About automatic bidding
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How automatic bidding works
Points to remember
Our automatic bidding system makes bidding convenient so you don't have to keep coming back to re-bid every time someone places another bid.
How automatic bidding works
 | 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. |
| We'll place bids on your behalf using the automatic bid increment amount, which is based on the current high bid. We'll bid only as much as necessary to make sure that you remain the high bidder, or to meet the reserve price, up to your maximum amount. |
| If another bidder places the same maximum bid or higher, we'll notify you so you can place another bid. Your maximum bid is kept confidential until it is exceeded by another bidder. |
Example
The current bid for an item is Rs. 100. Tarun is the high bidder. (Tarun has placed a maximum bid of on this item, but his maximum bid is kept confidential from other eBay members.)
Leena views this item and decides to place a maximum bid of Rs.150.00. Leena becomes the high bidder because her bid is greater than Tarun's bid.
A bid increment of Rs.5 is added to Tarun’s maximum bid of Rs.120.00. That means that Leena’s current bid is now Rs.125.
Tarun is sent an email that he has been outbid. If he doesn’t raise his maximum bid, Leena wins the item.
Points to remember
In reserve price auctions, if your maximum bid is the first to be greater than the seller's reserve price, the eBay system will automatically jump the price up to meet the reserve, and bidding will continue from there.
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