Originally Posted by MTS
Originally Posted by missgigglewings
If your highest bid was $4700.00 why did she accept $70.00? Guess I don't understand how the bidding works...
http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/automatic-bidding.html
Make very sure you understand how it works before playing in that sandbox.
And then, when you've mastered proxy bidding, you can move right on up to "sniping." :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
fwiw, I never, ever proxy bid. I snipe.
I'm with you. I don't proxy bid...I snipe. I have been buying/selling on Ebay since 1998. I would probably have given the backup bidder the chance to purchase and if they did then I would have let you off the hook. Ebay's fees are so high that you can't afford to just ignore the high bid because selling fees are based on this. Sometimes people have "buyer's remorse" or better put "bidder's remorse" and just decide they don't want to go through with it. The seller may not have thought that $70 was that high of a bid. (Granted, $47,000 would have been obvious). I commend you for following through with your bid. I did they same thing years ago and I just bit the bullet and paid for it. Believe me, from now on you will always check your bid before you hit confirm. :lol: :lol: :lol: