Three bids,same buyer and price!

Iconic

Could someone please explain how a listing on ebay can have three bids for the same price made by the same buyer at three separate times.

Is it because the buyer originally bid say £10 and then upped their final price twice since the original bid?

The listing, so far, is showing three bids for the original minimum price.

eaglesrjh

Iconic wrote: »

Could someone please explain how a listing on ebay can have three bids for the same price made by the same buyer at three separate times.

Is it because the buyer originally bid say £10 and then upped their final price twice since the original bid?

The listing, so far, is showing three bids for the original minimum price.

yup exactly that, original bidder has entered 3 different max bids.

It can either be done because the bidder has really changed their mind about their max bid,

or more likely by doing this they make it look like there is a lot of interest and they hope other bidders will move on and look for an item with less interest, meaning they get it cheaper

This_Year

It won't change unless someone else bids. Then either the first bidder will be outbid, or their bid will increase (depending on how much the 2nd bidder bids)

example: bidder 1 bids 99p. Then rebids at £2 and then £3. Minimum bid does not change.

Auction ends no other bidders: Bidder wins at 99p.

Auction ends with a 2nd bidder : for example Bidder 2 bid £1.00 - Bidder 1 wins at £1.04 (1 increment over second bid)

: 2nd bidder bids £3.01 - Bidder 2 wins at £3.01 as highest bid.

Hope this makes sense!

Iconic

Thanks for the replies they make complete sense.

There are a few watchers so lets hope someone else does bid and the other watchers don't move on!

hesjane

If you are bidding on ebay, never do this:)

As you have found the seller can see you have made multiple bids and unscrupulous sellers can get 'friends' to bid up the price knowing that you have already placed higher bids.

I once sold an antique typewriter and could see the winning bidder had increased his bid six times over the the winning bid. When he came to collect it, I explained to him I knew he was willing to pay more and explained how I knew. He was willing to pay £80 more than his winning bid. Had I been unscrupulous it would have been easy to push the bid up.

UsernameAlreadyExists

That's called shill bidding. And you could have easily come unstuck and end up with one of your 'friends' winning.

hesjane

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

That's called shill bidding. And you could have easily come unstuck and end up with one of your 'friends' winning.

I know....I would never do that....I was trying to point out to the OP that he should never considered placing multiple bids (because he was clearly unaware of what had happened on the bidding on his own auction) on items as unscrupulous sellers could take advantage..ie shill bidding.

hesjane

thriftymanc wrote: »

I had a weird one recently where I had the same buyer place multiple bids on an item I was selling - but from different accounts! They were the only person to bid on it, it didn't have any watchers, so chances are if they'd only bid once they'd have won it at the starting price, but instead they ended up paying three times more because they bid themselves up. They were either really desperate to get it or didn't really understand how Ebay works...

I have to ask.....how do you know the were the same bidder?

I have had that happen in the past, but I only realised because they had been bidding on a few of my items, and one user ID won one auction and another user ID won another auction....only when I printed out the paypal packing slips did I realise it was the same lady. Can't understand some people:rotfl:

Chrysalis

wow I thought max bids were hidden, thats not very nice of ebay to have that info out in the open.

theonlywayisup

Chrysalis wrote: »

wow I thought max bids were hidden, thats not very nice of ebay to have that info out in the open.

They are hidden.

hesjane

Chrysalis wrote: »

wow I thought max bids were hidden, thats not very nice of ebay to have that info out in the open.

Sellers can only see the value of the highest current bid, but they can clearly see (as can anyone else) if a buyer has placed additional bids - so they can't see the amount but they will know that they are prepared to go higher.

does that make sense?