Besides being snipped, I lost two auctions because it took about 10 seconds for the bidding window to appear. When I visit a sellers page, their feedback link takes some time to appear. Thought maybe it was my browser, and got the same result on my phone. Anyone else having issues?
Fine here, and I`m not even in US. Most likely your PC or entire ISP temporal slowness, check your connection speed at SpeedTest to be sure. This means you ALWAYS pay your max bid if you win. This is not a good bidding tactics, if you bid the smart way, in some cases you will pay way less than your max bid.
Yeah, didn't think about that, not always, but often. Problem is, some buyers ego won't let them leave the auction when they see they can't become the highest bidder, so they bid 3-5 times in a row, driving the price up, and only then they leave. If you bid your max during the last seconds, you might avoid that. Just one example.
I think the OP does too. It's just that he doesn't think it fair that someone else bids their max bid through a proxy service -- which pushes the bid through just before the auction's end time --- so that the item he thought he was going to get is now someone else's. It would be more fair to him and others that all bidders put their bids in on their own at the time they decide they want to bid, so that anyone looking at the auction can see if they've been outbid and adjust their max bid if they want to.
An auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction If you are not the highest bidder, you do not win the auction. Cut and dried. Plain and simple.
