Outbid whilt winning till clock timed out
How am I supposed to up the bid if I'm the winning bid ,right up till clock times out, to then be told I was outbid. What's the point of having the green winning title.???? Im not buying off here again
12 comments
funkyfreshmike.2013
·1 year agoThis has happened to me more times than i can remember..
mudshark61369
·1 year ago@funkyfreshmike.2013,
You've been an ebay member long enough to know that if a bid is received by ebay in the last second, there will not be time for the Your currently the highest bidder notice to change after the winning bid is recorded, after the auction ends.
If you were willing to bid more, you should have done that when you placed your bid.
funkyfreshmike.2013
·1 year agoYou're right...but it shouldn't say "you're the highest bidder.." when the auction ends if I'm not...
eburtonlab
·1 year agobut it shouldn't say "you're the highest bidder.."
"Highest bidder" is not the same as the winner. While the auction is going on, if there is a valid bid there is a highest bidder, but there is no winner until the auction ends.
mudshark61369
·1 year ago@funkyfreshmike.2013,
There's always a few seconds delay between the time info is sent from ebay and it is displayed on your screen. You might be the highest bidder w/ 2 seconds left but higher bids could still come in in those 2 seconds and there may not be time enough fro an outbid notice to be sent.
Once an auction ends while showing you as the high bidder but you end up in 2nd place open the ended listing page it shows the exact time down to seconds just below the "condition" specific then look at the bid history to see the time stamp of the last bid.
paperdragons
·1 year agoIf you're never buying here again, why bother asking?
Don't expect to have a positive experience with every auction. You won't always win, and very often if someone really wants something but wants to get it is inexpensively as possible, they'll have a bid ready to go and pop it in 6 seconds before the end of the listing. This means you won't see the bid increase with more than a second or two left, if at all.
If you really want something, sit there at the end of the auction and bid with 6-30 seconds left. Bid your maximum in that moment, not your second best maximum because you might not have time to bid again.
Or bid your maximum the last time you think you can get on eBay before the end of the auction and hope it is enough.
A piece of advice to beat the last minute bidders (in either of the above cases) - If your maximum is $50, bid $52. A lot of buyers will bid $50 or $51. Many bidders like round numbers, or adding that dollar that they think will beat the round number guy. So $12 instead of $10, $52 instead of $50, and I'd even go $105 or $106 instead of $100.
woodland_gnome
·1 year agoBy not expecting to be able to rebid if you are outbid, so you bid your TRUE maximum in the first place. Bid your TRUE maximum that you are willing and able to pay for that particular item as listed (don't forget to back out shipping etc.) WITHOUT REGARD to what others appear or don't appear to have bid. There is absolutely no need to figure out what others have or haven't bid or might bid* in determining your bid amount, since it ALREADY will have been figured into the price if you win. While some claim tactical reasons to place a lower bid early in the auction and then wait until near the end to bid your full TRUE maximum, I advise bidding only 1 time (can't repeat it enough: at your TRUE maximum) because you are never guaranteed a rebid (and there are circumstances where the prior bid prevents a rebid on that same auction). For several reasons later bidding is better than early bidding (doesn't use up your Limits, keeps your options open, doesn't leave your hidden maximum available for others, including dishonest sellers, to probe by "nibbling" at it) and I recommend using a third party "snipe service" (do a websearch, there are reliable and secure ones that are free for limited use or there are different fee schedules that best suit your bidding quantity and ratio of wins) to place your bid during the last few seconds using eBay's API rather than the not especially reliable web interface or, worse, mobile app.
*(other than to assume someone else will value the item about the same as you, so bid a bit ABOVE any round or roundish number you come up with to increase your chances of being on the winning side of what might have been a tie or a loss to someone else who knows this tip)
eburtonlab
·1 year ago@jonnylox365_3
Bidding ends a set number of days after the auction started down to the exact second. Bids are accepted so long as a bid for a valid amount is received by eBay's server before the auction ends, even if those bids are not displayed on individual bidders' pages around the world until a few seconds later.
eBay does not extend bidding. Once you have bid your maximum, bid extensions can not help you, only hurt you.
For some unknown reason eBay no longer displays the ending time to the second at the top of the bid history page, but if there are any bids you should be able to calculate the actual ending time by examining the starting time of the auction at the bottom of the page. Auctions always begin and end at the same time down to the exact second, unless the auction is ended early by the seller. All bidders have the same time to place valid bids, and no one gets any extra time. eBay time stamps every bid as it is received by eBay, and the times are displayed to the second in the bid history if you use a desktop browser.
If you think you have encountered an auction where a bid was accepted after the end of the auction, examine the starting time closely and compare it to the time the bid was received and you should find that the bid was received before the auction actually ended. If not, please post an item number so that others can see it.
If you bid the maximum amount you are willing to pay (taking into account any shipping or taxes) then the only way you can lose is if someone is willing to bid more than you were and actually does so, or if someone bid the same exact amount, earlier.
No one can count on having the last bid, and bidders should assume that other bids will be placed at the end of the auction too late to be reacted to, and set their bids accordingly. Note that the countdown displayed on your device and the bids you see are not updated in real time, and just because you did not see any other bids when your clock reaches zero does not mean that eBay did not receive other bids at the last moment.
You have not won until the page refreshes and you see a note indicating that you have been declared the winner and you see a link to pay or your payment is take automatically. A note indicating you are the high bidder issued while the auction is still ongoing is not the same as being declared the winner by eBay after the auction has ended.
If your auction countdown is not behaving correctly, check to make sure your computer's time and time zone are set correctly, and the date and time are synchronized with an internet time server such as time.windows.com or time.gov.
Check your computer's time here:
https://time.is/
If your computer's time is too fast or too slow, that can prevent you from bidding at the end of an auction. Either your computer will think the auction is over when it is not, preventing you from bidding, or else you will think you have more time left when the auction is about to end. Neither situation helps you. Set your computer's time to automatically synchronize to prevent this from happening.
roccotacodad54
·1 year agoThanks for that link. My clock is 0.9 seconds behind. Not an issue for me because I always place my max bid on an auction way before that.
It was nice to know anyway..........
eburtonlab
·1 year agoYou are most welcome. My clock is behind by 1.7 seconds at the moment, so it sounds like your clock is set to synchronize automatically and that should not be an issue for you when bidding at the end of an auction.
house*of*paws
·1 year agoHi @jonnylox365_3
Would you please provide the Item Number so that we can look at the Bid History?
What likely happened is that a bid came in during the final second(s) … while you thought the auction had ended.
That can happen easily because eBay often neglects to show us the SECONDS in the End Time … so we’re unaware that there’s still time to bid.
buyselljack2016
·1 year agoYou are the winning bidder until at the last second you are outbid.
Sometimes it shows winner, but then all the servers catch up with bids from around the world, and it is a "lost" instead of "won".
Up the bid? Reactive bidding can be difficult. Best to bid your "max" to start, or as late in the auction as you can. Either way, if you lose.................. it was more than you wanted to pay.