I bid on item auctioned this morning. I bid $212.25 and was outbid at $110. How?

[witold3757]

I bid on Item finishing at 8am this morning. I bid $212.25. Ebay accepted my bid and told me I was the next highest bidder at $108..., next thing I am outbid by $110... and didn't win the auction. Can you please explain?

$212.25 was staring me in the face when I confirmed my bid.

Sue

[beach_and_home · Accepted solution]

Not sure, but go back into the item now and click on the bid history and just check what your max bid is in there. Maybe you made a mistake? Or maybe there was no time for more bids as your bid and the winners bids were made within the last few seconds. I'm not sure what it would do if it got two similar bids at the same time with just a few seconds to go.

[lyndal1838]

I am not sure where the $212.00 comes in as there is no sign of that in the bidding history.

Your bid of $108.05 was placed at 8.00.18 but you were outbid with a bid of $110.55 placed at 8.00.20, just 2 seconds later.  The auction finished at 8.00.27.

The $110.55 bid was the next increment above your bid but who knows how high it might have been.

[foxette-in-sox]

No matter what has happened,you didn't win-better luck next time Sue.

[beach_and_home]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

I am not sure where the $212.00 comes in as there is no sign of that in the bidding history.

Your bid of $108.05 was placed at 8.00.18 but you were outbid with a bid of $110.55 placed at 8.00.20, just 2 seconds later.  The auction finished at 8.00.27.

The $110.55 bid was the next increment above your bid but who knows how high it might have been.

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We can only see the bids as per the bidding activity recorded. The OPs bid only shows as whatever was required at the time to get in front. If she did bid $212, it still only shows to us as $108.05 because that's all that was required at the time to be the winning bidder, if you know what I mean. So we can't see what her max bid was at the time. She said it was $212, but I'm pretty sure if she goes into the bidding history she will be able to see her max bid. Or maybe you see it in your "my ebay". I do know that you can see it somewhere after an auction has finished. But only the bidder who placed the bid can see it, for obvious reasons. So hopefully the OP will go and check and let us know.

[digital*ghost]

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beach_and_home wrote:

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We can only see the bids as per the bidding activity recorded. The OPs bid only shows as whatever was required at the time to get in front. If she did bid $212, it still only shows to us as $108.05 because that's all that was required at the time to be the winning bidder, if you know what I mean. So we can't see what her max bid was at the time. 

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If someone is outbid, their max bid does show in the bidding history. It's only the winning bid that there's no way to tell what the maximum was. 

[k1ooo-slr-sales · Accepted solution]

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@beach_and_home wrote:

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

I am not sure where the $212.00 comes in as there is no sign of that in the bidding history.

Your bid of $108.05 was placed at 8.00.18 but you were outbid with a bid of $110.55 placed at 8.00.20, just 2 seconds later.  The auction finished at 8.00.27.

The $110.55 bid was the next increment above your bid but who knows how high it might have been.

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We can only see the bids as per the bidding activity recorded. The OPs bid only shows as whatever was required at the time to get in front. If she did bid $212, it still only shows to us as $108.05 because that's all that was required at the time to be the winning bidder, if you know what I mean. So we can't see what her max bid was at the time. She said it was $212, but I'm pretty sure if she goes into the bidding history she will be able to see her max bid. Or maybe you see it in your "my ebay". I do know that you can see it somewhere after an auction has finished. But only the bidder who placed the bid can see it, for obvious reasons. So hopefully the OP will go and check and let us know.

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The $108.05 bid sounds like a "one-click bid" which was placed at the time that the high bid was $105.55, although I'm not sure how that could be seeing as the OP is sure they placed a higher bid.

Maybe, just maybe, the OP put in $212 as their bid amount BUT then hit the one-click bid button thinking it would register the bid in one click, BUT, registered one bid increment above the high bid instead.  This is the only way I can see that this would have happened.  Things can get hectic when there are only seconds to go and you are placing a manual snipe.  It may be that the OP's memory is of what they think happened rather than what actually happened.

[beach_and_home]

I think we're trying to say the same thing. But here, their Max bid was not the winning bid, so only the bidders can see what their real Max bid was. Not even the seller can see that.

[digital*ghost]

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@beach_and_home wrote:

I think we're trying to say the same thing. But here, their Max bid was not the winning bid, so only the bidders can see what their real Max bid was. Not even the seller can see that.

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What I'm saying is that everyone's max bid is shown in the bidding history except for the winner's. 

sir sales - I don't have 1-click bidding on auctions anymore; do others still have it? 

[digital*ghost]

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@digital*ghost wrote:

sir sales - I don't have 1-click bidding on auctions anymore; do others still have it? 

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Just realised it only appears in the last 15 mins,  but the OP only placed one bid so 1-click bidding wouldn't have worked.

The two last bids were only two seconds apart...normally eBay registers bids properly within split-seconds, so if $212 was definitely entered, based on what is showing in the bidding history, I can only assume it was a glitch. I know other bidders have claimed similar occurences have happened to them, so definitely isn't unprecendented.