Shop with QuiBids for Father’s Day!
You’ve got one month, America.
Until what? Until Father’s Day, duh! That means that if you’re planning on getting dad a special gift online, then you’ve got to order it now, before supplies run out or it ships too late (because really, who leaves their computers to buy stuff at storefronts anymore?). QuiBids has auctions for plenty of gifts that the man who taught you how to ride a bike, swing a golf club, and grill a steak will love. So we sorted through it all and came up with these five suggestions for you!
Have a look through, and if nothing catches your eye, then try searching QuiBids by its category listings. We’ve got gifts for the garage tinkerers, hearty outdoor men, and even guys who still work out like they’re professional athletes. Let’s check ‘em out.
Nike Dri-Fit UV Stretch Polo 2 Pack
Most guys won’t admit it, but golf is really just a fashion show. You’d be hard-pressed to find a set of links free of any flamboyant dressers. The fairway is just the masculine version of the runway, really, so why don’t you help Dad strut his stuff with a couple of fresh golfing polos from Nike?
While you’re at it, you might consider a gift card and a set of balls to go with it. While looking good is of primary importance on the golf course, equipment is definitely requisite.
Black & Decker Powered Handsaw
Here’s one for the guy who jumped at the opportunity to build your first tree house. Or maybe the dad who just happens to have a tree with overgrowing branches or some minor around-the-house carpentry work to do. This handheld Black & Decker saw is perfect for quick, easy projects, and stores nicely just about anywhere, which makes it as nifty a gift for dad as you can get!
Night Owl Apollo — 45 Video Surveillance
You know what’s cheaper than paying a security company to come stick alarms on your walls? Keeping an eye on the place yourself! This one’s for those with hobbyist fathers who maybe have a little bit too much spare time, as the 500 GB hard drive, 400 Line Camera, and Image Sensor CMOS are only three of about thirty of the features on this thing.
Masterbuilt 30” Electric Smoker
Really, need we say more?
Toshiba 40” 1080p LCD TV
Because what’s more Father’s Day than sitting back and watching golf on a brand-new TV?
Four QuiBids Social Networks You Probably Don’t Know About
For those of you who are familiar with QuiBids and our popular social networks like QuiBids Facebook, QuiBids Twitter and QuiBids YouTube we’d like to let you in a little secret.
QuiBids has an expansive social network and we’ve spread our name across the Internet to provide you with updated information on QuiBids live auctions, contests, promotions and happenings on our site. We want to connect with our fans and members in every way possible, so we’ve joined sites like Digg, Delicious, FriendFeed, and Reddit to keep you in the loop!
QuiBids Digg
Digg is a social news site and our place to provide links with the latest information on our company blog and live auctions. It allows our followers to “digg” a story or bury it moving our news and links up and down based on relevance. Join us on Digg to find the most up-to-date news.
QuiBids Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking site, which is perfect for QuiBids members who want to store, share, and discover what’s going on with QuiBids. We share our latest blog posts, live auctions, social sites, and much more on Delicious’ platform.
QuiBids FriendFeed
Perfect for all of our QuiBids friends, FriendFeed allows us to update our statuses from social media websites, network with other social sites, bookmark websites, blogs and micro-blogs. QuiBids FriendFeed is linked to our company blog to give you up-to-the-minute information when our content is posted. You’ll never miss a live auction, contest or QuiBids updates when you join our FriendFeed. That’s what friends are for!
QuiBids Reddit
QuiBids Reddit is a community of users who share their interests. QuiBids’ Reddit is full of QuiBid company news, blog posts, links to social profiles and much more. We keep our Reddit up-to-date and encourage our followers to vote on topics we post.
We love our members and encourage interaction on our website and on our social profiles. We want to connect with you and are continuing to create ways to share, follow, link and be a part of your social network.
What sets QuiBids apart from other auction sites?
There’s no shortage of choices when it comes to shopping online. You’ve got your major retailers like Amazon, eBay, and Zappos that are known for their reliability and convenience. You’ve also got plenty of options to shop with smaller, niche-focused retailers like, say, Napa Online (which exclusively sells car parts) or Plow & Hearth (which exclusively sells home and garden supplies), that are going to be much more knowledgeable about their products.
