Odd bidding Activity

[timetravellor]

??? Item was displayed at 9.30am for $1.00 with 0 bids & needed a start-off. So I placed a bid for $1.25. I was immediately out-bid to $1.50. The amount is not the issue. It is the fact that I the display was showing I was supposedly the first to bid but was instantaneously replaced by an automatic bid (that had been initiated 5 hours prior). How can an automatic bid be sitting unseen, while the item was showing as 0 bids??

[talcat48]

Computers do make mistakes and can also be slow to update, maybe this is an instance of that.

[timetravellor]

Yeah, you are probably right. Not a big deal anyway.

[the-kazbar]

If you give the title it will be easier to give the correct information

[bliss*charms]

are you bidding on ebay Australia or USA?

[belindabargainhunter]

Yeh I had the same thing happen a couple days ago on a chook shed. I bid on 4 from the same seller all with 0 bids then it went straight to another bidders bids. Very strange

[lyndal1838]

Belinda, can you post the full title of one of the listings you are referring to?

It all sounds very strange.

[phorum_junkie*]

I am confused, are you the buyer or the seller? If you are the buyer I don't know why you would want to kick start the bidding and if you are the seller then bidding on your own item is a serious policy breach which can get you kicked off ebay for good.

[belindabargainhunter]

Chicken Coop Hen House Rabbit Hutch Bird Cage 026s This is not the one but its the same coop from the same seller. The problem hasn't happened since so I wonder if it was a problem with ebays system that is now fixed

[***super_nova***]

??? Item was displayed at 9.30am for $1.00 with 0 bids & needed a start-off. So I placed a bid for $1.25. I was immediately out-bid to $1.50. The amount is not the issue. It is the fact that I the display was showing I was supposedly the first to bid but was instantaneously replaced by an automatic bid (that had been initiated 5 hours prior). How can an automatic bid be sitting unseen, while the item was showing as 0 bids??

Are you talking about your own listing?