QuiBids auctions: Tired of the “window” look?

We’ve received a ton of feedback from customers about the recent QuiBids redesign, and we really appreciate all your suggestions! It’s the site you use after all, so we want to build QuiBids into something useful and easily functional for all of our users!

Achieving that lofty goal means offering options. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the variety and scope of the observations and criticisms we’ve received, it’s that it’s impossible to please all of our customers with a stoic, static site. So by handing you the reigns of customization, you can all tailor QuiBids to look and function way that’s best for you!

We just built in one of these new options, and you may not have even noticed it! Previously, QuiBids auctions only lined up in a “window” style, but now you can toggle between a window view and list view at your leisure. Here’s the toggle:

So now choosing between the classic window view

and the new list view

is as easy as the click of your mouse. It’s never been simpler to customize how you see QuiBids! Head over to My QuiBids and you can make other important changes to your profile, such as the notifications and newsletters you receive, as well as what information other QuiBidders can see when you’re bidding in auctions.

We’ve got more about customers’ reactions to the QuiBids redesign coming up next week, so stay tuned to the QuiBids blog for the latest information!

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QuiBids named Best in Class by Interactive Media AwardsWhile we...

QuiBids named Best in Class by Interactive Media Awards

While we started in 2009 as a humble auction site serving only a handful of customers a day, we’re very proud to have built QuiBids into an award-winning online service, one that thousands of people all over the world utilize for their shopping needs every single day.

It’s very humbling for us to receive awards because they take us back to the early goings, when QuiBids was just a handful of employees working around the clock to build a company infrastructure while also hosting auctions and ensuring the delivery of customers’ won products. Luckily our QuiBids forebears built a pretty darn good infrastructure, developed solid site functionalities (like the Buy Now!) and smoothed out a good-looking interface (that recently got a major facelift!).

All that hard work got publicly rewarded last week by the Interactive Media Council, whose annual Interactive Media Awards have recognized excellence in web design and development since their inauguration in 2007. QuiBids scored a 481 out of 500 on their criteria (which judges a website’s design, content, feature functionality, usability, and standards compliance and cross-browser compatibility), qualifying us as Best in Class in the E-Commerce category! Think of that as scoring a 96% on a test back when you were in school! Obviously, we’re stoked — and feel super-honored!

The Interactive Media Council aren’t alone in honoring QuiBids lately. okcBIZ magazine recently named us the third-best small company to work for in Oklahoma (after naming us fourth-best in the same category last year!). The American Business Awards (AKA The Stevies) announced that we’re a finalist for Fast-Growing Tech Company, and we also recently claimed the title of one of Oklahoma’s Innovators of the Year from the Oklahoma City Journal-Record newspaper.

As you can tell, it’s been a great season for QuiBids! We want to take the opportunities we receive to thank our loyal customer base —you guys!— for returning to QuiBids for your shopping needs. We promise to continue to provide the most entertaining and engaging shopping experience on the web!

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QuiBids named Best in Class by Interactive Media AwardsOklahoma...

QuiBids named Best in Class by Interactive Media Awards

Oklahoma City, OK — July 11, 2012 — QuiBids.com, the world’s leading entertainment retail auction, was recently recognized by the Interactive Media Awards with a Best in Class Award for demonstrating excellence in web design and development in the E-Commerce category. The Best in Class distinction is the IMA’s highest honor.

“Our design and development teams are delighted,” said Jill Farrand, QuiBids’ director of public relations. “To be honored for all the hard work that they do on our online storefront is a real thrill for all of us here at QuiBids, and them in particular.”

The Interactive Media Awards were founded in 2006 by the Interactive Media Council, a nonprofit organization of top web designers, developers, programmers, advertisers, and other web-related professionals, in order to elevate the standards of excellence on the Internet. QuiBids scored a 481 out of 500 on the IMA’s criteria, which judges any given website’s design, content, feature functionality, usability, and standards compliance and cross-browser compatibility.

QuiBids recently underwent a full-site redesign that improved many of the site’s design aspects and functionalities. “We feel like it’s only up from here,” Farrand said.

Of the 182 entries in this year’s E-Commerce category so far, only QuiBids and Vusion Glasses have been designated as Best in Class.

About QuiBids:

QuiBids launched in October of 2009 and has expanded with their improved internet auction model. QuiBids live auctions are more exciting, reliable and safer than other online auction websites. QuiBids is not a scam and is a Better Business Bureau (BBB) accredited business.

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Have you heard about QuiBids’ Above and Beyond Employees and...

Have you heard about QuiBids’ Above and Beyond Employees and Managers?

How often do you check the QuiBids company blog? If you don’t then you’re missing out on a lot of really helpful information and fun recurring features!

One of the latter is our monthly installment of QuiBids’ Above and Beyond Employees and Managers, where we get to have a chat with some of our company’s most dedicated, hardworking assets! Working here at QuiBids can be really challenging because there’s always so much going on — but with weekly visits from masseuses, a local coffee service, and a couple of ping pong tables, we make sure that our employees love coming to work every day! We’re proud to say that our fun culture’s been recognized all over the state, and that QuiBids has now twice been honored as one of Oklahoma’s Best Places to Work!

