QuiBids

Quibids Scammers are GONE in Australia – Took longer than I thought but, Quibids have closed their Australian portal. With feedback like this, I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did. Good Riddance, They came they saw, they fleeced.....and then they left. All while being watched by fair trading and the Government who did NOTHING. They just run out of suckers, like me.

Another Fraud And Crock, Scam Bloody Internet Cheat – On 28 November 2015, I registered with this QUIBIDS expecting that I bid. However, soon after I registered a notice popped up that this site no longer in service in Australia from 1st December 2015, furthermore I read all the complains about how decisive this company is. As I didn't want to buy headache, I decided not to bid at all. However two… Read more

days time, I noticed my account was charged with a $79 nonauthorised withdrawal. I visited the bank and cancelled the card but the bloody company run away and kept on going. Nasty thieves!

Scam scam scam and con con con – I'm writing from Australia. I paid $78 for 200 bids and it didn't take me long to realise it was a con. Naturally I lost the money after running out of bids very quickly. The system of automatic bids just simply uses up all your bids, pushes the price higher, and it's almost impossible to win. So after paying by credit card, big mistake, what do… Read more

you know, I found my credit card fraudulently charged several payments totalling more than $900. The matter is now under investigtion and I have cancelled that card. Run, run, run. Do NOT trust this site.

Learn and watch everything you can before you bid! Its great! – Firstly, I don't use a credit card number. I use paypal. I have won multiple items for very little money. I created a strategy, studied the hell out of the website and proceeded cautiously. I love the site! I've certainly won way more than I've lost. For those who think its ebay, its not. It never claimed to be. I have won over $1000 worth… Read more

of items and each has been delivered promptly. Yes, there are some bidders that are fierce but I watch each auction and stay away when they're bidding. You can get some really great products! And, if you are bidding with real bids and are prepared to go the distance, there is no such thing as losing your money as you can use those bids towards the purchase price. It's not for everyone but I don't think it deserves all the negativity. Heck, they even give you lessons on how to be successful! Great products at a fraction of the price. Not enough products for the australian market compared to the USA

Good – I play and have won. It does keep you at your screen for longer periods of time. I have gained many free bids that I didnt have to purchase, which has helped me to win many products for free. If too many are bidding I walk away. If only a few, then I'll consider playing. I watch who bids and how they bid. If I am no match I walk and wait for that… Read more

product to come back up the next day or whenever. Well thats how I play. To date I have been able to get the kids christmas prezzies, some kitchen appliances, games, hiking gear etc. I have won more than I have spent. My advice is for people to learn how others play on the site. It is exciting but emotional betting is what gets people annoyed. It isnt for everyone.

quibids – You have to be smart, you have to know a good time to bid. Look at the statistics of the item you're bidding for and see when its sold with less bidders. Dont go crazy, seriously. I read these because I heard it was dodgy and I was watching my dad on the site one night. Hes won headphones and a printer so far. Sure its a waste of time bidding on… Read more

iPads and stuff, but the headphones came today which he one for a dollar or so + $6 dollar shipping, I tested them out and they are pretty good quality. The printer has been shipped so we'll see what happens ($0.25 + 10$ shipping). Just because you didn't win anything, doesn't mean it's a scam. money saving, good products now and again bad reviews, many bidders

*** RUN *** It's a Trap – I stumbled across this site while looking for a tablet/gift for my daughter, it looked interesting, then again so did the gingerbread house. The welcome mat has a trap door built in, it looks like you are just supplying your credit card details to gain entry and set up your account for future purchases but in fact they whisk $70 out of your… Read more

account immediately to give you 'bids' to use only within their auction site. This is only found in the fine print and not evident in the sign on page.

They go to great lengths to tell you that you can bid "Pennies" to win items worth many hundreds of dollars. What is not immediately evident is that each "Penny" bid is purchased from their site at a rate of 60cents US each or 78cents AUS in local money. 10 x bids = $7.80, 100 x bids = $78.00 and so on. I have personally witnessed items worth $600 go for an auction price of $56, which if you do the math is 5,600 bids x 78cents aus = $4,368 or a little over seven times the value of the item. Still think you are getting a free ride here?

