How It Works
How does QuiBids work?
Bids cost just $0.40 and can be purchased in bid packs at the Bid Store or in the QBar. These bids are pre-paid and stored in the Bid Credit History section of My QuiBids. Each time you place a bid; it will be deducted from your remaining bids, and will increase the price of the auction by one cent. . No more than 20 seconds is added to the timer whenever a bid is placed. This allows another user the opportunity to bid if interested. It's just like the auctioneer shouting “Going once...Going twice...SOLD!†at a traditional auction.
And also just like a traditional auction, you win by being the last to bid. Once you pay the final auction price and shipping costs, the item is yours!
Here's the part that isn't like a traditional auction: If you don't win, you can't reclaim the bids you place. BUT, because we never want anyone to walk away with nothing, we offer a Buy Now feature on ALL of our auctions! When you use our Buy Now feature, we subtract the cash value of the bids you’ve placed (excluding voucher bids) from the value price of the item, and you pay the difference. It's just like buying the item at retail price! So at least you had a chance at getting it at a discount, eh?
Let's say you spend 30 bids trying to win a $30 valued product, but you don't win. Your 30 bids are worth $12 (30 x $0.40), so if you choose to use the Buy Now, you will only pay $18 more for the product. Please note that this offer applies to real bids only, and that voucher bids to do not apply to the Buy Now option.
It’s also important to note that (except for Voucher Bid and Limit Buster auctions) QuiBids auctions aren’t limited to single items. A QuiBids auction allows customers to pick from a list of comparably priced products, which you may finalize at checkout. Be sure to shop the complete list of available products for the one that’s just right for you.
What is Buy Now?
With Buy Now, you can purchase any product at any time during the auction and up to 2 hours after the auction is over by clicking the Buy Now button on the auction page. The value of any Real Bids* placed in an auction will be applied to the value price*. Voucher Bids used in an auction will not count toward the Buy Now price. Buy Now purchases don't count toward your daily or 28-day win limit. Because there's no limit to the Buy Now feature, the auction will continue even if a user chooses to Buy Now.
You must bid at least once in an auction in order to use the Buy Now option. The Buy Now price will never fall below $0.00 because QuiBids prevents users from spending more in Real Bids than the item's value price. For example, you can't place $110 worth of Real Bids in an auction for an item with a $100 value price. On QuiBids, you will never pay more than the value price for a product you want. If a user chooses to Buy Now, they can pick from any of QuiBids' amazing products that are available in that particular auction.
Below is an example of how your discount for Buy Now is calculated.
Value Price: $100.00
Discount: Real Bids Placed x Bid Price: 100 x $0.40 = $40.00
Buy Now Price: + Shipping/Taxes (if applicable) $60.00
The Buy Now price will be updated every time you place a bid
*Real Bids are bids that were purchased in a Bid Pack.
*The value price is the suggested retail price for that item.
Learn more about Buy Now:
What's the best way to win an auction?
Everyone wants to know how to improve their chances of winning an auction on QuiBids. There isn't a guaranteed winning strategy, but we'll offer you a few tips to help get you started:
Place your bid within the last 15 seconds
By placing a bid in the last few seconds, you know the time will reset and you'll become the highest bidder. If someone else bids, time will be added and you'll get another chance to bid.
Bid on the cheapest products
You can get some great deals on our most expensive items. However, these items also tend to generate the most competitive auctions. Fewer bidders bid on cheaper items, meaning that you are much more likely to win.
Protect yourself with Bid-O-Matic
Bid-O-Matic is a powerful tool when using strategic limits. It can scare away the other bidders because they know that the Bid-O-Matic will always place bids to keep you on top. Your chances of winning are increased, and they know it- which may help you intimidate your competition.
Turn your opponents' Bid-O-Matics against each other
Some people set the Bid-O-Matic and forget about it. It is easy to win if your competition has stepped away from the computer with the assumption that their Bid-O-Matic will fully protect them. We’ve noticed that users tend to set the "Bid From" value of their Bid-O-Matic to a round number, so use this to your advantage. Wait for a round number and place a single bid after it on the off-chance that the Bid-O-Matic has reached its limit.
Watch other bidders
View the details of the last ten bids placed and try to figure out:
- Who is bidding?
- When do they place their bids?
How do you pronounce QuiBids?
This is a much more common question than you'd think. QuiBids is pronounced ('Kwi-Bids), as in Quick Bids.
QuiBids. Say it out loud. "QuiBids." Good. Now go tell your friends about QuiBids and you'll receive free bids if they sign up and purchase a Bid Pack. Just be sure to use the "Refer a Friend" link in the My QuiBids section.
How does the Bid-O-Matic work?
Bid-O-Matic automatically places bids for you in a more efficient way than other auction sites. Bid-O-Matic even lets you bid if you're not logged on to our website! Using Bid-O-Matic guarantees your bid will be placed in the last 20 seconds. You'll never have to worry about losing your Internet connection or getting distracted in the final seconds because Bid-O-Matic will bid as you instruct it to.
