Arrrrrrrgh E-bay

[BB-Rocks]

I hate e-bay .. i wanted a lead for my phone and someone kept bidding agaisnt me. She put in £9:00 and i was about to put in 9:50 and it said sorry you have missed it by 1 second!!!:mad::mad::mad:

[Siouxsie]

yep annoying that

[Arneldo]

I Love Ebay!!!

I got loads of BB Stuff of Ebay!

[BB-Rocks]

I palced a big last Sunday .. and this morning i was still the only bidder and i looked about 4:00 and it was still only me and i checked on it 10mins before and their was 12 bids

In the end it was me and this other person

Soon as i palced a bid she would place it right away.

God dam the 1 second!!

[Sunny_01]

I have just made a complaint to ebay - very strange situation!

I bid for a leather interior for my car and after 2 days was outbid which is fair enough so I decided to just watch it till the last minute. The day bidding was due to end, I recieved a message from a member telling me that the person who had bid against me was actually the seller with a different account.

I asked this person how they would know that and she told me she was his ex wife! I decided to send the messages and a complaint to ebay. Dont mind being outbid but hate sneaky trading!

In general though I have always had no problems with ebay!

[BB-Rocks]

Oh that is sneaky!

I was jsut angry about the 1 second!!:mad:

[James]

Yeah bidding on your on auctions to get the price is called 'shill bidding' and it's against the rules of eBay. Info about it here (http://www.ukauctionhelp.co.uk/shill.php).

Nothing wrong with waiting till the last moments of an auction to bid though, I use that tactic all the time.

In fact there is a website that let's you place bid automatically at the end of auctions - http://www.auctionstealer.co.uk/

They let you have three free 'snipes' a week.

[BB-Rocks]

Thats what the person used on me tonight i think because so as i clicked for my bid it would say someone has a higher bid than you!

I feel cheated!!:mad: lol

[James]

Your rival might have placed a higher maximum bid than you, in that case. If he or she has done that that person's bid will be placed automatically.

[BB-Rocks]

I palced my bid for example it would say the persons big is £1:40

To palce a higher bid, big at least £1.80 and as soon as i did that i would say this persons higher than you to place another bid do it over bla bla

And it kept happening

[James]

That's because they had put in a bid earlier of a significantly higher amount, say, £3.00.

If you put in a bid of £1.80 it will raise the bid price shown to the next level higher, but you won't be the highest bidder until you outbid the other person's higher earlier maximum bid.

[BB-Rocks]

Ahh .. i see

I didn't know that

[Arneldo]

I lost out to BB3 Dvd befor at the last second!
I was gutted.

[BB-Rocks]

I hate it when you lose the bid