I increased my max bid by $10 and it was set in, but at the end of the auction my bid had decreased?

[luvo85]

What happened to my max bid. I lost out because my new max bid some how vanished. It was set it, the screen said i had increased my max bid so how the hell was i outbid by less then my max bid

[lyndal1838]

Can you give the full title of the auction so someone can have a look for you.  It is not something we can guess at.

[*crikey*mate*]

your maximum bid was rejected by the seller prior to auction end

[shoppingbag*]

Did you confirm the bid? There are two steps, increase bid, then confirm bid.  I find it puzzling that the seller would reject your bid, unless you have a lot of bad feedback or they have some other reason for not wanting to sell to you.  Did you ever leave bad feedback for them in the past?

[barney_rubbles]

i just had this happen to me & came on the board to see if anyone had experienced it. I'm sure theres a bug in bidding, i bid once about 1 minute from auction end & confirmed it, at that stage i was the highest bidder. Once a buyer has already placed a bid we qualify for '1 click bidding' where we don't have to press the 'confirm' button. In this case i did have the confirm button pop up while placing another bid with 1 click after i was outbid in the last 20 secs of the auction. The item # is *************.

           I am thinking of contacting the seller because it sold for $88 but i was trying to bid to $98 so they lose an extra $10, probably impossible to prove though. I will contact ebay about it but given my recent experiences with their 'help' i don't expect much of a response.

[imastawka]

I thought the '1 click' button was a furphy.  I have always had to confirm

my bid - even on a '1 click' bid.    How is pushing confirm '! click'?

[lyndal1838]

Your last bid was just too late to register barney.  A slight delay in your internet connection would be to blame, not the ebay system.

And you have no idea how much the higher bid was....it will only register one bid increment higher than the second highest bid, which in this case was your first bid.  The last bidder may well have bid over $100 so you would not have won anyway.

[barney_rubbles]

Yes you're right there now i think about it. But it still seems theres a bug because i should not have been asked to confirm my bid using '1 click bid', it should have just kept bidding in the allocated increments not asked me to confirm.

[lyndal1838]

But you said you were bidding more than one bidding increment.   In that case you do have to confirm the amount.  It is only one click if you are accepting the bid amount that ebay has entered for you.

There is no way that you could have increased the amount by $10 in the few seconds you had allowed as it would have taken you 10 clicks to get that high.

[barney_rubbles]

to be honest, now i think about it, i cant remember if i was bidding with ebays amount or entered my own, but i thought either way there was no need to click the confirm button in '1 click bid'. Maybe my memory is failing me but i don't remember having to do that in other auctions when i entered my own amount. I looked on the ebay help pages but can't find anything to see who is right in this so i guess i will have to take your word for it 😉