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Please help me to understand this feature :
Day 1 -an item goes up for auction with quatity 2 and starting bid at $10.00. Day 1 Bidder_A bids for 1 at $10.00. Day 2 Bidder_B bids for 1 at $10.00 using the auto-bid feature with a max bid of $12.00. Day 3 Bidder_C bids for 1 at $11.00. Auction then closes.
Who are the winning bidders and what do they pay ?

If I read your ? correctly the winning bidders would be Bidder B and Bidder C. Bidder B bid min. of $10 which Bidder A did but used auto bid to increase to $12. Bidder C outbid Bidder A by $1 which would make him the next in line. Price each would get given it is a $1 increment would be I believe $11 each. I could be wrong if I read your question incorrectly however.

the last answer should be correct, bidder B, still keeps his $10 bid, for B was not outbid, A was outbid with C's bid of $11, by B. B is next in line even though B was not the first to bid $10. If B and A were equal in their bids, both using autobid, then A being the first to make that bid would have won along with C, and again at $10. Just because C bid $11 it definately should not bring up B's bid to $11.
Now can we do a equation of miles per hour between Johnny and Bubba?

Aberdeen-
The beast has reared it's ugly head...the constant search and quest to figure out auto-bid! I thought I had it understood but hell, I guess I don't. Your guess is as good as mine anymore how the damn thing works.

Have had the same non-understandable experience with lotID=6145 which closed yesterday. I bid on the last 3 items, thereby being the last one to bid $4. Two of the other five bidders was using Auto-bid. Later, three new bidders apear with $5 bids, "stealing" 2 of mine 3, and 1 one of the Auto-bidders, who automatically raises his bid to $5. The other Auto-bidding guy keeps his 2 at $4, although he was on two days before I was. I would expect oldest bids to be the ones to go first. The first Auto-bid guy that had to raise made his first bid three days before me. Where is the logic in this? I wrote to Customer Service, and here is a copy of the correspondance, which I don't think explains anything at all. - Maybe my english isn't good enough. - "Dear Mr. Kindler.
I took a look at the bidding, and the people that bid after you bid for a
higher amount, and as bidding goes, the highest price wins. Then after
that, the time the bid was placed is counted if the bids are for the same
amount. The gentlemen that bid the same amount as you all bid before you,
one by only an hour. So in example, as of right now, if you were to
increase your bid to $5.00, you would get your quantity of 3 and be the
second one on the list. I hope I have answered your question, if you have
any further questions, just let me know.
Sincerely,
Ruth
Customer Service
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Kindler"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 1:12 AM
Subject: ???


> How come that I'm the first of several bidders bidding on more than one
> item to loose mine? I'm referring to lotID 6145, Don Lino Robusto Box of
> 3, where I yesterday bid on the last 3 boxes at starting bid $4.00.
> Earlier than I, on May 23 and 21, two bidders had made bids for more
> than one box. But as other bidders start bidding more, mine are first to
> go. I'd expect the earliest bids to go first. Can You explain the facts
> to me?
>
> Kind regards
> Leif Kindler, Denmark"

with only one lot available, I think the logic is straight forward, compare it to being at an actual auction. You have an "auto bid" in your mind, how high you will go. Well you open the bidding at $10 and have a limit of $50 (autobid). Well someone bids $15 and even if he will only go as high as $25, the bid is now at $15, you raise to $20 etc. and he goes to $25 and drops out. So even though his ultimate bid was lower than yours, the lot is still at $25. I don't think it fair to CI for the price to stay in one place until someone bids more than your ultimate price. Where I have the questions is when there are more than one lot up for auction.
Bidder A has a bid of $40 (maximum)
Bidder B has a bid of $40
Bidder C has a bid of $50
the lot is at $10, with $5 incrememnts
Then along comes D, he bids just the minimum, $15. Then do all three lots go up to $15?
Then E comes along and bids the next increment $20 but with a high bid of $60. What happens? I would guess B would be knocked off, for A has priority with the first bid, and now all three bids would be at $40. Then F comes along and bid $45. A would be knocked off, but now should it not read like this?
F $45
C $40
E $40
Or would everyone be at $45? I think the above scenario is correct, then G comes along and also bids $45. He would not be in, but would increase both C and E's price to $45. (actually if you think about it in a real auction C and E would go to $50, answering G's bid)
Then the next bidder for $50 would knock off F, but C would have a senior bid as the first to bid $50. This seems to follow a certain logic.

if (A>B and CG)
then Glenlivet
else bread and water