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Second chance offer to last highest bidder
I was given a second chance offer because I had the last highest bid on a particular item . The original winning bidder did not have the funds to purchase this item. My question is, shouldn't I get the item for the last bid I made by out bidding a different bidder that was involved who was not the original winner of the item but had the last highest bid until I out bided them? The reason I think this is because I feel all the prior bids that the original winner made should be null and void up until the 3rd party involved made their final bid for the item. So the winning bid should be the last highest bid after that 3rd party made it's final bid. I hope this makes sense. I am having difficulty trying to explain this in writing.
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoNo. eBay sets the price attached to a Second Chance Offer, not the seller (except in "Reserve not met" situations for motor vehicles and some other large item categories). SCO is not only for situations where the winner backs out but also for "Reserve not met" and where the seller has duplicates to offer, so eBay decided decades ago that for most situations the price is the highest showing bid (i.e. for Reserve situations NOT the hidden maximum of the high bidder) of the particular bidder getting the offer (who is not necessarily the underbidder==it can be any bidder who has not opted out of receiving offers).
If the price were limited to what the third highest bidder bid plus 1 increment sellers would not be inclined to make many SCOs. The offeree can always decline the offer (but NOT negotiate it), and enough 2nd place bidders do accept at the full amount of their bid for eBay to continue to offer the SCO option to sellers. If you don't want to receive SCOs under this rule you can opt out of "Offers to buyers" (which also include situations where sellers can make offers to possible buyers while the auction is running) at My eBay: Account: Communication Preferences: Buying: Buyer Activities.
Further consider that the minimum bid requirement prevented anyone from bidding more than the 3rd highest bidder's maximum bid but less than yours during the time after your bid (or the winner's bid, whichever was later) up until the end, so the price calculation would be artificially lower than what the price "would have been" if the winner had not bid.