David, I don't know... I have had that happen to me, too. On the other hand, most of the time I've had my entry appear as one increment amount above the current bid. I've wondered about the discrepancy myself.
Hey, wait! Something I just thought of is, were you the first bidder? If so, it's very likely whatever amount you put in the Max Bid window is what is entered. I think I'll test that from now on, by putting a very low bid in the window, and a little later on raising my own bid by a couple of bucks, see what happens. I suspect that if you were the FIRST bidder on that item, they figure that whatever amount is first bid is what shows up on the bid screen! Gotta be! keith whaley David Brooks wrote: > > May be i did something wrong then on my one and only > bid on ebay so far.It was a lens i wanted with a BIN of > $250,first bid was $9.99.I was willing to go $200.00 > so thats what i put in my max bid box.When i checked the > bidding mine was the high bid at the time for $200.00. > I thought it would just keep it secret and increment up > the $0.50 min. > Did i screw up? > > Dave > > ---- Begin Original Message ---- > > From: Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:03:15 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: As Close As It Gets > > With auctions like that, so long as you know about where it's going, > and you DO want the item, it's best to bid high as you'd ever want to > buy the item for, and let the automatic eBay machinery take over. > Without special utilities made for inserting your higher bid at the > penultimate moment (seems to me to be a grossly unfair product, in > case anyone asks...) eBay will keep raising your bid by the minimum > amount, as soon as a new, higher bid comes in. > > The time spaces between bids on the illustrated auction show that > happening. There is no way anyone could be notified of his bid being > beat, and then he goes in and raises it. > > No doubt I'm speaking to the choir, but on occasion we do have a newby > amongst our members! �<g> > > keith whaley > > Ken Archer wrote: > > > > I have often wondered about that, but that is a little too close > even > > for me. ;-) > > > > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:26 pm, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > > > I won an auction on ebay once where > > > there were ZERO seconds left. Apparently > > > a tie goes to the bidder! > > > JCO > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > > << I sniped this nice piece of glass with one (1) second to go. > > > > �This is as > > > > �close as I can do it. > > > > �http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll? > ViewBids&item=1393808350 > > > > >> > > > > -- > > Kenneth Archer, San Antonio, Texas > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---- End Original Message ---- > > Pentax User > Stouffville Ontario Canada > http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ > http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses > Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
