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Reply to "why I was outbid?"

When you bid, eBay holds the remainder of your bid as a proxy, until such time as another person's higher bid raises your proxy. It only registers your bid once, rather than listing it as multiple bid amounts, because you only bid one time.

For example, if on Tuesday person A bids $70 on an item and on Wednesday person B bids $95 on the same item, at the end of the auction, person A's bid amount will show as $70, since his full amount was used, and person B's amount will show as $71, since that is all that was needed. But if person C comes along on Thursday and bids $110, then B's single, earlier bid from Wednesday will show as $100, since his full amount was used. There will NOT be one bid listed for $71 on Wednesday and another for $100 on Thursday; there will be simply be the single bid by B on Wednesday, because that was the only time he bid.

The only way that B could have his name listed multiple times with multiple bid amounts would be for him to come back more times and bid a higher amount each time, rather than one large single bid.

I hope that helped. Red Face
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