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Has this happened to you?
elect1mike
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Here lately I have run into a strange thing while bidding on items on GB the first time was for a rifle that had no bids for the whole auction but mine. I bid a day into the auction and checked on it from time to time. I was on vacation when it ended so I did not see the last hour of auction as I was busy doing something. About a hour after auction ended I looked and I was outbid ok fine but the total and the buyer made me wonder. The buyer won by .34 that's right .34 cents and had 0 feedback HMMMMM so on to another auction it ended while I was at church again just a few bids mine was high bid for last three days this time it was .46 cents and again 0 feedback buyer just seems weird
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It's how you win by pennies
Who bids change?
Not so much lately but years ago on auctions I would bid ood change why I really don't know but the end of a auction I was top bif at say 35.00
And I had decided I would only bid 50.00 and was wining at curent say my curent 35.00 then would set my top bid at 50 .67 or similar crazy number above the rounded off dolar amount if some one would jump in last seconds and hit 50.00 I would stil win
just part of a game I played to make it a bit more fun
my best guess Why I did it
I’m guilty of waiting until the last few seconds to put a bid in. It has payed off for me in the past, and sometimes it has started a biding war. Just depends on how much you want the article you’re biding on. Everyone started out on Gunbroker with no feed back.
Example: Minimun bid is $350: I bid $500 so my bid shows as $350 with the other $150 held back as a secret reserve. While I'm at church, bidder X bids $500.34 (or .46) and wins the auction for a few cents. It's routine on the "e" to bid odd numbers and change and I've seen it here on our auctions, too.
I do.
Me to.
Is there a standard GB amount to overcome a bid?
I mean, if I bid $110 on a $100 item, what's the next bid to beat that? $110.01, $110.35 or $111?
So if the next guy bid $115, the bid would only jump to that next amount.
I usually bid change too.
Every time.
I don't believe GB sets a bid amount per se, they only increment or allow a minimum usually in full dollar amounts based upon amount the item is going for, sellers may have a hand in setting that amount, I'm not sure, but you can add more dollars and cents than the minimum at any time and as far has auto-bidding up to your final amount, once somebody bids in cents and not just whole dollars the auto will increase until it takes the lead, wins or reaches your max. I don't believe it will round up to whole dollars to eliminate the cents.... Other wise how could we have "penny auctions"? And yes I have also used dollars and cents and won against someone who's max was in whole dollars.