Jamie-C
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I entered a maximum bid of £52 for a model car, but it says current bid is £38.50, so will the current bid not increase until someone enter a higher maximum bid than me?
If so then i should enter a maximum bid of like £200 for example for a model worth £60, then no one would get higher than my maximum bid.
Would this work or am i being silly 
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jacko198
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Yeah true, but the buyer could get a friend to keep bidding on it, or someone else who really wants it will keep bidding on it, and then you might end up paying £200 for it!
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JM Curdy
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silly boy
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AndyKent
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No, the system would automatically up the bids until you lost out at £200.
ie. price is £40, you bid up to £200 and current bid is yours at £45.
Then someone else bids £50, so the maximum will go to £55 still in your name.
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IvIarkgraham
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wuld you really want to spend 200 on a model car?
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Cavey
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The current bid will increase up to your maximum bid.
E.g. if someone bids £45 now it'll go up to £45.50 (i think it'd be 50p increments)
If someone bids over £52 then obviously they'll be the leading bidder.
Typed this as apk was replying, so what he said basically
[Edited on 06-02-2009 by Cavey]
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Jamie-C
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quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
wuld you really want to spend 200 on a model car?
Nope! I thought if i was to enter a maximum bid of £200 that for the current bid to increase someone would have to enter a higher maximum bid than me, therefore i would get it for a low price.
But i was wrong... Again!
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IvIarkgraham
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otherwis you could get everything for 99p by entering a maximum bid of 10million
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Daveskater
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quote:
Originally posted by Jamie-C
for the current bid to increase someone would have to enter a higher maximum bid than me
Yeah, they'd have to put in more than £200.
Although if anyone else out there is mad enough to spend over £200 on it then let them have it
[Edited on 06-02-2009 by Daveskater]
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Twiggy
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quote:
Originally posted by jacko198
Yeah true, but the buyer could get a friend to keep bidding on it, or someone else who really wants it will keep bidding on it, and then you might end up paying £200 for it!
Do people actually do this???
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ssj_kakarot
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quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
quote:
Originally posted by jacko198
Yeah true, but the buyer could get a friend to keep bidding on it, or someone else who really wants it will keep bidding on it, and then you might end up paying £200 for it!
Do people actually do this???
shill bidding its cheaper than a buy it now lol at least to get it at a decent reserve 
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Daveskater
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It happens all the time. If people get caught doing it then their bids get taken off and the account suspended.
Sometimes the seller will just make a second account. A guy who was in my class at college used to do it He sold stuff on there and had another account which he upped the bids with, until he went over their maximum, and then retracted his winning bid, so that he didn't buy his own item.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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All Torque
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Thats how I bid, if I see an item worth £40 for example and the bids are at £23 then I'll bid ~£40 ad leave it at that. If Iget he item for £40 then thats fine and any lower is a bonus.
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Neo
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quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
quote:
Originally posted by jacko198
Yeah true, but the buyer could get a friend to keep bidding on it, or someone else who really wants it will keep bidding on it, and then you might end up paying £200 for it!
Do people actually do this???
Yes....done this once for my boss  only to atract buyers, it had 40 minutes to go, was worth a few hundred, i put 100 on as the first bidder and then others fought it out so i left them to it 
Its very very naughty though....ebay remove your account if they find you doing it.
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Twiggy
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I herd some people have 2 accounts and sign in on diff computers (i think they store the I.P. address)
So i here anyways
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Twiggy
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quote:
Originally posted by All Torque
Thats how I bid, if I see an item worth £40 for example and the bids are at £23 then I'll bid ~£40 ad leave it at that. If Iget he item for £40 then thats fine and any lower is a bonus.
You need to be snipering mate!
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Daveskater
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quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
I herd some people have 2 accounts and sign in on diff computers (i think they store the I.P. address)
So i here anyways
When we were in college he used the exact same PC The accounts all got blocked after a while though 
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Scotty_B
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Link to model in question?
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BigSte
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quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
quote:
Originally posted by jacko198
Yeah true, but the buyer could get a friend to keep bidding on it, or someone else who really wants it will keep bidding on it, and then you might end up paying £200 for it!
Do people actually do this???
I always do
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Graham88
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Same
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Jamie-C
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quote:
Originally posted by CorSRi_BT
Link to model in question?
There isn't one, was just using that as an example 
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Carl
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Let's be fair, most people do it from time to time. The system is slightly floored in the way that if someone bids, tand is the highest bidder, then bids a higher amount you can see that they have bid twice so clearly inserted another higher amount, they should really sort that out.
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Mike
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quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
I herd some people have 2 accounts and sign in on diff computers (i think they store the I.P. address)
So i here anyways
A neighbour got his account suspended after his daughter won something of his, different computers but the same internet connection only reason it got suspended was cos the dosey cow left feedback 
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All Torque
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^
Edit- What did she put, "Fast postage, will deal with again" ??
[Edited on 06-02-2009 by All Torque]
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Jamie-C
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Surprised my account hasn't been suspended, couple of times I'v bid on stuff then not had the money to pay for it so i made another account and out bid myself
Nothings happened yet
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