What happened here?

jhsuMember

Can anybody give me a play by play on what happened here:

BIDDER BID AMOUNT DATE OF BID
'br1' $26.00 12:42:14
'me' $25.00 12:42:09
'br1' $15.00 12:01:32

ENDED 12:42:19

This is the third auction I've been outbid and I want to figure out exactly what's gong on.

Tell me if I got this correct or not. 'br1' placed a max bid of $x at 12:01:32 which brought the bid increment up one to $15.00.

Then at 12:42:09, "8 seconds" before close AS placed a bid for me bringing it automatically to $25.00.

Then 'br1's max bid of $26.00 is revealed at 12:42:14, 5 seconds before auction is closed.

Is this a correct interpretation?

And here's my real question, let's say 'br1's max bid was really only $18.00 and AS made my max bid of $25.00 at the last moment. Would the Ebay proxy only count the next bid increment ending the final price at $19.00?

Thanks!

4/18/077:38 PM

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region2Member

Effectively you were outbid by a new max bid of at least $26 by BR1 at 5 seconds to go.
If they hadn't bid again you would have won at $16 (assuming $1 bid increments).
Top Tip, always bid your max and always add a few pence/cents - in your example you would have won if BR1 had bid $25 but lost if they'd bid $25.01

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4/19/072:44 AM

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jhsuMember

So your saying he put a new max bid at 5 seconds to go? Is that possible to do manually? Or do you think he had some kind of other sniper application? I've tried manually sniping auctions myself, but I don't think I could ever do it in 5 seconds!

4/19/077:19 AM

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region2Member

defo auto I reckon! Anything less than 30 seconds is pretty good going (nigh on impossible imho)

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4/19/077:59 AM

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