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

DaveAshton

cyberbob wrote: »

No only if they are a full increment higher. You can lose an auction even if you put a higher amount in if its not a full increment higher

Yeah, being highest but losing because of increments is a bit of a !!!! off. Not the case here though, the increment's are quite as extreme as £150+ between bids yet

willa

TurkishDelight wrote: »

Assume the first bidders maximum was above £400 then, for simplicity.
Item would not have gone for less than £400.

Or, alternatively, imagine that the first bidders maximum was... I dunno... £350. Item would therefore go for more than £350, as OP (second bidder) put in £400. http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/buy/automatic-bidding.html

(btw I apologise for my fiance. :rolleyes: )

But we don't know what the initial bidder's maximum bid was in this case.
Oh, Dave Ashton is your fiancee is he
Sorry Dave, do not have a clue what you are talking about with your last comment.

frivolous_fay

cyberbob wrote: »

No only if they are a full increment higher. You can lose an auction even if you put a higher amount in if its not a full increment higher

But... surely it won't let you bid less than the increment?
And if you had bid less than the max, the price would rise to over the bid you'd just placed (which had been beaten)

lisawood78

DaveAshton wrote: »

Ah, irony :rotfl:

Sorry Lisa, couldn't resist

Oops
Fair cop gov

willa

Look, 'guys' - it seems that I am the only person here who is referring to what the OP ACTUALLY SAID.
Perhaps if you all read what the OP said again and have a think :doh:, it might become clearer.
I do think I am being misunderstood somehow and the point is being missed all round!
I really am very tired of all this now so I'm going to log off and await with interest the OP's reply from Ebay if he or she comes back to share it.
:beer:

frivolous_fay

I must be missing the subtext or something.

DaveAshton

frivolous_fay wrote: »

But... surely it won't let you bid less than the increment?
And if you had bid less than the max, the price would rise to over the bid you'd just placed (which had been beaten)

Yep.

The item should have sold for either £400, or very slightly more or less.

If less than £400, the OP would have won it because their bid was highest.
If it went for more than £400, the OP wouldn't have won, but would have bumped the price up to just over £400 (£405 I think, but I'm not too sure about the increments for prices that high). In that case, the person that was winning when the OP placed the bid would still be leading.

jayok

cyberbob wrote: »

No only if they are a full increment higher. You can lose an auction even if you put a higher amount in if its not a full increment higher

I have won many many auctions by less than the full increment. I once got an email accusing me of knowing the maximum bid of the highest bidder near the end of an auction, I came in with 10 seconds to go to get the item for 1p more

TurkishDelight

willa wrote: »

Look, 'guys' - it seems that I am the only person here who is referring to what the OP ACTUALLY SAID.
Perhaps if you all read what the OP said again and have a think

Yes- the item would have gone to either the OP if they bid the highest amount, or it would have gone for more than what the OP bid.

There is no way barring computer failure, bid cancellation, or bid retraction that the item could have gone for the £225 that it did.

There just isn't, sorry.

We know it wasn't bid retraction.
We can assume that it wasn't bid cancellation as it was too quick.
So ebay have failed.

I'm done with this thread. :rotfl:

frivolous_fay

TurkishDelight wrote: »

We know it wasn't bid retraction.

Not by the OP at least.