I was bidding on an item that had a base asking price of $49.00 so that’s what I bid. I later went back and entered a maximum of $55. The winning price at that time remained at $49. In the last five seconds of the bidding, someone else bid and won the item for $76. There were only the three bids.
Why didn’t the 3rd bid win it for just $56? Should this be reported? Could this be a shill bid? (The item is definitely much more valuable than even $76.) I’m not pouting about losing it as I was bidding for someone else.
What was the second bid? Did you look at the full history with automatic bids included? It may have been you bidding for $49, someone sniping you for $76, a third person failing a snipe for, say, $65 and eBay automatically giving it to person #2 for $76.
Heck, what’s the item number so we can take a look?
The OP said there were three bids - her $49, her $55 and the winning $76.
I must say I’m never quite sure what logic eBay uses to work out the winning price - if you put in a max of, say, $65 and someone else bid $60, would you win it for $60.01? $61? $65? It seems to vary a lot.
WAG - is it still possible to disable the proxy bidding and say that you want to bid the full amount at once? Last-minute person could have done that. (Which might suggest that it’s a fake bid from a friend of the auctioner, or not.)
Sort of the elephant option. “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”
(1) There was a reserve price of $76
(2) Your second bid was actually $75 instead of the $55 you think it was. I believe you should be able to see what your actual bid was in My Ebay.
(3) You are misreading the bid history
Post the auction number or at least post the bid history so we can tell you what happened.
There was no shilling here, regardless of what happened. Shill bidders don’t try to win auctions, they just want to drive the price up.
