I wish eBay would allow more time at end of auction to allow for more bidding.

[rknotar]

It's at the end of the auction, the final few seconds...you put the high bid in with only 6 seconds left and you do your victory dance but still lost by 25 cents as someone else placed a bid with only 5 seconds left or perhaps they had a faster server. You lose something that you really wanted just by a dollar but would have paid more if you had the chance or would have known someone else wanted it too... I have an answer that would benefit all, and I hope someone from eBay reads this thread.

Suggesting a new policy....If anyone bids within the last 5 minutes of an auction end, the system adds another 5 minutes. It continues to add 5 minutes after each new bid until the last offer is made and the other bidder has had enough and it's too much for him to spend and stops bidding. The 5 mionute clock ticks down.

It would be like, "Going once, going twice...sold!"

This is how a real auction plays out, and it allows for everyone to have a fair chance. This would also bring more money into the sale for the seller so it's a win-win all around.

The only people that would have an issue with this would be the penny sharks that sit waiting for the last 2 seconds to gobble up items they don't even really want or to make a profit to sell elsewhere.

And yes, you can always enter what you believe is the most you would spend and leave it at that but, come on...to lose it just because you didn't put in just 0.50 cents more? I hate that feeling!!

Wish I only had another chance to increase my bid.... This new policy would allow me to.

[spark-chaser1]

If the end is not the end, just when IS the end? Assuming this is a serious question.

[heckofagame]

If you really want the item, place a higher bid up to what you are willing to pay. 

[buyselljack2016]

Suggesting a new policy

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This has been suggested in different forms hundreds of times. Not going to happen. No reason to happen

eBay auctions have a set start time, and a set end time. They are not live auctions, and there is no reason to let them run on, and on. Everyone has the same amount of time to bid.

Auctions are a dying breed on eBay. Extending auctions on, and on, and on would just generate less, and less interest in them.

Bid your honest, what you want to pay max, as late in the auction as possible. If you win, fine. If you lose someone wanted to pay more than you. Reactive biding is often a "fool's errand". (not that you are a fool, just an expression) 😁

[redmodelt]

Never going to happen and as a bidder, I would not want it to happen. Been there done that on other sites that do it that way. Sucked big time when you are bidding on more than one item at the same time. By bidding the highest amount you want to spend, you are entering a proxy bid, so there would be no need to nibble bid at your end. 

What difference would it make if it did extend, you would/could still be dealing with nibble bidders only the auction keeps extending. You lost an auction because someone outbid you in the last second, well that could still happen if the time was extended.

[albertabrightalberta]

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@rknotar wrote:

It's at the end of the auction, the final few seconds...you put the high bid in with only 6 seconds left and you do your victory dance but still lost by 25 cents as someone else placed a bid with only 5 seconds left or perhaps they had a faster server. You lose something that you really wanted just by a dollar but would have paid more if you had the chance or would have known someone else wanted it too... I have an answer that would benefit all, and I hope someone from eBay reads this thread.

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You say, "would have paid more if you had the chance or would have known someone else wanted it too."

If you want to snipe something in the last few minutes (or seconds), always assume someone wants the item more than you do and put in your bid at the maximum you're willing to spend. Evidently, you didn't put in the amount your were actually willing to pay. 

[myangelandmyprincess]

"for everyone to have a fair chance."

Everyone does have a fair chance.  Everyone has the exact same amount of time to bid the highest they want to bid.

"because you didn't put in just 0.50 cents more?"

That is your assumption but if the item is between $5 and $24.99 that is the automatic bid increment.  The chances someone bid exactly .50 over especially if you had  a hidden maximum is pretty low.  That person could have bid any amount of that additional .50 to outbid you. 

[monroe67]

". . . . And yes, you can always enter what you believe is the most you would spend and leave it at that but, come on...to lose it just because you didn't put in just 0.50 cents more? I hate that feeling!!"

I always refer to the great British philosopher, Sir M. Jagger, who said in 1969:

                                                     You can't always get what you want.  

