Ebay bidding help

**Sigurd Aaset** · 07-29-2010, 07:33 PM

Please have a look at this Bid History.

I won with GBP 16.00, but I can't understand the previous bid of GBP 15.00. Why does it say that the bid was done on Jul-24-10 18:33:40 PDT? The auction finished at Jul-29-10 12:03:11 PDT. Is this some sort of automatic bidding? And why did it go that high?

Guess I'm just a bit puzzled that the price jumped that much higher during the last seconds.

**HNSB** · 07-29-2010, 07:37 PM

The other bidder put in a max bid of $15 on the 24th. When you entered your bid, it raised theirs to the max, and yours was $1 higher.

**CarrieM** · 07-29-2010, 07:37 PM

It was most likely a snipe that was set up on the 24th, they wait until the last few seconds of an auction to actually submit the bids..

**LegalBeagle** · 07-29-2010, 07:38 PM

My guess is that the bidder's earlier highest bid was 15 GBP, but eBay automatically only bids the minimum necessary to be the high bidder. As a result, his 5 GBP stood until you bid over the top of him, my guess is somewhere around 14 GBP, at 5.26 GBP, then his higher bid automatically incremented to his max bid of 15 GBP...

**Sigurd Aaset** · 07-29-2010, 07:50 PM

My bid of GBP 16.00 was sniped in the last seconds. That's why I'm wondering why the previous bidder bid GBP 15 before me.

**hoglahoo** · 07-29-2010, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Sigurd Aaset

My bid of GBP 16.00 was sniped in the last seconds. That's why I'm wondering why the previous bidder bid GBP 15 before me.

The only bid in the last 6 hours was yours - yours was the only snipe

eBay uses automatic bidding. That's why the GBP 15.00 didn't show up as 15.00 until your snipe

**gugi** · 07-29-2010, 08:30 PM

The time stamps are when the bids are submitted. The person with the £15 put that bid days ago. Not sure what is it that you do not understand.

**ben.mid** · 07-29-2010, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by CarrieM

It was most likely a snipe that was set up on the 24th, they wait until the last few seconds of an auction to actually submit the bids..

Can't be a snipe, Carrie. That's not how snipe programmes work. You can see just how plentiful razors are round you. You don't even have to use the bay.

**Sigurd Aaset** · 07-29-2010, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by gugi

The time stamps are when the bids are submitted. The person with the £15 put that bid days ago. Not sure what is it that you do not understand.

It was just the time stamp that confused me. Thanks, got it now.

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