But this is not even the worst aspect of this scam. You can also bid on bids. They bundle a bag of bids together from 15 up to 250 and then you get to compete against others to purchase. How is this different to a poker machine or other gambling? It's not, it plugs into the same hope - reward - loss spiral that fuels gambling addiction around the world.

The other thing I noticed was the same user names appearing in many of the auctions concurrently. At my best I may be able to track two maybe three auctions at the same time but that is the limit of my multi-tasking abilities. Some of these user names appear in up to seven or eight auctions at the same time. I also note that these same names seem to have unlimited bids available and individually over bid on items, ie bid more than the item is actually worth. eg. Use thirty bids to purchase a lot of 25 bids (or vouchers as they are called) I will let you draw your own conclusions on this practice.

I have little doubt that many of the poor souls on this site over bid and are addicted to the chase of auction victory rather than the items themselves. Which brings me to the topic of the auction items, most of these are rubbish with a sprinkling of quality items here and there to maintain the illusion you could win something of value. If you look up gift cards, No Find, Cameras, all you get are a batch of single brand camera cases. Computers, some tablets and a lot of USB cables. Some jewelry of unknown quality. And roughly 50% of all available auctions, you guessed it, are for batches of more bids.

It is too late for me, I have already been stung... Turn around now and run from this site and don't look back.

(Melodrama intentional :)

It is a con website. Read my review to show why – It says registration is free but ask for your credit card detail during the process, not now showing clearly the amount of charge they are going to take from your credit card, and they charge 0.60 cent per bid. An iPhone may sell for $50 dollars, but its starting price is at 0.01. It means by the time the iPhone is sold at $50, there would be 50 *… Read more

100 = 5000 bids * 0.60 cent per bid = $3000. Basically the website makes $3000 on an iPhone sold for $50. It is a con. There can only be one winner for the iPhone, the rest of the bidders would have lost near $3000 collectively. That's why I say the website is a con.

Con Artist – Disgusting how people can be suckered and rip off!! Signed up like everyone else and not knowing and reading the small print that $70 will be deducted. Very sneaky. Will just use up the credit win or loose and never touch it again.

QuiBids - Rip off – Quibids: if a item is rrp $50 and each person pays for their bids ie $0.60 each bid and there are 250 bids ($150 total) and then you have to pay for shipping as well you may not win the item. Do the math people! Really disappointed on the human race, both the consumer and the unethical merchant. Bad enough the item is rrp $50 when possibly cost… Read more

$10 to produce.

A gambler will say they won $500, but does not disclose they spent $2000 previously. Lets celebrate their winnings because they are ahead now. Unethical Pay more for the items worth and the person 'thinks' they are getting it for a bargin

Buyer beware – Bought a steam cleaner after a month, it leaks steam and is dangerous to use. I can't blame Quibids directly but they refuse to repair or exchange. I tried to reason with them but they seem to think that our consumer rights are a joke. Buy your stuff from a retailer it'll cost you the same and you will have a place to return your faulty goods. I… Read more

never write bad reviews - EVER! But for you Quibids, i'll make an exception.

After sales service is worse than any retailer.

Worse than Pokies – It shouldn't be called an auction site, it should be called an online gambling site! I noticed (far too late) that you can view other bidders profiles. This includes their 'badges' earned by achieving various milestones, not unlike achievements on gaming consoles etc. When I kept losing auctions to the same user with a badge for using 250,000… Read more

bids (that equates to $150,000) I started to get skeptical about how ethically sound this site is...

stay away from Quibids unless you have money to throw away!!!

