MYSTERY bids placed last seconds???

All that time spent on the posting and you could have spent it learning about Proxy Bidding!

This is fundamental to how AS works so do read up on it!

R2

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HOW DID THEY PLACE A BID ON THE 9TH WITHOUT IT BEING SEEN UNTIL THE FINAL SECONDS ON THE 10TH??????

They didn’t. divabhm placed his $73 proxy bid, manually, on Sept 9 at 2:51:19 PDT. Until chococaty placed a bid, divabhm’s bid was $56.99 (n3stm’s $55.99 proxy bid + $1 ebay increment). chococaty’s bids increased divabhm’s bid to $68.00 (chococaty’s high bid of $67.00 + $1 ebay increment). n3stm’s 2nd bid (his snipe) was “at least” $74 (it could have easily been more), but it only required $74 (divabhm’s $73 proxy bid + $1 ebay increment) of n3stm’s proxy bid to win.

If you looked at the auction at any time after Sept 9 2:51:19 PDT, you would have seen divabhm’s bid recorded in the bid history, although until chococaty started bidding, divabhm's current bid would have been $56.99.

Don’t confuse a “proxy bid” with a “current bid”. A proxy bid is usually higher then a person’s current bid.

Trust me – no one can register a bid with ebay with a lower timestamp then when the bid/snipe is actually placed. If they could, that would be a disruption of ebay’s bidding process.

Happy sniping

I'm still confused by this issue.

Here's the bidding history on the item I sniped.

farmer-don US $886.00 Sep-07-06 18:58:47 PDT

eduk8or US $876.00 Sep-09-06 21:21:48

kurt4450 US $695.00 Sep-09-06 10:52:27

dsullivan57 US $651.00 Sep-08-06 09:54:55

dsullivan57 US $600.00 Sep-08-06 09:53:45

dsullivan57 US $576.00 Sep-08-06 09:53:11

farmer-don US $565.00 Sep-06-06 02:54:32

dsullivan57 US $551.00 Sep-08-06 09:52:41

dsullivan57 US $524.00 Sep-08-06 09:52:17

How does farmer-don get the final bid when he placed his proxy on 9/7 and on 9/9 kurt4450 had the high bid?? Why wasn't farmer-don's proxy put into place at that time?

2nd question... for whatever reason I got a 2nd chance email from the ebay on this item stating that the winner (farmer-don) couldn't complete the terms of the transaction and that I could have it at my last bid which of course was my high snipe bid at 876. The question I have.. if farmer-don hadn't had his proxy in I would've had it for $705 instead of $876.

Is this 2nd chance email for real? I've never gotten one before.

Could this have been a "set-up" by the seller to get the max bid out fo others just to retract the winning bid? Any expertise and opinion would be appreciated.

Thanks!