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musicuk · ‎02-12-2018

I used gixen the snipping service, how has this happened it should have ended at £27.55 somehow I bid against myself to £31 ?? if anyone knows how I would be very grateful to know

audio.bazaar(266) £31.00 7 Feb 2018 at 7:25:17PM GMT

-- This is an automatic (proxy) bid placed by eBay on behalf of the bidder.audio.bazaar(266) £27.55 7 Feb 2018 at 7:25:17PM GMT -- g***f(801) £26.55 7 Feb 2018 at 7:25:17PM GMT --

0***s(59) £30.00 6 Feb 2018 at 8:40:53AM GMT --

This is an automatic (proxy) bid placed by eBay on behalf of the bidder.0***s(59) £10.00 6 Feb 2018 at 8:40:53AM GMT -- Starting price £10.00 31 Jan 2018 at 7:25:22PM GMT

partial*eclipse · ‎02-12-2018

0***s(59) bid 30 pounds, so in order to outbid him, your entire bid of 31 pounds was needed.

castlemagicmemories · ‎02-12-2018

You bid $31.00. Another bidder bid $30.00, bumping your bid up to your max, and you won.

thatsallfolks · ‎02-12-2018

Why do you think you bid against yourself when the info you posted clearly shows that someone else placed a bid:

0***s(59) £30.00 6 Feb 2018 at 8:40:53AM GMT --

raceteam · ‎02-12-2018

How this happens: You place a maximum bid on an item thru an automatic bidding program as you are. When another person outbids you, the program then automatically enters the next higher bid amount on your behalf to keep you on top as the winning bidder. The program will continue doing this until it reaches your entered maximum bid amount at which point, any higher bids than your maximum will outbid you. If no higher bid than your indicated maximum is made, you win the auction since the program placed bids for you instantly as other bids were made on the auction.

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎02-12-2018

The system doesn't actually "place more bids", it just raises the proxy bid as high as it needs to go. If you look at a regular bid history you will only see the bid placed that the bidder placed, not the intermediate increases that the system does automatically.