Can someone please explain this?

Read up on Proxy Bidding on eBay's help pages at http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/buy/proxy-bidding.html and you'll see how eBay allows you to place your max bid well above the start price then bids in increments on your behalf... You lost this one 'cos the winner placed a proxy bid higher than your snipe. Sadly there's no way of predicting this...

R2

region2,

Thank you very much for your reply. I think I understand Proxy Bidding.

My question is why didn't this bidder show up as the high bidder before I placed mine.

In other words, the original bidder placed a bid for $6.95. Shouldn't the winner's proxy bid show up for $7.45 at 15:32, my bid show up as $8.51 at 15:32 and then the winner's proxy bid of $9.01 replace mine?

Why doesn't the winning bidders proxy bid show up when he made it at 15:18 before I made mine at 15:32?

Shouldn't there be 4 bids, not 3?

Thanks,
AW

Yes, I don't understand this either. I have seen bid listings where they DO list the bid before and the highest bid after your snipe (the low and high bid being from the same bidder), so I don't understand why they don't do it all the time?? I just had it happen to me the other night. Although you can't fight city hall when its finished!

<i>In other words, the original bidder placed a bid for $6.95. Shouldn't the winner's proxy bid show up for $7.45 at <b>15:32</b>, my bid show up as $8.51 at 15:32 and then the winner's proxy bid of $9.01 replace mine?</i>

Sorry, I meant:

In other words, the original bidder placed a bid for $6.95. Shouldn't the winner's proxy bid show up for $7.45 at <b>15:18</b>, my bid show up as $8.51 at 15:32 and then the winner's proxy bid of $9.01 replace mine?</i>

AW

Yes, I don't understand this either. I have seen bid listings where they DO list the bid before and the highest bid after your snipe (the low and high bid being from the same bidder), so I don't understand why they don't do it all the time?? I just had it happen to me the other night. Although you can't fight city hall when its finished!

No, you can't fight it! I just want to understand it. I bid the highest I was willing to pay and someone wanted it more than I did.

AW

eh? The item number might resolve this confusion!

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R2

From my original post:

The item # is 5602715371 if that is any help or I wasn't clear in my description.

Again, thanks to anyone that help me understand this. I understand I was outbid, I just don't understand how come the winning bidder wasn't already listed.

Many thanks,
AW

The winning bidder's high bid DID show before you, just not the full amount. Just before your bid was placed at 15:32, his bid would have shown as $7.45 because, as you apparently understand, that was all that was needed to make him the high bidder. But you seem to think that a second bid by the high bidder should also have shown, which is not the case.

He made one high bid, and only that bid shows. You have no way of knowing how much be bid, only that he bid more than the next highest bidder. When he needed only $7.45 to win, that was the amount shown, but when your snipe came in at $8.51, then more of his proxy was used and it shows as $9.01. He could have bid $75, but THE BID ONLY SHOWS ONCE, at the time it was originally made, and at one increment above the second highest bidder. The amount that shows as that high bid will change as other bidders (like yourself) cause more of his proxy to be used.

We tend to think of a high bid as the actual amount that we see, but it is generally higher, often much higher.

Chatter,

Many thanks.

I assume this means that if I looked at the bidding with 8 seconds to go (my snipe went in at 7 seconds), it would have shown the winner with a bid of $7.45.

The winner only bid once, so he only shows once.

Thanks again,
AW

quote:

I assume this means that if I looked at the bidding with 8 seconds to go (my snipe went in at 7 seconds), it would have shown the winner with a bid of $7.45.

The winner only bid once, so he only shows once.

Correct.