Bid-O-Matic's Protocol:
- Bid-O-Matic will bid whenever the timer drops below 20 seconds, though it's up to the Bid-O-Matic exactly when it will place that bid.
- Bid-O-Matic can be set up with a minimum of 3 bids and a maximum of 150 bids at a time.
- Bid-O-Matic will start to bid for you as soon as you click the 'Activate' button, unless there is less than 2 seconds remaining on the auction clock.
- Bid-O-Matic may be deactivated at any point during the auction. Please keep in mind that the number of deactivations will be limited to minimize server load.
- If an auction ends, all unused Bid-O-Matic bids will remain in your account.
- You can only set one Bid-O-Matic at a time per auction.
- Bid-O-matics cannot be activated on auctions with less than 2 seconds remaining on the auction clock.
How to Use:
- In the Bid-O-Matic area on the right side of every auction page, simply enter the Bid From price (which is the price you want the Bid-O-Matic to start placing bids at) and the number of bids you're prepared for it to use. Then select 'Activate'.
- Sit back, relax, and watch your Bid-O-Matic do all the work for you.
What about when two or more Bid-O-Matics are set to bid in the same price range?
- If there are two or more Bid-O-Matics bidding in the same auction, a bid will be placed sometime in the last 20 seconds just like if there was one Bid-O-Matic bidder. Only one bid from a Bid-O-Matic bidder will be placed at a time.
- The exact time that Bid-O-Matic bids varies – it can be anywhere between 0 and 20 seconds. It's randomized to prevent other bidders from knowing if a Bid-O-Matic is in play.
*Please note that while the Bid-O-Matic function is offered on many of our auctions, it is not offered on all of them. If you do not see it on the auction page, you might be looking at an auction where Bid-O-Matic is not available.
How much do bids cost?
Each bid costs $0.40, and they are available for purchase in Bid Packs here or through the QBar. QuiBids accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal.
Can everyone be a winner?
Yes! Even if you don't win the auction, you'll never have to walk away with nothing. Any time after you've placed your first bid in an auction, you may choose to buy the product at a discount using the Buy Now feature. You'll never have to pay more than the Value Price for any products on QuiBids. But not everyone will win the auction at a large discount.
Are products brand-new?
All products on QuiBids are brand-new and factory sealed!
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Penny Auction Website Designs
Our designs come in several different layouts, these include standard designs as well as horizontal, alternating horizontal and grid layouts. Additionally All of them can be installed either as a 2 column or one column design.
You can also choose No sliders, single slider, two or three column sliders
Icon colors are customizeable and the text is dynamic, or can be set for the auction itself
Start with a clone and we can customise it from there.
We also provide themes that can be applied to each template, many of themes are holiday-centric.
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Service Levels and Pricing
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Frequently Asked Questions Questions
Why we use auction filters instead of auction types?
Our auction filters, particularly when it comes to penny auctions, seated auctions and similar bid based auctions allows you as the admin or your vendors to create truly unique auction experiences. Such as seated auctions with locks, private auctions that are seond chance and much more. Rather than paying us or another developer to create new auction types our software allows for an infinite number of unique auction variations. What's more or auction wizard allows you to easily visibly review what your auctions will look like. Visibly verify your auctions before they are added while adding multiple auctions quickly, easily and even customiseably.
Why other auction software fails?
Many older systems trak bids in seconds. In the modern internet seconds are an eternity. Many people might bid in the same second. Under those conditions it is impossible to determine who the actual winner is. Unless like our software does you track in bids in milli-seconds. This also allows us to update the page more accurately ind more aggressively. You can actually see multiple bidders in the same second, yet accuracy to who was the final bidder. Another issue that might give you troubles is security, like being able to restrict bidders from the same IP address...a common trick that hacking / biding farms might use to exploit your system. Because of our websocket infrastruture we can easily limit IP addresses based upon bad actors or in areas known to be hackng farms. Also we are the only company that can offer true Level 3 PCI compliance. Our software uses a vigorace, aggesive Content Security Policy that eliminates worries of Cross Site Scripting attacks and our backend has been thooughly tested for SQL injection issues. We offer the most modern and secure e-commerce, aucton software and marketplace software solution on the market. One that has also been written so to make updating it for future security and performance issues simple and fast.
The most customiseable auction software system on the market
Since our system is 100% API based...you can easily nitegrate it with any website...even HTML based ones, WIX or ohers...but in addition we also have a full featured Page Builder similar to Wix, Squarespace and even Worpress solutons. Our Sales website itself was built using this API as well as our Propietary Page Builder and our Custom CSS plugin. These wizards are easy to use but also allow for advanced users to recognise features that mimic tools like chrome web-dev tools or firebug...most of our features have been written to be easy to use for beginners, but also intuitive enough for advanced users to figure out quickly to make them more effective.
