topic Re: Bidding in Member To Member Support

Bidding

jasper-benz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:37:33 GMT

i I lost an auction by £1 why. I bid £2350.00 the bidding was going up by £50. A bidder bid one second after me and won the auction by one pound. Any ideas?

Re: Bidding

john1297576 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:39:31 GMT

Show the bidding history!

Re: Bidding

*vyolla* — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:54:07 GMT

If you'd like to supply the listing number we'll be happy to take a look at the bid history.

Re: Bidding

jasper-benz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:59:39 GMT

358209738202

Re: Bidding

john1297576 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:10:00 GMT

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/buying/bidding/automatic-bidding?id=4014

Read this at the very end it explains how a bid can win without being the full increment.

Re: Bidding

jasper-benz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:10:47 GMT

358209738202

Re: Bidding

jasper-benz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:21:56 GMT

Thanks very much it explains why

Re: Bidding

red_magpie — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:01:54 GMT

I confess that I still can't see how the winning bidder won.

The winning bid of £3,251 appears to be a unique bid, not part of an earlier automatic bidding chain and time-stamped at 7:04:53 pm. This was one seond after jasper-benz's bid of £3,250, time-stamped at 7:04:52 pm.

I don't see why it wasn't subject to the £10 minimum bid increment. The explanation at the end of eBay's guidance doesn't accounts for it. Perhaps the answer is buried in the bidding history, but it doesn't seem possible to expand this further to show all automatic bids, or the time in fractions of a second.

Re: Bidding

jasper-benz — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:59:46 GMT

Regards.. I’ve give up trying to understand it. Thank you for your help.
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