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Highest Bidders***oFeedback Score (664)	$15.00	26 Jun 2022 at 7:07:44pm PDT
s***oFeedback Score (664)	$15.00	26 Jun 2022 at 7:06:12pm PDT
p**eFeedback Score (84)	$15.00	26 Jun 2022 at 7:24:25pm PDT
p**eFeedback Score (84)	$14.00	26 Jun 2022 at 7:24:11pm PDT

Explain to me how p**e did not win the auction? Seller gives preference to the "Feedback Score" (quantity of transactions)?

[eburtonlab]

In the case of a tie high bid -- when two bidders bid the same amount -- the earlier bidder is considered the winner.

In this case, the winning bidder placed another, higher bid, but the original tie bid at $15 was sufficient to win, so the winning bidder won at that amount.

The winning bidder in a no-reserve auction pays at most up to one increment above the second highest bidders high bid, unless the second highest bid is within one increment of the winning bid (in which case the winner pays the full amount of the winning bid).

[house*of*paws]

Hi @passifaggressif3qee 

Ties are always decided in favor of the bidder who placed the bid first.  [It has nothing to with with anyone's feedback score.]

p**e had >1.5 hours to place another, higher bid ... and possibly win the auction (if nobody else bid higher before the auction ended).   The best time to bid is within the final 8 seconds of the auction.

Another hint is to always add a few cents to the bid, rather than bid in whole numbers.  Has p**e bid $15.01 ... instead of $15 ... they would have been the high bidder.

[woodland_gnome]

Ties go to the earlier bid.  In this case BOTH of s***o's bid were earlier than p***e's $15.00 bid.  Bids are sorted by amount, not by time (except that in case of a tie the earlier bid is considered "higher" and so placed over the later one).  s***o's highest bid is for at least $15.01 but eBay uses the lowest bid of the highest bidder that is enough to beat the highest bid of the second highest bidder (including an earlier-placed-tie) to calculate the final price (has to do with a class-action suit settled in 2011--whether the "current bid" while the auction is running reflects the higher bid has changed a couple of times since then) and since the 7:07:44 bid is higher than the final price, the full amount is hidden and it is displayed as being the calculated price amount.