uBid offers brand-name merchandise at deep discounts, most auctions start at $1 and come with manufacturer warranties. Save up to 70% on computers, consumer electronics, travel, jewelry, & much more.
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U BID - Most Auctions Start At $1
Welcome to uBid.com, the Brand Name Marketplace. At uBid, we offer brand-name merchandise at deep discounts, where most auctions start at $1 and come with warranties. If you're looking for quality products at wholesale prices, you've come to the right place.
Mission
uBid's mission is to be the most recognized and trusted Business-to-Consumer marketplace, consistently delivering exceptional value and service to its customers and supplier partners.
About Us
uBid was founded in 1997 and swiftly emerged as a major force in the e-commerce world. Today uBid, part of Petters Group Worldwide, is a brand name marketplace that offers leading manufacturers' merchandise to consumers and businesses at prices even lower than wholesale.
Most uBid auctions begin at $1, a design that allows market dynamics to set the price, our world class technology infrastructure, one million square foot distribution center, and 250 seat customer care call center work seamlessly to insure uBid's success.
Our management team strives to consistently better the customer experience and create an alternative channel of distribution that is used by many premium brand name manufacturers as their liquidation and cost recovery channel of choice.
uBid delivers to the customer both the cost savings of an auction and the customer care of popular brand name retail e-commerce sites, making uBid a destination point for consumer share of wallet as they capitalize on the benefits of this high performance hybrid business model.
With over one billion dollars of merchandise sold, our four and a half million registered customers and premium brand name partners - enrolled in the uBid Direct program - are testimony to our marketplace expertise.
Flexibility allows uBid to extend our marketplace to small and medium-sized businesses through the uBid Certified Merchant program. Certified Merchants offer their products hand in hand with uBid inventory and benefit from uBid's years of expertise at running online auctions. Whether we're used to amplify existing sales channels or create an alternative channel, bottom line benefits are just a click away.
Background
uBid was founded in April 1997 as a division of Creative Computers, a U.S. catalog retailer, to help the company move its excess and refurbished computing inventory online. In December 1998, uBid became listed on the NASDAQ National Market through an initial public offering. uBid joined the CMGI network as a minority owned operating company in April 2000.
In April 2003, Petters Group Worldwide of Minnetonka, Minnesota purchased uBid from CMGI, INC. Today, uBid specializes in providing customers with savings on items from leading brand-name manufacturers such as Sony, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Compaq, AMD, Minolta and over 1,000 additional suppliers.
As part of Petters Group, uBid remains a customer centric organization that believes the following core values will drive success and build a valued relationship with customers, employees, partners and suppliers.
Integrity
Agility
Execution
Caring
Innovation
About Petters Group
Petters Group is a new global model for buying, selling, and financing consumer goods merchandise. The group consists of several operating companies that all deal in consumer goods merchandise. Its broad network of companies provides an extensive consumer and retail base, distribution facilities and international partnerships. For additional information visit the company's website at www.pettersgroup.com.