10-05-2007, 02:29 PM
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Craftsman
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 202
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Originally Posted by tbzep
It wasn't just one bid. Somebody put a huge maximum bid in and all the folks that bid after that didn't show up because their bids were lower than his. If I were to bid $1000, ebay will only bid the lowest amount above the current bid, which would be somewhere around $225. There's no way a single bid will jump from $35 up to $222 in one bid because of that feature.
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Sure it could. Bidder A could have, like you said, bid $225, but currently had the bid at, say, $20.
Bidder B comes in and bids $223. He is outbid (by Bidder A's max proxy bid), but Bidder A now has it at $224 (or whatever).
One bid causes the (apparent) amount to rise from $20 to $224...
-Tim |