@department28 wrote:
It never used to do this. No idea what the reasoning is for the delay. It is rather unsettling, & makes you think someone else must've managed to sneak in & win at the last second... 😱
I've also had some rather frustrating results with a few auctions recently. On one auction I registered my bid with just seconds to spare and the screen initially flashed up with a message saying "You're the high bidder", before suddenly refreshing with a message saying "You've been outbid", after which the page refreshed yet again. After the page had refreshed, having just informed me that I'd been outbid, it showed me a new page, with a message on the screen saying "Congratulations, you won the auction. View order details." I decided to check out the bidding history, incuding activating the "Show Automatic Bids" option, yet the only thing that could have explained the "You've been outbid" message was a last-minute bidder attempting - and failing - to beat my bid, the end result being that the second highest bidder ended up nudging up the amount that I paid by one increment, especially as there were no bid retractions registered on the bidding history. However, given the fact that I won the auction, why did eBay tell me that I'd been outbid when all that actually happened was that a rival bidder ended up pushing the amount up slightly, but had not actually succeedid in placing an amount greater than my highest bid?
Another instance in which eBay's auctions started playing up was when I won a separate auction, yet rather than doing what the site always used to do, where it would say "Congratulations, you won this auction" and then present you with a screen with a blue button with white text on it saying "Pay Now", on that occasion I didn't get a "Pay Now" button showing up on the page. On the first auction it appeared at the bottom of the screen under "Unpaid Items" and I was able to go to Checkout and pay for the item, whereas with the second auction the item I'd just won was nowhere to be seen. I eventually noticed that the basket icon had a red circle next to it, with a white number one on it. When I clicked on the basket it took me to Checkout and I was able to pay for the item, although it's far more confusing that the old method of making payment, whereby if you won the auction it would automatically throw up a blue "Pay Now" button on the screen. Why on Earth do eBay have to keep on changing things on this site, getting rid of things that worked perfectly fine and choosing to replace them with things that do not work as intended and make using the site a real ballache? 😠
