AH Max Bid Feature

[mantlefan]

That makes sense for the bidder, but not for the AH. Therefore it will likely remain as it is.

[Leon]

Some do and some don't let you. I agree they should let you as it's not harming, at that time, anyone or the company, imo.

[darwinbulldog]

Never occurred to me that I might be allowed to do that. Probably would have used it a couple of times. Oh well.

[Buythatcard]

Which AH's allow this?

[spacktrack]

REA's software allows you to update max bids upward or downward at any point in time so long as the max bid hasn't been hit yet.

Brian

[jcc6252]

If you have set your max bid to the next bid increment, then you are not allowed to lower it to the current bid amount. Again, this would cause no harm, but it is not allowed.

[Thromdog]

Interesting. Imagine if this was allowed on ebay? Being able to lower your max bid seems kind of weird, I'm actually kind of surprised it's allowed.

1. Let's say the current high bid on an item is $100 for Bidder A.
2. Bidder A has a max of $150 on the item
3. Bidder B comes in and puts a max bid of $10,000
4. Item is now showing a high bid of $160 for Bidder B
5. Bidder B lowers his max bid to $170 ???

Seems like this could be used as a method to expose Bidder A's max bid. Not sure I like that....