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Sorry folks, this is a question about buying rather than selling, but as there are so many eBay experts out there, and Auctiva message boards are so responsive, thought I would ask anyway ....

I have been bidding on an item and when checking it this morning realised the bidding was getting close to my nominated maximum, so I bumped the max up a little. However, just afterwards, I discovered an item FROM THE SAME SELLER which was exactly what I needed.

Now, as an active seller myself, I am reluctant to muck around with my bids as I know how irritating it can be, but safe in the knowledge that the seller would be getting a fair price from whoever was bidding close to my maximum on the original, and I was hoping to buy anyway from the seller, I withdrew the bid, sent a message to the seller apologising and placed a new bid on the correct item.

When I withdrew the bid, a message came up to tell me that all MY bids on that item would be withdrawn. I have just checked the item and mysteriously, the item is now listed at the ORIGINAL starting price rather than the bid close to my maximum ....... hmmmmmm - very interesting ....... so was I bidding against myself?
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When I withdrew the bid, a message came up to tell me that all MY bids on that item would be withdrawn. I have just checked the item and mysteriously, the item is now listed at the ORIGINAL starting price rather than the bid close to my maximum ....... hmmmmmm - very interesting ....... so was I bidding against myself?


No, I don't think you could have been bidding against yourself! I think that once you withdrew your bids (the eBay note said ALL your bids were removed, right?), then that would have included every one of them. That would then reset the bid amount based on the other bidder's (bidders' - if more than one) initial bids.

Example: Item starts at $1. You bid up to a max of $15. Another bidder bids up to a max of $12, so your bid becomes $13. You withdraw your bid, and ALL your bids are removed. The other bidder then is reset at $1, not $12, because the reason for his bid to be so high was based on your bidding participation.

I, as a seller, just had something like that happen to me a couple of weeks ago. Had an item selling for an initial price of $7.50. Two bidders ended up bumping it up to $32.50. Then one of the bidders became a "no longer a registered user of eBay" (I don't know why). Because all of the bids by that person were removed, the other bidder (who had met the opening price of $7.50 as the first bidder) was reset as the only bidder, and thus they were able to buy the item for $7.50. Had there been a total of 3 bidders, then the bids would have been reset based on the bids placed by those 2 bidders only. [boo, hoo, hoo.... I "lost" $25 on that sale.... Wink]

Hope that all makes sense.

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