How do you make your bid on eBay go up if Reserve Not Met??

[2QUIK6]

I've seen this a few times and have read everywhere on eBay and can't figure out how people do this.
Take a look at this bid history for this completed item: (Well now I can't get an ebay link to post correctly....but its Ebay ITEM# 200176052004 )

eBay Motors: Pontiac : Firebird (item 200176052004 end time Nov-30-07 19:30:00 PST)

Notice the last bid went up $350 instead of the normal $100 like it does when you get that high. This last bid made the reserve price...if it would have just went up the normal $100 to $8700 it would not have made the reserve....
I've been higher bidder before and not met the reserve, and if no one else bids I still don't get the item even when I was willing to pay higher than what the bidding made it up to if noone bids against you... If your high bidder and bid again, the current price stays the same...
I'm stumped....

 

[John Larkin]

Looks like he sniped it with 5 seconds to go. He may have an autobid program. They are out there but I have never used one. Either that or he sat on the trigger and bid the reserve at the very end, hoping no one beat him out.

 

[Grumpy]

Looks like he sniped it with 5 seconds to go. He may have an autobid program. They are out there but I have never used one. Either that or he sat on the trigger and bid the reserve at the very end, hoping no one beat him out.

thats what I do when bidding why push it up for 5 days ... watch the last 10 min and see if your still in the game :biggrin:

 

[2QUIK6]

I realize you want to wait till the last second...but my question is how did the last bidder make the price go up $350 instead of just the norm $100 which would not have met the reserve???

Is there a way to place a bid and indicate for it to go up to the reserve if your bid is as high or higher than the reserve without someone bidding against you to drive it up to the reserve?

I've been high bidder many times but did not meet reserve when my max bid amount was much higher than the ending price..many times my max bid was probably higher than the reserve, but since no one bid against me to drive it up to the reserve...there was no sale.

 

[Chuck Leeper]

If the reserve is not known, there's no way to "snipe" the bidding.
E-bag will auto bid, if you put in a max bid price.
Also, the seller may have a buddy doing "shill bidding". They don't want the item, but know what the reserve is, and stay just below it, w/ auto bid. This gives others, the impression that there's alot of potential buyers..

 

[Madcat455]

The way I understand Ebay is that you bid against the reserve, until it's hit.

IE.. if the item has a reserve of 5000, and the next increment is 800 but you set your proxy to 1000. even though the next increment is 100 higher. it'll only go up the 100 because the reserve hasn't been meet.

NOW.. take that same situation where the next increment would've been say 800. and you put your proxy at 6000, then the system would automatically make the base bid 5000, because your proxy was higher than the reserve.

That would explain how it jumped the $350, even though the next increment was 100, his proxy put him over the reserve so the system automatically started the next line of bidding from that point.

My .02 :biggrin:

 

[2QUIK6]

NOW.. take that same situation where the next increment would've been say 800. and you put your proxy at 6000, then the system would automatically make the base bid 5000, because your proxy was higher than the reserve.

That would explain how it jumped the $350, even though the next increment was 100, his proxy put him over the reserve so the system automatically started the next line of bidding from that point.

My .02 :biggrin:

This I did not know....if thats true, then I guess all those times I was high bidder and didn't meet the reserve then my max proxy was not over the reserve price....
That's what I was looking for!!!

So...just to be clear and we are all on the same page...because your response was what I was looking for an explanation for...all the other response I already knew as I'm not a newcomer to ebay....

So if I place a max bid that is higher than the reserve, and current price is well below the reserve, then the price will automatically JUMP all the way up to the "RESERVE" amount??? Correct?

 

[Madcat455]

So if I place a max bid that is higher than the reserve, and current price is well below the reserve, then the price will automatically JUMP all the way up to the "RESERVE" amount??? Correct?

From what I understand, yes. ALthough, I've never personally had that happen to me.

But I do remember seeing that on Ebay's policy awhile back, they changed it to that "system" about 1yr or so ago if I recall correctly. As it didn't used to be that way 4yrs ago

Here's a link to the reserve policy page: Reserve Price Auction Paragraph at the bottom confirms what I thought.

 

[2QUIK6]

From what I understand, yes. ALthough, I've never personally had that happen to me.

But I do remember seeing that on Ebay's policy awhile back, they changed it to that "system" about 1yr or so ago if I recall correctly. As it didn't used to be that way 4yrs ago

Here's a link to the reserve policy page: Reserve Price Auction Paragraph at the bottom confirms what I thought.

Got it, THANKS for the help!