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Originally Posted by Stampsfan

I just bid on some items in the Clean Sweep auction that just completed tonight. I will say I am not a newbie when bidding in many of the fine auction houses out there, but this is the first time I recall experiencing this.

I had an "old guys" hockey game on our schedule tonight, so I threw some bids on as I would not be back before the auction closed. One lot I threw a bid in of about $500 more than the previous bid. I would have put in a "Maximum Bid", but the drop down did not allow me to do so. Therefore I put in a bid.

I come home now, and my bid is about $550 above the next lowest bid. I bid almost $1400 (hoping it would stick), and the previous bid was $835.

I guess I expected my bid to be bumped based on the next lowest bid. I know some will say "You were willing to pay that much", and fair enough. However, this was not my expectation, and I have not experienced this with any other auction house.

Are there other auction houses that operated this way? I have bid in many (REA, LOTG, SCP, Goldin, Mile High, Memory Lane, etc.) and I don't ever recall this happening.

Thoughts?

You needed to place your bid in the maximum bid box, not the initial bid box. It works just like the other auction houses if you do that. If you place an outright bid in any of the other auctions like you did in this one, the exact same thing would have happened. It takes the bid to your actual bid.