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

Charliezoo

Well I'll do the same and keep you posted.

Would be interested to know if this has happened to anyone else.

frivolous_fay

I would look at the list of bids, see if that sheds any light. PM me the item number if you like.

montyrebel

sue them, it is clearly your item lol

willa

Charliezoo wrote: »

I've just been bidding for an item on ebay. My price limit was £400 so with 10 secs to go I put this in only to be told I'd been outbid by another buyer. I didn't want to go any higher so left it at that.

When I checked back it said the item sold for £255!!!:mad:

I can't believe it, I use ebay all the time and this has never happened before.

I'm really, really annoyed by this and its not great for the seller either, what on earth could have happened?? I definately didn't bid too late, it just looked I'd been outbid.

V.unhappy :mad:

They probably put higher than £400 as the maximum they were willing to pay so did win item fair and square. Takes a while to get used to and I was caught out by this myself and couldn't understand it, but this is one of the ways in which the bidding system works.
For example: if item has starting bid of 99p and someone puts in maximum bid of £10 early on, you can be bidding but not see others' maximum bids on list of bids that you can see, only what the item has been 'bid up to' (see post 6 about increments although I think Ebay's explanation may be a little complicated). So, if you can see that the item has now been bid up to, say, £4.50, and you are being asked to put in £4.70 or higher to beat this, you could put in £9.50 in the last 10 seconds thinking that this well beats it, but the person who maximally bid £10 could then actually win the item for £4.71 because their £10 beat your £9.50. My numbers may be a bit out from reality but that is in essence how it works. Hope that makes sense.

kiwi_fruit

So when you look at the bidding history page(where all the bidders are listed) does your bid shows up there and for how much? Also sorry if that sounds stupid but you sure you put £400 and not another lower amount by mistake?

masterbrown

willa wrote: »

They probably put higher than £400 as the maximum they were willing to pay so did win item fair and square. Takes a while to get used to and I was caught out by this myself and couldn't understand it, but this is one of the ways in which the bidding system works.
For example: if item has starting bid of 99p and someone puts in maximum bid of £10 early on, you can be bidding but not see others' maximum bids on list of bids that you can see, only what the item has been 'bid up to' (see post 6 about increments although I think Ebay's explanation may be a little complicated). So, if you can see that the item has now been bid up to, say, £4.50, and you are being asked to put in £4.70 or higher to beat this, you could put in £9.50 in the last 10 seconds thinking that this well beats it, but the person who maximally bid £10 could then actually win the item for £4.71 because their £10 beat your £9.50. My numbers may be a bit out from reality but that is in essence how it works. Hope that makes sense.

That does'nt work because if somebody has set their maximum bid for something at £10 but is currently winning at £1 and you come along and bid £10, yes you are automatically outbid but their bid goes up to £10 it does'nt stay at £1.

willa

masterbrown wrote: »

That does'nt work because if somebody has set their maximum bid for something at £10 but is currently winning at £1 and you come along and bid £10, yes you are automatically outbid but their bid goes up to £10 it does'nt stay at £1.

I don't think that's right masterbrown. The price you pay is not necessarily anywhere near your maximum bid. The trick to win something is to try to outmaximum the other bids (by guessing basically because you can't see what they are) and bid in, say, the last 10 secs. You can bid stupidly highly and you will probably pay much much lower than this bid. I have lost things before because I was misled by the top bid I could see and didn't know how it worked.

frivolous_fay

Well we're all just speculating until the OP comes back, and perhaps someone can take a look at the item.

willa

I'm not speculating, that's how it works! No offence but the OP hasn't worked that out yet and that's why they're confused and annoyed. (I'm going purely on what they said in their post).

frivolous_fay

No offence, but I'm not entirely convinced myself
If a £400 bid was placed and beaten, the winning bid should have been over £400.