Is there anyway for the seller to know my max bid

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I was bidding on an item and I placed a max bid $381 bid with seconds to go. Up comes a bid of exactly $380 with a 0 feedback account and takes my pay to the highest bid.
Feels extremely odd to me that this happened. Hence I wanted to know if a seller can see a max bid and then use another account to gain the maximum value.
If so, what are my options? If I don’t pay then I get a strike against my account. Sure it was my max bid and I’m ok paying it, but I don’t want to support such a practise and let sellers get away with it. Would eBay customer service help in any way or anything else I can do here?

Thanks

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No. This would break the eBay

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No they can’t see your max bid

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People bid on alternate accounts and then retract their bid and bid like 149.99 or 249.99 depending on your max bid

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Damn. I had no ideas. That’s messed up. So there is a way to know my max bid. If the alternate becomes the max bid then he can just retract and keep doing so till I become the max bid.

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Another strategy immoral sellers do to maximize profits on their cards is near the end of the auction, to use an alt account to max bid everyone so that the alt account wins for sure. Then, they would give a “second chance” offer to the next highest bidder. It happened to me before.

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Impossible with snipes. S’why everyone should snipe. Sniping is now best to avoid scammery.

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I use gixen for sniping. Very easy to use and reliable. Saves time and energy

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could you explain more about gixen? Is it an app to be used on the phone or on desktop? And what sort of personal details / access do I need to give it? Some like my eBay account and password and credit card details?

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It’s a website and the service is free. www.gixen.com. You do have to give them permission to access your eBay account. I actually learned about the gixen through efour and have not had any issues myself with the website. Others can chime in as well.

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Thank you for the suggestion! I’ll look into it. Hopefully can get some more views as well

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I’m old fashion I’m live sniping entering my max bid with 4 seconds left and am ok missing out if that happens. Works well for me.

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Same for me. :blush:

And I have had the same happen as OP once. Placed a bid of 77.777 Japanese Yen once, won it for 77,000… Worst part is, is that the same card I had placed a bid on became available for 65k JpYen buyout while the other auction was still live. :sweat: Ahh well, you win some, you loose some. Or in these cases, you lose by winning I guess, haha. I was still happy with the card for my collection, though. :blush:

Greetz,
Quuador

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