eBay bidding - Irregularity?

[deweyinthehall]

Argh!! The bids aren't listed chronologically!

[Gorditadogg]

Then when he saw his bid was maxed by yours, he bid again.

[raulus]

Sadly, it’s simply the eBay rule around minimum bid increments, and who wins if you both bid the same amount (spoiler alert: the first bidder wins). I assume that you were probably using a sniping service with multiple servers, like Gixen, which is why you have two bids at the same time for the same amount.

[smallstocks]

I never bid in round prices. For example, I would have bid $150.11.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by smallstocks

I never bid in round prices. For example, I would have bid $150.11.

The only problem is that the bid increment at this level is $2.50, so you would have still lost if your bid came in after the $150.00 bid. You would need to bid at least $152.50 to have won.

I do find myself sometimes fretting over this bid increment rule, where I’ll go to $155, and then I’ll worry that someone else is doing the same thing, so I’ll go a little higher, and then higher still. Next thing you know, I’m up around $185!

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by raulus

The only problem is that the bid increment at this level is $2.50, so you would have still lost if your bid came in after the $150.00 bid. You would need to bid at least $152.50 to have won.

I do find myself sometimes fretting over this bid increment rule, where I’ll go to $155, and then I’ll worry that someone else is doing the same thing, so I’ll go a little higher, and then higher still. Next thing you know, I’m up around $185!

If I'm looking at the bids right, since the OP initially bid $130.00 (9:06:18) the max bid would have shown as $132.50 when he was outbid (9:08:30) so he would have seen a next bid of $135.00 as the minimum required amount (since the max bid of $150.00 by the other bidder wouldn't have been seen). In that case, a bid of $150.11 (at 9:08:51) would have made him the high bidder until the other bidder placed another bid at 9:14:06.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by jayshum

If I'm looking at the bids right, since the OP initially bid $130.00 (9:06:18) the max bid would have shown as $132.50 when he was outbid (9:08:30) so he would have seen a next bid of $135.00 as the minimum required amount (since the max bid of $150.00 by the other bidder wouldn't have been seen). In that case, a bid of $150.11 (at 9:08:51) would have made him the high bidder until the other bidder placed another bid at 9:14:06.

Must be we’re reading it differently.

I’m seeing that both bidders bid $150.00 at the last minute. The losing bidder (1678) bid twice at $150.00, but only after the winning bidder (1436) had already bid $150.00.

If I remember correctly, when there are interim bids, they don’t actually show up in the detail, which may be why it seems like some of the detail gets skipped. Ultimately, the last bid from each bidder are the only ones that matter here.