Won an item via Auction, also placed 2nd bid near end to increase my chances of winning,

[jasonsdad]

It was after the auction ended that I noticed that my second bid was shown as outbidding myself and inccreasing the purchase price,  Is this a glitch ? or are we all to be careful not to place additional bids ?

[tobiasd4]

You can't outbid yourself.

Only you will see your highest bid amount. 

Exception to the rule is if seller has set a reserve, then you won't win unless reserve is met,

Listing will show if reserve met or not.

[jasonsdad]

Thanks for this seems I will need to post the proof which I will do later this evening

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[jckl1957]

If you can give the item number, that is useful for people who look at your post and try to help.

[jasonsdad]

Thanks for the advice as stated in my previous message I will add the detail later this evening

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[red_magpie]

When you send the item number, first check the bidding history.

You can't bid against yourself if you are the only bidder. Your new bid will simply have become your new maximum.

If another buyer placed a higher bid eBay's automatic bidding system will have increased your own bid to keep you on top.

Or if there was a reserve price that was greater than your original bid, your second bid may have reached the reserve. These are the most likely explanations.

[jasonsdad]

This is the photo of the item,  the item number is 

Series 7 lego minifigures: Jungle boy, Bagpiper, Daredevil

£6.44Unit price £6.44

Item number: 267488103123

[jasonsdad]

I was highest bidder at £5.51 then managed to outbid myself to £6.01,   I didn't expect I would need to oitbid myself.

[*vyolla*]

Somebody else also bid £5.51.

You didn't outbid yourself, you outbid their bid.

[jasonsdad]

If you look at the detail you will see I was already the highest bidder, or didn’t you bother to look at the detail ?

[jasonsdad]

I must thank you for posting the facts above showing I was already the highest bidder by placing my bid earlier than the second bidder.  What I'm asking is why does the system here allow you to outbid yourself.  I now have the toip 2 winning bids.  If this is a glitch it should be sorted and not pushed under the rug trying to shy away from the facts.

[tobiasd4]

Your max bid will only come into play if someone else bids.

If auction starts at 99p and you bid £5.00, unless someone else bids, You win for 99p.

[jasonsdad]

wht are you wasting your time giving out fairly pointless information here ?    please look at the detail and explain why my current highest bid was then outbid by my next bid,  I was already the highest bidderr.  PLEASE LOOK AT THE DETAILS before firing off non-relevant information

[tobiasd4]

I suggest you read this link. 

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

[rainbowtrax]

@jasonsdad  The reason you outbid yourself was due to the bid increment kicking in. You had bid £5.51 and were winning because, although another bidder had placed an identical bid of £5.51, yours was placed first so it took precedence.

So, at that point, you were winning and the current bid was showing as £5.51. Anyone else placing a bid at that point would need to bid at least £6.01 (one bid increment above the current winning bid - at this price level, the bid increment is 50p).

You then bid again to increase your maximum. But, if you bid again when your current winning bid is not one full bid increment above the next highest bidder, your bid is increased to exactly one bid increment above that next highest bidder (or to your new maximum if that is still below one bid increment higher).

This has always been the case and is, I believe, the only circumstance where you do effectively bid against yourself.

[jasonsdad]

Hi, thank you for clarifying this, appreciated. I can just imagine a professional auction room telling the winning bidder that they increased their bid because they put in a higher ceiling, despite already being the highest bidder. in effect stick to Buy it now and don’t get caught out on the auction ‘rules’.

So ideally Ebay should fix this glitch. There should never be any instances where the leading bidder outbids themselves, or is this just me not seeing the funny side of this glitch ?

[*vyolla*]

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@jasonsdad wrote:
If you look at the detail you will see I was already the highest bidder, or didn’t you bother to look at the detail ?

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Didn't you bother to look at the bid history I posted?

Bit of a moot point now as it's been explained how eBay's bidding system works. 

[jasonsdad]

yes, it does seem Ebay will just add on another additional bid despite already having the highest bid, clearly a glitch and Ebay really need to address it, so yes we agree.

[tobiasd4]

You are not understanding bidding.

There is no glitch, ebay system has always worked this way as it should. 

You can't compare ebay and auction house bidding. 

Ebay auction listings end at a fixed time, auction house bids carry on until highest bid is placed.

[jasonsdad]

It’s like Airbus agreeing that if you press a specific sequence of buttons the plane will crash and then saying but everyone knows this,,, it’s always been like that. I believe glitches need go be addressed and fixed. There is no need to defend a situation which is quite frankly completely wrong. A leading bidder should never have a situation where they outbid themselves, is this difficult to understand ?