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Subject: 
Re: New usefull feature in eBay
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.auction
Date: 
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 18:02:05 GMT
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Scott-A wrote in message ...
> > if you bid against yourself,
> 
> Frank,
> So, you are now winning so many auctions you actually have to bid against
> yourself to liven things up?
> 
> BTW : Does ebay recognize you were the last bidder and only increase your
> max... or does it actually let you bid against your self?


It just increases your max.

Here's what the bid confirmation looks like (with my maximum bid removed to
protect the guilty):

> Your bid for 50 SMALL YELLOW LEGO WINDOWS (item #213551862) is confirmed!
> 
> Thank you for your bid. You are the current high bidder.
> 
> Your bid was in the amount of:         $6.00
> Your maximum bid was in the amount of: $**.**
> 
> After processing all the open bids for
> this item, the current bid price is    $5.50

And here is what it says if I bid something less than my maximum:

> Problem with bid amount
> 
> You are the current high bidder with bid amount $**.**.
> Please go back and bid a higher price.
> (Please type numbers and the decimal point (.) only.)

Frank



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  Re: New usefull feature in eBay
 
(...) Frank, So, you are now winning so many auctions you actually have to bid against yourself to liven things up? BTW : Does ebay recognize you were the last bidder and only increase your max... or does it actually let you bid against your self? (...) (27 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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