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EBAY BIDDING

As a new user of EBAY can some more experienced users please explain the following. I bid on an item and watched the screen run down to the end of the auction showing myself as the highest bidder, but then was informed by e-mail that I had been outbid by 50p by another user. This at notime came up on the screen as the auction closed.

Thank You

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  • divadee
    divadee Posts: 10,608 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    the person that outbid you had probably used an auction-snipe tool.

    This means that they place there bid in the last seconds ie. 1 sec left, so noone else can win the item

    HTH :)
  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    if you click the number of bids then it'll show you everybody who bid and at what time their bids came in
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