eBay bidding - Irregularity?

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Originally Posted by jayshum

If you choose the 'Show automatic bids' option, it's a little clearer what is going on. You can see there is a bid of $132.50 because that's all that was needed to beat the high bid at the time which was $130.00, but the actual high bid made by the winning bidder was really $150.00. When the OP bid again (since he was no longer winning), he would have seen the high bid as $132.50 (since the max bid is not shown) so would have only had to bid $135.00 even though that would also have been beaten by an automatic bid. Since he bid $150.00, the 2 bids were tied so the first one to bid that amount was still the high bidder. Then, the winning bidder made another bid which shows as $150.00 (since he was still high bidder, he didn't need to raise the high bid) but would have really been higher if someone else had bid again.

Interesting! Thanks for walking through that detail. Always exciting to better understand the process.