Gixen placed incorrect bid

junksifta · Guest

For eBay AU item 267808877559, I configured a bid of $10.12.
Gixen placed a bid of $1.22 and shows status BID UNDER ASKING PRICE.

What went wrong?

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 8324 Location: Bristol, UK

The first part of the story will be this.

As detailed there, the strategy is being changed/tested of incremental bidding when the auction has extensions.

So, we have it starting to bid incrementally which will be the bid you see, and the auction extending (presumably, but the Ebay system can be unreliable in this respect at present), however a minute later the next incremental bid has failed (to get that 'BID UNDER ASKING PRICE' status), so we'll need to ask Mario what went wrong there.
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Mark

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7390

This was on Monday, and I no longer have detailed logs to be able to say for sure. Gixen saves very detailed logs for three days.

However, what I can see is the following, and it's weird:

At timestamp 1792417216 the bid of 1.62 was sent and you were outbid.

Then, at timestamp 1792417271 the bid of 2.14 was sent and the status returned was \"bid too low\".

Looking at the bid history I only see a bid of 1.22. I am guessing the whole issue is caused by the \"buyer protection fee\", but need to investigate this further.

junksifta · Guest

That's unfortunate. I tried to post on the day but the anti-bot check kept erroring and captcha image didn't change even after refreshing, not to mention the random errors accessing the forum that I'm still getting.

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