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Topic: EBay - Happened to You? |
Fred Layman
From:
Springfield, Missouri USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2004 6:32 pm |
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| I bid on a part for a Fender Custom steel a while back. It was the end of the auction and I bid $124.50 for the item. The auction flashed that I was the winner at $124,500, even though my bid showed in the rectangle just below that figure as $124.50. The $124,500 wiped out every other bidder and the auction ended before I could enter a correction to the designated bid. Fortunately I knew the seller and we worked out a settlement, but this has made me leery of future bids. Has this happened to any of you? |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2004 6:42 pm
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| Even if you HAD bid $124,500, someone else would have had to bid $124,000 or so for your buying price to be that high. This definitely sounds like an eBay glitch, which would have been easily explained. |
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Fred Einspruch
From:
Alaska
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Posted 10 Oct 2004 4:31 am
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This happened to me once, but not as extreme.
I bid $1250.00 on a PSG and the current bid went all the way up to my $1250 max price.
I think that something kicks in in the last couple of minutes, so be carefull. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 10 Oct 2004 5:15 am
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You understand, right?, that if I'm high bidder at $75 and if my hidden max is $100 and if the minimum raise increment is, say, $5, then if a sniper bids $103 at the last second, it will make me the high bidder and winner at $100.
Fred L--I've never seen it go as haywire as you describe. I do know that on some forums I lurk/participate in, posts that are entered nearly simultaneously sometimes cause all sorts of glitches and cross-threading. So maybe there's a bug in the ebay system that is affected by a 'perfect storm' scenario of rapid fire endgame bidding and----who knows what other factors. Or maybe someone there has access to your bankbook and knows that you're good for the $124,000  and generous to boot. |
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Gary Shepherd
From:
Fox, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2004 8:36 pm
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Actually, the $103 bid would win. The $5 increment would not prevent the $103 bid from being entered until the high bid was actually at $98.01. I use this fact to win auctions at the last second all the time.
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2004 12:35 pm
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Somebody get a rope!  |
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