Warning If You Increase Your Bid On An Item

gizmos

Forgive me if this is in the wrong place but I really thought you should be aware of what has just happened to me

I placed a bid early and became the highest bidder, then decided that I wanted to increase it again - so I did - I was still the highest bidder so the bidded price should not have increased. It did from £40 to £50.

I have been onto live support to report this and this have accepted that it is a technical problem.

Note that ebay will be getting the increased fees as well from the sellers for this glitch.

I urge anyone who has increased a bid to go back and check to see if the bidding process has "bid against themselves".

Hope this makes sense

Millionaire

Yep, Ive done this once. Put in a bid which was not my maximum and then decided that I would put in my maximum bid as I won't be around for the auction end.

And my new bid beat my own old bid. Couldn't believe it, still lost the auction though.

gizmos

its not right is it though and is totally unfair .... am fighting - will keep you posted

Millionaire

gizmos wrote: »

its not right is it though and is totally unfair .... am fighting - will keep you posted

Yep. Its been happening for ages though so does not look like ebay are bothered.

gizmos

onto my THIRD live chat agent in the same session ....

purplevamp

gizmos wrote: »

Forgive me if this is in the wrong place but I really thought you should be aware of what has just happened to me

I placed a bid early and became the highest bidder, then decided that I wanted to increase it again - so I did - I was still the highest bidder so the bidded price should not have increased. It did from £40 to £50.

I have been onto live support to report this and this have accepted that it is a technical problem.

Note that ebay will be getting the increased fees as well from the sellers for this glitch.

I urge anyone who has increased a bid to go back and check to see if the bidding process has "bid against themselves".

Hope this makes sense

Thanks for the heads up gizmos. Normally when I bid I wait until the very last minute to put my bid in. I don't use any sniping tool before someone shouts at me. I open 2 windows, enter my highest bid in one, refresh the other one until the last 15-20 seconds, then press 'enter' on the first window, ifkwim?! 99% of the time I win:j

soolin

I'd be interested to know if others have had this problem or whether it is an isolated one as I have two items both of which have two bids from the same user but the current bid price is still the opening bid and has not jumped at all.

Bids should only jump on a Dutch auction or one where there is a reserve and reserve is met by the second bid which could be the case in the OP as £40 would not be a winning bid but £50 on a reserve auction with the minimum £50 reserve could be a winning bid. So OP, was there a reserve showing before you bid?

Kay_Peel

Yep. This has happened to me twice:

- there was no reserve
and
- I was the only bidder anyway!

I don't do it anymore.

lingham

same as me its so annoying.

Hintza

It only happend to me when I inadvertently bid on an item I was sniping via a different account think I ramped the bid by about £20....grrr

littleoldme_2

ive only heard of it jumping like that when you do not place a full bid increment on the first bid.