Increment crap

You would have had to bid at least $300.23 just to have your bid “recorded” by ebay. No way to determine how much would have been required to “win” the auction unless the winning bidder won by less than an increment. Only difference between ebay and AS is that ebay probably would have done a better job telling you that you needed to bid more.

No, my max 300 would win even if it is less then the increment.

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBa...ds&item=320462234593

How do you know the high bidder's max bid amount? All I can see is their proxy bid.

yes you are right, but he whold never have the time to beat my 300.

But, you’re assuming that the winning bid amount is the maximum amount the winning bidder bid. Had you placed a bid through ebay, the winning bidder’s maximum bid would need only to have been $300.23+ to outbid your $300 bid.

But, then if you had of placed your bid through ebay, that may have caused a bidding war, and who knows what top bidder #1 and #2 would have done, and we still don't know what the maximum bid was.

Seems you were outsniped - your 300 went in between the snipe by p***r and the end of the auction - a gap of about 7 seconds. Ebay correctly rejected it as not being at least one increment above the highest bid.

Now, if your snipe had arrived sooner AND p***r had only bid 300 then you would have won. If he'd bid 300.01 then you would have lost!

Next time bid higher and add a few pence/cents so that you might win in a draw...

R2

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Originally posted by region2:
Seems you were outsniped

What does “outsniped” mean? Obviously one can be outbidded, but “outsniped”?

I have a question about increments. If a current bid is $50.00 will AS bid just enought to win or does my max bid get put in?

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or does my max bid get put in?

Yes.

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Originally posted by debo:
I have a question about increments. If a current bid is $50.00 will AS bid just enought to win or does my max bid get put in?

If AS were to bid only the next increment, the odds are more likely that you would lose, for the simple fact that you do not know what the high bidder's max is, and the odds are that the high bidder has bid more, possibly much more, than what you see listed.

There is a tendency, particularly among newbies, to look at the current high bid as the high bidder's max. No, no, no--one has no way of knowing the high bidder's max until that person is outbid. That is why it is important to always bid your max when sniping--you will only get one shot, so make it count. Hopefully, you will get the item for far less than your max, but since you don't know what the other bidder's max is, go for yours in full.

E bay has always had those increments, a pain I must agree with.

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Originally posted by Rick:

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Originally posted by region2:
Seems you were outsniped

What does “outsniped” mean? Obviously one can be outbidded, but “outsniped”?

Region2,

You must not have seen this?

Simply means another sniper had a higher bid.

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Simply means another sniper had a higher bid.

Is that what you meant, region2?