My maximum amount is being used not the bid increment

sidhufl · Guest

I had success with gixen in the past but for my last two snipes i noticed that gixen/ebay is using my maximum bid amount as my bid, not the incremental bid over the last bid.
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You can see that my bid should have been $675 rather it is my maximum bid which is $720
A bit confused although i lost on both auctions. ebay item # 122093408558

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7599 Location: Bristol, UK

It always has been your maximum bid that is used.

If no one else bids nearly as much as you then, Ebay only ever makes you pay at most one bid increment more than the next highest bidder. However if they do bid close to your maximum you may have to pay that much.

This is the way it has to be, and is not a disadvantage to you.

You do not know how much someone else has already bid, or is about to bid, until after you bid has been placed on Ebay.

You should always be prepared to pay as much as your snipe bid if that is what is necessary to win the auction.
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sidhufl · Guest

Does that mean my first bid was entered as $675 and was incremented up to $720 ? You can see that there are no other bids between $665 and $720

Rickajho · Guest

Was there a reserve set on these auctions? If your bid matched or was higher than the reserve price the bid automatically goes to the reserve price.

IE: If the current bid on an item is, say, $250.00, the reserve is $500.00, and you bid $600.00 your bid will automatically go to $500.00 - not $260.00. That will happen if you place the bid directly on the ebay site or if Gixen does it for you. You need to be mindful of this when bidding on any auction with a reserve set.

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Rickajho · Guest

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7599 Location: Bristol, UK

There was no reserve on this particular auction.

Yes, as I and Rickajho explained your one and only bid was entered as $720... this has always been the case and always will be.

You will only ever pay at most one bid increment more than the next highest bidder was prepared and able to bid, that is because of the way Ebay bidding works (and, again, always has done so) it has nothing to do with Gixen, though, of course, that is why Gixen has been deigned and implemented to do what it does.

Your question stems from a wrong assumption of what Gixen does, and why it does it that way.
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