Should be Illegal – I would not class this as an auction site at all, for the unawares user this could be a peril, spending vast amounts of cash to buy bids. You may win a cheap item at an auction, being that the bids go up 1 cent at a time, but the buying of bids should be illegal

Very worst site – I just try and sign up then they deducted me of $79. Wish i saw all the comment first before pursuing. They dont want to refund my money. How can they reap off people? We try to trust them but in just a snap we lost big time. Even you bid in 0 once you try to click then it come up outbid. Very good trick to people who tried to trust the site... very disappointing. the membership ans thw bidding fee very worst than ebay 1 million times

Quibids – As soon as i found out about the registration fee i cancelled my card, and then put in a dispute resolution with visa. They will now handle all the issues ,as in i want my money back ,that was deceptively taken . no mention of 79.20 fee to sign up, outrageous. One hassel ,cancelling my card. This is truly deceptive business practice. Crimminal deceptive practices

Watch out dont be fooled – Well, l thought l might give QuiBids a go, so after browsing the small print and giving my credit card details I was actually signed up. It then showed me my Account details which showed l had been deducted $79.00. It may have been buried somewhere in the terms and conditions that they could deduct whatever amount they want from my credit card ,… Read more

but they were certainly not up front about it.

Look I think people need protection from sites like this and feel they should be investigated by the Ombudsmen.

Take no notice of the rave reviews you read, people are paid money to write these.

"Oops Sorry Product Unavailable" – I am only a new quibidder, but am already over it. I have been careful on what I bid on, I have worked out to watch before you bid, and learnt that I don't like the auto bidding. I have won 6 items. But 4 of these I received an email to say sorry 'Product Unavailable'. I have been after the 1000gsm Mattress toppers. Over the past 4-6 weeks. I bid… Read more

on 2 x Queen size and 1 x Single and won only to be told each and every time Ooops Product is actually for purchase right now. I also bid on and won a set of hot roller, and received the same email. Why have it on the auction site if you can't supply the products to the winners??? I want my mattress toppers. I did everything right. I signed up, I purchased the bids. How is it they are allowed to get away with not supplying the product won to the winning bidder?

I will use up the rest of my bids and never return. I'd rather eBay. At least I get my items from there. You can get some products cheap if you kow whar you're doing. Lots...... do your research before you sign up and buy the bid starter pack for 70 odd dollard.

What a waste! – Just wasted $70 as you have to pay up front and you loose that if you don't win anything. I tried to bid on low items first but did not win anything. I have been telling everyone to avoid this site. I noticed the same people bidding on different items just to jump up the price!

Please dont be fooled....,...Use your brain – This is a site you should avoid. You cannot win on this site. To win....Is like winning the lottey.... They are shifty and misleading saying it costs a cent,...But every cent costs you .60c... You get involved in this site,..You might as well have thrown your money away! Give it to charity instead,!! Misleading site... You just make the… Read more

owners rich....And in the end if you want to buy what you were biding on...You pay so much more....!!!

You have to be a dufus to use the site! How quick you loose your money!

Dont do it to yourself! – You'll spend hours on the monitor screen - Waste of money. Stick to ebay!!! My theory - They have constant bidders whom sit there to bid and play war with real people. Exmaple, 30 people at head office bidding on random items - real people bid real money and wait to see if they win. the office people will bid over and over again untill they win.… Read more

conclution? item gets put back on shelf once a "worker" "wins" it and gets put back on the site for selling again. money made over and over!

But thats just me!

Terrible service – A guy told me about it at work so what did I do - jump on & sign up. What a waste on money- $75 to sign up & then at 60cents- what a joke! you have to enter nearly all your bids (@ 1 cent increments) to win the auction & then on top of the sign up fee as well as the 60cents per bid you have to then pay for the item at how much it went for. When… Read more

you add it all up - your not saving nothing! .... its a waste of time & money.

Never be fooled into something like this again.

