Man, this guy should play the lottery.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250636661788&ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT


My max bid was $21.76. And a sniper got it with a max bid of, guess what, $21.77. When I saw that, I'll admit, I chuckled. I just couldn't spend the extra penny.

The snipers last bid could have been a lot more, they usually are. With ebay the final sale price is not the top price someone is prepared to pay, it's the 2nd highest price + a small increment.

If your bid was higher, the final sales price could have been a lot higher or you could have won it.

TheChefs said:

The snipers last bid could have been a lot more, they usually are. With ebay the final sale price is not the top price someone is prepared to pay, it's the 2nd highest price + a small increment.

If your bid was higher, the final sales price could have been a lot higher or you could have won it.

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No. Ian's right. The winning bidder's max was $21.77 and just one cent higher than Ian's. If the winning bidder had a potentially higher max, then his winning bid would have been Ian's $21.76 + the next highest bidding increment (usually 50 cents or a dollar).

Bad luck, Ian.

The other guy paid too much.

That's dumb how E-bay works that way. I remember someone saying that the logical thing to do to prevent bid sniping is to set it up so an auction doesn't just instantly end at X time, it only ends when no bid has been made in say 10 minutes. So if someone tries to snipe your bid, the auction gets extended a bit.

Stubblefield said:

The other guy paid too much.

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I mostly just wanted the Superior.