There are some significant advantages to purchasing a particular item from a particular site. So what do you get when you venture forth into the wide entertainment auction landscape that we at QuiBids have to offer? Here are a couple of things that set us apart from the many other entertainment auction and online retail sites out there.
1. Buy Now
QuiBids was the first entertainment auction website to offer a Buy Now feature on its entire inventory, meaning that — so long as you’re willing to buy the item at its listed retail price — you never have to lose money on our site. The worst case scenario in any auction should be that you have to purchase a brand-new item at a price that’s competitive for the Internet. Only a handful of other entertainment auction sites offer such a feature, which we installed as a guarantee for our customers!
2. We’re in good standing with the BBB!
There aren’t a whole bunch of entertainment retail auction sites that go to the trouble of achieving a Better Business Bureau accreditation, but we’re nearly two years into ours here at QuiBids. The Oklahoma City BBB currently ranks us at an A- rating and cited the volume of formal complaints filed as being very good for the number of customers we serve!
We’ve also completed an independent audit by Grant Thornton, a well-respected accounting and professional services firm, which you can read here. But if you don’t have time to do all the reading, here are the highlights:
- “QuiBids maintains effective controls to provide reasonable assurance that bids are placed by bona fide users and does not manipulate the bidding process to inflate the bid price or affect who wins the auction (no use of bots, shill bidding or bidding by employees).
- “QuiBids maintains effective controls to provide reasonable assurance that winning auctions and ‘Buy Now’ orders are fulfilled (i.e. shipped).
3. So long as you don’t spend your Real Bids, we’ll refund them if you ask!
Every day, more and more people sign up for QuiBids, and — by our casual estimate — about 10% of new users jump right in without first spending time in our information portal, QuiBids 101, or even learning how our auction model works.
As a result, we get loads of complaints from this minority, who think that we’ve scammed them for a quick 60 bucks. The good news is that — so long as they didn’t actually spend these Real Bids in an auction — we can refund them back! All it takes is a phone call, email, or chat with our Customer Support staff. Speaking of which…
4. We’ve got a large Customer Support staff.
Currently our Customer Support team boasts more than 35 employees, which makes it the largest department in our entire company. That’s because we want to be able to help every single one of our customers quickly and efficiently, so that you can understand our site and use it to save time and money! Whether you’re looking for a refund, have a question about your user account, or would just prefer to speak with somebody over the phone instead of searching out the information for yourself, Customer Support’s got your back!
5. Most all of our auctions include a return policy.
Go ahead and click on any live auction and scroll down to where it says Product Details in all capital letters. The item’s specific return policy is always listed down there, and it’s usually good for 30 days, so long as you have the original packaging we sent with it. More about that policy here.
6. Achievements and Games
We believe a lot in gameification — that is, incorporating a games and rewards system into our retail model — mostly for the same reason we like playing games and earning rewards ourselves : because it’s fun! QuiBids Games and Achievements provide our users with plenty of entertainment and excitement that they can’t get with traditional online retailers, and plenty of other entertainment auction sites, too!
7. QuiBids Deals!
Just two weeks ago we announced the debut of a great way of shopping with QuiBids that saves time and money. It’s QuiBids Deals, and it allows you to skip the auction and head straight for the savings! What other entertainment auctions offer something like this?
QuiBids’ Mother’s Day mini-contest
How’s your Mother’s Day shopping going? If you’re in need of some ideas, the QuiBids company blog’s got your back with four quick suggestions from our Mother’s Day Facebook shopping gallery (and one more each from our Canadian and Australian markets).
We want to make sure that moms all over the world get to enjoy their special day, so we’re going to help celebrate too! We’re announcing our Mother’s Day mini-contest, which you can enter simply by sending us an email. The winners get free bids, so listen up! Here’s how it works:
1. Compose an email with the subject line Mother’s Day mini-contest submission.
2. Attach a picture of you with your mom.
3. Write each of your first names and last initials in the body of the email, as well as how long you’ve been bidding on QuiBids.
