I was looking for Macbooks for sale on Craigslist and emailing people who I thought were just regular people trying to sell laptops they weren't using anymore. The very first response I received was seemingly from a regular person who said she had already sold the laptop but that she got it at Quibids.com and that I should try to find one there, too because it's such a great deal.
I stupidly signed up only to find they had a pathetic selection and the deals weren't even really deals. There was hardly a difference in the "deals" on this site and the retail price for a Macbook from an Apple store. It seemed strange. Then I received a similar response from a different person and realized it was part of a scam.
I Googled "quibids scam" and read that they were charging people $60 without the consumer's knowledge or permission! When you sign up for the site you are required to enter your credit card information (which I did like a dolt! ). I saw nothing and clicked nothing that asked me permission to charge $60 to my credit card! It's misleading at best and an outright lie!
When I confronted someone about this via a customer service chat the representative for Quibids promptly got defensive and said my money would be refunded soon - even though I made no mention about being illegally charged (I wasn't even sure yet that I had been charged!)! I then demanded to know how it is possible for them to charge people without their permission and called them out for being scam artists and demanded confirmation that they no longer have access to my credit card info and that my profile was in fact permanently deleted after which the representative promptly and abruptly ended the chat session (essentially hanging up on me).
Bottom line: don't trust those e-bidding sites and if someone tries to send you to another store when you're trying to buy goods on Craigslist, don't fall for it.
Scammers are the scum.of the earth. I can think of fewer people lower than those who would steal your hard earned money through lies and trickery. Good luck to all innocent consumers in navigating the corrupt waters of the internet.
Quibids is a total scam. They charge your credit card $60 without telling you. They say that this is a minimum package. When I clicked on buy bids, no where you could see how much you will be charged and how. They claim it is there in small print. When you start later bidding, you don't see that you are charged $0.60 a bid, until you discover that you don't have money anymore... They are using machines to outbid you, you can see it while you are bidding that the same names show up for one bid and they keep showing up. For example on a $25 gift certificate card I have seen a name showing on the bid more than 40 times, this is $40 * $0.60 = $24 . This person would have spent more money than it is worth... and kept seeing the same account showing under other bids... Total scam.
I decided to give Quidbids a try after seeing the commercials. After spending a few minutes filling out the information I was all set to bid. I was bidding on a $15.00 WalMart gift card. There was two or three other people bidding at the same time I was. I ended up winning the auction for a total of 83 cents with a 50 cent surchage for a total of $1.33. I thought I saved $14.00. I go check my debit card statement and see I was charged $27.00? Of course I was pissed and dumbfounded. So I decided to have a chat with one of the sales reps He tells me when I signed up I agreed to purschase some starter bid pack? Which I never did or agreed too. He goes on to say I must of agreed because if I didn't I wouldn't be able to bid? That is the biggest piece of crap lie I 've ever read. I told him how can a $15.00 Gift card I won for $1.33 cost me $27.00? Appreantly I bought a start bid pack which I never agreed too. My advice stay away from them they claim your getting a great deal, but what they don't tell the consumer is each winning bid is actually a huge profit for them. They made $26.00 off of my one winning purschase.
QuiBids.com Reviews
I was looking for Macbooks for sale on Craigslist and emailing people who I thought were just regular people trying to sell laptops they weren't using anymore. The very first response I received was seemingly from a regular person who said she had already sold the laptop but that she got it at Quibids.com and that I should try to find one there, too because it's such a great deal.
I stupidly signed up only to find they had a pathetic selection and the deals weren't even really deals. There was hardly a difference in the "deals" on this site and the retail price for a Macbook from an Apple store. It seemed strange. Then I received a similar response from a different person and realized it was part of a scam.
I Googled "quibids scam" and read that they were charging people $60 without the consumer's knowledge or permission! When you sign up for the site you are required to enter your credit card information (which I did like a dolt! ). I saw nothing and clicked nothing that asked me permission to charge $60 to my credit card! It's misleading at best and an outright lie!
When I confronted someone about this via a customer service chat the representative for Quibids promptly got defensive and said my money would be refunded soon - even though I made no mention about being illegally charged (I wasn't even sure yet that I had been charged!)! I then demanded to know how it is possible for them to charge people without their permission and called them out for being scam artists and demanded confirmation that they no longer have access to my credit card info and that my profile was in fact permanently deleted after which the representative promptly and abruptly ended the chat session (essentially hanging up on me).
Bottom line: don't trust those e-bidding sites and if someone tries to send you to another store when you're trying to buy goods on Craigslist, don't fall for it.
Scammers are the scum.of the earth. I can think of fewer people lower than those who would steal your hard earned money through lies and trickery. Good luck to all innocent consumers in navigating the corrupt waters of the internet.
Quibids is a total scam. They charge your credit card $60 without telling you. They say that this is a minimum package. When I clicked on buy bids, no where you could see how much you will be charged and how. They claim it is there in small print. When you start later bidding, you don't see that you are charged $0.60 a bid, until you discover that you don't have money anymore... They are using machines to outbid you, you can see it while you are bidding that the same names show up for one bid and they keep showing up. For example on a $25 gift certificate card I have seen a name showing on the bid more than 40 times, this is $40 * $0.60 = $24 . This person would have spent more money than it is worth... and kept seeing the same account showing under other bids... Total scam.
I decided to give Quidbids a try after seeing the commercials. After spending a few minutes filling out the information I was all set to bid. I was bidding on a $15.00 WalMart gift card. There was two or three other people bidding at the same time I was. I ended up winning the auction for a total of 83 cents with a 50 cent surchage for a total of $1.33. I thought I saved $14.00. I go check my debit card statement and see I was charged $27.00? Of course I was pissed and dumbfounded. So I decided to have a chat with one of the sales reps He tells me when I signed up I agreed to purschase some starter bid pack? Which I never did or agreed too. He goes on to say I must of agreed because if I didn't I wouldn't be able to bid? That is the biggest piece of crap lie I 've ever read. I told him how can a $15.00 Gift card I won for $1.33 cost me $27.00? Appreantly I bought a start bid pack which I never agreed too. My advice stay away from them they claim your getting a great deal, but what they don't tell the consumer is each winning bid is actually a huge profit for them. They made $26.00 off of my one winning purschase.