It seems that if a high price ticket item is up for bidding, the quibids clock has an amazing ability to stay at zero for up to five seconds to allow more bidders to bid up the price, however on my test for more bids which would cost you absolutely nothing, viola! The clock worked perfectly. Quibids is a gambling site, and not an auction site. As far as I know, online gambling is illegal in the US. I just read a report similar to mine about the clock.
It would not surprise me to find out that quibids has employees working for them to bid up prices on big ticket items. If you have money to throw away, try an experiment. 1. Bid on a high priced item that's not too popular so you have a chance at winning. See if you can get the clock to go to zero, and if it does, watch it reset from there. 2. Bid on more bids from quibids. Watch how as soon as the clock hits zero, you win! Here's a response I got from quibids
"Each time you place a bid, your Bids Account is deducted one bid, and a maximum of 20 seconds is added to the timer every time someone bids. This gives enough time for someone else to make the decision to bid if they're interested. This is similar to the Going Once... Twice... SOLD approach of auctions." I experienced nothing like that, especially on my bid for more bids.
The bottom line is I will file a complaint with the AG's office in Massachusetts and encourage all disseised customers to do the same. Maybe I'll even contact Elizabeth Warren's office, with her being up for election and huge on consumer protection. Copy and paste all the complaints you read here to a word document for evidence as well.
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