QuiBids Blog

Product Spotlight: Oasis Cabana Gazebo

May, 16th 2012 in Products by Matt Carney

In Oklahoma City — where QuiBids’ office is located — the summers can get so brutal that you can bake cookies just by leaving a panful of dough in your car. Last summer was particularly unmerciful, as we hit over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for more than 30 consecutive days.

So with spring in full swing and summer soon to come, we recommend preparing for the possibility of another rough heat wave — not by retreating into your house for the summer and throwing gobs of money at your energy bill for air conditioning — but by checking out one of our newest products we’re auctioning off here at QuiBids. It’s a big ol’ Moroccan-style gazebo that’ll keep you cool and (thanks to its one-inch powder-coated aluminum tubing) stand up against real strong winds. And trust us — we Oklahomans know a thing or two about strong winds. Ever seen Twister?

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Photos: #BringOnTheFun Charity Event #1!

May, 15th 2012 in Charity by Matt Carney

It was a little quieter than usual at the QuiBids offices Thursday afternoon.

That was because more than 25 of our employees snuck out early for a bit of fun in the Oklahoma City community! We’re building a partnership with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, which is an incredible organization that serves the 675,000+ Oklahomans who live at risk of hunger on a daily basis. The Food Bank’s site coordinators recommended a pair of families in need of a little help, and one team of QuiBids employees got to meet up with them for a shopping spree at a south Oklahoma City Homeland store, while another went and helped stock the food pantry at Western Oaks middle school.

We’ll be doing more on-the-clock charity stuff like this all year long, so if you’re in Oklahoma City, keep an eye out for our blue QuiBids Charitable t-shirts! If you’re following us online at our Twitter, then keep up with us at the hashtag #BringontheFun.

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QuiBidder of the Week – Don W.

May, 14th 2012 in QuiBidder of the Week, Testimonials by Blake Brown

It’s Monday, which means it’s time to say hello to the QuiBidder of the Week, and this week’s featured QuiBidder is Don W. from the United States. Within the first month of bidding, Don had already won a Toshiba Laptop, a Dyson Vacuum, and a Home Theater System, all from QuiBids! You can read more of Don’s QuiBids story below:

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QuiBids just made it easier to win 50 FREE bids!

May, 11th 2012 in Contests by Blake Brown

Have you heard the news? We’ll soon revamp the Daily Sweepstakes contest on Facebook! Now you can enter to win our daily contest for 50 free bids just by using your mobile device. So, in the time it takes you to walk to your car in the morning, you could already have an entry submitted for the day. Would you like to know more? Read on.

What’s changed?

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Fun Friday: Mother’s Day mini-contest winners!

May, 11th 2012 in Contests by Matt Carney

Like most any office-culture-type company, we’ve grown close together over the years here at QuiBids, more like a family than just a group of co-workers. And that family’s grown even further to include many of our customers, as we’ve gotten to hear your stories about how QuiBids saved you money on gifts for your kids and spouses, and little splurges for yourselves, too (because if there’s anything we’ve learned from TV shows about work places, it’s that it’s important to “treat yo self!”).

So late last week we announced a short-notice Mother’s Day mini-contest as a chance for you guys to share your families with us! We feel really honored that you appreciate our services enough to participate by sending us pictures of you with your much-loved mothers, so we chose five at random and built a neat little photo frame out of them! It’s our way of saying happy Mother’s Day to you!

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Six great gifts for grads!

May, 10th 2012 in Products by Matt Carney

When May hits, the professional world feels the impact, because it’s measured in new hires.

It’s that time of year when thousands of once-students order their caps and gowns and walk across the stage from study into practice. They trade their backpacks for briefcases, their flip-flops for loafers, and start reading up on 401ks and the differences between term life and whole life insurance.

It’s an exciting time in life, but it’s also terribly intimidating, so don’t let your college grad walk from the dorm room to the office alone! We’ve got plenty of great gifts available for auction on QuiBids right now, from the bare (business-world) necessities on up to the kind of stuff that will make your businessperson the object of his or her office’s jealousy. Between these gifts and a suit as sharp as Don Draper’s (pictured), your grad’ll be ready to swim with the sharks.

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What are QuiBids Badges?

May, 9th 2012 in Site Features, Tips & Strategy by Matt Carney

Remember when you were a kid and it was socially acceptable to ask to go up to the cockpit and meet the pilots of the plane? And how the flight attendants would hook you up with an awesome set of wings to forever commemorate that moment, which would subsequently make you the coolest kid in the classroom when you showed them to everybody on Monday morning?

Well that’s the feeling we hope you get every time you earn a new QuiBids Badge! We started Badges as a way to reward our customers with Voucher Bids for all the time, care, and persistence they put into shopping with QuiBids. We say “shopping” and not “bidding,” because there are plenty of ways to earn badges other than by participating in QuiBids auctions. Some we give as an incentive for customers to spend time with QuiBids 101 so that they learn how our site works, and others we just dole out because it’s nice to just give things away!

We also built QuiBids Badges to create a series of goals for our customers, ones that — if properly followed — would condition them to healthy expectations and good bidding practice. So you can use these as helpful guidelines for your QuiBids experience!

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QuiBids Product Spotlight: Dr. Dre iBeats Headphones

May, 8th 2012 in Products, Tips & Strategy by Matt Carney

Like listening to music that sounds as crisp and precise as when it was recorded, but don’t like the headaches you get from wearing bulky, noise-canceling headphones?

Sounds like you’re more of an in-ear/earbuds kind of guy or gal. And while we’ve got a wide selection of these more petite headphones for you to choose from, we’d like to highlight one in particular that’s especially popular amongst QuiBids customers: the Dr. Dre iBeats Headphones.

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QuiBidder of the Week – Suzanne P.

May, 7th 2012 in QuiBidder of the Week, Tips & Strategy by Blake Brown

Congratulations to the newest QuiBidder of the Week, Suzanne P.! We chose Suzanne because she provided her overall bidding strategy and offered some insightful tactical and sequential details that we’re sure you’ll find helpful when bidding on QuiBids. Here’s Suzanne’s story:

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Issues with Global Auctions

May, 4th 2012 in Products, Site Features, Tips & Strategy by Matt Carney

We’re now nearly two weeks into Global Auctions — the latest innovation on the QuiBids auction model — and our Customer Support department’s noticed three regularly recurring concerns from users.

This doesn’t come at any sort of surprise to us, as customer service is a pillar in the retail (and particularly online retail) shopping industry. There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution to customer satisfaction, so we do our very best to make our site as easily navigable as possible, and then help whomever’s left with questions via Customer Support. It’s a pretty darn good system, if we may say so ourselves.

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