Bidding to Maximum Bids

[nycclaudia]

Hi. 

As a seller, is anyone else concerned that they might not be getting the maximum price? When a buyer places a bid but puts the max that they would go up to as a much higher amount then fewer people are likely to bid on the item because Ebay indicates how high they would have to go to outbid the current bidder. 

While this makes sense for bidders who don't want to waste their time bidding aganist an already placed high maximum bid (quite possibly higher than they want to go so what's the point), from the buyers perspective this means that the sold price is artificially lower than it might have been. in other words, the item would likely sill have been won by this high max bidder but would have been sold  to them for a higher price if the bidder had had some competition.

I hope that makes sense.

C.