I have listed a jacket for £150 and someone has bid £0.00

[1970sclearout]

I have listed a jacket for £150 and someone has bid £0.00. The price is still red and the listing shows 0 bids, but it has the buyers name for highest bidder, is this just a glitch by ebay?

[m25jet · Accepted solution]

Having just clicked on the listing in question and viewed the bidding history the buyer's bid is definitely showing up as £0.00, even though the starting price clearly displays an amount of £150.00.  I'd say that this is yet another site glitch - if the buyer had bid less that the starting price then the bid wouldn't even have registered.  Hopefully the glitch will be resolved soon and the bidding history will go back to normal.  If somebody else bids for the item then perhaps the bidding history will go back to how it should do and either show how much the second bidder's pushed the first bidder's price up by, or if not then perhaps it'll display the second bidder as the highest bidder, with all of the increments from the first bidder showing up as £0.00.  Then again, this is just a shot in the dark guess on my part - eBay is so glitchy that it's impossible to say with any certainty what is causing the problem and if it will eventually go back to how it should be.

At the end of the day, regardless of what the amount shows on the bidding history, so long as the winning bidder pays for the item then you should receive the amount that he actually won the item for, regardless of whether or not the bidding history is still showing the amount at £0.00.  It shouldn't even be possible for a bidder to place a bid at an amount lower than the starting price or lower than the highest bid, so with any luck eBay will straighten this glitch out if it is indeed a glitch.

Although it's more than likely to be a glitch for all we know it may well be eBay's latest experiment with auction listings whereby they're deliberately preventing other potential bidders from being able to see the actual price that the highest bidder is currently winning the auction at, which if I'm right would be an insane thing for eBay to have done, and something which may well have a detrimental effect on auction listings across the site, both for bidders and for sellers.

[rusticrye]

It's either a temporary glitch, or the system hasn't caught up yet,  as it's not possible to bid less than the starting price.

@1970sclearout 

[m25jet]

As a quick update to my original post on this thread, the problem described with the first bid showing up as £0.00 must have been a glitch, because at the time of posting this second reply the latest bid on the listing is showing that the jacket has currently been bid up to a price of £170.56.  Either eBay have sorted the glitch out, or if not then perhaps the mere act of another bidder having placed a bid for the jacket subsequently revealed the original bidder's bid increments.  Whatever the reason, the bidding history is now displaying properly again, and it is now possible to see the cut-off point of both of the people who have currently been outbid by the third bidder, who is, at the time of posting this reply, the highest bidder for the jacket.

[red_magpie]

That's very odd - it's definitely recording the bid as £0.00.

Yet it obviously recognises that the starting price of £150 has been attained, as it shows that the next bid must be £155 or more.

Glitches in the bidding system are rare, but this shows that they do happen. My guess is that by tomorrow it will have corrected itself.

[pixiesen2012]

must be a glitch

I'm seeing one bidder at £150