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[Dave-C]

I've been watching a story book on E-Bay for my teenaged son, it's a discontinued book, rare, but, affordable at around a tenner.  I watched it until the last minute and won it at 18 seconds to spare, paid for it, great communications from the seller and we've received it today in excelent packaging.  I've duly left the appropriate 5 star feedback etc..

Then, I received a message from another E-Bayer, who had previously bidded on this item at an earlier stage in the auction, less than £3 with no further bids since.  :-?

They said, in a nut shell, that, I should be ashamed of my self for late bidding and wondered if I was now going to go upstairs to raid my kid's money boxes...  " I did that several weeks ago!"

I believe that auctions work in a way that, the highest bid on the fall of the hammer, however late wins the article :-/

Please vote accordingly, any comments will be appreciated (Pos or Neg)

Cheers DC

[miggy]

I always late bid.i leave it till the dying seconds before i re enter my highest bid, i have been 99% sucessful in doing so.at the end of the day it is an auction site and i am doing nothing wrong.

 

[theowletman]

You are absolutely spot on, an auction sells to the highest bidder. Reply to the muppet and ask if they were selling an item would they take the highest bid or not. Sounds like a hypocrite to me. Well won.

[waspy]

The person's talking outa their rectum. That's the whole idea of an auction, bid at the last second (if you can), i do it all the time.
Ignore them, their only miffed & jealous.

[Tab]

I do the same, there's no point in bidding for something untill the last minute imo.

He sounds like a bad loser tbh, i certainly wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

[Marks DTM Calib]

The bottom line is that this said person wasn't willing to pay as much as you or they would have put in a bid higher than what you won it for....

[Danny]

absolute sore loser!!!

you bid £10, they bid £3, if they wanted it, they should have bid more, simple as that!!

i dont go messaging everyone who outbids me, theres a reason for being told to "enter your maximum bid" and as clearly explained by ebay, maximum bid is the highest bid you're willing to pay

I wouldnt worry about it fella, i feel really pleased with myself if i outbid someone in the last seconds and win an absolute bargain!

[Tony H]

The fundimental rule of an auction is the highest bid when the hammer falls wins

[yatesDELTA]

well if we hadnt bid in the last few seconds of our last auction there wouold be no miggy so...

eyah lol

[JamesV6CDX]

as long as you are doing the bidding and not a software program then it's fair game

[hotel21]

as long as you are doing the bidding and not a software program then it's fair game

fair point, but we are not always available to push the button personally due to other commitments...

To me, bid only what you can afford to loose without moaning....

[Vmax]

I've been watching a story book on E-Bay for my teenaged son, it's a discontinued book, rare, but, affordable at around a tenner.  I watched it until the last minute and won it at 18 seconds to spare, paid for it, great communications from the seller and we've received it today in excelent packaging.  I've duly left the appropriate 5 star feedback etc..

Then, I received a message from another E-Bayer, who had previously bidded on this item at an earlier stage in the auction, less than £3 with no further bids since.  :-?

They said, in a nut shell, that, I should be ashamed of my self for late bidding and wondered if I was now going to go upstairs to raid my kid's money boxes...  " I did that several weeks ago!"

I believe that auctions work in a way that, the highest bid on the fall of the hammer, however late wins the article :-/

Please vote accordingly, any comments will be appreciated (Pos or Neg)

Cheers DC

Always bid late, just don't go above what you decide its worth.  

[edwardmickey]

I use bidnapper; if I want summat, I also want to pay the lowest price I can get away with.

Who offers more than the price when going into Tesco?

The whinger should have bidded more if they wanted it!

[miggy]

as long as you are doing the bidding and not a software program then it's fair game

fair point, but we are not always available to push the button personally due to other commitments...

To me, bid only what you can afford to loose without moaning....

If you want it then who cares if software is used, as said if your highest bid is in then it dont matter if you lose

[JamesV6CDX]

fair point, but we are not always available to push the button personally due to other commitments...

In which case, bid what you're willing to pay at the time, and keep your fingers crossed