Above and Beyond Employees and Managers are internally-hosted awards programs that do more than just incentivize QuiBids’ employees to be on their A-game: they’re great opportunities for our dedicated customer base to peek behind the QuiBids scenes and get to know the folks in Customer Support who answer the phones and live chat, the merchandising team that ensures the best possible range of products to shop for, and even some of the developers and designers who put together our recent site redesign and QuiBids Games!

Buddy Archer is the Above and Beyond Employee for the month of June, so why don’t you take a minute and get to know him? (That’s him up there, lookin’ all handsome in front of the QuiBids logo.)

You can also read about our previous Above and Beyond Employees and Managers!
Mike Domingos

Anthony Brown

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• Which Leads Entertainment Shopping – Auctions or Features?


• QuiBids’ Expansive Social Network

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Above and Beyond Employees: Buddy ArcherThere are thirteen...

Above and Beyond Employees: Buddy Archer

There are thirteen different departments that comprise the entirety of QuiBids’ operation, but some of them employ a bunch more than others. One such department is Customer Support, which has about 30 people working around the clock to make sure that your QuiBids shopping experience is as fun and efficient as possible!

One of them is account management specialist Buddy Archer. Buddy’s been here for nearly two years, working to help you understand how our auction model works, so you can get the most out of your QuiBids shopping experience! He’s this month’s Above and Beyond Employee, so let’s take a minute to get to know him with ten quick questions about fireworks, George Michael, and Chuck Norris.

1. How did you get your job here at QuiBids?

I had a few friends that worked here and I sent in my résumé. After a few tough questions from Josh Walker (Customer Support’s head honcho) I had myself a job!

2. Who was your favorite athlete growing up?

Mario Lemieux

3. What was the last product/service you spent more than $100 on?
Fireworks. Had to celebrate the Fourth of July in a big way.

4. If you couldn’t work for QuiBids, what would your dream job be?

Owning my own line of camouflage.

5. What’s your favorite restaurant to cater a QuiBids Fun Friday?

Ted’s.

6. Fill in the blank: My boss comes in at 10 a.m. and unexpectedly gives me the rest of the day off. I go to the golf course and play 18 holes.

7. Favorite online distraction at work?
ESPN.com

8. Who plays Buddy Archer in the movie about your life?
Chuck Norris

9. Favorite song, right now?
George Michael — “Careless Whisper”

Editor’s note: If you enjoyed listening to “Careless Whisper,” then you should definitely consider yourself encouraged to watch “Sexy Sax Man Careless Whisper Prank feat. Sergio Flores directors cut” on YouTube.

10. We shift offices around here at QuiBids fairly regularly, especially since we’ve expanded a lot in the last two years. How many different office rooms have you called home and about how many people would you estimate you’ve shared with?

Hahaha gosh lets see here. I’ve worked in four different offices and would say I’ve probably shared an office at one point with about 20 different people. Maybe even 25.

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Read about our previous Above and Beyond Employees and Managers!

Mike Domingos

Anthony Brown

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Product Spotlight: Krups XP1020 Espresso MachineWho’s looking...

Product Spotlight: Krups XP1020 Espresso Machine

Who’s looking for a slam dunk?

This Krups XP1020 Espresso Machine retails for $43.99 but we might as well mark that down to a fraction due to the low prices QuiBids customers have consistently snagged it for. We’re very pro-coffee here at QuiBids, so it brightens up our day to know you guys are caffeinating yourselves with our products on the cheap! Because of course, we all know that work is hard and coffee sure makes it a heck of a lot easier.

And what’s even better than coffee when it comes to utter and complete caffeination? Espresso! (Not “expresso,” as the person ahead of you in line at your nearby coffeshop always seems to say.) This Krups espresso maker isn’t the bulky behemoth you see behind the counter at the local Starbucks — at eleven inches tall, it fits most anywhere in your kitchen to froth milk and brew as many as four cups of espresso at once!

Let’s take a look at the last nine auctions for this particular espresso machine and build a strategy for you to claim one as your very own! Turns out it’s not too hard at all! So looking at the statistics below, a few things immediately jump out at us.

Only one auction for the Krups Espresso Machine exceeded $0.60 in end price. Even for items that fall on the low end of the retail chain, this is pretty unique. This observation makes it clear that this particular item isn’t in high demand (in comparison to, say, a comparably-priced item like a $50 gift card to Kohl’s), so you should be able to scoop it up without parting with too many bids.

Even when bidding heated up, the worst anybody paid was $15. And that’s still 65% savings right there. Even with the $14.99 shipping, user bidtobuy2010 gets his or her prize at a discount. No reason to discourage bidding!

Play your cards right and you could walk away from this auction with an espresso machine and even more bids than you started with. Customers who won auctions for the Krups Espresso Machine that included either 20 Voucher Bids or a Gameplay spent one, 25, and seven bids each. Trust me, those customers who won the auctions with Gameplays are going to wind up with more bids than they started out with when they head over to QuiBids Games for a round of Color Capture or Big Game Fishing!

My recommendation: Use your Voucher Bids and go after one of the upcoming Krups Espresso Machine auctions that include a Gameplay! This is the perfect auction to apply our low-stakes, low-reward strategy of scattering Voucher Bids. If you don’t win it with just three or four Voucher Bids then don’t worry — either keep on bidding or try again tomorrow when the next +Gameplay or +Voucher Bids auction comes up and you’re more than likely to earn those lost bids back!

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