4. And send it to me at matt[dot]carney[at]quibids[dot]com.
We’ll choose five winners at random to give 25 Voucher Bids, kind of like a miniature version of our daily Facebook sweepstakes and our Twitter retweet contests. Be sure to enter to win those too, if you haven’t already!
We’ll also post all the entries to the QuiBids Facebook page to share with all our customers! So what are you waiting for? Start digging around in old photo albums — whether they’re digital or physical — and share the Mother’s Day love!
And of course — just to prove that we QuiBids employees are real-live people and not just some collective office of servers running a scam, here’s me with my own mama, last year when I graduated from college.
Also, total duh, but we have to mention it explicitly to satisfy our legal team — By submitting a photo of yourself and your mother, you are agreeing to allow QuiBids to use it for whatever promotional purposes we see fit to use it for. So there! Now you know explicitly!
QuiBids is expanding globally
QuiBids has been a popular entertainment retail auction website in the United States with up to hundreds of thousands of visitors and bidders every month. With the new, improved Internet auction model and all of the QuiBids Games and amazing deals on name brand items, it’s no surprise that QuiBids has grown internationally.
QuiBids is currently available in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom with plans to expand into certain European markets later this year. And because of our international presence we are proud to introduce Global Auctions!
The idea behind QuiBids Global Auctions is to “provide users in every country with more auctions and more product variety whenever they visit the site,” said QuiBids CEO Matt Beckham. “Customers in markets outside the United States are going to see hundreds and eventually thousands of more auctions a day and domestic users will see an increase too.”
These auctions will allow customers to compete for items with users in other countries. The introduction of Global Auctions is to increase the site’s entertainment value and offer more auctions and more product variety for members, as well as accommodate our growing customer base.
Members who’ve joined QuiBids, especially those featured as QuiBidder of the Week, love our auction model and live auction items. They’ve shared their wins and success stories with us and continue to bid on items for pennies on the dollar. Keep a look out for our planet Earth icon which will indicate if an auction is Global or not. Global Auctions are currently only available in the U.S., Canadian, and Australian markets, but will quickly spread.
Another bonus is QuiBids’ unique Buy Now feature will — as always — be available in Global Auctions. Buy Now enables customers to purchase an item at the listed retail price, less any money they lost unsuccessfully bidding on it. “It’s our way of making sure customers never have to walk away empty-handed,” said Jill Farrand, QuiBids’ Director of Public Relations.
QuiBids is already a fun and exciting auction website where members can win auction items at amazingly low prices and with the new Global Auctions you can start bidding around the world!
Have you checked out QuiBids Deals yet?
Anybody paying close attention to the QuiBids homepage and/or blog this week might have noticed that we’re offering a new promotion to help save big-time cash while shopping online. We’re calling it QuiBids Deals because, well frankly, that’s the best way to describe it: we’re offering you the chance to bypass the bidding process and just straight-up save a ton of money on great products.
QuiBids Deals works as something of a rewards program for our customers. You must be on QuiBids to be eligible for these deals — some of which are as steep as 75% off — but that’s the only qualifier. It’s not like QuiBids Badges where you have to have won so many auctions of a particular type or whatever. In fact, some of these items are discounted by so much that you could use the savings just to sign up for QuiBids if you haven’t already! How’s that for value?
Think of this blog post as a polite reminder to you that our stock is limited and that this installment of the promotion is temporary. We’re pulling the plug on it at the end of Tuesday, May 1 (that’s next Tuesday), so if you want to buy a Garmin nüvi 1300T GPS Navigation System at 67% less than the standard retail price, you’ll have to act quickly. And there’s no guarantee that they’ll still be in stock by that deadline, so we recommend you snatch these items up as quickly as you can.
Another very popular item — this one’s good for 50% off — is a handsome set of Christopher Adams Cali King Sheets. We’ve got details on this set and the nüvi below, for your perusal!
Click here to check out QuiBids Deals!
Christopher Adams Cali King Sheets
This Christopher Adam California King Sheet Set by Egyptian Comfort features a 1600 Thread Count Microfiber Sheet Set in burgundy, chocolate, sand, or white for a cool and comfortable night’s sleep. The exceptionally breathable sheets have a soft, smooth feel and a lustrous finish. These sheets provide lasting vibrancy no matter how often they are washed. They are made of High Strength Microfiber Yarn that will stay soft and wrinkle-free for years to come. An additional feature is the Deep Pocket that is sure to fit that extra thick mattress.
