites which included giving them my credit card information and no harm came of it. Reputable websites have multiple pop-ups that asks if you're sure you want to finalize the transaction. So I thought noting of giving Quibids my card information as part of setting up an account with them but the instant I gave them my information they charged it $60 in bids only usable on their website. I never confirmed or was asked if such a transaction was okay. I didn't even know it had happened until later when I was checking my bank account information online. I was tricked into spending money on something I do not want and now only want a refund. I believe Quibids is crooked and I suggest no one do business with them. There are plenty of trustworthy web based businesses out there that deserve our attention and business. Quibids is underhanded and tricky and is not to be trusted.

Purchased watch on Quibids after 3 times wearing watch the face fell out sent watch to be repaired they would not honor warranty because it was purchased on QUIBIDS. hOWEVER THEY SELL THEIR WATCHES ON THE SITE.

QUIBIDS SAID IT IS PAST THE 60 DAYS THEY OFFERED ME $10.00 FOR A 400.000 WATCH . THEY SAID THEY CAN NOT TELL THE COMPANY TO FIX THE WATCH have a nice day.

The watch was sent back with the hands missing. The winning bid was $10.00 however I spend about $100 trying to win this watch.

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!

Quibids is GAMBLING. A lot of people put in a little, and a few people take out a lot. Quibids lies and says it is not gambling simply because the lie encourages more people to do it.
As gambling, Quibids is a ripoff. Quibids pays out a very small percentage of the money they take in, much less than any casino. Like in any casino, some gamblers can do better than the rest, even come out ahead, if they can pick their opponents, like at the blackjack table. Anyone winning just gets a small share of the ripoff. And the Quibids ripoff is worse than the casino ripoff.
The Quibids game is a variation on "chicken". No one would play it for real in a casino. Imagine a stack of $400.00 cash. Clearly posted, someone has bought the right to that cash, minus $20.00, for a token that cost him only $0.60! The catch is, anyone can come along and, for only another $0.60 token, displace him and buy the right to the $40.00, minus $12.01. (The bank has already collected $1200.00 worth of tokens for this prize, but that "shouldn't matter" to the betters.) The current owner won't get the prize, and neither will the next owner. So no one wants to buy in early. The goal is to be the last buyer-in. Even if the prize is down to only $400.00 minus $399.00, it would still pay for the next guy to pay $0.60 for the right to $400.00 minus $399.01 - he makes $0.39 on the deal (but only if no one buys in after him). People won't want to buy in late, when the gain gets small, but, when the gain is small, there's a higher chance that the next buy-in will be the last one. Every next player to buy in destroys your profitable deal, (not like a real auction where the next bid releases you from your bid). Picture the fistfights and riots that would break out at a physical Quibids table! Now, to complete the Quibids picture, imagine that the box labeled $400.00 really only contains $300.00. And the $300.00 is a check that they will supposedly mail to you, after you first pay them the $20.00 or $399.01 purchase price. And you also pre-pay a handling fee they didn't tell you about. Oh, but they throw in a losing-ticket bonus. You can, at any time, "buy now" that $300 check for the posted $400 minus the amount of tokens that you (only you) have paid in toward that item. And Quibids takes place online, where you don't know how many people actually "buy now" the same item (since they can easily ship multiples when it benefits them), and you don't know whether the other players are real. Why are these Quibids swindlers not in jail?

I am watching 2 separate pairs of sunglasses on quibids side by side. They are however linked in bids, when someone bids on one it also bids on the other. I tested this by throwing a few bids in my self and sure enough when I would bid on one pair it would show up on both. That right there throws up red flags not to deal with this company thanks. Below is a link to a screen shot I took of the two items, I circled my name in red. Both of the items have had the same price with the same bidders, how is this possible with 2 separate items? Something fishy

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Signed up with quibids and lost $60, should have known when they asked for my credit card during registration, I was bidding and of course always outbid by other bidders (or bots, who knows), before you knew it I was out of $60 and no product. Like my mom always said "if it's too good to be true".

I decided to try out QuiBids and was determined to win. I picked a night when I had lots of time and I decided, given their claim that most items were won for under $50 dollars that I was going to spend $300 dollars and win something. I settled in my easy chair and went into my "patience" mode. As I started to close in on winning bids, every time I came close to getting a winning bid, the computer would delay me by a fraction of a second and some other bidder would win. I did this all night, and each time I was close to getting the winning bid, mysteriously, the bid would slow down until someone else got the bid. I went through this about a dozen times and after $300 dollars and all night of bidding, I realized that they had a fictious straw bidder bidding against me. Stay away from this site, it is a big fraud and scam. The fact that I could not win anything after a dozen patient and well placed bids and $300 dollars, running so close to winning, and then nothing, it just cannot be legit.

