The fun part of this is - you can never know what the other person's maximum bid is until you beat it (or get within the bid increment below it - which is not common). It's not until you put in a bid that is greater than the other person's maximum bid that you will be winning. Bid again with $60, $70 and $80 and you will get outbid every time. This happens immediately, which is why you get outbid straight away. The eBay system then repeats the process and your $50 bid gets beaten by the bid increment and the other person is still winning, but with an amount of $51. You see that you have been outbid and come back with a bid of $50. For $25, the bid increment is $1 - so you will be outbid by an amount of $25 + $1 = $26.
Gixen and jbidwatcher plus#
The eBay system will use as much of that $100 as it needs to beat your bid - which is $25, plus an amount they call the "bid increment". Now let's say someone else wants to bid and they are prepared to throw $100 at it, even though the "Current bid" (yours) is only showing $5. The $25 amount is held on eBay's system and is not shown to anybody. If you place that bid on an item with a $5 starting price, eBay's system will only use $5 as your bid. If you notice, eBay calls that your maximum bid amount. EBay's proxy bidding system makes sure you pay no more than you need to to win an auction.
It is you - but it is a simple misunderstanding. aim to win at a price you like or to be outbid at a price where you are glad the other person overpaid. So bid only in the last seconds of the auction and when you enter your amount enter a value at which you would be sad to lose. You shouldn't bid until there is so little time left that humans are unable to respond to your bid and out bid you. you should not be bidding! All that bidding early does is give other people the chance to nudge up the high bidder's bids to explore their limits or to raise the price and become the high bidder. effectively you have just nudged up the amount they will have to pay. so your bid was accepted but their higher bid then shows up. The reason you are being outbid is that the current high bidder entered a value higher than your bid.
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