Originally Posted by
rothenfield1
The same thing has happened to me several times on Ebay. You come up with a fair price, and if you really want it, you bump up the bid just to make sure you'll win. Your the highest bidder all the way through as you watch the time expire and find out you were outbid by a GD nickel by someone who hadn't been bidding the whole time. Is it possible that someone has figured out how to see your top amount and is able to zip in a bid at the last second? I think this is a problem for Ebay. Are you listening Ebay?
No, they cant see your gih bid amount but what they did was submit higher price than you did. High price wins. Its not that they weren't bidding all along, they were, but were using an automated system.
I tied with someone a fews ago. He submitted his bid 5 days before I did and won based on that.