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Could someone please tell me about EBAY bidding?

my friend said that the highest price doesnt always show or something. so does that mean if it said $40, it could secretly be like $100. i dont know much about ebay bidding so could you please help? thx

Public Comments

1. I think what she is talking about is when you bid. Say it is at 40.00 and you put in 100.00. The next time someone bids it will automatically bid for you because you put in 100.00. Does that make sense. Someone else might have put in their top bid and it willoutbid you. Or she may be talking about the reserve which means unless the price gets up to what they want it wont sell. I havent used ebay in a while because they rip you off. They have outrageous charges so i use a different auction site.
2. the current bid shown is what the thing is actualy selling for at that moment. a lot of times the price will shoot up in the last couple on min of the auction because people will wait to bid at the end so as not to drive up the price on what they are looking at. also check the shipping charges before bidding sometimes they are unreasonably high
3. No, the highest price means its the most amount you are willing to pay for the item. So if a bid is at $10 and the most your willing to pay is $20 you can just type it in and not have to follow it. then you can check it later and see if it went over your $20 (in that case you lost) or if you were the highest bidder.
4. Hello This is a known misunderstanding. One can have a 'secret' bid. That means you tell the Ebay computer what the MAX (€) is you want to bid on a certain item. The computer then looks at the (manual) bids that are made. Every time someone bids higher than your last bid, the computer brings out a new offer (in your name). That bid is €1 higer than the previous bidding. In that way you could 'win' an auction. The downfall is that Ebay always wins, especially if everyone in an auction uses the hidden max bidding. What you see in such a case, is that the bids quickly follow eachother. My advice: keep bidding manually. And always use a slightly odd bid like € 121,78. Why? people tend to bid in neat round figures like €120,- or € 200 by using odd figeres you could win after all. suvcces from Holland
5. I have been a power seller on eBay for almost 2 years. I think you are talking about you bidding on an item. Lets say you want to a "PlayStation 2" which someone started there listing at .99, someone could come and bid $40, but if they are the only bidder, the bid will still be at .99cent. Not unless someone else try's to win the same item will the bids go up. So if someone came and put a bid for $2, $5, $10, the person that put the $40 bid will always lead the bid until someone puts more than $40. It just keeps going up in increments. I hope this helps.