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 never used them before buy today they took $85.73 from my bank account without permission. Stay away from them!

Quibids is a scam company that is deceitful and lying! They claim that it is free to join, but then they charge your credit card $60 (which IS NOT FREE). Then when you purchase bids they either give you voucher or real bids, but they don't tell you which ones you can use. That means if you lose an auction (which you probably will) you'll end up losing another $30 and you won't even be able to get a discount buying the product.
I was bidding on an iPad from the start and was in a bidding war (maybe it was against a bot, or an employee, or maybe it was a real person, I don't know), and everything was fine until right at the very end I was outbidded and then the timer automatically went from 5 seconds to 0 seconds. I had spend $180 bidding and quibids ended the auction without even giving me a chance to bid higher. After losing the auction for an iPad they offered a Buy It Now option to pay $500 for an iPad. Since I already lost $180 in that auction (yes, you can lose $100s of dollars even if you aren't the winner of the auction) I decided to buy it; only to find out that it was the iPad 1, which isn't even worth $350! They charge nearly double the cost of products on their site and then try to pretend that you are getting a good deal!

So in the end I spent $500 plus the bogus $60 entry fee (when they said that it was free to join!) for a product worth $350. That means using their suppossedly risk-free auctions I've lost over $200. The people at Quibids are lying and deceitful and the site IS NOT AN AUCTION SITE, IT IS A GAMBLING SITE WHICH SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED AND QUIBIDS LIES WHEN THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE AN AUCTION SITE! And even worse they are a gambling site that locks you out from winning right after you've spent a lot of money bidding. Just remember when something is looks too good to be true it probably is!

I used Quibids once, saw what a scam it was (apparent shill bidding, etc), and stopped. There was still some bidding credit. I received an email from a customer service rep after a few months stating that they were going to cancel my credits because they didn’t want to keep carrying an unprofitable customer. They even stated that I would need to spend a lot more if I wanted to win something because I couldn’t expect to win as often as I apparently (to them) expected.

Ok, I don’t really want to use their site, but neither do I want them to rip me off further for the value of the credits. That’s just plain not right. I objected, but they were firm: spend more money or lose it all. So I lost what was remaining just because they stole it from me. Stay away from these thieves.

I have been using QuiBids for several months now. i have won some nice items cheap and have paid full price for many others. I understand that there could very likely be bots or QuiBids employees bidding against you to drive the price up. However, when you do win something cheap (samsung home theater or iPad) and they come back and say it is no longer available due to "unanticipated inventory issues with our supplier" but still have several upcoming auctions of the same products for bidding, you know they are scamming you at this point. This conduct alone should be grounds for shutting them down. It has happened to me on at least four different items (Monster Dog Oakley Sunglasses - twice, Samsung Home theater system, and iPad2 16GB). I think it would be productive to get in touch with "Dateline" or "60 Minutes" to have them investigate QuiBids and the people they have scammed and continued to scam (like me) and maybe this will shut them down or at least get the attention of the States Attorney or some other party who has already filed a legal action. Given all the complaints I have seen online, I think it would be easy to get people to testify against QuiBids and their conduct. Who's interested?

This online penny auction company is nothing short of a legalized crook.

They definitely need more oversight.

For example, in the middle of bidding on bid vouchers, I purchased more bids from their online store. During this transaction, unbeknowst to me, I had received an email offering me a personal price for the same package of 100 bids I had just purchased. I paid $60 for those 100 bids, the personal price offered me in the email was $33.60, a difference of $26.40. In short time, I bought another pack of 100 bids for $60 but had an email offering me a personal price of $36.60, a difference of $23.40.

So I emailed quibids asking them for a refund of $49.80 ($26.40 + $23.40) since it is the difference in the price they offered me by email. They conveniently tell me they can't do this because the types of bids they offered me this special price for are different than the ones I purchased at full retail value. The difference between the two bids is that the ones offered in the email are voucher bids are NOT refundable. Now understand the reason you get these special BUY NOW offer emails is because you have already spent bids trying to win these auctions. So even though REAL bids as opposed to VOUCHER bids were used to try and win the auction of 100 VOUCHER bids, I can't have a partial refund (per their own offer) for the 100 bids I bought because they are different types of bids.

I then complained that in their bid purchase store, this buy now VOUCHER bids option was not available to me, just the REAL voucher bids option at full retail value.

The reality is the two packages of 100 bids are spent, so I won't be asking for a refund of them because they were REAL bids versus VOUCHER bids. The point is that if I had known I was being offered the ability to purchase a package of 100 VOUCHER bids at a discounted rate from the 100 REAL bids I purchased, I would have bought them. The fact that this company refuses to credit me the difference for their own offer is assinine.

Bottom line, these people are crooks. I have closed my account and will NEVER do business with them again.

BEWARE!