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is this fishy, or is it just me being paranoid?

F fotounlimitedMember
I just used AS for the first time. I won what I was bidding on, which is great, but I paid more than I had hoped (my max bid as it turns out).

Below are the bids, I guess the top two are the only ones relevant to my question, which is... is it just dumb luck that I won with what happened to be my max, or was my bid maxed out by someone who knows how to figure that kind of thing out on ebay?

This happened to me recently with another auction, normal bidding though, no AS.

Thanks for your feedback!

John


fotounlimited( 6 ) $700.00 Sep-16-03 17:47:38 PDT
guestroomrecords( 30) $692.05 Sep-16-03 17:46:35 PDT
hexdef6( 100) $402.52 Sep-16-03 06:47:04 PDT
hexdef6( 100) $350.52 Sep-16-03 06:42:24 PDT
hexdef6( 100) $340.52 Sep-16-03 06:42:07 PDT
zhuhangm( 9 ) $120.00 Sep-16-03 00:19:53 PDT
bchelberg@aol.com( 25) $115.00 Sep-14-03 22:21:52 PDT
billyjoesimmonsjr( 161) $110.00 Sep-15-03 22:36:40 PDT
funkyshooz( 45) $105.00 Sep-12-03 21:32:07 PDT
collectiblecovers( 206) $105.00 Sep-13-03 06:28:07 PDT
hicsuntlupi( 9 ) $100.00 Sep-08-03 13:33:34 PDT
amitypolice( 44) $50.01 Sep-07-03 00:56:28 PDT
deathfetish( 126) $40.00 Sep-07-03 20:32:58 PDT
gijsmu( 26) $16.11 Sep-06-03 22:25:07 PDT
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B bjtMember
Hi John

I don't think you need to be worried. This happens to me all the time, and I've been buying on eBay for a few years.

What looks like happened is pretty common. A bidder - in this case "hexdef6" nibbled away at the current bid until they were the high bidder. In doing this, they kept increasing the current price.
Then, "guestroomrecords" swooped in with their snipe 1 minute before the auction with an even higher bid.
Now, because of their bid, the current price is really up there.
Along comes yourself, crafty one that you are, and SNIPE the auction with the high bid!!

Looks to me like it was just a very competitive auction that had a lot of aggresive bidding.
You just happened to come out on top!
Good work and congratulations! Smile
mrsmmrsmMember
The 3 bids in a row was a person coming in and making three bids, inching up his bid, but not sucessfully reaching the reserve. Your final bid was brought into play, according to the Ebay rules, to match the reserve at the auction end. It looks perfectly good in my opinion. When you place a proxy or snipe on a reserve, be careful not to leave a bid higher than you intend to pay . Smile

rsmiller40
rickrickMember
quote:
Originally posted by fotounlimited:
Hexdef6 held the high bid for most of the day. All day long his top bid was $400, now his top bid is $402.52 (is this a bid increment # or was it his top bid?).

Why does hexdef6 show 3 bids in a row without any bids in between?


John,

The only way, that I can see, that the auction amount was at $402.52 for the day, was that the reserve price was around $400. hexdef6 placed 3 bids until he found the reserve and then stopped biding. Notice the time between his 1st and 2nd bid, which was only a $10 increase. Then take a look at the time between his 2nd and 3rd bid, which was a $50 increase. He gave the $50 increase more thought then the $10. Looks typical for a proxy bidder (indecisive).

As far as guestroomrecords goes, just the luck of the auction. There was no way for him to know your bid amount, especially since he didn't even know you were interested in the item.
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F fotounlimitedMember
Thanks for all of the great feedback!

End result, I got the item I wanted, paid the most taht I was willing to pay, but did avoid a bidding war with guestroom. I own a record store so I needed a low enough price to make it worthwhile to resell, guestroom could have been buying for themselves. If I was buying for myself I might have paid close to twice as much. I look forward to using AS in the future. Wonder why more people don't?

Take it easy.jm
F fotounlimitedMember
One more thing, I have to admit there is some sort of strange pleasure in scooping an auction at the last second. Guestroom was probably sitting there scratching his head goin' 'wtf?'. The seller on the other hand was probably thrilled to see another $300 bucks added to his pocket in a matter of mere seconds. Just another fine example of Darwinism at work.

later

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