ebay help needed asap

i went to bid on something and it said enter you high bid( its said this will not be displayed to anyone else but you) i entered that and i thought the next screen would ask me for my current bid, well no it just automatically bid on the item for 15 less than what i said my high bid would be. i want the item but the bid i put in ( well i relaly didnt put in ) is 85 the bid before that was $10.00 HELP

Message edited 3/19/2007 11:59:34 AM.

Re: ebay help needed asap

The person who made the $10 bid probably had their max around $60 or $70, so in order to beat them out, you have to go higher than their max bid.

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When you put in your high bid, it will put in the bid that makes you the high bidder up to that amount. So if the 1st bid was $10, you put in a high of $100, and it shows $85, that means someone else put $84.50 or a little before $85 as their high, and it bumped you up to beat them out.

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I don't understand what you are saying. When you bid, you enter your bid and then confirm the amount on the next page.

If the bid that youentered was too low, just watch the auction and you will be notified if you are out bid and bid again.

If your bid higher then the lowest bid, your current bid is for the bidding increment over the previous bid. Your bid will increase to the bid entered until you are outbid by someone else. You will receive an email when this happens.

Re: ebay help needed asap

thanks everyone it makes sense now