Klarinet Archive - Posting 000526.txt from 2004/01

From: Erik Tkal <bbtkal@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: eBay bidding
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:56:06 -0500

At 03:24 PM 1/16/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>If you check the bid history, you can see something I'd say is interesting..
>
>mike4sue( 31) US $1,200.00 Jan-15-04 19:36:35 PST
>kali2510( 41) US $1,175.00 Jan-15-04 16:32:14 PST
>mike4sue( 31) US $1,100.00 Jan-15-04 19:35:31 PST
>mike4sue( 31) US $1,000.00 Jan-15-04 19:35:02 PST
>mike4sue( 31) US $900.00 Jan-15-04 19:34:11 PST
>mike4sue( 31) US $750.00 Jan-15-04 19:26:36 PST
>abigailelizur( 1 ) US $600.00 Jan-14-04 15:16:21 PST
>
>Isn't it peculiar that the same person made 4 bids in a row without any bids
>in between within 10 minutes, raising the bid from $600 to $1,100?

That's a side effect of the eBay automatic bidding process. What happened was kali2510 had made a *maximum* bid for $1175, but mike4sue tried to bid $750. The eBay system then tells mike4sue that he/she has been outbid, so he/she then tried $900, and was again immediately outbid (since kali2510 still had a higher max bid). This went on for a bit until mike4sue bid $1200. If you look at the bid times, kali2510 made the initial $1175 bid 3 hours before mike4sue got into it. Some people like to manually bump up their bids, others do the recommended thing of bidding the most you would pay and forgetting about it until the bidding is over.

Erik

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