Thursday, August 4, 2011

Quibids scam


True end user testimonial (extracted from http://scamadvocates.com/18-Quibids.html):

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!


See what others say:
I had THE WORST experience with Quibids. This site NOT like ebay at all. ebay is a legitimate site where there are 3 parties involved: the buyer, the seller, and the administrator (ebay.) Quibids is the buyer and the administrator. 

Yes I feel I was totally taken, Of course I feel like crap, spent $120.00 trying to get a $200.00 gift card ran out of bids and they wanted me to buy more. I left the site before it got worse. I feel like hitting something right now, but I won't. Please shut them down!!! 

I think it's time for qui bids to pack up their scams and go back to Patastan or Nigera or where ever cheater are bread these Low live crooks deserve to live where garbage dwells cause that's their home.


I saw the commercial like an idiot tried to sign up...I tried punching in my credit information three times and it said it could nit be processed because the billing zip code was wrong...five minutes later American express calls me and tells me that fraudulent charges were made for 3 charges of 60 dollars each adding up to 180 dollars. It said it wasnt processed....if that isn't stealing I don't know what is.... 


Quibids is not legit. My brother lost $60 and they refuse to refund. And I know a few other people who never got their product at all. To be honest, I haven't used them myself, I use bidrack.com and haven't had any problems. My opinion is I love the concept, but some penny auction sites are just out to scam you, while others are legit and great. 

When I first tried to check out auctions I had to purchase "bids". I thought, what the heck, I'll opt in for the minimum I can buy. It didn't let me select the number or how much, it just rang up $100/60 bids on my credit card. Before I realized it had done that it did show me a selection of bid quantities and I selected the minimum amount. ONLY then realizing my account showed BOTH purchases within one minute. I emailed Customer Support and got the standard blow off of no refunds...so sorry for the inconvenience or misunderstanding. So now I've been blowing money/bids, slow and strategically, trying to win ANY thing after they give you the "easy, beginner auctions". NOT one thing more, and I don't want to think of the $8 here and the $6 there trying to bid against 20 people for 2 hours as it goes up 1 penny at a time. I WILL HAPPILY STAY WITH EBAY!!!!!!!!!!! 

The list continues...  You can continue reading at: http://scamadvocates.com/18-Quibids.html


Summary:
I will rate Quibids.com a score of  0.5/10





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SharkyBids.. How True?

Please follow me closely throughout my analysis as I promise it'll be fruitful. :)

Firstly, let's take a look at the testimonial page of this website.




I can only say I'm truly suspicious of a website completely without user validated testimonial.

Alright, let's see what they have in the 'some well thought out strategies as well as some do's and dont's at this great Blog Post.'

I was redirected to this site: http://www.sharkybidsscam.com/.
(Why this domain name as blog? For better search engine optimization I guess?)



It goes about asking you to type in the marked bonus code ‘iwantwin’ when you purchase so that he can get the affiliate bonus.

Teaching you some DO'S and DONT'S that he claim it's how to scam SharkyBids out of prizes!


He even mentioned that he used SharkyBids a fair bit and won alot of stuffs. quoted : 'Over the whole time I have definitely saved money, probably around RM 7000 in total.'


  
Forget about those. Just remember what I'm trying to highlight to you below.


(SharkyBidsScam.com is registered @ ENOM INC and hosted @ NAMECHEAPHOSTING.com)


           (Hosting IP: 205.251.130.241)




Ok, moving ok. I selected 'Another article about winning tactics and how to bid against different bidders types!'

Was redirected to this site: http://sharkybidsfraud.com/ 
(Another suspicious domain for search engine optimization purpose??)




This blog owner also mentioned:

With the information that you have been provided here you can use SharkyBids to your advantage by exploiting the weaknesses of other users. The main message of this post is that if you don’t play to win, you are playing to lose.

(Again this bonus code thing trying to prove he's a normal user?)
Now, please use the bonus code "IWANTWIN" next time you purchase bids. You will get 15% extra bids and I will get my affiliate bonus.
Thank You!









Now the fact.
 

(SharkyBidsFraud.com is registered @ ENOM INC and hosted @ NAMECHEAPHOSTING.com)


            (Hosting IP: 205.251.130.241)


Okay. Maybe it's the same user having two blog? So what now? I went to http://www.sharkybids.info/ knowing that it's their official site.




(SharkyBids.info also registered @ ENOM INC ??)
(Admin stated resides in US, CA, Westchester when SharkyBids website server is actually singapore based??)

 

(Hosting IP: 205.251.130.241 again???)






I went into 'A great Squidoo Lens all about SharkyBids.com!' and was redirected to:





The first thing that caught my eye was this header...
Someone just won Nikon D90 at SharkyBids.com for only $42.69


Bargains like this happen everyday at SharkyBids!
 
 
It was a video posted by this user SahrkyBidsRoks.
By looking at this name alone, I already doubt whether this user is real.
 
 
I went to youtube to take a look at the user profile.


(The joined day of this user to youtube was 27 March 2010 which is exactly the date where SharkyBidFraud.com domain was created.)







I also took a quick glance at the official SharkyBids's youtube channel.
Current subscriber: Only 9 
(Base on the ending price of products, I strongly believe there should be more than this figure?)
Country: Singapore
(Reconfirmed my assumption that SharkyBids should be Singapore originated)


Last but not least, I went into 'Another interesting Blog from one of our regular winners.' & was redirected to: http://indurics.com/2010/03/18/sharky-bids/

(The entire review has most of the keywords hyperlinked to SharkyBids.com)
(There's one response asking if the reviewer won anything, no avail...)
(Post is published on 18 March 2010, MARCH period again???)



Didn't SharkyBid mentioned that this is a Blog from one of their regular winners???


(But looks like that's not the case. indurics.com is a site that does PAID ADVERTISING :D)





Summary:

By monitoring SharkyBids.com's traffic within peak timezone of few highest % visitor country, product relist quantity/timing interval, product ending pricing, I would say that they could be using Bots to prevent users from winning items below their expected pricing.


From all the analysis above:






I will rate SharkyBids.com a score of  2.5/10

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