BE CAREFUL WITH MAX BIDS ON EBAY RIGHT NOW-now solved
joebb21
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I placed a max bid on a coin on ebay yesterday and today I see that I won the coin for my top bid. I was surprised as my top bit was pretty aggressive and I didnt think others would bid as high as me. In looking at the bidding history, the next highest bidder was $500 less than me.
I called up ebay to ask how this could have happened and they are as stumped as me.
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Wow that sucks can you share the link
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Weird. I've gone nuclear right before the end of an auction only to find some other fool did the same and one of us is left holding the bill, sad look on face and tail between legs, but there should always be an underbidder one increment below you.
Did ebay offer any explanation or offer to adjust your final price?
Or a phantom $500 bid increment. TeleTrade used to refer to theirs as incremental bid.
You were charged $500 more than the underbidder? Did they correct it for you to just above the underbidder or were you on the hook for the higher amount?
their should be recourse right there!!!
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Can I assume that it was a no reserve auction?
Those insidious little buggers seem to be popping up more frequently.
Link please.
Because I have some stuff listed that really needs that kind of help.
That should only happen on a reserve auction.
Sometimes, with snipes, the underbid is actually listed below an earlier, lower bid, so check that, too.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
That's happened to me before on ebay.
Calling Ebay is not very useful these days. Makes more sense asking your cat. Better English and less echo in the line.
True. Extremely Funny. xxxx
were there any 'cancelled' bids?
@Coinstartled said...Calling Ebay is not very useful these days. Makes more sense asking your cat. Better English and less echo in the line.
You got that right.
Sounds like you need to cancel your bid and be done with it!
The only reason I can think this happened was that it was a "Reserve" auction and you put the bid at the reserve price and it went directly to that price and you ended up being the high bidder. I've had that happen to me before.
Stumped? Hmmm
Please link the coin so we can investigate.
https://ebay.com/itm/1856-S-LIBERTY-HEAD-20-GOLD-DOUBLE-EAGLE-GRADED-MS61-BY-NGC-/232622983589?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=g8i4TRwSHK1wE9rVLMoUrSaZGHY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
So it turns out it was a time stamp problem and that 3 people sniped at the last second- and it showed the highest bidder lowest so when looking it shows as if the direct underbidder was hundreds less.
now solved - what?
I have never had my 'nuclear' bid win.... yes, I won the auction, but at an incremental level.. well below the nuke bid.... Glad you got an explanation. Cheers, RickO
I had an auction where someone bid high and was the high bidder, then cancelled their bids. Then the bidder comes back to bid again! They sniped and won the coin at their previous bid. Crazy.
eBay is not a genuine auction process. I've never heard of any honest auction house allowing bidders to come and go as they please, cancelling and re-bidding for any given item. Just recognize that eBay is a system where you can run up bids, cancel your bid, then come in later and re-bid. You don't need to be in the dark as to what the high bid is on any given item. Simply bid it up, then cancel your bid.
eBay is crazy. eBay is a sewer.
Like that cat comment
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CLICK on "show automatic bids" and you will see the smaller increments leading up to your final bid.
By the way you are very aggressive I would say with the $$$$$
Beautiful coin!
Looks to me like you should have won at 4750 and the final price should be adjusted
Yes, this is exactly what I was referring to above. Happens often.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I cant take that chance probable why I don't win many of the better items. Go Nuke on mine all you want
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Highest underbidder is in a second though ahead of the other two. Either way servers wiork in nanoseconds. Odds of three bids hitting at the same time are in the googlezillions.
looks peculiar but on the up and up nonetheless.
All four underbids (snipes) were placed with 4-6 seconds remaining. 5 seconds is a standard setting for sniping software, so this kind of bidding activity is actually not uncommon at all with ebay's bidding platform. Because of the fact the bids came through so closely together, though, the bidding history is occasionally jumbled by time, rather than by amount.
I agree it is on the up and up.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
No, there was an underbid of $5115, check out the link again.
Best, SH
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Calling Ebay is not very useful these days. Makes more sense asking your cat. Better English and less echo in the line.
Thank goodness no one would consider that comment racist.
I stand corrected. I totally missed it. Amazing how you miss something right in your face. Best place to hide something. LOL
You won the coin for less than they have been selling for at Heritage. Seems like a fair price.
At least you can inquire about the weather in Bangalore.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/gold/liberty-head-2-1-gold-major-sets/liberty-head-2-1-gold-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1840-1907-cac/alltimeset/268163