ebay question

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  November 26, 2006 8:16AM

  No, the seller doesn't know your max bid.
  
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• p8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭

  November 26, 2006 8:17AM

  
  
  << <i>No, the seller doesn't know your max bid. >>
  
  
  
  Unless you were an underbidder.

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• slipgate Posts: 2,301 ✭✭

  November 26, 2006 8:17AM

  just what the list bid was that was visible to everyone else. Even if his high would have gone over the reserve had their been other bids. That is why so many people have friends of theirs bid their reserve auctions up to the reserve. Some go way over to jack it up. Both methods of course are wrong. Some auction sites will automatically bid you over the reserve even if there are no other bids. Not Ebay.

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• sweetwilliet Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭

  November 26, 2006 8:51AM

  No, the seller does not know your max bid if the reserve was not met and you were the high bidder. The seller does know, however, that your max was lower than his reserve. If your max meets or exceeds his reserve, then the auction automatically goes to the seller's reserve, even if you are the only bidder.

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• TavernTreasures Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭

  November 26, 2006 9:34AM

  
  
  << <i>just what the list bid was that was visible to everyone else. Even if his high would have gone over the reserve had their been other bids. That is why so many people have friends of theirs bid their reserve auctions up to the reserve. Some go way over to jack it up. Both methods of course are wrong. Some auction sites will automatically bid you over the reserve even if there are no other bids. Not Ebay. >>
  
  
  
  On Ebay--Even if there are no other bidders, and the sellers reserve price is hundreds of dollars away from the opening price. As a buyer, if you place a bid and your high is over the reserve, you will automatically become the high bidder at the reserve price. The auction does not have to be bid up to the reserve.

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• sweetwilliet Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭

  November 26, 2006 10:22AM

  One exception: If your max bid was less than one bid increment more than the underbidder, the seller can logically deduce this was your max bid (true of a reserve or no reserve auction).
  

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• coinkat Posts: 23,836 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 26, 2006 11:43AM

  thanks for the responses...

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