When did EBAY start showing the bidding amounts during the auctions?

RCDB

It's going to be even easier to choose your snipe amount now.

XpipedreamR

Bochiman

<< <i>It's going to be even easier to choose your snipe amount now. >>



Why? The ones I just looked at don't show MAX bids....only what the current HIGH bid is (as well as the actual amounts that the underbidders had bid).

So, you can see the actual bid history early (I bet it is an error they will correct, but I like it) but it still doesn't show the max bid.

For instance, if there are 4 bids ($5, $7, $8.50, and $10) for an item and I come in for a MAX bid for $20, I can still be seen as HIGH bidder for $11.
It won't show that $20 is my max....only that I am high bidder at $11.

Still weird though.

ksteelheader

I'm betting it's a computer error that will get fixed pronto!

Ken

Bunker

I noticed this about an hour ago...personaly I like it and hope that it stays as a regular feature.

RCDB

A nicely toned NGC MS63 Morgan ended about 20 minutes ago that I was watching. Didn't go for it , but was perfect example. Ladykash had been bidding late. She bid $30.50. Then $35.50. On her 3rd bid, she was the high bidder at $37.00. What was her high bid?????----------$40.50. People who bid late and make a few bids before they take the lead are going to show a pattern of bidding that will be easy to figure out a majority of the time. Thanks EBAY for making my life even easier.

RCDB

By the way, this is how YAHOO does it; they show the bidding. I hate that extended auction closing time. If there is late action, the auction extends. No way to snipe.

Russ

<< <i>I'm betting it's a computer error that will get fixed pronto! >>



If it was a computer error, I don't think it would add this:



<< <i>Only actual bids (not automatic bids generated up to a bidder's maximum) are shown. Automatic bids may be placed days or hours before a listing ends. >>



Unless the eBay software has morphed in to AI and can now add things of it's own volition. It's HAL!

Russ, NCNE

RotatedRainbows

Since they highlight the high bidder in yellow I would guess that it is a new feature ebay has implemented.

pandaman

It really does not tell you alot more than you could figure out without bid amounts showing. You still don't know high bidder's Max Bid & that's what you have to beat if you want the coin.

idocoins

Looks like a brand new page.....maybe it will stay this way....I don't remember reading anything about this.
Glad I did my sniping last night

sliderider

Read and you will see that it says that the maximum bid is not shown. Example: If you bid $100 on a coin, and I bid $500 and outbid you, you will not see my $500 bid, just the bid that I beat you with. You can still come back and bid again, but that doesn't mean that you will be able to snipe me unless you bid over $500 before the auction ends.

robertpr

Read and you will see that it says that the maximum bid is not shown. Example: If you bid $100 on a coin, and I bid $500 and outbid you, you will not see my $500 bid, just the bid that I beat you with. You can still come back and bid again, but that doesn't mean that you will be able to snipe me unless you bid over $500 before the auction ends.

Exactly. eBay is probably thinking that newbies or megaknuckleheads will think YOUR high bid is actually $101 or whatever, and they'll go ahead and bid $120, $150, etc....even if they don't win they'll jack up the bids for eBay's benefit (higher final value fees)...also I'm sure if someone did a study they'd find that most people, when outbid (even "instantly") will enter a slightly higher bid, even repeatedly. Higher FV fees, higher FV fees, higher FV fees! Also I'm sure if you can see the bid history and it's all in small increments, or whatever, that'll encourage more bids too. To me it just sounds like a move by feebay to increase their FV fees. As a sometimes-seller, I'm skeptical that it will actually increase bids on MY items As a buyer, I'm absolutely positive that it'll increase the prices that I will wind up paying for things