Bidding

[jasper-benz]

Hi

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?

[john1297576]

Show the bidding history!

[*vyolla*]

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

[jasper-benz]

358209738202

[john1297576 · Accepted solution]

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.

[jasper-benz]

358209738202

[jasper-benz]

Thanks very much it explains why

[red_magpie]

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.

[jasper-benz]

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