How is this even possible?

premiercardcollectors · #2 11-22-2025, 04:06 AM

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Originally Posted by UKCardGuy

I like to think I'm pretty savvy with eBay, but today I've experienced something that has me truly flumoxed. I received a notification for a card on my want list. It had no bids and a starting bid of 99 cents. So I make a max bid of $150 expecting that it'd be the hugh bid (at least for a while until someone outbid me). But no - immediately I'm outbid...even though I was the opening bid. When I look at the bid history is shows that a higher bid was placed 5 hours before.

How can that be the case? If they bid higher than me, wouldn't there have been at least one bid at 99 cents before me? How can I be the opening bidder at 99 cents but a bid was submitted 5 hours before?

Its highly probable that I'm just being stupid. If so, please educate me.

Thanks.
Gary G01db3rg

It looks like the Bidder above you placed his bid 5 hours before you with a Max Bid of $152.5 or higher. Since you placed a max bid of $150 it automatically bumped his bid to $152.50.

You must not have actually been the opening bidder as there was already a bid at .99 according to the bid history.

You may have seen Opening Bid 0.99 but it probably said �1 Bid�.

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