I wanted to buy a camera on ebay and I saw the same person outbid his own bid 3 times. Why would someone want to pay more on an item that they are winning? Why wouldn't he just put the highest amount of money he was willing to pay in as his 1st bid if he was just going to keep outbiding himself? The price of the camera went up to a price a couldn't afford so I never bid on it. I don't think its fair that people can keep outbiding their own bids.
2007-03-18 05:05:49 · 8 answers · asked by candigal 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
You can't outbid yourself. They put a proxy bid which means that they listed the highest price they are willing to pay. When you or someone else bid, they already said they would pay higher, thus showing them as the high bidder. They were not the one driving up the price, you were.
2007-03-18 05:10:38 · answer #1 · answered by WangDangSweetPoontang 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
While eBay is an established flea market site, some of its rules and/or programming is questionably amateurish.
They don't really outbid themselves, just that the guy bidded like max $20 for some item, later he changed his mind that he's willing to pay $30 max, eBay recorded that as someone outbid self. I think it is quite fair if you realized that.
2007-03-18 05:15:04 · answer #2 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 3 people who answered are right....you cannot outbid yourself. Timing is everything when winning the auction. Dont bid early and drive up prices. A great way to avoid this is to snipe the auction. Go to bidnip.com----thats where i go to place all my bids--and I have much better success rate!!! They bid for you a few seconds before the auction ends. Check them out-- I swear by them!!!
Good Luck!!!
2007-03-18 05:20:04 · answer #3 · answered by mbarnes73 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, he probably really wanted the camera, so as a safety net for him, he kept bidding to keep the cost high. But I don't think you can bid against yourself in Ebay, unless someone else bids a higher amount - I know you can enter a high maxiumum price for an item, but the current bid won't show your maximum high price, just the current high bid.
2007-03-18 05:16:48 · answer #4 · answered by Renee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that person had set the highest bid and other people bid lower amounts, it would drive his bid up. It might appear that he bid more but really it was somebody else that placed a bid and raised the amount of the current bid.
2007-03-18 05:12:42 · answer #5 · answered by DB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They weren't just outbidding themselves. E-bay has a feature where when you bid you can set your highest bid, and if someone bids but doesn't go above yours, they rebid for you, until someone bids higher than you put you wanted to.
2007-03-18 05:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 22:03:19 · answer #7 · answered by belsky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea...that's kind of stupid. I guess he's the fool for outbidding himself.
2007-03-18 05:09:48 · answer #8 · answered by Constantine 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