How Did I get outbid when I bid in the last 3 seconds for the same price ?

[esnil]

can someone explain why I might have been outbid when my bid was the same amount as the winner and it looks like from the bid history mine was made after his and it registered ? THX

[marcfl29]

The other person got their bid in before you did.

[nc-daydreamer]

In case of a tie bid - the first one wins. Even it only by a nano-second. Plus, it may have been a proxy bid.

[thatsallfolks]

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@esnil wrote:

can someone explain why I might have been outbid when my bid was the same amount as the winner and it looks like from the bid history mine was made after his and it registered ? THX

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That's exactly why: yours was made after the winner's. It would make no sense for eBay to let a later bidder win for the same price that someone has already bid, would it?

[chrysylys]

"my bid was the same amount as the winner and it looks like from the bid history mine was made after his"

That's why. When two bids of the same amount are in play, the FIRST one wins.

[labs118]

Chance that the other party was using automatic bidding, put in a max bid and each time you bid it up ebay auto bid kicked in

Read all about it below link.
There are also auction sniper services

http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bidding-overview.html
Automatic bidding
Our max bidding (also called automatic bidding) system makes bidding convenient so you don't have to keep coming back to re-bid every time someone places another bid

[thatsallfolks]

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@labs118 wrote:

Chance that the other party was using automatic bidding, put in a max bid and each time you bid it up ebay auto bid kicked in

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It's obvious that the winner was using automatic bidding, since their max bid was hidden from the OP. That doesn't explain WHY the OP didn't win the tie.

[labs118]

Why would OP win ? they bid in the last 3 seconds
OP wouldn't win because other buyer had Auto bid in place first. earliest bid wins or am I missing something here?

[pohsteeng-eyedee]

On a related note, was your bid a round number or did it end in a multiple of 5? Many folks will bid 55.78, for example, to avoid a tie with someone bidding 55.00 or 55.75. So adding a few cents to a bid lowers the change of losing an item in a tie.

[jamuss_outlet]

When you happen to bid the same amount as another bidder, the first one to bid gets priority. Better luck next time.

[thatsallfolks]

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@labs118 wrote:

Why would OP win ? they bid in the last 3 seconds
OP wouldn't win because other buyer had Auto bid in place first. earliest bid wins or am I missing something here?

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What you're missing is that the OP has been an active eBay buyer for 16 years, so I'll go out on a limb and assume they don't need your explanation of automatic bidding (or sniping, since they bid at the last second). What they wanted was a specific explanation of the tiebreaker rule, which had already been provided (four times) before you posted.

[labs118]

@thatsallfolks

Pardon me , you shouldn't take my posts so personal, many times as I am posting I may get side tracked & by the time I hit post there may be a few posts ahead of mine.

Seems to me I've upset you
in the future feel free to ignore my posts rather then comment sarcastically to them
thanks

[thatsallfolks]

None my replies intended any sarcasm whatsoever. Nor did your replies upset me in any way. That's quite a stretch to reach either of those conclusions.