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My bid didn't register...v.confused and angry?????

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  • JustLittleOldMe_2
    JustLittleOldMe_2 Posts: 228 Forumite
    I still think we need real auction proof!!
  • jayok
    jayok Posts: 753 Forumite
    I have never seen one poster being so ignorant of how ebay works in my entire life
  • JustLittleOldMe_2
    JustLittleOldMe_2 Posts: 228 Forumite
    And i would just like to say to the OP i'm glad you got your item in the end!!!
  • Zazen999
    Zazen999 Posts: 6,183 Forumite
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    sham63 wrote: »
    Blimey, now you're confusing me........!

    LOL!

    No matter what; the price will stay at one increment higher than the second highest max...as long as there is more than one bid.

    It's simple logic.
  • mustrum_ridcully
    mustrum_ridcully Posts: 1,453 Forumite
    Zazen999 wrote: »
    LOL!

    No matter what; the price will stay at one increment higher than the second highest max...as long as there is more than one bid.

    It's simple logic.

    Except for when the highest bid is less than the second highest plus increment :D:p
    "One thing that is different, and has changed here, is the self-absorption, not just greed. Everybody is in a hurry now and there is a 'the rules don't apply to me' sort of thing." - Bill Bryson
  • Zazen999
    Zazen999 Posts: 6,183 Forumite
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    mustrum_ridcully wrote: »
    Except for when the highest bid is less than the second highest plus increment :D:p

    Aye....

    If there is a penny in it, the highest bid wins...



    In this instance; I can't see how the OP would have got an email saying they were outbid; if it didn't register.

    But anyway......
  • masterbrown
    masterbrown Posts: 768 Forumite
    I'm convinced Willa works for ebay live chat...
    Did you know you can get Viagra software now??? Yeah, it turns your floppy drive into a hard drive :D
  • baffcat
    baffcat Posts: 502 Forumite
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    masterbrown wrote: »
    I'm convinced Willa works for ebay live chat...

    LMAO

    Thanks MB.

    This is the first posting I've seen on this thread that made me laugh out loud though.

    I make my living selling on ebay. Willa's wrong, 'nuff said. The highest bid wins, and the winning price is determined by the value of the second highest bid.

    If there's no second-highest bid, the winner gets the item at the start price, regardless of how high he told ebay he was prepared to go.
    Exclamation and question marks - ONE exclamation mark or question mark is sufficient to exclaim or ask about something. More than one just makes you look/sound like a prat.
    Should OF, would OF    . Dear oh dear. You really should have, or should've listened at school when that nice English teacher was explaining how words get abbreviated.
  • frivolous_fay
    frivolous_fay Posts: 13,302 Forumite
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    JustLittleOldMe wrote: »
    And i would just like to say to the OP i'm glad you got your item in the end!!!

    Do we still care? :rotfl:
    My TV is broken! :cry:
    Edit: refunded £515 for TV 1.5 years out of warranty - thank you Sale of Goods Act! :j
  • willa
    willa Posts: 2,447 Forumite
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    edited 4 December 2009 at 6:15PM
    JustLittleOldMe wrote: »
    OH MY GOOOOOOD I HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING!!!
    THIS IS DOING MY HEAD IN!!!

    An item is at 99p, i bid £2.50
    10 secs before the end of the auction, someone bids £3,, they win for £2.55 or thereabouts, as ebay REALLY QUICKLY bids up and up and up till WHOEVER BID HIGHEST WON. They don't cancel my bid as the other person bid higher, or otherwise no one would pay any higher than the starting bid. Unless there were NO OTHER BIDDERS

    It is like at a real aution, except whereas at an auction, THE BIDDER KNOWS THEIR MAXIMUM AND BIDS UP UNTIL THEY REACH THEIR MAXIMUM, on ebay THEY TELL EBAY THEIR MAXIMUM, SO EBAY BIDS UP TO THEIR MAXIMUM, FOR EVERY BIDDER.

    I really don't know how to explain how bidding works, simply, but this thread is really annoying me!!! Can someone set up an auction, and tell someone else to bid etc etc, talk everyone right through it COS THIS IS ANNOYING ME!!
    That is all!!

    Er, yeah, I'm not disagreeing with any of that!
    Why do you all think the OP got a 'you've been outbid' message and lost the auction then??
    I'll suggest again, that everyone reads what the OP a c t u a l l y s a i d because that was surely the point of the thread. ;)
    "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
    ':eek: Beam me up NOW Scotty!'


    :p
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