Strange things going on at ebay.

[steel_9528]

This is about auctions. I recently bid on an item. I bid $10. A couple of days later I thought the item might go higher. So, I made my max bid of $20. I repeat MAX BID, $20.! For however long the auction lasted the bids never went over $10. Matter of fact there were no other bids. At the last second the bid was made for $45. Remember my max bid was $20. According to ebay my max bid was $45. I never changed my max bid. How did it get changed? I'm wondering if a person who's auctioning off something can see how the auction is going and say, have a separate account and can make a high bid in order to get more money for their junk? If they could see that the item was going to go for $10, then at the last second make a bid that would beat "my" bid. Even though my max bid was $20.  So how did my max bid get changed to begin with? If someone had bid $45 then they could have it. I wasn't worth that much to me. So, can a seller change my max bid? Then bid just high enough to lose the auction but to increase the price of the item. If that's going on it has to be someone working for EBAY. I hope that's not the case. I called ebay, they told me that the high bid was made from my device. That's not at all true. My PC and only I can use it. All my passwords are private. Besides it's just my wife and I here, no one else.  BIG LIES all around. I feel like I've been scammed.

[bennotbill]

If someone else logged in (somewhere else) wouldn't that have got the unrecognised device warning?

And if two devices in two different locations are logged in at the same time.....................

[wastingtime101]

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@bennotbill wrote:

If someone else logged in (somewhere else) wouldn't that have got the unrecognised device warning?

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It would have triggered an email saying "a new device is using your account"

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@steel_9528 wrote: .... I started the bidding at $10, on the 19th. a couple of days later I increased my max bid to $20 .... 

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But the bid history shows that you placed two bids on March 22, for $20 and $45, just two minutes apart.  

Your recollection is so completely different from the bid history that I can't help wondering whether you have two auctions mixed up, and that the bids that you remember making were on a different auction.

[wastingtime101]

That's a good theory @nobody*s_perfect . They did bid on other coin auctions - one 7 hours after the listing in question and another two days before.

They also placed a bid on another listing just a couple hours ago (their third bid on the listing) and this one looks like it's from the same seller as the one with the $45 bid, listed in the same category of "mint sets".

[albertabrightalberta]

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@steel_9528 wrote:

Also, (22 Mar 2024 at 9:40:19am PDT) then (22 Mar 2024 at 9:42:25am PDT) is two minutes +/-, not two hours.

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You are correct. I misstated the times of your bids. 

You bid $20 and 2 MINUTES later, upped the proxy bid to $45 or higher. 

[wastingtime101]

For whatever this is worth:

Proxy bids are not appearing on any listing. Thinking there's a tech issue with that today.

[soh.maryl]

If there are two identical winning bids, the FIRST of these bids, timewise, would be the winner.  

[albertabrightalberta]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

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@bennotbill wrote:

If someone else logged in (somewhere else) wouldn't that have got the unrecognised device warning?

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It would have triggered an email saying "a new device is using your account"

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We were away for a week last week. (I'm in Mass and we went to Florida, clearly not my location.) 

I used my laptop and phone and didn't get unrecognized device notification. 

[wastingtime101]

But you used your own devices that you always use to access eBay, right @albertabrightalberta ? The only thing different was your location, not your device?

[kathiec]

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@albertabrightalberta wrote:

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

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@bennotbill wrote:

If someone else logged in (somewhere else) wouldn't that have got the unrecognised device warning?

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It would have triggered an email saying "a new device is using your account"

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We were away for a week last week. (I'm in Mass and we went to Florida, clearly not my location.) 

I used my laptop and phone and didn't get unrecognized device notification. 

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You only get an unrecognized device if you actually login on a new device, not if the device changes location. Otherwise people who access on their phones would get several notices a day. When I got a new laptop I got the notice.

[albertabrightalberta]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

But you used your own devices that you always use to access eBay, right @albertabrightalberta ? The only thing different was your location, not your device?

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That's correct. So it's the device, not the IP location? 

[mudshark61369]

@steel_9528,

It looks like your maximum bid was $45 dollars placed on Mar. 22 at 9:42:25 am PDT, about 2 minutes after you placed your first bid.  Are you sure that maybe you confused this auction with another similar one that you had or were going to bid on?  Your max bid for this one had to have been for $45 or you would not have won it from the last bidder who bid the same amount in the last seconds of the auction.

eBay does not increase a person's max bid, it cannot be done. Some how or other, YOU or someone who had access to your device, placed that 2nd bid.