weird thing happened on the AH

[imap30]

I was bidding on an item. I was maintaining my max bid to make sure I maintained highest bid even if the auction got sniped. Every time I put my max bid up, within an hour some1 would bid it up to that. The auction would go right to where I set my max bid every single time.

Is my max bid stored in the memory of the computer that has the listing? Seems extremely fishy how that happened.

 

[JoeC]

seems right to me, by max bid do you mean the next top increment?

 

[imap30]

e.g.: current price, 100k

I bid 1 million

If some1 bids 700k, it will auto bid me 1 higher than them.

 

[JoeC]

how can they bid 700k, if you already bid 1mil. they would get the "bid too low" notification.

 

[Tatsumi]

Yes, but auctions only go in single increments.
Therefore, it will increase your bid when someone attempts to outbid you, even if it says their bid is too low.

 

[JoeC]

if that were the case, then people would be bidding on their own items then jacking up the price in the last min.

 

[greenblood]

I don't often bid on items, but i remember one time i bid on a weapon which was at about 80 million. I put up my max bid of 130 million and in the last minute it went up to exactly 130 million, so i had to pay exactly what my max bid was set to. I'm thinking there might be a way to push peoples bids to their max, no idea how this could be done though.

 

[JoeC]

it could simply be that somone bid 120m and the next increment was beyond 130m, but since you already bid it at that amount it defaulted to that.

 

[Nab]

Your bid doesn't go up when someone makes a lower bid.. Where on earth did you get that from?