How this happened (ebay bidding)

"Anyway, I thought on ebay you had to bid in increments and that if someone put in $15 it would still only place the next highest increment. How did it go from $9.95 to an odd numeber like $15.02 and then $15.52?"

I have just signed up for AauctionSniper so I am not sure about the first part of your question. However, I do know that on eBay you have to bid a minimum of the bid increment. You can bid any amount about that minimum. Sometimes people will bid .02 over hoping to win by the two cents.

So someone bid 15.02 on your item, then the next person increased by the minimum of .50 making the new total 15.52. Hope this helps.

Thanks, it makes sense.

Ya, a great trick is to always add that extra 1-3 cents because most people bid in even increments of 25 cents to a dollar. So instead of $15 go for $15.01 or something and you'll probably manage to pull off some one cent victories down the line.

But ya had they bid $15.00 and you had bid $15.00 before then them their bid wouldn't have gone through. So there are some strategies even to sniping in terms of when to place your bid.

On small ticket items where I know a range of $1.00 or so where the item price will end I always use a longer delay. Like 30 seconds. I do that so to thwart other snipers. Knowing that if I get my bid in first they'll have to up my bid by 25 - 50 cents. And sometimes that makes it more than a person would be willing to bid. Like on CD's and DVD's I do that. Oh, and I always use that extra 1 cent. So then maybe I bid $15.52 and someone else put in a snipe of $15.75 their bid wont go through because it's not 25 cents more than mine. Ya, they could win with $15.77 but most people dont bid like that. So the next highest winning bid would likely be someone willing to pay $16.00 but that gives me a 50 cent range with only 30 seconds left to bid. And maybe the item wasn't even anywhere near $16 until my snipe at 30 seconds left. So this works real well for me.