posted on October 31, 2000 07:14:25 PM
I had a dutch auction for 10 items end a short while ago. The auction page says there were 3 bids. When I click on High Bidders, there are only 2 bidders listed (they bid on one item each). Where did the other bidder go? There were no bid retractions. Does anyone know what could be going on here?
posted on October 31, 2000 07:21:44 PM
No, there were only 2 bids. One for the opening amount and one for $.75 more. There were no 2nd bids. I run dutch auctions all the time and I've never seen this before. Weird...
posted on October 31, 2000 07:23:11 PM
I'm not really concerned about "losing" the 3rd bidder. I just don't want to get a neg for not contacting him/her (if in fact the 3rd bidder actually exists).
posted on October 31, 2000 08:17:57 PM
I just got an answer from eBay. There were in fact 2 bidders and one of them bid twice. The eBay rep said a glitch in the system must have prevented one of the bids from showing up in the bidding history. I'm sure glad it wasn't a 3rd bidder... That would have been a nightmare.
