Quote:
Originally Posted by mcdog512
It's just like ebay bids. It shows the highest bid but not the max bid the guy put in. Let's say the current high bid is 100 and the buy it now is 1000. You know someone has bid 100 but you do NOT know what the max bid is they entered. You come waltzing into the auction house and bid 400, which represents your max bid. It means you are willing to go as high as 400.
Scenario 1: The other guy bid 100 as a max bid. You would now be shown as the high bidder at 101, but if other bid you'll auto bid until it reaches 400 and then the other guy becomes the high bidder.
Scenario 2: The other guy has already bid 500 as a max bid. You can't see that. You bid 400 but the auction increments until it hits 401 (since his max bid is 500 and yours is 400). You get a message that you were outbid by his max bid.
|
Thank you - But I doesnt seem like that is the way it works
It doesn't seem like the BIDS total column works then
And the ebay i go to shows the current bid.
Like a real auction...i bid 101 when it was offered at 100 and it is accepted... not some guy goes up and secretly bids 200 and sits down a laughs as everyone wastes time bidding.