Way to expensive, waste of time

A waste of time and money – would even rate it a 1 star - save your time and money and shop else where it rips you off the only time you can keep bidding is if you dont work and have all day to sit on their site with ever changing end times for auctioned items only to have the item in our hands and the time restarts

A complete waste of time – A complete waste of time unless you are out of work and have a lot of time on your hands. Incremental bids of 1 cent mean that you don't get to pointy end for many hours . The owner of the site must be so happy with bids costing 60 cents a throw - that is clearly how they subsidise the low prices achieved for the mostly obselete (but unused) stock

QuiBids Biggest Mistake I could make!! – They say that if something is to good to be true it is usually not true! Well that is definitely the case with QuiBids.com. I had heard some good things about QuiBids, so I thought why don't I sign up! So I did, Biggest Mistake I could make!! In the first hour $500 had been taken out of the credit card. Only to find that out 3 days later a… Read more

total of $750 was out of the card! When I was on QuiBids.com for the first time I thought looks good, so I signed up and started bidding for harman kardon soundsticks. I did my first bid at around a dollar and waited for it to die down a bit and at $3.50 I bided for them waited for the countdown to stop and I noticed it paused on 1 second so I waited and luckily won them. The first thing that annoyed about it was how much you had to pay for a starter bid pack $75 that was the only choice! I did a second bid and that's when it started to get wierd the same people where bidding for everything over and over again I thought how do these people have these many bids? But the next day I noticed it wasn't right because it was doing the same thing with the same people the next day on, I mean how could they have bided for all this stuff and still going. That's when I read some things about quibids to find put that it has made all of its customers really annoyed! They also get your credit card details and share them with other people.

The worst thing of all is that if you buy a bid it is worth 60 cents and in a bid it is only worth 1 cent. If you don't wanna lose your money don't use QuiBids.com and get rid of any home addresses and credit cards, if money keeps coming out cancel your card.

It's expensive, is worth a lot more than retail price in the long term and they put fake bidders on it

Gambling rebadged - absolutely stay away from QuiBids – It is ingenious how QuiBids have found a way to run a casino without it appearing like a casino. The "occasional" story of the $500.00 iPad that was bought for $90.00. Here is a scenario showing the numbers - a) 450 bidders b) each bid costs 60 cents and c) bids go in increments of 1 cent. When the Ipad hits $90 there have been a total of 9000… Read more

bids placed at 60 cents a bid. The company has therefore sold the $500 ipad for $5400 and has essentially skimmed $12.00 in bids off 450 people. Nobody complains because they only lost about $12.00 each and they were all aware of the rules. Essentially the winning bidder may have in fact placed $12.00 in bids to get the item for $90 so all up the winning bidder paid $112, oh yes - plus your $60 joining fee and the postage.

An auction that charges to bid should not be called an auction. The concept of an auction is not based on the premise that you pay to be there.

If you want to use QuiBids, be fully aware that you are essentially playing the role of "The Mark".

This is basically a modern version of the Carnival wheel, where everyone buys a cheap ticket to win a radio. They only spin the wheel when they have sold enough tickets to cover the cost of the radio and other prizes with plenty of profit.

Stick to ebay!!! Its a low class method of shopping in my opinion

Won't refund money – Joined Quibid and then decided to look into the "To good to be true system they were promoting" only to find it is really bad. Within three minutes I sent the company an e-mail asking them to remove my details from their system and delete my account. The following day they withdrew $79.20 from my account. Please be careful because I now am… Read more

attempting to get my money back after not recieving any goods or services. Furthermore, I did not bid on anything. Quibids give my money back.

Quibids should be banned – At about 9.00pm on Thursday 27th December I was following an auction for an iPad 2 16 GB Wi Fi. It had reached a staggering $58 which is about $3500 in real money for a product that costs around $400 retail. There were about 12-15 bidders and it showed no sign of letting up. I think a recent auction went to around $80 or more (almost $5000 in… Read more

real money) so with the Christmas sales frenzy on I figured this would continue for while longer.

I must have blinked 'cos my screen changed and I was staring at the Live Auction home page and there was no sign of the $58 iPad auction! I refreshed the page but still no sign so I went to the Recent Completed to see if I missed the sold sign.

Nope! So I went to the Computer Tablet page - still nothing. Instead I saw that a fresh auction for the same item had commenced and was sitting at about $1.50! I googled Missing Quibid Auction and discovered an explanation (not from Quibids I might add - I'm still awaiting their spin).

