<p>There is something on Ebay that I want and its current bid is $51.00. If I put in my maximum bid as $75.00, after i submit my bid, will the item’s current bid show as $52.00 (the next highest interval) or $75.00? I thought maximum bids were private. Any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>its 52. it’ll keep auto bidding ofr you until it reaches 75+</p>
<p>yeah it would be 52 until someone bids ~74 then it would show 75 (it still wont say you didnt bid any more, for all the other people know you couldve put in max 100). They mask your highest bid</p>
<p>basically once you make the $75 max bid, anyone who comes along and enters a bid that is under $75, ebay will automatically have you outbid them. E.g. if someone puts $65 as their max, the minimum bid will become $67, with you holding the highest bid at $66. Once someone bids a max higher than $75, you will have been outbid, and that person will have a bid of $76 on the item.</p>
<p>Just a tip, you best bet is to wait until the end of the auction. Ideally wait until a few seconds before it’s over, or as late as possible.</p>
<p>Bidding early is unwise and a very ameutur move. All your bidding does is drive up the price which you don’t want.</p>
<p>The two main reasons are it increases the perceived value to other potential bidders. </p>
<p>It also induces competition. How often have you put in a maximum bid only to raise that maximum later? You wan’t to avoid competition.</p>
<p>There are more reasons, but it’s basically because of human psycology, kind of like the stock market.</p>
<p>Yeah, it ****es me off when people are bidding days before the auction is even over.</p>
<p>As a seller, I like when this happens. There will be a guy who puts down the $75 bid, but it displays as $52. Another guy will bud $53, but he will get rejected and have to go higher until he bids $76. If he knows what he’s doing, he’ll plop down an $80 bid. And if the other guy comes back and still wants it, he just might bid $85. If this goes for $82 and I put the starting bid at $50, I’ve just made $32 that I wasn’t expecting.</p>
<p>As a buyer, it can be a pain though. I’ve all too often been both of the guys in my example. Remember, you can’t always win. If a sports team never lost, it wouldn’t be that exciting (I’m talking over a period of years, not just one season–one undefeated year is pretty cool but more than that just gets redundant).</p>
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<p>Say ebay member Gatman81 sent you.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m gonna bid late into the auction. It’s such a good deal I can’t pass up (I won’t say what it is, but, as a lot, it would retail for about $350). But, I’m worried that since another bidder has bid several times in a row they’ve increased their maximum bid to a price I’m not willing to beat. We’ll see how it works out. Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>I remember when someone had bid $175.01 on an item that I had a max bid of $175 in the last few seconds of the auction and my computer was too slow to raise my bid lol…I hate when that crap happens</p>
<p>I try to just stick with “Buy It Now” auctions…much less stress and the deals are still good…</p>
<p>Using one cent like that is a useful strategy for bidding. If you are going against someone with a maximum, you can kinda guess at their maximum bid and then go one cent over. If you are wrong, it doesn’t matter, but if you are right, then that is the cheapest way to end that auction for you.</p>
<p>Bidding multiple times is stupid. bluthunder06, why would you want to outbid someone who beat your maximum??</p>
<p>it’s psychological. people do not want to spend a lot, and thus often don’t put their true maximum. If your underinflated maximum sits on top for a while, you may grow attached to the item, and so when someone outbids you, you’re willing to bid a new maximum given your new found attraction for the item.</p>
<p>Well folks, it’s gone up to $114.03 in the past half hour so I’m gonna back out on this one. I’m gonna settle with another item with the “Buy It Now” option. It’s gonna cost me less anyway. Thanks for the tips! Keep em’ coming too-this might form into a habit ;)</p>