How is it that the voluntary price of a lot can be higher than the initial offering price when an item has more quantities available than the number of people biding on it and the number of items they each want? This is tobacco in these things right?

For example, let's consider the following hypothetical option: 325 Available Quantity, starting bid 19.95. 162 people bid on the item and there are only 43 total additional quantities (people bidding on more than one). A total of 205 out of 325 items would then be spoken for, with only 120 or slightly more than 1/3rd still available. (read: Hurry up good stuff is almost gone!) Now let's take 5 bidders in a time sequence of bids each bidding on one of a surplus quantity (a-e) a: opens w/ 19.95 b: bids one bid increment high at 20.95 with no autobid, c bid's 19;95 d bids 20.95 AND has autobid on, e bids 19.95. What's up with b an d's bids being a buck higher?

I mean it would be cool to be able to bid cigars to charities or something like that..even CI/CB employee tip bids. Is there some incentive program I haven't seen? I'm wondering if someone's cat or kid got to their keyboard. What's going on w/ the crazy biding?

It always happens. I guess they technically have a better chance of winning.

Ignore it.

Shhhhhhh,

That's how I get all those matches. Shhhhhhh

Later

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Am I losing it, or it it just 'deja-vue'?!?!?

People are asking the same questions ... over and over again ... and it's just been lately, it seems.

Some people just like to be at the top of the list ... it seems to me ... for criminy sakes!

Besides ... if it's not you ... why care?

... and I don't know how you can justify the accusation that, "even CI/CB employee tip bids" ... as I know for a fact that the staff and admin of CB are truly 'straight-up' folks.

WHEW ... that's a statement I'd like to see you back up with some facts there, bro ...

Jason my friend,

As you become more familiar with the operations of some individuals on here, you will see that they want to assure them to win, or be on top of the list. For a buck more, maybe that makes them happy. Let them spend as much as they want, so I can get my cigars at a lower price. Just like the lot I won yesterday for $11- is now currently at $16-. Don't these peeps ever learn??? LOL!!!

I guess someone will not understand that a second lot of the exact same cigar is on today as well as yesterday. Hmmmmmmm the questions will continue to roll.

It's said that history repeats itself ... I guess that might be true, but it sure doesn't do so on the same short cycle that some of the questions repeat themselves on this BB ...

Might have been an accident. I know I get in a bad habit of using the roll wheel on my mouse to scroll down. If the last thing I did was set the auto bid it CHANGES the bid up or down. I caught myself the other night could have been a Woodford Reserve related incident. I was able to modify the bid because it had just happened. If I had not got it changed I would have had a nice little overbid myself.

I would bet that most of the time it's by accident. I myself did it a couple of times but corrected it right after the bid when I realized the folly of my ways. Other auction sites only have one spot to enter a bid and anything higher than the lowest allowed bid is a proxy or Auto-Bid. So if your used to the other auctions you just automatically input your max bid in the box and click Submit.

Slim - where's that pic again? You know, the animated one...

clip clop clip clop...bash bash bash bash!!!!

KC

Well ! What is it ! Autobid on or Autobid off ? I'm so frightened and confused ! Hmmm or should that be confused then frightened ? Help me Rhonda help help me Rhonda ! JonR

and to think the vans is off and running around in No. Cal right now darnit all

"... and I don't know how you can justify the accusation that, "even CI/CB employee tip bids" ... as I know for a fact that the staff and admin of CB are truly 'straight-up' folks.

WHEW ... that's a statement I'd like to see you back up with some facts there, bro ... "

Fact: I meant I would bid to tip CI/CB employees.

I think I understand what you just said ...

... you're saying that you would bid on cigars, win them ... and then give them back to the staff of CI/CB as a 'tip'???

BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS!!!!!!!

BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS!!!!!!!

Sorry guess I had to say that twice for some reason. Back to you regularly schedule rerun.

I think he meant he would tack on an extra buck to his bid to tip the good folks at CB/CI - that's what I figured he meant from the beginning - I was suprised when you kinda got prickly on that one...

And I think I understand why these questions get asked - they're just trying to figure out how everything works and make sure they're not missing something - plus that's a hard one to search - what would your keywords be? overbidding, autobid, etc - might be hard to find an answer...hmm...I'll go check...

Nope. Slim was right - type in 'overbid', 'overbidding', 'autobid', etc. and you immediately find answers to this type of question -ok, flame on....