Originally posted by Fatfenders:
Do I read the bidding correctly on those trim pieces? Hasn't lyte420 bid against himself running the price from $16.00 to $100.00 without a counter bid or is that just the way it looks?
When he put the $100.00 bid in, the current bid was $15.00 (or whatever the bid increment would make it). The Ebay system only bids the minimum you need to win the current bid. Then if somebody else enters a lower bid than yours it raises your bid to that amount.
So if I bid a hundred on an item sitting at $15, it would show my bid as $16. Then you see that and bid $17. It shows MY bid as $17 and you have to decide if you are going to go higher or not. So you raise your bid to $50. It shows MY bid as $50. If you put in $150 it would show your bid as $101 until someone raises you. This allows you to bid the max you would pay and then sit back and see if you win it. Probably saves Ebay a lot of server hardware because there are not so many hits.
