losing bid question

[fussyoldfart]

I just lost an auction to a bidder who managed to beat my ODD Amount bid by exactly one dollar one second BEFORE my Gixen bid went in. The increments were 50 cents but the winning bid was exactly one dollar more than mine even though I deliberately used a bid maximum that was twenty cents out of synch. To me it appears as if he could see my bid coming and bid a dollar more but, I repeat, according to the bidding record his bid preceded mine by one second. I suppose there can be coincidences but this sure has me wondering what happened. Does anyone have any light to throw on this?

[juangrande]

If the closing price was exactly one dollar more than your bid, then the bid increment was probably one dollar. This is the way eBay works: the closing price is the second-highest bid plus up to one bid increment. In your case, it sounds like the closing price was exactly one bid increment more than your bid, which indicates that the winning bidder bid at least one dollar more than you (and could have bid much more). Timing has nothing to do with this.

If you provide us with an auction number, we could take a look at the bid history to verify this.
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John

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[fussyoldfart]

Yep, here's the item and when I look at the bids I see them going up by 50 cents except for the last one. I don't mind being outbid but I don't understand the timing.

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This may be a duplicate submission but I took out the words that the spam filter doesn't like.

[juangrande]

OK, here's the bid history:

[Gixen]