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Customer bid same opening price 20 times.
Does anyone know why a bidder would bid my opening price 20 times. Each is literally seconds apart. Thanks
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Does anyone know why a bidder would bid my opening price 20 times. Each is literally seconds apart. Thanks
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoEach new bid is higher than the last. Only the bidder knows for sure why s/he is bidding like that. I don't see a Reserve Price on that listing or a prior retracted/cancelled bid by someone else, so the most likely explanations are that either the bidder doesn't understand how bidding on an eBay auction works (e.g. keeps trying to raise the displayed "current bid" but can't since s/he is the only bidder) or is trying to scare off other bidders (who might assume that each bid is at least an increment more than the previous one but that ain't necessarly so: the 20th bid could be as low as $46.18).
rock.star
·2 years agoThey are not bidding the opening price 20 times each bid needs to be higher than their last one but the showing price will not change until someone else bids.
downtheoldpath
OP2 years agoHi. I was just wondering why someone would actually do that. Every once in a while someone bids the opening bid twice, a few seconds later, but I’ve never had anyone do it 20 times consecutively, each a few seconds apart. Seems very odd! Also, their feedback as a buyer is over 6000! Thanks
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoThey are not bidding the same amount. Each new bid is at least 1 cent more than their previous bid as well as 1 increment more than the showing "current bid" at the time the new bid is placed. Remember that eBay HIDES the full amount of any bid higher than the calculated price (generally 1 bid increment over the 2nd highest bidder's highest bid, in this case the Starting Price because there is no second bidder) by substituting the calculated price ("current bid" while the auction is running, which is what the final price would be if the auction ends with no further activity) for the actual amount. A bidder cannot bid against him/herself so the price cannot go higher than the Starting Price without a second bidder (or a Reserve Price and a bid at least as high as the Reserve).