Entertainment Retail Auctions

QuiBids sells all sorts of instruments — like stuff you can use to do your math homework or turn delicious fruit into just-as-delicious juice — but did you know that we sell the kind that you play your way to rockstardom with, too?

It’s true. While we’re certainly no high-end retailer of finely crafted instruments, we do auction off beginners’ stuff you can learn on. Everybody’s gotta start somewhere right? I mean, it sure is a ton more dignified than playing Guitar Hero.

Anyway, let’s take a quick look at some of the musical instruments you could win with QuiBids.

When it comes to guitars, we’ve currently got two for you to choose from, but they’re both aimed at beginners. First is the U.S. Acoustic Guitar Starter Pack for Dummies, which — despite an unfortunate lack of 50-foot-high speakers or whammy bar — you can still use to great effect, but only if you first spend some time with the CD-assisted Guitar Basics for Dummies book. The set also comes with a digital tuner, gig bag, and a couple of picks. (That’s the thing you use to strum the strings, newbie.)

Second is the Learn to Play Guitar pack, which comes with most of the same stuff, save for the instructional booklet. It does come with a CD though, which includes the sheet music for both Bob Dylan’s awesome song “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” and Guns N’ Roses’ terrible cover of it, Rod Stewart’s “Downtown Train,” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s hit “Midnight Special.”

Want to be a rock star but feel not-so-confident about standing up on a stage and whipping wild crowds into a lusty excitement?  Then maybe you should learn the drums instead. This PDP 5-Piece Drum Kit’s perfect for beginners, and even better for wild-man drummers looking for an extra set to trash at the end of their show, a la Keith Moon.

And lastly, we also sell baby guitars! Well, they’re actually ukuleles, but they do make for some super-precious songs. Just ask Eddie Vedder!

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Whether you’re a new homeowner, a college student moving out of the dorms, or just a guy or gal looking for a culinary upgrade, stocking a kitchen can be a really intimidating experience, even before you start thinking about food. Houseware itself is a field so deep in products that a trip to your typical retail store winds up feeling more like an expedition to a wild hinterland of shiny plastics.

Thankfully shopping on QuiBids is often just as simple as pulling up one of our specific categories (they range all the way from Electronics to Gift Cards to Home & Garden) and browsing our thousands of brand-new items. Or, if you ain’t got time for that, simply type what you’re looking for into our nifty search feature and see what we’ve currently got up on the auction block.

Of course, those thousands of digitized items can make it feel a lot like you’re standing at the front of a department store, overshadowed by throngs of two-stories-tall aisles all stocked with the products. So why don’t you let us offer a few suggestions on how to get started? We’ve chosen ten great ones, and broken them up into basics, essentials, and, well, stuff that will enrich your cooking experience that you probably don’t really need but would be really nice to have. What’s the word for that? Oh yeah, luxuries.

Basics

Even before purchasing food, you’ve got to have pots and pans to cook it in, right? Best get started with this awesome 12-Piece Green Gourmet Set from Cuisinart. It’s as reliable as it is environmentally friendly!

You’ve got your pots and pans, so now it’s time for a trip to the grocery store, right? A $50 Walmart gift card ought to help take care of that.

Now all your food’s out on the counter, cookware at the ready. Oh, but what to slice it up with? Good thing you snagged this 11-Piece Forged Steel Knife Set to prepare your food for going into the oven, skillet, pan, boiling kettle, microwave, or whatever else you intend to use for cooking.

And lastly, just in case your cooking skills aren’t quite up to snuff, here’s a Kalorik Gravity Salt and Pepper Grinder to give your food a little extra spice.

Essentials

Need to maximize your sleep time and minimize your morning preparations for work? This 12-Cup Coffee Maker by Kalorik will do both, as it’s super-easy to use and clean!

Tired of freezer-burnt chicken? Snag one of these Taylor Freezer-Refrigerator Thermometers to monitor just how cold it’s getting inside your home fridge.

