Lost Bid

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:06 pm Post subject: Lost Bid

Hi. I didn't win this item I was bidding on and I notice that my sniping bid didn't even show up in the automatic bids did I screw up somehow?
thanks.

Item #220646472701

Ebay ID: Radioactive_Slurpee.

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7131

Radioactive_Slurpee, you did nothing wrong.

It seems that there was a time server problem around the time your snipe was about to be placed, and this caused it to be late. I am sincerely sorry about this - I hope you can find a similar item again.

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:57 pm Post subject:

No problem thanks for answering my question.

MZ-Fan · Guest

Hi Folks,

I had the same problem. Crying or Very sad

My bid was about 4 euro and the item was bought by 3,66 euro.

At gixen.com I read "your bid was too low"
BUT
it wasn't!!!

Where was the problem?
Is it also the server?

Thanks a lot

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

MZ-Fan,

Most likely your problem was not the same, eBay has a bid increment rule that dictates that a bid is not accepte unless it is at least one increment above the current auction price, in this range the bid increment is 0.50, see:

http://pages.ebay.de/help/buy/bid-increments.html
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Mark

MZ-Fan · Guest

Thanks for your help

But I can't understand how there is a price of 3,66 is possible if the bid increment is 0.50 euro, because if there a 0.50 steps this price isn't possible...

But I understood the problem why the programm did not bid.

Thanks
mz-fan

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7131