posted on October 15, 2000 08:42:39 AM new
While checking the bid history of an auction with three bid I discover that the 1st and 3rd bidder are one and the same person with the same email address.
The bids were placed at Oct-15-00 05:57:06 PDT and Oct-15-00 05:54:45 PDT
The 2nd bidder placed their bid at Oct-14-00 18:55:08 PDT Their bid is displayed between the first and third bids.
Can someone please explain this to me. The auction has 1 hour and 35 minutes left before it ends.
posted on October 15, 2000 08:53:13 AM new
Hi rampaged...Its really quite proper. Bidder A (14th) puts in a bid of $20.00. The opening bid is $10.00. Bidder B (15th)then puts in a bid of $15.00 and sees he/she is not high bidder because the system automatically brings bidder A up to one level over bidder B. Bidder B then bids $30.00 and is now higher than bidder A. History will now show bidder B as lowest, then bidder A in the middle, and finally bidder B as highest.
This is somewhat convoluted, but I hope you understand.
posted on October 15, 2000 08:57:12 AM new
yeah if you click the bid history ebay shows all bider there email addresses and the bid they made so all bidder are listed and some more then once.
rampaged:
It might be that this bidder used a proxy bid and they listed the bid as the same day and near same time it was orginally made.
