Help in understanding EBAY bidding....
Need some expert RCC advice on how this happens:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=8312958705 My bid (reblone2) @ 16:04:054---Ok, worked fine, next bid was at 16:01:57 and was higher than mine, so all is fine, but the next and winning bid came at 16:01:46, or 8 seconds before my bid went in, and 11 second before the guy that beat me out. How can the times be thus? I am sure that there is an explanation somewhere but I tried going thru the maze of ebay rule recs and questions and could not shake out anything I could understand. Rick |
"BigDog" wrote in message ups.com... Need some expert RCC advice on how this happens: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=8312958705 My bid (reblone2) @ 16:04:054---Ok, worked fine, next bid was at 16:01:57 and was higher than mine, so all is fine, but the next and winning bid came at 16:01:46, or 8 seconds before my bid went in, and 11 second before the guy that beat me out. How can the times be thus? I am sure that there is an explanation somewhere but I tried going thru the maze of ebay rule recs and questions and could not shake out anything I could understand. Rick Hi Rick. Not sure exactly what the problem is here... The amounts seem OK, so I'm guessing you are puzzled by the sequence of events as ebay displayed it. (your bid time corrected to 16:01:54) I believe the problem is twofold: ebay's inability to keep up with the avalanche of bids that appear in the last few seconds, and (certainly in my case) the persistence of cached pages which make it seem that there has been no activity, when in fact there has. I can refresh - forced refresh - refresh again - and still some bids don't appear, so my snipe gets bounced because the item has already gone over my limit. No big deal for me, 'cause my limit is my limit, but it is frustrating. As I said, I'm not sure what the problem is here. The times seem OK to me. Was the display of the item in the last few seconds awry? -- Jeff R. |
On 25 Jun 2005 16:19:19 -0700, "BigDog" wrote:
Need some expert RCC advice on how this happens: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=8312958705 My bid (reblone2) @ 16:04:054---Ok, worked fine, next bid was at 16:01:57 and was higher than mine, so all is fine, but the next and winning bid came at 16:01:46, or 8 seconds before my bid went in, and 11 second before the guy that beat me out. How can the times be thus? I am sure that there is an explanation somewhere but I tried going thru the maze of ebay rule recs and questions and could not shake out anything I could understand. It's easy....he submitted a higher maximum bid....neither one of you beat his maximum. You guys just bid him up a bit. |
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wrote: Need some expert RCC advice on how this happens: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=8312958705 My bid (reblone2) @ 16:04:054---Ok, worked fine, next bid was at 16:01:57 and was higher than mine, so all is fine, but the next and winning bid came at 16:01:46, or 8 seconds before my bid went in, and 11 second before the guy that beat me out. How can the times be thus? I am sure that there is an explanation somewhere but I tried going thru the maze of ebay rule recs and questions and could not shake out anything I could understand. The bids as shown on that page are sorted by Bid Amount, not by time entered ... # kentroutman ( 125) US $176.08 Jun-25-05 16:01:46 PDT # golddigger3000 ( 296) US $173.58 Jun-25-05 16:01:57 PDT # reblone2 ( 57) US $162.95 Jun-25-05 16:01:54 PDT # mccfam ( 172) US $156.99 Jun-19-05 22:19:40 PDT As of Jun-24-05 16:00, mccfam was high bidder. At 16:01:46, kentroutman bid at least $176.08 and became high bidder at $159.49 ($156.99 + $2.50). At 16:01:54, you bid $162.95, which bumped kentroutman's proxy up to $165.45 ($162.95 plus $2.50). At 16:01:57, golddigger3000 bid $173.58, which bumped ktroutman's proxy up to $176.08 ($173.58 + $2.50). The auction closed at 16:02 with the highest bidder as the winner, at one increment above the highest underbidder, just as it's supposed to work ... -- Ken Barr Numismatics P. O. Box 32541 website: http://www.kenbarr.com San Jose, CA 95152 (souvenir cards, MPC, Hickey Bros tokens) 408-272-3247 Next show: Santa Barbara 07/16 (tent., no table) ADVANCED NOTICE: ANA World's Fair of Money, San Francisco, CA 7/27-31/2005 |
"BigDog" wrote in message ups.com... Need some expert RCC advice on how this happens: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=8312958705 My bid (reblone2) @ 16:04:054---Ok, worked fine, next bid was at 16:01:57 and was higher than mine, so all is fine, but the next and winning bid came at 16:01:46, or 8 seconds before my bid went in, and 11 second before the guy that beat me out. How can the times be thus? I am sure that there is an explanation somewhere but I tried going thru the maze of ebay rule recs and questions and could not shake out anything I could understand. Rick You are probably confused because the results only show the highest proxy effect of the winning bidder. The winning bidder put in a higher bid than yours, prior to your bid. You only get the satisfaction of making the bidder list because it needs to be shown to legitimize the final amount. In reality, your bid was never enough to become the high bidder at any time. jim menning |
BigDog wrote:
and 11 second before the guy that beat me out. Your confusion may be caused by a belief that you were at one point the leading bidder ("beat me out"). This was never the case. Your bid was submitted after the winning bid, and was lower than that bid. You were never higher than second place. |
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