If you’re going to make muffins, make them with love. This Mini Heart Pan by Bakeware will do just that.

Luxuries (or, Icing on the Homemade Cake)

Is your mom’s old recipe book falling apart? Scan the pages and load them on to this Sungale Android Minitablet! It’s never good to be in doubt when it comes to cooking, so having the power of the Internet in your kitchen is a lot like being coached by your own personal executive chef.

Class the joint up a little bit with this WMF Mini Easy-Pour Decanter. Great for serving wine, juice, or even just plain old H2O!

Lastly, nobody likes a boring, lifeless kitchen. Give it a bit of life by plugging in this Jamo Home Cinema System to pump out your favorite tunes! It’s small and conveniently placed, so you can set it on a shelf or appliance, or wedge it into a corner. The possibilities are endless!

Happy bidding! And don’t forget about Buy Now!

For those of you who are familiar with QuiBids and their 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 update information on QuiBids Live Auctions, Contest, Promotions and Happenings on our site.  We want to connect with our fans and members in every way possible, thus we’ve joined sites like Digg, Delcicious, FriendFeed, and Reddit to connect with you!

QuiBids Digg –

Digg.com is a social news website 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 out 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 blogs are 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.

April showers bring May flowers … in the western hemisphere, that is. Down south in Australia, it kinda depends on where you’re located, but the rainfall’s giving way to dryer, less lush spells of climate. But what do you care? You’re just trying to win great products at low prices.

Plenty of that happened down under last month, as QuiBids Australia was full-on rocking just as hard as its Canadian and American counterparts. Let’s check out six big wins that Aussie users scored, and get collectively jealous as we calculate the savings.

Item: Coleman 6-Person Tent
Price: $0.26
Winner spent: 7 Real Bids
Savings: $237.53
Think about it: do you really know six people well enough to feel comfortable spending an entire night squished into the same plastic space as them? Let’s hope user agcat does, though he or she shouldn’t feel too obligated to get much use out of this awesome tent: it only cost $4.46.

Item: Laser EB850 7” 4GB Color E-Book Reader
Price: $0.08
Winner spent: 1 Voucher Bid
Savings: $79.91
Have you ever watched a movie based on a well-read book (say one of the Lord of the Rings trilogy or a Harry Potter installment) and thought, “That was so good, that I want to read the original version immediately!” Well now, Lolly79 can do that from the ease of his/her nifty new E-Book Reader, that will have cost far less than whatever media she or she stocks it with.

Item: Pierre Cardin Men’s Watch
Price: $0.18
Winner spent: 4 Voucher Bids
Savings: $127.81
$127.81 saved on this thing? It’s too bad QuiBids doesn’t sell suits to match it. [Note to self: Start selling suits on QuiBids.]

Item: Global Master Chef 7-Piece Knife Block Set
Price: $0.71
Winner spent: 9 Voucher Bids
Savings: $449.28
Oooof, for nearly $500, a knife set ought to come with a chef to operate it. But all it cost user Dazz74 was a handful of Voucher Bids and $0.71. Very impressive win, here.

Item: Action Soccer Table (+20 bids)
Price: $0.05
Winner spent: 2 Voucher Bids
Savings: $67.94
What do you think it costs to attend a professional soccer game? Probably about this foosball-ish table’s price, at least if you’re wanting to go to a high-octane match between two of the world’s best teams, say in the Premiere League or Spanish La Liga. User sconet saved all that cash to pay for a way to reenact those matches in the comfort of his or her own home!

Item: Canon EOS 1100D DSLR Camera Body
Price: $3.44
Winner spent: 28 Real Bids
Savings: $429.75
You can’t really take pictures without a camera lens, but the good news is that user timtam007 can put the $429.75 he/she saved toward one!

That’s not all folks! Did you have a big April win that our recap missed? Link us to it in the comments, or email me at matt[dot]carney[at]quibids[dot]com and I’ll add it to the bottom of the post!

