ebay is not bidding incrementally and I am outbidding mysel

[slappymack]

I placed my bid using Gixen.
The item was at $425.00
My bid, the very next bid, was placed at $529.91, which coincidentally was my max bid. This should have been $435.00.
There was no incremental bidding on ebay's / my behalf. The bid increment at this price range should be $10.00.

item # 204366859202

In some more bizarre behavior, I bid twice, outbidding myself.
Item was at $501. My bid came in at $511. A second later, I bid again to $519.91 (my max). I was then outbid 5 seconds later $529.91.

Item # 285324250487

[Cupid]

I think it would be most useful for you to first read this blog:

https://www.gixen.com/blog/how-does-ebay-bidding-work/

On item 204366859202 your bid of US $529.91 was outbid by one that was placed 5 seconds earlier, see here:

https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/204366859202

We will never know how much that bid was, but since the bid increment is indeed $10.00 in that range, they only have to pay that much more than your losing bid.

On item 285324250487 your bid of $519.91 was outbid by a snipe placed 6 seconds after yours,

https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/285324250487

That's why you will have seen the auction page update that way as the bids were placed. Once again they only have to pay $10 more than your losing bid.

This is all perfectly normal and as expected, your snipe amounts were not sufficient to outbid what other buyers had already decided they were willing to pay by scheduling and/or manually placing higher bids in the last few seconds of the auction. On Ebay the highest accepted bid always wins the auction.
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Mark

[slappymack]

[Cupid]

7:59:52am is 5 seconds before 7:59:57am.

So actually the auction price jumped from $425 to $539.91 when your bid was placed. Yours was the last bid of the auction and it resulted in the winner having to pay $114.91 more for the item than they would have had to pay had your bid not been placed by Gixen.

Ebay doesn't display bids in time order they are displayed in bid amount order. Often later bids are higher but that's just because the price rises as bids are placed, so you need to learn to look at the times of the bids not just the amounts.

I think you may also be getting yourself confused by selecting the 'Show automatic bids' toggle. All that does is additionally show you the prices that were displayed by the Ebay site as current auction prices in between bids being placed, those extra phantom 'bids' were never actually amounts that were submitted as bids to Ebay, as I say they were just temporary auction values.

Select the 'Hide automatic bids' toggle and then you'll only see the actual bids that were placed.

You placed two bids in the same second because you have a mirror subscription and used the same offset for both servers, that's quite normal, the winning bidder only ever placed one bid (of an unknown amount, but at least one bid increment more than yours), 5 seconds before yours was placed.
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Mark

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[slappymack]

[Cupid]

[slappymack]

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[Cupid]

Of course Ebay has used increments, that's why the winner of the auctions only has to pay at most one bid increment more than your bids.

All of this is explained in the blog that I gave you the URL to in my first response:

https://www.gixen.com/blog/how-does-ebay-bidding-work/

and that you said you'd already read.

There are also references, at the end, to other blog posts that I think it would be useful for you to read in order to help to expand your knowledge, even further, of the Gixen service and how Ebay works.

In both instances that you quoted the whole system, both Gixen and Ebay, worked exactly as intended and expected and as detailed on both the Ebay and Gixen sites. You did not win either of them because Ebay also accepted bids from other users that were higher than yours, either before or after your bid was successfully placed by Gixen.
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[slappymack]

Let me ask you this - are you saying that my bid should not have been $435 but that $529.19 was correct?

[slappymack]

I made a mistake on the bid increment amount

From $250-$499.99, the bid increment is $5, not $10 as I had stated.

So my bid should have been $430. I wonder if this is an ebay or Gixen issue.

[slappymack]

[Cupid]