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Deni:
I have an odd situation here. I saw an interesting instrument on e-bay and placed auto-bid with $250 as a limit.
After a while ended with highest bid but sequence of bids look very strange:

My bids are marked red and you can see my first bid at $55 placed on 13.02.2020 at 9:26, then it was overbidded by
a bidder 6***4 (which has no previous bids on that auction!) at 5:43 but on 12.02.2020 (a day before) !!! And then my auto-bid
increased to $202,50 16 seconds after my first bid.

Perhaps I am just plain stupid or just do not know how things work so please enlighten me...
tom66:
This happens if someone has placed a bid above your bid but as an autobid...

Say auction is at $50, but they bid $202.50.  It goes to $55 because that is the next bid-increment.  You come in at $200 and the eBay system recognises the auto bid and places the bid on the other buyer's behalf, you lose the auction.

The best way to avoid losing these auctions is a sniping service like Gixen; it avoids the auction price war that happens and you "snipe" at exactly the price you want. The autobidder ensures you pay no more than this, or the bid increment above the highest autobid.
Deni:

--- Quote from: tom66 on February 14, 2020, 06:39:36 pm ---This happens if someone has placed a bid above your bid but as an autobid...

--- End quote ---

I understand that, but it still does not explain this situation. If bidder 6***4 placed his auto-bid for $200, he should already be top bidder before bidder 6***3
placed his bid (on 12.02. at 10:31) but he's nowhere on the list until I placed MY autobid !!! That's the part which I do not understand. How can you place an
auto bid that is NOT executed?
PA0PBZ:
I think it shows only the highest bid from the other bidders, and I remember having seen a button called something like "show all bids" which as expected then shows all bids.
Can you share the link to the item?
Deni:
Here is the full history which still does not explain it. Timeline for bidder 6***4 is simply not right. And I also recall that the last price when
I placed my first bid was $50, not $51 as suggested by this list:

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