Viewing People's Bid Amounts Before Auction Ends!

alexj2002

UPDATE 17 September 2004: It would appear that this has now been brought over to the UK version of eBay and therefore there is no need to follow the advice below anymore.

I don't believe this to be illegal as it is shown on eBay's website.



When you look at an item and click on bid history all the bid amount are replaced with "-" until the end of the auction.

To view these amounts before the auction ends when viewing the item change

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....

in the address bar to

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI....

And then click on the bid history. The bid amounts will be shown.

Alex

lisyloo

That's a fabulous tip alex

divadee

I couldnt get it to work, but if i could its sneeky but good

sara2323

This worked fine for me and I could see all the bid amounts on a number of auctions just make sure you only replace the .co.uk with .com.

Thanks! ;D

robnye

it didnt work for me first time, but when i then went into the bidding page, then changed it to '.com' it did show the bids.......

blooming sneaky or what.... nice one alexj2002

i wonder if there is a way to view what someones max bid is...... now that would be naughty...... he he

alexj2002

You have to be on the actual item listing (where the pictures,description etc. are) not on the bid history when you change the .co.uk to .com

svmitche

It worked for me on the bid history page when I did the swap.

elsie._2

nice tip

robjo2

Didn't work for me; kept changing back to .co.uk

misty

I can be thick but I don't get why this is a good thing!! You get to see a starting bid and the current bid and can work out the increments these have gone up in by the number of bids - I don't see the advantage of seeing the actual bids unless you could see their max bid. tell me please because when I'm not on here generally on ebay if not simultaneously.

Chezza71

Thanks for this Alex ;D V sneaky! I just had a look at a pair of boots I was watching.... started at £4.99 and saw the bid had bumped up to £12.60 in just 3 bids! So just interesting to see how the bidding goes, I suppose.. Obviously would be v v sneaky if u cud see the max bids! hehehehe!