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Lose a bid even when I placed the highest bid at the last second.
I had an action that I was going for and it was at 61 dollars, I bid 65 dollars at the last second but still lost and it said I lost at 61 dollars. Why did my bid not go through?
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eburtonlab
Mentor2 years agoWhat is the item number?
If you had an earlier, lower bid already submitted, your last bid may have not been made in time to be received by eBay before the auction ended.
kekel1969
OP2 years agoThe item number was 355577287858
house*of*paws
Mentor2 years agoHi @kekel1969
Your $65 bid didn't go through. Your last showing bid was placed about 7 hours before the auction ended.
eburtonlab
Mentor2 years agoIt appears you placed several bids, the highest that registered was for $60 on 1 Apr 2024 at 6:40:11am PDT.
https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/355577287858?item=355577287858&rt=nc
If you tried to bid higher, you may have waited too long to place your bid; either it was not received by eBay before time ran out, or else you the bid was not qualified for another reason.
Check to make sure your computer's clock is synchronized to an online time source, and make sure you leave yourself enough time to bid so that eBay can receive your bid before the auction ends.
https://time.is/
For best results, decide the maximum you are willing to bid and then bid that amount once near the end of the auction -- say in the last ten seconds or so. If the amount is a round number, try adding a few odd cents to lessen the chances of a tie that would go to the earlier bidder.
kekel1969
OP2 years agoOkay I guess I just bided to late then. Thanks
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoNo bids were posted on that auction in the last 7 hours. You might have TRIED to enter a bid "in the last second" but it wasn't accepted, most likely it was received too late.
Your bid must be RECEIVED and timestamped at ebay's servers before the end of the last second. The countdown is NOT a real-time feed of bids coming in and eBay's clock counting down and is not an accurate measure of how much time you have left to submit the bid (click the confirm button) so it is received in time. It is rather a script that runs on your device periodically calling for updates on the status and time remaining, and uses your device's clock to count down from the time left display it last received from eBay (which took time to traverse the internet and get loaded into your device's RAM so your clock could start counting down). There is no adjustment for latency either way and so it is doubly slow compared to the time you would have to submit for it to get to eBay in time.
Back before the countdown was introduced, it is was relatively easy (and fun) to synch a local clock to the time remaining by clicking refresh on the Bid History Page at a particular noted time per the local clock (top of a minute was easiest) and then adding the returned time remaining to that time; this automatically adjusted for latency both ways and gave you the second before which you had to click the confirm button (best to do that a few times and pick the earliest result and add a solid buffer time since latency can change). But the countdown replaced the static display that enabled you to get a single unchanging time left display upon refreshing so it's not so easy anymore. I now use and recommend a "snipe service" to place your one true maximum bid about 6 seconds out; mine allows limited snipes for free (up to 4 wins per month) or several different pay plans if you are using it more frequently (or want a bit more reliability that comes with a "mirror server" in another location than the main server) and uses an eBay supplied API instead of the glitch user interface. It also captures any error message that eBay returns if the bid is unsuccessful, as opposed to you using the user interface where any such error message is overwritten when the countdown gets to 0 so you generally don't even see it much less be able to read it. There are other snipe services out there with their own plans, but we are not allowed to make unsolicited recommendations of particular ones.