Apparently if an Auction drags on too close to the start of a new auction for the same product Quibids cancels the older auction! All those bids are lost folks! That "game" is over and no amount of claiming that the lost bids could be used on the buy now feature can mitigate for the fact that people lost their money cold! Almost $3500 raised and they didn't have to pay out!

There was no warning! All the players in that auction who'd had strategies and schemes to outbid the competition went down the gurgler. Then I wondered why there's no outrage and I figured maybe the players in that auction aren't real people after all! Who'd know?! It taught me to never trust a too good to be true scheme ever again!. Don't worry about poker machine reform Mr Wilkie - get sniffing on this stinker!

Terrible. Please save your money, – Save your money. Save your time. This site is a waste. There is nothing to bid on except for rubbish. The site is a gambling site. If you not win you lose your bids. Also each 1 cent bids costs 60 cent, so you are paying a lot more then you think. I have ask then to close my account and for a refund.

Product won at auction 2 months ago - still undelivered despite contacting customer service – Terrible service! I signed up over two months ago and quickly won my first auction. The system would not recognise the delivery address that I entered so I contact customer support for assistance. I was told that the address would be manually entered. Despite my repeated requests and providing all required details, I still have not received this… Read more

item. I feel I've been ripped off! I intend to submit a formal complaint to the relevant consumer agency.

There are few items of real interest. This is worse than playing the pokies. There's no prize at the end - just undelivered winnings and bad customer service for $89.

Dodgy Quibids – I recently joined quibids and won 2 auctions for .01c. Postage $9.90 on both of them (4 cups and 1 apple de-corer). I then saw a set of headphones and a bread maker, so i opened both pages and decided to watch the bidding and wait for an appropriate time to make my bid. As i watched both, i noticed exactly the same buyers bid at exactly the same… Read more

time, in exactly the same increments on both products with no variation. I watched till the bidding got to $1.50 and i print screened both pages and have them on my computer.

I emailed support and told them they are dodgy. I emailed back and stated that no other bidder placed a bid, not even me once i saw the pattern. I am yet to get a reply. Looked to be a cheap way of getting items Turns out to be a nasty dodgy waste of money. Each .01c bid costs the buyer .60c in real money so if an item is worth $20.00 and there are 167 bids, then Quibids starts costing bidders more money than what the item is worth. I noticed this was quite common on items that were popular.

Strange bidding action – Joined and closed account after one day. Terrible products to bid on (ipad covers, 15,25,50,100 bid vouchers, dud LG televisions, hair clips) and when I bid the final price was always in excess of previous auction prices. Dummy bidding can't be ruled out because people were bidding up to the straight out buy cost. Why do that? When you wait… Read more

someone else gets the last bid. When you go toe to toe you get to cost price. Definite bias to the table for QuiBids Incorporated and that is a fact. Cunning way to churn money and scrape the cream off top. You lose often and the products are stuff people can do without.

Poor service – Been using Quibids for about 30 mins now and come to realize I've been cheated. I'm now $80 out of pocket and advise people not to sign up. It has very few decent items to bid on, you would have to been extremely lucky to come away with a bargain after spending hours of trying. Don't waste your money like I did. Few items to bid on

Only had good experience – Hi, I have been a member of Quibids for a few weeks now, in that time I have won, some great stuff, I worked it out I saved myself $1000. If you bid sensibly and don't go crazy you can get the good stuff. There customer service is good. So no complaints here. Now if you was talking about Planetbid, I would agree they are rip off merchants. Genuine bidding site  Show reply

Quibids...A good way to lose your money very quickly – You never know when the auction will finish and when you think it is nearing a conclusion you start bidding and another five or six bidders who have never been visible before join in...where did they come from???come on quibids stop cheating people out of there hard earned money..Disgusting!

Gift Card – After using up a lot of bids to win a Target Gift Card, after 2 weeks delay from promised delivery delay the card finally arrived, incurring extra postage and handling fees. It now appears that this card is invalid, when presented at the cash register. Veryfying the card on the website "Gitcards.com.au" also confirms that the card is invalid.