Features:
- 1600 Thread Count
- Ultimate Luxury
- Softness and Comfort
- Deep Pocket to fit extra thick mattress
- Breathable Sheets
- High Strength Microfiber Yarn
- Wrinkle Free
- Available in Burgundy, Sand, White, and Chocolate
California King Set includes:
- 1 Flat sheet
- 1 Fitted sheet
- 2 pillowcases
Garmin nüvi 1300T GPS Navigation System
The ultra-slim nüvi 1300T Travel Assistant is a full-featured navigator with a 4.3’ touchscreen display that has enhanced interface. nüvi 1300T Travel Assistant announces street names and turn-by-turn directions. Map data is provided by NAVTEQ™ and maps can be viewed in 3D or in 2D overhead views. It also has pedestrian routing that can be enhanced with optional cityXplorer™ maps for mass transit information and ecoRoute™ to calculate a more fuel-efficient route. The nüvi 1300T Travel Assistant comes with built-in travel kit features like picture viewer, world clock, currency, and measurement converters & calculator. The GarminLock™ anti-theft feature ensures that your Travel Assistant stays safe.
Features:
- 4.3” widescreen display
- “Where Am I?” feature finds the closest hospitals, police stations, gas stations, nearest address, intersection & coordinates
- ecoRoute™ calculates a more fuel efficient route
- cityXplorer™ helps navigate city public transit
- Auto time zone automatically adjusts time zone while navigating
Delivery cost $7.00 USD
Return Policy: Within 30 days in the original packaging
QuiBids is a scam, claims man wearing odd wig
Take it from TheCrazySalami himself: QuiBids is a scam.
We recently — while traipsing our happy way across the chunk of the Internet dedicated to saving consumers oodles of moolah — happened across this very interesting self-produced YouTube video, posted by a gentleman who goes by the username TheCrazySalami. Now, we all know that everybody’s entitled to their own opinions, but Mr. Salami seems especially opposed to the way our company operates, for reasons that — how to put this politely? — don’t exactly make sense.
Titled “The truth behind Quibids and how its to good to be true,” this thing’s a pretty entertaining two-and-a-half-minute watch, and we’ll do our best to defend our company’s reputation against the bewigged gentleman below. Don’t watch if you can’t handle the sight of a guy getting really worked up while looking like George Washington borrowed somebody’s aviator glasses. His words are in bold below. Our interjections are in italics.
This is what you need to know about Cue-bids.
Pardon us, Mr. Salami. It’s pronounced QuiBids, as in “quick bids.” You can learn more about that at our About Us page. Sorry, we’ll let you get back to what you were talking about.
This is what type of sham this website is. OK, when you first sign up for this website they go “OK, this is a promotional code that we give you. You get ten free bids.”
Uhh…we’re sorry for giving you free stuff?
And you’re like saying in your head, “Wow, ten free bids! What’s that what’s that what’s that?” But! Listen to this: You go on there and they charge you $60 just for the initial sign-up. And in the sign-up process they give you 120 bids. IF you do the math, it comes out to be about 60 cents per bid.
Yup! Our users then take the bids on to our site and win great items. More about how that works at QuiBids 101.
Alright, so what do these bids do you? So you go online and you see these ten cents — Wow! You can buy a frickin’ iPhone for ten cents!
Well, that is admittedly pretty unlikely but still very much within the realm of the possible. Somebody did recently win a new iPad for less than $5 recently. And a gas-powered scooter for less than $20. But you probably wouldn’t be too interested in that, would you?
Well lemme guess, that’s just a sham. This website’s how they trap you. It’s a very addicting website. If I were you, try to stay away. These people are making billions.
Uh, we’re making billions of dollars by ripping people off? My car loan and the Better Business Bureau say differently.
Absolutely billions of dollars on these stupid people who go on there like “Oh, I’m going to get an Apple iPod for ten cents.” But you can’t!
Uh, technically you could. It’s just not super-likely, especially if you’re not extremely patient and careful about it! But if you commit to winning it, the worst thing that could happen is you buy it at the listed retail price!
