If someone outbids you they will bid for you up to your maximum bid..but your max bid is not displayed for anyone to see...

Wot you after ? 

ebay scares me 

You nosey person - that you are!!!

Its a pipe - its for Xmas ... for me

If the item is £10 and i bid £10.50 ... surely it will be shown

Mine has been shown immediately ... as the clock counts down

Wot kind of pipe 

A pipe to smoke

Its a Meerschaum churchwarden with amber stem and silver gilding actually

Even if you have bid say £50 it will only show the £10.50 unless someone outbids you again..that way you don't have to watch it all the time!! They watch it for you.

OK LAL,

So it has about 9 days to go, currently at £9 and i will go to £55

So i just go on the page, click on bid and bid £55 ??

Noooo....don't go to your limit ffs....common sense says hold back a lil just in case someone else has an eye for it...you may need to haggle a lil...!

SLIM you tit LOL

They can't see your bid !!!

That don't matter!.....he/she still may go above your bid...you need some standby! 

But it says no one at all can see your bid

"When you place a bid, you enter the maximum amount you're willing to pay for the item. The seller and other bidders don’t know your maximum bid."  

Wot...Never ?

She's lying 

Ermm - thats eBay talking there - not she ya bitchy caah

I DID IT !!!!

It doesn't show - eek!!!!

9 days to go? arent you just pushing the price up?

Say 2 other people have done the max bid thing, instead of it sitting at £10.50 for the next week it will auto go round in a circle until 2 of the max bids have been passed.

I would hold back until the actual day and then do it..... Oh btw... i don't actually do Ebay lol

Perzackerly Jen.  If I have my eye on an item I do not bid straightaway - I can either place it on my watch list or bookmark it and keep an eye on it myself.  Depends on how much I want it but if I really really really want it I sign in as it nears the end, wait until it is literally 1 minute from the end, put it in my maximum bid and then, this is the important bit, hold on until less than 20 seconds left and then confirm bid.  As long as you have bid enough to blow the opposition way out of the water then the item is yours for as little as possible.  Good luck in future Saint (I still think of you as Renton).

Nooo yew don;t get it

I'm constantly getting outbid at the last min and wud have paid more than the winning bid

Sooooo - eBay bids for you up to your max secret bid

No one knows your bid

^^^^ What jenstar and squiggle said. 

But it hidden and secret

so how do you know if you beat some one ?

But your bid will be hidden and secret if you leave it until the last few seconds BUT if you bid earlier you risk a bidding war on it.

I found this - 

Example

1. The current bid for an item is $10.00. Tom is the high bidder, and has placed a maximum bid of $12.00 on the item. His maximum bid is kept confidential from other members.

2. Laura views the item and places a maximum bid of $15.00. Laura becomes the high bidder.

3. Tom's bid is incremented to his maximum of $12.00. Laura's bid is now $12.50.

4. We send Tom an email that he has been outbid. If he doesn't raise his maximum bid, Laura wins the item.

    

   From http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/automatic-bidding.html

    

   I suppose you'd know that someone else had outbid you earlier than you would have done and, if you want to increase your bid, you can.

    

    

Slimfern when the auction is over you can see how many bids it got.

I don't get how come Laura bid £15...but it is only worth £12.50...does that mean if Tom bids £12.60 then he wins the bidding ???

Did you see my bracelet I made ???

I gonna make one for you 

......Don't forget if you really really really want it watch the final bids..

The automatic bidding means that, whatever amount you put in as your max bid, they will only bid 50p more than the other person's max bid, if it is lower than yours. So, you could bid max £50, but if the second highest max bid is £10, then you would win it and pay £10.50.

How can he watch them if he can't see them 

Bracelet - where?

Whut you mean? I CAN see the items!!

Okay I get that 

in my junk jewellery thread 

I will defo watch them BUT sometimes i'm at work

So this will defo help moi

Good luck saint...be sure to let us know..