<<We have been bidding on different items and what I am noticing is that a few hours before the end of the bidding, if no one has bid on the item apart from me, someone comes in and make one bid higher than I've initially offered but not too high to push me out of the bidding. They then don't bid again. I've looked at the bidder's history and on one item I bought this person has bid 15 times and never won anything, yet the book I bought went for £3 but until an hour before the bidding ended it was at 99p.>>
Am I missing something here? I am confused about what you think is going on that makes you suspicious. Do you think the other bidder is simply running up the price with no intention of buying? Or that she only bids on things you are bidding on? I think that what you are describing is "an auction". Two people have decided what the maximum is that they want to pay, and the item goes to the person who wants to pay the most. Is there some obligation on the part of bidders to bid early in the process or for sellers to sell at the price that the item has sat at for the longest time at the auction? The other bidder doesn't know your maximum bid. She only knows her maximum bid. She could put in her maximum bid at the end of the auction when there is no time for either of you to increase it, and have you outbid her, due to the automatic bidding process. That is apparently what happened. A lot of auctions are decided in the last hour of bidding. The great thing about the automatic bidding process is that you can decide exactly how much you are willing to pay for an item in advance, and then you don't need to think about it any more. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
