Schilling

[marmargagne]

For the second time this week someone waited till last minute and left me no time to respond. Tonight was worse as it came up Id won and while I waited for Pay now to come up instead it said sorry you ve missed out this time. Firstly how can they put you ve won if someone has bid on time. I feel like removing ebay app as once was bad but to be told you ve won and one full minute later saying sorry you ve missed out is way below the belt. Totally gutted and angry.

[pixiesen2012]

schilling is when the seller gets someone to push the price up to your max and you win the item at that price

what you are describing is 'sniping' where a bidder waits until the last moment to bid,

schilling isn't allowed,

sniping is allowed,

ebays software can't cope when bids are placed in the last miliseconds of a listing and the underbidder gets the 'you've won' notification when in fact they have been outbid,

because ebay has a set finishing time you should decide the maximum you are willing to pay, the absolute max, not the 'I might bid higer' max,

then place that as your bid close to the end of the auction

ebays auto bid system then bids for you until you either win or are outbid