What you don’t know is that every time you place a bid, it is sixty cents coming out of your own pocket and it’s not even guaranteed that you’re going to win that product!
Actually, most people are aware of that, because our auction model is clearly explained when people sign up for our site.
There’s like ten or fifteen people bidding on this product and it’s going up every time you bid in one-cent increments.
Yup — that’s kind of how most auctions (save for the penny bit) works.
So basically I put a bid on an iPod that’s eleven cents and it turns into twelve. Then there’s a timer on this website that counts down from ten, nine, eight, all the way up to one. In that ten seconds, other people can bid you out!
You got it!
So if another person bids you out on this website, the timer resets itself to ten seconds, so it just keeps continuing in a loop of ten seconds after ten seconds, per bid per bid. Then you’re bidding on something twenty times and you times that twenty by sixty cents, man, it just adds up!
Math! Cool!
And you’re not even guaranteed to win this product!
That’s also kind of how most auctions work. We like to think this is entertaining, and, much like other things that are entertaining — like comic books, action movies, trips to the zoo — has value.
I’ve been online and I’ve seen this TV that started off as one cent this morning and now it’s up to 100 bucks, OK? Imagine, every one cent this bid goes up, this is how this company’s making money. Sure, the last person that will bid might win this TV.
Actually, they will win this TV, as it so happens. And all the other people who bid on it but lost are more than welcome to buy the item, less the money they spent bidding. We call it Buy Now .
But they probably invested a thousand dollars just to get that price for 100 bucks.
Actually, user dlg1025 recently put $201.60 worth of bids toward a Samsung HDTV bundle, to get the price to $265.95. And he/she saved $3,232.44.
Guys, I’m telling you, stay away from this website. It’s a sham, it’s addicting, and it’s going to end up costing you more money than the product’s actually worth.
Uhh, not true! Our Buy Now prevents people from ever paying more than any item on QuiBids is worth. Ever!
OK guys, this is The Crazy Salami, warning you to stay away from Cue-bids.
Again with the name?!
How does QuiBids work?
Have you checked out the QuiBids YouTube page?
We’ve got a few different playlists organizing user-made videos into categories like Unboxing, Tips and Strategy, and QuiBids Testimonials. All great resources for the young bidder!
We’re also currently running a video contest through May 9 where you could win a new-model iPad (not that you’d be interested in that…) just for shooting a video of yourself unboxing your big QuiBids win and posting it to YouTube!
But we understand that not everybody wants to sit and passively accept information being thrown out at them. It’s often much better to lean forward and proactively engage content by reading, so we’ve transcribed the copy from our very first how-to video into the blog post below, and improved it a bit by hyperlinking you to other appropriate resources and updating old information (which we’ve indicated in bold). Happy bidding!
Welcome to QuiBids! Shopping redefined!
QuiBids is where you can get amazing deals on brand-new items, such as laptops, HD TVs, cameras and more! QuiBids isn’t your typical auction site, so let’s take a look at how it works.
You’ll start out by purchasing your bids. All of our bids are sold in bundles called Bid Packs. The first Bid Pack costs $60 and comes with 100 bids.
Now that you’ve purchased bids, let’s take a look at one of our typical auctions. Here we have an auction for a Nintendo Wii. A QuiBids auction starts just like any other auction. The clock starts ticking down and the price starts at zero. Each time a bid is placed, the auction price will go up in increments of one, five, ten, or 20 cents. This increment is always shown at the top-left of the product image. If there isn’t one, it will automatically go up in one-cent increments.
Once you’ve placed a bid, you’re in the lead! Until someone places a bid after you, or until the clock runs out. Now here’s the catch: when the clock reaches the final seconds of an auction, each time a user places a bid, time will be added to the clock in increments of ten, fifteen, or 20 seconds. This gives all the other users an opportunity to top your bid. Much like the “Going once, twice, sold!” of traditional auctions. When the clock reaches zero, the auction is over and the last person to bid wins. Congratulations, you won!
Want to know how much you saved? Just look below, and you’ll see exactly how much you saved off retail price. Most of our winners save an amazing 80% off the retail value!