The only e-commerce, auction software solution that is Vanilla Javascript only
We recognised in the last few years that Bootstrap JS nd Jquery solutions double the time it takes to load a page. In fact as these solutions becode more commonly used and advanced they are increasing page load speeds. Page load speeds have become a moajor deiding factor not only when it comes to google indexing, but also how many people will use your website. We eliminated this extra Javascript and prefer to ue modern CSS animations or other vanilla JS effects. Thus our pages usually load in under 1.2 seconds compared to between 3-7 seconds when bootstrap, jquery and jquery-ui are added. Modern HTML5 and CSS3 methods mean that extra libraries are no longer even needed, it also means these extra libraries not only slow your website...but also have measurable effects on degrading your SEO results. We have done the research on these effects. If you want to get to number 1 on Google...then page speed as is just as important as backlinks. In fact tis is testable with our sales site...we are on page 1 despite not buyin backlinks...we got there through optimisation. Despite our competitors have thousands more backlinks than we do. The system you buy from us will also have the same benefits.
Full multi language support
We use a propietary language service that will convert all of your site cntent, even user submitted content to the user's native language. Rather than depending upon expensive third party services. Our langage model service is simple to change and has it's pwn easy to use wizard. Full language support allows you to reach a broader audience an improves your SEO rankings as well. It is silent but an also be used with our content wizards.
Why did we rewrite our Auction Software, Shopping Cart Software as Vanilla Javascript Only?
After Google's most recent update we recognised very quickly that Page load speeds, Cumulative Layout shift and general performance factors were the new metrics that Google was and is still rewarding. jQuery and Boostrap.js n combination make websites and apps much slower, tey simply do. During our rewrites we were able to cut page load speeds from 3.5 seconds to 1.25 seconds...blazing fast load speeds basially. In addition whle doing this we recognised other areas where we could create other SEO opportunities trhough performance. The truth is right here on this website. Our competitors have been around for decades and have spent thousands of dollars for backlinks and link wheels to improve their search appearance. Our SEO performance is beccome of superior performance. These benefits simply exist within our software...with multiple ways to customise your own SEO performances for each page...whether they are automatic or not...our software simply is just much better for SEO performance. Our competitors use HTML or Wordpress sales sites for their software...we use our own software as a CMS solution as well...so even though our sales website uses our API to show auction results here...it is still using our core software as a CMS solution that in many ways rivals even Wordpress
Your options for building a penny auction website or auction app are numerous.
1) you can hire a team of developers and spend weeks even months developing just the basic features of a penny auction app.
2) You can purchase a penny auction bidding app from one of our competitors and hope that it is secure and can handle the high demands of a busy website. and then hire your own developers to add the features and integrations that we offer.
3) Spend a fraction of the time and money and get the features and technology you need right out of the box by purchasing our software
Websockets
Websockets are a way of sending data between the server and users in real time. The connection stays open the whole time a user is connected so unlike AJAX scripts there is no need to reconnect. This reduces issues with latency and server overhead.
Why is NodeJS better than AJAX
NodeJS is a super fast super efficient way of connecting to a database and serving data. Mush faster than PHP and more secure.
What is CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a modern PHP / Model View Controller framework. We use it to serve files to the browser but only after we strip out comments, new lines and extra whitespace and then compress the file so that the page size is smaller and the page loads quickly. Our pages usually load in under 2 seconds. We also implement caching of your sitesettings. This means no database lookups that might slow the page from rendering.
Additionally we recently updated our code to PHP8 and the most recent version of CodeIgniter so your software should run for years without needing major updates.
Chargebacks
Chargebacks are the number one issue with running a Penny Auction or any Ecommerce Shopping Cart or Market Place website. In this regard we have you covered with highly configurable Two Factor authentication and confirmation.
Two Factor Authentication
Can be implemented nearly anywhere that security or confirmation needs to occur. The challenge code can be random or if configured for your website then a user's PIN number can be used.
Accounting Software Integrations
Our software ties into Quickbooks so you can always get an advanced view of your profits and expenses.
What product types are supported
We support regular merchandise, food, real estate, vehicles, services and more. Our software also makes it very easy to add cusom product types
Can I use your auction software with Wordpress, Drupal or other CMS solutions?
We are proud to say that a single ine of Javascript will allow you to host auctions on any website you wish no matter what fraamework you prefer including just HTML.
Easily add multiple auctions in mere seconds
Using our priority auction software wizard you can now easiy add dozens of aucions in mere seconds, each with their own configurations as well.
Marketplace Solutions
Our Marketplace addon supports shopping, point of sale and auction integrations, based upon a simple subscription method that you can easily configure. Tie it to our Extra admins and regional admin addons and supercharge your revenue base. Also can be used with our Quickbooks plugin and others.
Shopping Cart Software Solutions
Our Shopping Cart soluton can use the same products as described in your auction software or others. Products are quick and easy to add and can even be imported from excel files. We use an easy to learn Propietary "Wizard" to make addng content very intuitve and easy to master. Supports numerous product types alreay and ties into other addons such as Marketplace, Quickbooks, Point of Sale and others. Also supports advanced features like bundles, galleries, Google taxonomies, variations, addons and more