[spark-chaser1]

…. “ But if you bid just right… you get what you need “

Sir S. Chaser 1, 2023

[house*of*paws]

Hi @rknotar 

We all hate to lose ... but having eBay change their patented auction rules ... which no other venue is allowed to copy ... will not stop losing.  You are losing because you aren't bidding high enough. 

I always bid during the final 7 seconds of an auction ... manually.  I assume that other bidders will be placing late bids as well ... so I bid considerably higher than the showing bid at the time.  Rarely I will end up paying a bit more than I originally intended to pay ... but I end up winning about 95% of the auctions I bid on.

Your 'suggested new policy' gets suggested every few months since eBay began.  The suggestion usually gets beaten down harshly by other members who have learned how to win using the current rules.  I strongly recommend you learn how to do that as well ... instead of asking the majority of bidders to adapt to your preferred style of bidding.

[khetzel]

Exactly what everyone else already said.  If you are disappointed that you lost an auction by 1 bid increment, then you didn't bid your true maximum.

I always ask myself, what is the highest I would be willing to pay, if it sold for more I would say let them have it.  *That* is my true max bid.

It is very unlikely you will pay that much.  You will likely win for less or lose by 1 increment because someone wanted it for more than you were actually willing to pay.  As long as you snipe and don't let the nibblers eat you alive.

[12345jamesstamps]

I got a new computer and I could tell when someone has a slower computer. Those 5 seconds sometimes are a win for me....if it's the right time of day. Otherwise, I just put a high bid on it and go to bed and see if I won when I wake up. I can't believe some bidders will bid at 4 in the morning.

A lot of this bidders will do .50 or 1.00 increments when I am sleeping. that when I just up my bids by some many dollars.

[selsa84]

Sounds like you didn't bid a max. If eBay started doing that I would never bid on an auction again. And I would think unpaid actions would probably quadruple because of buyers bidders remorse 

[janet9988]

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@rknotar wrote:

It's at the end of the auction, the final few seconds...you put the high bid in with only 6 seconds left and you do your victory dance but still lost by 25 cents as someone else placed a bid with only 5 seconds left or perhaps they had a faster server. You lose something that you really wanted just by a dollar but would have paid more if you had the chance or would have known someone else wanted it too... I have an answer that would benefit all, and I hope someone from eBay reads this thread.

Suggesting a new policy....If anyone bids within the last 5 minutes of an auction end, the system adds another 5 minutes. It continues to add 5 minutes after each new bid until the last offer is made and the other bidder has had enough and it's too much for him to spend and stops bidding. The 5 mionute clock ticks down.

It would be like, "Going once, going twice...sold!"

This is how a real auction plays out, and it allows for everyone to have a fair chance. This would also bring more money into the sale for the seller so it's a win-win all around.

The only people that would have an issue with this would be the penny sharks that sit waiting for the last 2 seconds to gobble up items they don't even really want or to make a profit to sell elsewhere.

And yes, you can always enter what you believe is the most you would spend and leave it at that but, come on...to lose it just because you didn't put in just 0.50 cents more? I hate that feeling!!

Wish I only had another chance to increase my bid.... This new policy would allow me to.

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You lose something that you really wanted just by a dollar but would have paid more if you had the chance

Wish I only had another chance to increase my bid.

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YOU DID HAVE THE CHANCE TO DO SO.  ..it was when you placed that  bid in the last 6 seconds

.....have a fair chance.

EVERYONE has the same fair chance to bid with the way it works now.

If anyone bids within the last 5 minutes of an auction end, the system adds another 5 minutes. It continues to add 5 minutes after each new bid until the last offer is made and the other bidder has had enough and it's too much for him to spend and stops bidding. The 5 mionute clock ticks down.

What happens when you have to stay up all night or miss work to keep bidding?  What about the seller? Maybe the seller is going on vacation and can't  wait days for a listing to end to ship.

[spark-chaser1]

Other than a vital organ for transplant, there is nothing material  I need badly enough to bid on with such urgency. 

If its just " stuff", you will most likely come across something like it  again at some point.