Once you’ve won your auction, just follow the simple checkout process, by giving us your shipping info and paying the winning bid amount. The item will be processed and shipped within a couple of days.
But wait! Let’s say you didn’t win the Wii auction, but you really wanted it. You might want to use our Buy Now feature.
This is how our Buy Now works: let’s say you spent 200 bids worth $120 trying to win, but you came up short and the Wii went to someone else. Simply go to the bottom of the screen and click Buy Now. When you use the Buy Now feature, we subtract the value of the bids you placed from the value price of the item, leaving only the difference to pay. In this particular case, for an additional $80, you can purchase the Wii.
Let’s do a quick recap.
First, purchase a Bid Pack. Second, find an auction you want to participate in. Bid for the chance to win factory-sealed products! If you win, way to go! But if you don’t, use our risk-free Buy Now auction, so you don’t lose the value of the bids you placed. Lastly, simply follow our checkout process to finish the purchase.
Remember, if you ever have questions, visit our Help section or email us at support@quibids.com. That’s all you need to know! Now go get yourself a win, and thanks for bidding on QuiBids!
QuiBids as Vegas — sort of
While there are plenty of reasons why participation in QuiBids auctions avoids the legal definition of gambling (you can read them at QuiBids 101), success on our site can never be completely guaranteed. It requires the benefit of chance associated with shrewd decision-making and often simply being in the right place at the right time. Many people call this “luck,” but these decisions and choices can actually be controlled by the user to a certain degree, in order to facilitate improved chances of winning. Many of them are strikingly similar to the choices a gambler makes when he or she heads out to Las Vegas in search of a big payoff. 
While we realize that comparing bidding on our items to sitting down to a poker table in Vegas probably doesn’t do much to help dissuade the notion that shopping with QuiBids isn’t gambling, we think it’s still a valid, vivid means of comparison that illustrates how to take advantage of our business model. From this point on (in this post, at least), it helps to bear the Buy Now feature in mind, as it guarantees that you’ll never have to pay more than a product’s retail price, should an auction not go the way you hoped. And that — unlike a casino’s slot machines — the odds aren’t always set in the house’s (read: QuiBids’) favor.
QuiBids as Vegas Comparison #1: Never walk into the Palace without plenty of ammo
Who carries pocket change into Casesar’s Palace — or The Palms, or MGM Grand — expecting to win big? Delusional people, that’s who.
Likewise, QuiBidders expecting to reign a big-screen TV with just a couple of bids are thinking pretty optimistically. Not that customers don’t win big with just a few bids — they do, we see it all the time — but they’re considerably less likely to win such an item at a discount if they’re not willing to pump in a hefty amount of bids.
QuiBids as Vegas Comparison #2: Different players have different styles
We bill ourselves as an entertainment shopping site, so customers’ ultimate goal should boil down to something as simple as “Have fun and get stuff,” right? Well sometimes users develop more involved, complicated (and even sometimes perplexing) strategies to deliver that goal.
A common one we’ve noticed is very similar to bluffing and losing. In poker, sometimes getting caught bluffing can be a useful thing, assuming you don’t lose too many chips: it proves to your opponents that you won’t sit idly by, waiting for a good hand. Then, they may be less likely to believe you when you do wind up with a straight flush. You win some to lose some.
Similarly on QuiBids, some users are willing to take a loss on certain auctions just to establish a reputation as being difficult to defeat. A user may spend 300 bids for instance, just to win 250 Voucher Bids. It is a bit of a bully tactic, and doesn’t make much sense within the immediate context, but it can pay off dividends if it means that other customers are scared to bid against you. We think it’s a good strategy to generally avoid these people, but to also bear in mind that a bluff is just a scare tactic by somebody who’s got nothing. Sometimes challenging them on their bullying can blow up their whole persona.
QuiBids as Vegas Comparison #3: Don’t expect to win your first trip to the table
A lot of people watch professionals play poker on TV and think, “That looks easy — all I’ve gotta do is sit still and keep a really stern face and toss chips in the pot!”
That couldn’t be further from the truth. Each person at that televised table spent years of experience calculating odds and analyzing them against the behavior of their opponents. It’s incredibly nerve-wracking and stressful, and miles above the level of competition at your buddies’ weekly poker night.
