Didn't get bid

[Havethisone]

I have had two occasions now where I have not won an item, but some one else did bidding the same amount. According to the bid history I bid first. ???

[mario]

Post item id here so that we can take a look?

[Havethisone]

280184892376

[juangrande]

Here's enough of the bidding history to see what happened. Your $31.00 bid was made at 23:11:54 and kamranr's $31.00 bid was made at 22:01:19, a full 1 hour, 10 minutes and 35 seconds before your bid; thus, kamranr's bid was given precedence. Note also that kamranr made another bid at 22:03:24, so you would still have lost the auction: the only difference had your bid been made earlier would be that the closing price of the auction would have been one increment higher, that is, $32.00.

[Gixen]

[nochkin]

Havethisone, another suggestion..
If 31.00 is what you really want to pay (not 32.00), then bid few pennies more, like 32.01 or so.
It won't hurt your budget, but will increase your chances to win (especially in this case).

[Cupid]

[juangrande]

[Cupid]

[nochkin]

juangrande,
Before havethisone sniped this auction, it was at 29.32 (with hidden bid 31.00 from kamranr) so the next increment is 30.32 to be accepted by eBay and 31.01 to actually win (not 32.01 as I mis-typed before ).

Increment is 1.00 for this price range.

[juangrande]

[Cupid]

Hi John,

I hope you did not think me rude for not replying to your last post here... I must admit that I missed it entirely... I think that is because it was an edited post rather than a completely new one.

Anyway I came back (eventually) to provide another example for our readers, if you view the bidding of miss_me_when_im_gone on auction 350012049642 it demonstrates what is possible in this respect.

I'm certainly not recommending that type of bidding, however thinking about it further:

1> I can see if you bid every penny between one increment above the current bid and what you are prepared to pay then you could perhaps save almost an increment in your costs if you won the auction. eBay would only take the bid at the next highest bidders price (the same as one of your own bids) as the winning bid, i.e. not add an extra increment from your proxy bid... Of course it doesn't work because it just attracts more bids from others. The time and effort involved in setting it up would be a waste of time, in my view.

2> It could also intimidate other bidders into thinking that you have bid higher than you actually have (if they looked at the bid history) and perhaps refrain from actually bidding against you even if they were prepared to pay more. This doesn't work because bidders rarely look at the bid history, and even if they do they are unlikely to be intimidated by it particularly if they really want the item, and are prepared to pay more than the current price plus one increment.

Perhaps there are other reasons that people might bid this way?... Anyway its cetainly been an interesting discussion, hasn't it?
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Mark

[juangrande]