With all the crazy-huge items QuiBids customers win all the time, it’s often really easy to neglect the smaller-scale success stories our auctions inspire on a daily basis. Playing small-ball has proven itself an excellent QuiBids tactic, one that a lot of our users employ to regular success here, and when it’s coupled with a patient spending strategy, small-time wins can grow into big-time wins over time, as one of our more recent QuiBidders of the Week proved a couple of weeks ago.

With a sudden influx of auctions for gift cards good for gasoline at Shell, Sunoco, ExxonMobil, BP, and other gas stations, we realized that the careful QuiBidder can — by applying a similar strategy — keep their gas tank topped off each month.

Think about it: how much money do you spend each week getting to and from work or school (or both), picking up the kids, running errands, etc.? Several of our employees carpool to the QuiBids office every day from Oklahoma City’s surrounding suburbs, so we know how far a $25 gas card can go. It’s a considerable chunk of your monthly expenses, one that can balloon out of control if you’re getting less than 20 miles to the gallon on the highway.

So let QuiBids help you out! Gift cards to gas stations have recently become a staple of our site, and careful, precise users have been able to scoop them up for as little as a few bids at a time!

Really, how hard is it to win a single auction every week? If you focus on playing small-ball with $10 and $25 gift cards to gas stations, they’ll add up to plenty of savings on your trips to the pump. Maybe you’ll even be able to cancel out that chunk of the monthly budget if you haul in enough gas cards.

So just like Wendi M. eventually won that HDTV by pooling together her smaller auctions, you can keep your gas tank topped off by picking off out-of-the-way auctions for small-time gift cards. Here are a few upcoming auctions, so get at it and let us know how this strategy works out for you in the comments. Happy bidding!

Can’t decide which hot new tablet is best for you? Then this week’s QuiBids feature auction has the solution you’re looking for: both of them!

Yup — we’re auctioning off a bundled package that includes a black 16 GB iPad 2 and a Kindle Fire, so you can decide which one you like best yourself! One gives you all the capabilities of a laptop in an easy, lean-back medium, the other, access to nearly a million digital book titles starting at $9.99 or less. It’s a power-combo for the ages, on par with Stockton-Malone, Beyoncé-Jay-Z, Milton-Bradley, and even peanut butter-jelly.

Well, except for Milton Bradley. He was actually just one guy. But it sounds like he had two last names, and all those board games his company invented were awesome, so just roll with it.

But back to the featured auction combo: it doesn’t stop there. We’re even including a set of Klipsch Lou Reed X10i headphones and a JBL Onbeat Air Dock to go with the iPad. Altogether, they’ll wirelessly stream your whole iTunes library (from a Mac, PC, iPad, iPod, or even an iPhone running AirPlay) from anywhere in your house. Or maybe you just want to plug into your headphones and keep it private. The choice is yours.

If you can’t wait until Saturday to bid on this power package — or maybe you’re just interested in one item or the other — then we recommend checking out these auctions in the meantime. Otherwise, add this killer bundle to your Watchlist and we’ll see you Saturday!

Look below for a little bit more information on these items, as well as a couple of promotional videos that explain them in further detail.

Apple iPad 2
Things come alive on the stunning 9.7-inch widescreen LED Multi-Touch display of the Apple iPad 2. With WiFi and support, this 16GB Apple iPad ensures you stay connected to your world all the time. The built-in dual-core A5 chip in this Wi-Fi iPad facilitates high-end gaming, surfing and overall performance. Gaming is at a vivid high with up to nine times the graphics performance on this 16GB Apple iPad. Capture immaculate shots in HD with the 0.7 MP front camera of this Wi-Fi iPad, while the secondary 0.3 MP VGA Camera lets you enjoy FaceTime video calling. For an enhanced movie-watching experience, play all your iPad’s digital content wirelessly on HDTV and speakers using AirPlay. Weighing a mere 607g, with an amazing 10-hour battery life, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology and more, this Apple iPad 2 is here to become another extension of you.

