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Bidding - Why does the current bid change to the Max bid? Edit Delete Reply with quote Quote
First Post Posted on: 07-28-13 08:09 AM next post first post
With ebay, when you place a max bid, the max bid doesn't become the current bid unless that happens to be the next highest bid. Why is it, when the current bid starts at $10, and I choose to make a MAX bid of $20, the current bid automatically changes to $20?

This may be difficult to explain, but here we go.....(scenario that we tested)

John places a new item for auction, the price is set at $10.
Cathy goes to bid on this item. She sees bid increments of $0.50, along with a blank box for her to place their max bid.
If Cathy puts a max bid of $15, why does the current bid automatically change to $15? Shouldn't it go up by increments of $0.50?
In other words, shouldn't the current bid be $10.50, not $15.

Then if James (a 3rd person) bids on this item (he put a max bid of $13), shouldn't the current bid then change to $13.50 and this person gets and out bid notice? If James bids again, shouldn't he keep getting out bid till he bids $15.50 or more because Cathy placed a max bid of $15?
Then whatever his max bid is becomes the next high bid for someone else to have to beat?


Just Like Ebay....???

Hope this scenario explains it ok.
Please help with this if there is a way to change these settings. Thank you!
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Re: Bidding - Why does the current bid change to the Max bid? Edit Delete Reply with quote Quote
Reply #: 1 Posted on: 07-28-13 08:16 AM last post previous post

Admin->General Options, then enable the option:

Proxy Bidding Status: Enabled

If you disable this it will do what you said, all bids goes direct.

Thanks


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