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Originally Posted by lincoln64 the winners bid was placed before (Nov-11-04 21:35:31 PST). His bid never showed up until the bidding was over (please see link below) What am I missing? |
I can't explain why you couldn't see his bid earlier, but
according to the bidding history you posted it went like this:
On 11/11 at 9:35:31 p.m. ivy296j placed a bid of exactly $18.93. It was displayed as the seller's opening bid amount, since only enough of any maximum bid to reach a winning amount is ever posted. The reason I'm sure it was his exact bid is that it is less than one increment higher than yours. Normally a max bid is increased to a full increment over the next highest, but if it is not that high, the max bid itself becomes the new high bid.
At 10:16:52 strech12 placed a bid of $15.00. It was too low, and ivy's posted bid went to one increment over $15.
At 10:18:32 Strech tried again, this time bidding $17.00. It was still too low, he wasn't willing to go higher and gave up, so ivy's posted bid went to one increment over $17.00. (Obviously at that time ivy's bids were showing up on strech's screen, or there would have been no reason for him to make his second bid.)
On 11/14 your a bid of $18.83 was placed. If everything had been working correctly, it would have been shown as not enough, with ivy's full $18.93 displayed as the high bid. Had you then bid higher, you would have won (unless ivy was watching, and decided to increase his bid).
I've seen a lot of software glitches on EBay, but this is the first time I've ever heard of a high bidder not showing up.