Major product auctions on QuiBids often draw these sorts of players — the so-called “power-bidders” — who spent a lot of time in front of their computer screens, trying (and often succeeding) at winning our products. Building up to their level of skill and confidence requires a lot of time and bidding, so don’t expect to win a computer or major in-home appliance on your first try, at least without the help of Buy Now.
QuiBids as Vegas Comparison #4: Smaller auctions are
If big-item auctions draw the big-time players, then it follows that smaller-item auctions are less-trafficked, right? [Now’s the part where you nod your head in the affirmative.]
It helps to think of an auction like a poker table: your odds of winning increase if you only have to beat two opponents instead of nine. Look for items being bid on by fewer users and the odds will ever be in your favor!
QuiBids Product Spotlight: HP Pavilion g6
Since March 31 of this year, QuiBids users have won 16 of these babies, and they’re proving themselves to be a pretty popular auction. And no wonder! With a Blu-ray player, 640 gig hard drive, HP webcam, nearly six hours of battery life, and a Microsoft Office Starter kit, what’s not to like?
We wanted to highlight this particular item for a different reason, though (you can find out more about its specifications below), and that’s the bipolar pattern at which it’s been selling.
Of the 16 HP Pavilions sold, the prices have ranged from $1.35 all the way to $82.02. It’s not uncommon for items auctioned on QuiBids to sell at such a dynamic range, so that’s not really the oddball thing here. It has to do with the weird, inexplicable gap in the middle, between the half of the items that sold for less than $14 and the other half that sold for $33 or more. Observe.
Here are the prices of the eight Pavilions that sold for $33 or more. They’re ordered from greatest to least:
$82.02
$79.16
$72.56
$64.36
$47.05
$42.90
$36.20
$33.14
Here are the prices of the eight Pavilions that sold for less than $14. Again, ordered from greatest to least:
$13.55
$13.35
$9.07
$6.85
$6.02
$5.12
$4.31
$1.35
That $20 gap in the middle is a pretty telling limit, and a good rule of thumb for participating in auctions for this item in the future. There’s about a 50% chance that the end price will wind up at $13 or less. After that, $80-$33 is a pretty wide range, so you’d be best served to concentrate your bidding in the early going, on the off-chance that the bidding doesn’t get too heated, as was the case with Nessiebot, who spent 18 bids and saved $637.84. Not too shabby for that tabby.
Features:
- Intel Core i3-2350M processor
- 2.30GHz, 3MB L3 Cache
- 4GB DDR3 SDRAM system memory (expandable to 8GB)
- Gives you the power to handle most power-hungry applications and tons of multimedia work
- 640GB SATA hard drive
- Store 426,000 photos, 182,000 songs or 336 hours of HD video and more
- Blu-ray player and SuperMulti DVD Burner
- Watch movies, and read and write CDs and DVDs in multiple formats
- 10/100Base-T Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
- Connect to a broadband modem with wired Ethernet or wirelessly connect to a Wi-Fi signal or hotspot with the 802.11b/g/n connection built into your PC
- 15.6″ HD BrightView LED-backlit display
- Intel HD Graphics 3000 with up to 1696MB total graphics memory
Additional Features:
- HP webcam
- 2-in-1 memory card reader
- 3 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 x headphone-out, 1 x microphone-in, 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet port, 1 x VGA port, 1 x HDMI port
- 6-cell lithium-ion battery, up to 5 h 30 min battery life
Software:
- Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Edition (To learn more about the features of Windows 7, click here)
- Microsoft Office Starter 2010: Includes reduced functionality versions of Microsoft Word and Excel, with advertising. PowerPoint and Outlook are NOT included. Purchase Office 2010 today and get the most out of your new PC. (To learn more about the features of Office 2010, click here)
- Norton Internet Security 2012 (60-day subscription)
- HP Recovery Manager
Support and Warranty:
- 1-year limited hardware warranty
- Restore discs are not included (unless specified by supplier). We recommend you use the installed software to create your own restore and backup DVD the first week you use the computer.
Return Policy: Within 30 days in the original packaging