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

lisawood78

*willa's pearl-like confused posts are mounting:rotfl:*

Charliezoo

Hi sorry for the late reply, I didn't have internet access yesterday. V.surprised by the big response, thankyou for all your comments

I haven't heard back from ebay and still have no idea why I didn't win the item. Looking at the bid history there were 31 bids in total and my bid didn't even appear so for some reason it did not register in the system.

I contacted the seller and he agreed to sell me another item for a good price (he has a shop selling the items outside of ebay) which is really good news for me but I'm not sure he really believed my story about the bid being missing and why should he? There's no evidence I ever placed a bid even though I got an outbid message, still confused why I would get that if I had made an error somwhere.

Thanks again for all your help and I'll let you know if/when I get a reply from ebay.

vet8

willa wrote: »

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.

I am not an expert, but I do not think this is right.

I was bidding on an item once, my max. bid was £90 and the bid was at £55. At the end someone else bid £70 and I won the item for £75. So as I had registered a higher max. bid I won, but the amount I paid went up to just over the other bidder's max. bid.

In the OP's case if his max. bid was £400 he should have won if it sold for £255. If anyone had bid over that, say £450 it would have sold for £410.

Charliezoo

vet8 wrote: »

I am not an expert, but I do not think this is right.

I was bidding on an item once, my max. bid was £90 and the bid was at £55. At the end someone else bid £70 and I won the item for £75. So as I had registered a higher max. bid I won, but the amount I paid went up to just over the other bidder's max. bid.

In the OP's case if his max. bid was £400 he should have won if it sold for £255. If anyone had bid over that, say £450 it would have sold for £410.

Well this is what I assumed tbh.

It doesn't seem right or fair on the seller that there was someone willing to pay a higher price than what the item was won for. Surely the idea of an auction is that the highest bidder wins?

willa

vet8 wrote: »

I am not an expert, but I do not think this is right.

I was bidding on an item once, my max. bid was £90 and the bid was at £55. At the end someone else bid £70 and I won the item for £75. So as I had registered a higher max. bid I won, but the amount I paid went up to just over the other bidder's max. bid.

In the OP's case if his max. bid was £400 he should have won if it sold for £255. If anyone had bid over that, say £450 it would have sold for £410.

I completely get that vet8, sounds right and familiar to me.
Still don't see how it applies to what the OP has said though.
As I keep saying, someone else had obviously already bid higher than £400 (but the OP wouldn't know that because that's not shown in what he can see), that's why they won the item and why the OP got a message saying he had been outbid when he bid £400. Ebay bids for you incrementally for as long as the auction lasts and your maximum amount you've said you're willing to pay has not been reached. I don't get why nobody seems to understand this (except maybe a couple of quiet posters).

TurkishDelight

But willa- the OPs bid should have pushed the price up.
As it did in vet8's situation.
So the item couldn't have gone for less than the OPs bid without the OP winning. (within a few pounds for the bid increments).

Anyway, it seems that the OPs bid didn't register at all from what they've said, which is very odd.

willa

Yeah, and if it registered it would have pushed the price up - a bit - not to £400 or more.

Zazen999

willa wrote: »

I completely get that vet8, sounds right and familiar to me.
Still don't see how it applies to what the OP has said though.
As I keep saying, someone else had obviously already bid higher than £400 (but the OP wouldn't know that because that's not shown in what he can see), that's why they won the item and why the OP got a message saying he had been outbid when he bid £400. Ebay bids for you incrementally for as long as the auction lasts and your maximum amount you've said you're willing to pay has not been reached. I don't get why nobody seems to understand this (except maybe a couple of quiet posters).

No - as if their highest bid was £400; and he was outbid, then why was the final amount not more than £400 [that's what outbid means!!!]

sham63

Willa, your version is illogical;

There is a DVD I'm after with a starting price of 99p. You can buy the same DVD as a 'buy it now' for £16 - so no one is going to bid more than £16

You are saying that if I bid £20 now as an opening bid, I will definately win the DVD for 99p?

willa

Zazen999 wrote: »

No - as if their highest bid was £400; and he was outbid, then why was the final amount not more than £400 [that's what outbid means!!!]

*HEAVY SIGH*.
He might have pushed the price up by, say, one increment with his bid, but he was immediately 'outbid', ie. Ebay would have beaten his increment, because the other bidder must have previously input £400 or higher.