26-03-2024 4:41 PM
I won an auction today but am confused where the other bids came from? I was the only bidder & watching the auction clock count down to zero. After this I got the 'congrats' message but the price had gone from my starting bid of £120 to £143 (still under my maximum). The bid log claims there were 6 bids made.
Bid 1 - My Bid
Bid 2 - 11 minutes before the auction closed
Bid 3 - 10 mins 45 seconds before the auction closed
Bid 4 - 10 minutes before the auction closed
Bid 5 - 1 minute before the auction closed
Bid 6 - As the auction closed my final auto bid (still under max bid)
My question is / why didn't I see any of these other bids when I was watching the auction close in real time?
I'm happy that I won and the item was still cheaper than I was prepared to go up to / but as a new EBay user I'm keen to understand what happened?
many thanks
26-03-2024 4:56 PM
Hi
Read this Ebay article about automatic bidding. Someone else has entered a maximum bid too from the sounds of it. Ebay was bidding automatically.
26-03-2024 5:32 PM - edited 26-03-2024 5:33 PM
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
I've read the article, but it doesn't answer my question as to why I couldn't see the other bids when I was monitoring the end of the auction in real time. EBay's timeline of bids say that Bids 2, 3 & 4 all were placed 10 minutes before the end of the auction. So why when I was sitting watching the timer count down to zero was my bid the only one showing? I can't see how automatic bidding explains that?
many thanks
26-03-2024 7:28 PM
If others bid in the last couple of seconds, it probably wouldn't show them till the page either refreshed, which would take a second or so anyway, or showed the other bids when you actually clicked on 'bids' afterwards.
26-03-2024 7:50 PM
Hi Knight Rider
I could certainly accept that if it looked like all the bids had come in the last few seconds. But EBay's own timeline shows Bids 2,3 & 4 as being made 10 minutes or more before the auction closed - exactly when I was watching in real time. So why didn't they show up while I was watching?
26-03-2024 8:01 PM
I lost an auction the other day, that was on £5.50 with a few seconds to go, but i lost when it ended at £17.50, which just happened to be £1 more than my maximum, showing nothing inbetween those bids and it's not the first time. So sometimes i can't figure it out either 😉 Normally i don't bid till the last couple of seconds myself, but a couple ended late last week and i just put a maximum in, but each time, seem to lose by £1 when it jumps from say £5 to £20 in one bid, so often, i'm as confused as you. Either way, unless i win, i don't care!