UBid Inc. manages a shopping website and an online auction that offers both goods sold by pre permitted uBid certified merchants and items sold directly through the company At present, it is the second largest online shopping auction by sales dimension and it is available only for residents of United States.

UBid Inc. is founded in 1997. It’s headquartering in Illinois, Chicago. It is running an online auction site and it calls “The marketplace you can trust” to itself. The company says this title is based upon the secure nature of the transaction you can made on site compared to other online auction. The site offers both goods sold by pre permitted uBid certified merchants and items sold directly through the company who produced these items. The site specializes in all fresh, renewed and overstocks consumer electronics like computers, Ipods, and mobile phones, but site has recently extended to offer some other services like jewelry and travel packages.

With the purpose of maintaining a trusted dealing environment, the site allows only the recognized businesses who have been pre permitted to put their products for sale on the site. The merchant, who are willing to be approved on the site, must provide credit and tax information along with bank and trade references to prove their credibility. After approving, certified merchant can sell their products online through the site, but all customer service inquiry and payments are made directly through uBid in order to keep customer trust and provide the best post sale service to them. Because of this method, certified merchants don’t have any direct communication with customers except for the question asked them about products through uBid, nor do they see the credit card information of customers.

Mission of UBid: -
The mission of UBid is to establish itself as the most trusted and recognized business-to-business and business-to-customer marketplace by constantly delivering exceptions service and value to their customer and business partners.

Features of UBid: -
UBid offers a trusted environment to their customers eradicating potential fraud.

It provides a wide range of products for their customers including more then 200 categories like consumer electronics, computer products, watches, house wares, travel package, jewelry, sporting goods, collectibles, home improvement products and many more.

It deals only with well recognized brands such as IBM, Sony, Fuji, HP, Compaq, Panasonic, Seiko, Honeywell, Dell, Polaroid and 1000’s more brands.

UBid is a 24 hours online service with 200,000 items for sale every day.

The payment making process of UBid is very simple and secure as compared to other online auctions.