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  1. 07-26-2008, 11:19 AM #1
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    Default Ebay Users, I have a question!

    **** ebay. Seriously.

    I'm sitting here...THE only bidder on an item, and it keeps upping my bid each time. Like, literally, I click it to bid on the mother ****er, (lets say 12.50) and it says "LOL YOU'VE BEEN OUTBID!" to like 13.00 or something.

    I know nobody is sitting there bidding on the auction, because the number of bids only increases by one.

    So someone, please explain to me wtf is going on here


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  2. 07-26-2008, 11:24 AM #2
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    Happened to me once too. I think people are using eBay bots or whatever to up the bid until it gets to their desired price. I mean, I don't even know if there is such thing, but it gets so damn annoying.

    EDIT: I just saw Oisterboy's rep. ZOMG!1!!!@
  3. 07-26-2008, 11:26 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by ramennn View Post
    Happened to me once too. I think people are using eBay bots or whatever to up the bid until it gets to their desired price. I mean, I don't even know if there is such thing, but it gets so damn annoying.
    Maybe that is it, because it is literally a SPLIT SECOND after I bid. Like, nobody is sitting there waiting for me to bid. And nobody is doing it that fast lol.

    Strange though, because if it said "4 bids" when I bid, afterwords it only says "5 bids", but it says "YOU HAVE BEEN OUTBID!" like I wasn't the last bidder.

    So confused.


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  4. 07-26-2008, 11:33 AM #4
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    What happens is that when that person bid they said they put in an amount they would be willing to go up to. The person who bid on the item before you may have bid 25 dollars meaning that until you bid higher than that you will be getting outbid every single time.

    It makes sense.
  5. 07-26-2008, 11:38 AM #5
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    sandman is correct

    being a ebay seller and buyer myself for years I do it all the time....

    damn you just reminded me of the jealousy I had of a friend in a business class in college a while back...

    he made the bid counting program for ebay and made over 100,000 USD from it a year.....he quite college and moved to san jose to buy a house...lucky asshole I should of took his idea...
  6. 07-26-2008, 12:07 PM #6
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    AH-HA.

    Thank you guys, it was REALLY bothering me.

    Psh, to hell with this auction then. The only reason I wanted it is because it was cheap!

    I should bump the price up a little higher


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  7. 07-26-2008, 12:27 PM #7
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    Bump it to a million dollars, lolol. Unless the bot has a function that doesn't bid over a certain price...
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    I HATE Ebay, I had to pay them $1,20 fees, I did, but I still get e-mails from them threatening me
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