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In Reply to: Ebay experts, a question posted by Laudanum on August 18, 2005 at 07:40:19:
I was bidding on an LP in the $10 price range and while I was the highest bidder, I decided to raise my own bid. It turned out that I was 'bidding against myself' and paid my maximum amount. I can't explain it, but since then I've been checking to see that 'proxy bidding' is in effect. Perhaps sellers can switch that feature off?
Tom
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Hmmm ... that's interesting. I never thought of what would happen if you weren't happy with your own max and then made another, higher bid. You wouldn't think that ebay would be set up such that a bidder would compete against himself but then again, any excuse to raise the final value fee and make a little more money for itself I could see ebay doing. In my case, I just thought it fishy that twice, with the same sellers items, my max was exactly matched by another bidder making me the winner but at my max price. But as the other poster pointed out, it had to be coincidence ... I guess.
Guys, you can't bid against yourself. What likely happened with reuben is that he initially placed a max bid that outbid the previous winning bidder by a small margin less then the minimum bid increment. If you bid again with a higher value, ebay will bump your bid up to the minimum bid increment.For example, proxy bids between $500-999 are placed at $10 increments. If the current winning bid is $605.00 and you enter a max bid of $606.00, you will become the winning bidder. However, you did not meet the minimum bid increment. If you bid again with a max bid of $650.00, ebay will bump your bid up to $615 ($605 + $10 minimum bid increment). You aren't bidding against yourself, per se. You're simply meeting ebay's defined proxy bid increments.
There isn't as much foul play with ebay as people think there is. A lot of it is simply not understanding how some of the details work and presuming the worst.
Thanks Len.
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