P3D Re: Ebay bidding

[wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Wier)]

>This has happened to me on a couple of occasions, and I think the reason
>is this:
>When your max bid was not enough to beat the 2nd highest bid by a full
>increment, if you increase your maximum the bid price will increase to
>the first full increment over the 2nd highest bid.  I ended up paying 50
>cents more for a stereoview once because I wanted to protect a less than
>one full increment lead, then no one bid again.

I think that's likely what happened - I had a max bid in, but prices were coming
up fast, so I wanted to increase the max bid - and it jumped up by one increment
when I did that...

That could be disturbing if the increment were something like $25 ...

THANKS

--Bob Wier

wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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