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Ebay and erroneous "you were outbid" popup.

pmsrpmsr
edited November 2013 in Chit chat
Hello, has anyone seen this incorrect "you were outbid" popup in red letters come up on an ebay auction you have open and where you are the highest bidder, but when you reload there is no new bid at all? Just happened to me around 20 minutes towards the end of the auction. Accepted it as bones of the trade (better than a last second sniper, right?) and reloaded to see the new bid, as while the timer was updating the bid value had not done so. And surprise surprise, no bid had come up and I eventually won the auction without any other coming either. Is this simply a bug or is there a proper explanation?

/Pedro
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  • fogfog
    edited November 2013
    might be a bug or... if you look at the bid history you'll notice the same bidder from before you..

    e.g. if I bid ?100 for something... and you bid ?98 I'm still the highest bidder and that'll update.. but more than likely snipping tools of some sort, which they continually get around..

    sniping tools put me off buying items, a fair bit of the time on there and it would be good if they banned them totally. although certain folk on here think they are wonderful... might change their tune if they lost a few items using them / stopped working..

    the other one I have noticed over the years.. the timer mysteriously increases by a second or 3.. so your bid is too late, yet the time displayed till end is wrong..

    the obviously thing being a certain person buying computers and listing them for business for 3-4 times the amount within a month to the collectors that he's continually outbidding.. I make a point to avoid anything he sells and hope he gets lumbered with it.
  • pmsrpmsr
    edited November 2013
    There was only the first bidder from several days ago, then me. Really, no obvious explanation. Maybe it was an automated bot and Ebay has some routines that detected and removed the bid before I refreshed the page.

    I am also repealed by snipers. Could also set up one myself easy, but for me it is the principle that matters. Being just a hobbyist trying to purchase a few games for nostalgic reasons I don't want to be bothered with certain things.

    Speaking about fudging, one thing I noticed that also grinds my gears are the companies that sell products at a fixed price on Ebay, but sometimes put the same exact product for auction starting low. There will be someone (you can't see whom as it is a private listing (?) ) bidding and setting a ceiling just below if not the same as the full price of the product. Genius!

    /Pedro
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