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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 219353, member: 669&quot;]Not necessarily.&nbsp; All you actually know is that you were outbid by <u>at least</u> $1, the standard EBay bidding increment for bids between $25 and $99.99.</p><p><br /></p><p>The way automatic bidding works, even if the winner had bid $500, the final price would have been exactly one bid increment higher than your next best bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only exception to that rule occurs when someone else&#039;s maximum bid is above the current price, and you enter a bid sufficiently above the current price, but less than one increment above that hidden bid.&nbsp; In that situation it is possible to lose by 1¢.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of years ago my snipe - $355.17 - was placed 2 seconds earlier than someone else&#039;s $355 snipe.&nbsp; I won. <img src="http://bestsmileys.com/cheering/1.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If the timing had been reversed, my bid would have been rejected for being less than $5 above the current bid, and I would have lost.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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