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[Canadian1968CoronetR/T]

Ok I a new to this ebay thing, I was bidding on a item yesterday, was not fast enough with my input so I lost, but here is my question. As i was bidding it appeared someone else was bidding because as soon as I put my money down it increased up, the actual bid, as if it was automatic, but I read after that in the last 60 min they don't allow auto bidding. Then I go and check the history and I see no bids between my bids, my wife was with me she seen the same thing, what's up? How can it be run up like that or are there mystery bidders?

 

[hunt2elk]

Someone else had placed a higher bid previously. They will continue to be the high bidder until you place a bid that is more than theirs.

 

[YY1]

If the current bid is at $25...

If some one bids, let's say $61 in the morning, the price just goes up enough to increase the current bid, to say $26, but that $61 is still "on the table".

If you bid $50 at lunch time, the bid from the second bidder (who bid $61) will "automatically" cover and take it to $51.

You'd have to bid at least $62, to have the high bid, but you don't know what that ($61) bid amount is, until you get over it.

Confused even more?

 

[bigmanjbmopar]

It's called increasing your max bid. Just for that reason. I will look at an item and decide what the max I will pay for it and bid that $1 starting bid I decide I will pay $2000 what you see on the site still says $2 because I have put in a large bid, then who ever else bids on it will have to keep bidding or have a max larger than mine. to get passed me to win it. One way to find out what some elses max is is to just keeping bidding low within your budget and keep going until you reach your max if you are not the high bid then you know some one is willing to pay more.

 

[440+6]

I use a program called "just snipe" (there are other programs that do this also) I put in the max that I am willing to pay and it works like stated above except it bids at the very last second of the auction.
That way if you are high bidder it makes it impossible for someone else to place another bid to beat you. If some one else had a higher max bid you will still lose.
Lots of fun.

 

[Canadian1968CoronetR/T]

Thanks, My email at one point did say I was the highest bidder, which was just $100 below the winning bid, what do I make of that? I just miscued my typing and cold not correct it fast enough to go a little higher.

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Here is the item, did it not go low or am I missing something?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1968-GTX-NO-RESERVE-/221235692659?forcev4exp=true#ht_646wt_1147

 

[Budnicks]

That's too bad, it looks to be a nice survivor Maroon/Matador Red PP1 68 GTX 440ci 4 speed Dana 60 car....

 

[MarPar]

Ive seen that car before somewhere...:eusa_think:

 

[YY1]

I don't "auto-snipe", but I do start with a low initial bid, then wait to see what happens, and if it's still resonable near the end, I'll wait til the last second and try to guess the actual last high bid, and go a few odd bucks and change over that.

Works remarkably well. I get about 85% of the stuff I want, at decent prices, and usually only loose to folks who end up paying WAY too much.

 

[Canadian1968CoronetR/T]

Now I under stand that no reserve means you will take what ever the price comes in at, is that right? But can some one remove a item of this sort if the price he thought it would go at is not being reached, or is there a way of exploiting the system by boosting price up through a friend or some other way? This item sold at about $2000 below at what the seller said he was going to remove it at, that is where my question is coming from. Still trying to get a good handle on this ebay thing?

 

[Photon440]

Thanks, My email at one point did say I was the highest bidder, which was just $100 below the winning bid, what do I make of that? I just miscued my typing and cold not correct it fast enough to go a little higher.

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Here is the item, did it not go low or am I missing something?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1968-GTX-NO-RESERVE-/221235692659?forcev4exp=true#ht_646wt_1147

Well it looks like you were the highest bidder for a few minutes. Then a higher bidder came along 19 seconds before the ending time.

As for your other question, it often happens that the seller will state that the item may be sold locally and the listing removed.