When you bid less than what the current leader has bid before you, you become the new underbidder and the "current bid" is recalculated at 1 increment higher than your bid unless the leader has a bid that is less than an increment higher than your bid. Some people, including eBay, try to simplify this by drawing an analogy to an outcry auction, but one where eBay "places bids on your behalf" up to your maximum bid.
This is an imperfect analogy, and in many cases people trying to apply it to a particular situation end up either oversimplifying or overcomplicating the process leading to many many misconceptions. If you want to understand how the eBay bidding process happens you need to get away from that analogy. It is not necessary to understand it if you know and use the winning strategy below and are willing to accept the results as accurate even though you don't understand how they were arrived at.
Since what anyone else has or will have bid by the time the auction ends is already figured into the price if you win, there is no need to try to figure it into your bid other than to assume that someone else is likely to bid about the same amount as you, so it is a good tactic to bid a bit over the round number you likely have in mind as your true maximum to increase your odds of being on the winning side of what might have been a tie ; all you need to figure is at what price point you would rather someone else get the item than you having to pay more.
When you bid, early or late, or whether you put in a lesser bid s before your true maximum, those are tactical matters that may or may not influence the behavior of others other bidders, potential bidders, and the seller to your advantage or disadvantage. Due to the age of the thread, it has been closed to further replies.
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Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Why am I being outbid everytime back to back seconds between??? Ok so ebay has changed I been off for a long time. Are people cheating or what?? So I type 3. How is it this person is outbidding me milliseconds after each of my back to back bids And if it's true that a person has put And why is there no option for me to put highest price willing to pay?
Is this a program?? It doesn't really make it technically an auction. It's cheating? Explain please what is going on?? Comments 1. Amen to this its something I started to pick up on I I truly believe it's a scam. Accepted Solutions 0. Answers 9. Comments 3. This is a non sence and choulded be prohibited , one of the major rules at commerce it is. Bid your absolute maximum. You need to read about automatic bids. Ask a Question. Type your question here Most Helpful Posts. Subject Helpful Selling fees are too high.
Re: Selling fees are too high. View all. Selling fees are too high. Keep in mind, however, this could mean you end up paying more than you planned for the item. In the final 15 minutes of a listing you will see a "Refresh" link appear on the page of the item that you want to win. By clicking on this button every second, you will be able to see at the top of the page the current bid price, bid history, time left and high bidder. This is as "realtime" as you can get in the bidding war in the final seconds.
Use the eBay Communication Tools to see when you are outbid so you can re-bid and stay competitive. You can set up your notification settings in the Account Tab under Communication Preferences. This will allow eBay to send you an email if you're outbid on a listing. You will also receive an email when your Max Bid is beaten by another bidder.
Because of this high rate of competition amongst bidders, it's easy to feel like you're always getting outbid, because you are—with so many people on the server, you're likely going to be fighting with at least one other person for nearly every eBay auction you click on. Not to worry, though, there are ways to work around the high traffic volume, especially on popular items and auctions, and a little bit of luck and well-timed bids will allow you to walk away with that item of your eBay dreams.
The international nature of eBay compounds this likelihood. In general, someone somewhere will always be willing to bid on an item that is undervalued. By the time most auction listings close, therefore, the winner has agreed to pay a fair market price for the item. Abetting your expectations of "great steals" on eBay auctions will help mitigate the disappointment for being outbid—and increasing your maximum bet will most likely result in you getting closer to winning an auction on your desired item.
More than being frustrated simply because they've been outbid, many new users are frustrated at having been outbid so very quickly. It is not at all uncommon to be outbid immediately on eBay and to be outbid this way over and over again with repeated attempts to bid on the same listing. This happens not because another bidder or the seller is cheating but rather because of the proxy bidding system that eBay uses, which allows users to set their maximum bid and increment of bid increase that is automatically applied when someone outbids them on an item.
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