Kindle Fire
Movies, magazines and children’s books come alive on a 7″ vibrant color touchscreen that delivers 16 million colors in high resolution. Kindle Fire uses IPS (in-plane switching) technology – similar technology to that used on the iPad – for an extra-wide viewing angle, perfect for sharing your screen with others.

Enjoy your favorite magazines with glossy, full-color layouts, photographs and illustrations. Choose from hundreds of titles, such as Bon Appetit, Elle, and Oprah. Special editions of titles like Vanity Fair, Wired, and GQ come with built-in video, audio and other interactive features.

Over 100,000 movies and TV shows, including thousands of new releases and your favorite TV shows, are available to stream or download, purchase or rent – all just one tap away. Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, commercial-free streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows.

Kindle Fire features a state-of-the-art dual-core processor for fast, powerful performance. Stream music while browsing the web or read books while downloading videos.

Delivery cost $15.99 USD

Return Policy: Within 30 days in the original packaging

We’ve noticed a few interesting news reports in the last month or so that suggest online auctions are about to get “real.” As in, real estate-real. As in, people are auctioning off furnished homes on the Internet.

That’s right. An auction timer is currently counting down on a remodeled home in the Phoenix metro, owned by one Todd Talbot. It’s currently 32 days from shifting into the same timer-gets-reset-if-you-bid-with-20-seconds-left model that QuiBids currently employs. We’re watching this auction with a lot of curiosity because — as far as we know — it’s the first time anybody’s tried selling a home through an entertainment auction format before. Who knows what’ll happen?

We’ve done some pretty big items on QuiBids in the past, even a Honda Civic, but we’ve never sold anything valued at six digits (the home was appraised in 2010 as being worth over $127,000) before. Talbot’s installed a handful of rules around the auction, some of which are similar to QuiBids and some of which aren’t. Let’s have a quick look at what he’s set up.

Like QuiBids

• A bid costs 60 cents.
• The auction price increases by one cent every time somebody places a bid.
• You must create an account to participate.
• There are incentives for bidding. But they’re different from our Buy Now feature. See below.

Not like QuiBids

• The number of seats in this auction is limited to 1,000. As of when this was blog post went live, only 17 were taken.
• A seat costs $150, and includes 500 bids. It appears that customers will be able to purchase further bid packs at 60 cents per bid.

Check out these news stories and/or watch the video below for more information.

Connect with QuiBids on social media and improve your QuiBids skills! QuiBids social networks allow you to connect with other QuiBidders to gain valuable strategies, techniques, and insights into the fast-paced entertainment auction website.

Here are a few ways bidders use QuiBids Facebook, QuiBids LinkedIn, and Twitter to improve their QuiBids game:

Participate in QuiBids promotions:

Every day, Monday-Friday, QuiBids gives away 50 Free Bids to one lucky QuiBids user! Be sure to check out the QuiBids Facebook and enter the contest daily!

You round the corner past the dusky coffee shop and run smack-dab into a line that’s hundreds of people-long. You crane your neck to see what’s at the other end of this human queue, noticing tangles of white wires leading from heads to fingerless gloved-hands, Starbucks logos, fancy shoes, and the occasional jean jacket. Eventually you spot the unmistakable white emblem — that symbol of corporate fawning — emblazoned on the window of the store down the street.

You just unwittingly joined a line of Apple hipsters.

Here at QuiBids, we’re always trying to offer the right products that you would want to see up for auction. With the continued growth of our company, our search for the quality products to auction is a never-ending journey. However, we’ve decided to put that online retailing journey on a temporary pause and venture into the crappy used car market.

Instead of putting a quality product up for auction, why don’t we put the worst car in America up for auction? Only on QuiBids can you have this much fun while shopping for a Yugo. But we’re not putting just any old Yugo up for auction. We will auction off an exact replica of Giuseppe’s Old Yugo. Who’s Giuseppe? We’ll explain:

What do you call a Yugo with a flat tire? Totaled.

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