Someone bid over my $500 max bid and the price shot up to $4000

[chv055]

I put a bid on an item and my max bid was $500 then someone outbid me when I opened up the automatic bid history I could see the $510 then the same user bid again and the bid went up to $4000  How can this happen? I thought the bids were supposed to go up in increments not straight up to their maximum bid

[digital*ghost]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

I have never ridden a motorbike. This thread is making me feel deprived and as though the open roads and a roaring engine on a classic bike are calling me.

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I haven't been on one for a few years, but I often think about getting a little one for quick travel (I'm talking more along the lines of a moped, rather than a real one  ).

Obviosuly I grew up on the back of one, and plenty of people ride them daily with no issues, but the main things that stop me are knowing I sucked as a driver even when I didn't have to drive defensively  (which you do on a bike), and the fact that one of my most vivid memories is being on the back of my mother's bike while my brother was on the back of her boyfriend's, riding home from Hahndorf when we turned into a corner (a sharp one, as country roads often wind about) and their two front wheels came so close to hitting one another that there was maybe a hair's breadth between them - at the speeds we were going, any closer and I might not be here to type this right now. Thankfully if either of them were rattled by it, it never showed or affected their riding (by that stage they both had years of experience with them,  but in the end it was only a piece of gravel that caused my mum's accident). 

They are amazing things, and I've never hesitated with being a passenger, so I'm not tryna scaremonger, but the risk definitely matches the rewards.  

[brerrabbit585]

My road bike was only a 125cc so definitely no roaring engine. When I first bought it my boss asked me had I written a will. 🙂

@ dave, never mind crossing out the Volvo drivers. After my mother died my brother in law said they got another Volvo because they were the safest cars. I only heard it from someone else but if I'd been there I would have been very tempted to say, "Yeah, we've just proven that, haven't we?" He was teaching her to drive and allowed her to do 80 kms on a gravel road and she wrote off their old Volvo when she wrapped it around a tree. She was 67 and dangerous with a supermarket trolley, let alone a car, and he thought 80 kph was a safe speed for someone's first time out on the road (first time in over 40 years anyway - my dad tried to teach her and gave up).

[countessalmirena]

For some people, the safest car is a Driver Training Simulator.

[collect247]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Found it.

It's in USA on their site.

Looks like it may have had a reserve but now that someone bid over the reserve it has gone to that price.

Hence the jump in price.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1974-Honda-CB/163804650827?hash=item2623849d4b:g:z9sAAOSwz-ldR1wD

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My my how long do they get in the US to complete a transaction? nearly 6 days and still no sign of the sale going through yet.

No feedback from the seller or the buyer unless neither are worried about it.

Geez I wonder why 

[digital*ghost]

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@collect247 wrote:

My my how long do they get in the US to complete a transaction? nearly 6 days and still no sign of the sale going through yet.

No feedback from the seller or the buyer unless neither are worried about it.

Geez I wonder why 

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No sign of it falling through either - i.e. it hasn't been relisted, which often happens pretty quick when there's been a bogus bid. 

Shills also often do leave feedback for each other, as it's an extra point for free. 

[davewil1964]

It's not really relevant to the OP anyway, as it is fairly obvious the seller isn't going to let it go for $500.

The consensus is that it's worth a lot more than that.

[collect247]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Found it.

It's in USA on their site.

Looks like it may have had a reserve but now that someone bid over the reserve it has gone to that price.

Hence the jump in price.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1974-Honda-CB/163804650827?hash=item2623849d4b:g:z9sAAOSwz-ldR1wD

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Hahahahahahaha wow would you look at that 

[countessalmirena]

The unfortunate seller has had to relist it.

[collect247]

Yes very unfortunate seller.

Might have got a decent price if they just kept out of it haha.

[digital*ghost]

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@collect247 wrote:

Yes very unfortunate seller.

Might have got a decent price if they just kept out of it haha.

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I'm still at a loss as to why you think the seller is shonky, TBH. 

The listing clearly had a reserve, so there was no way it could have ended as sold for less than the $4k reserve, so what did they gain by outbidding everyone, well before the auction end, and pretty much immediately pushing the price from $500 to $4k?