Customer service is trying to help me out with a question, but it's Friday, so I thought I'd post it here so you all can help me understand. Here's the last question I sent to customer service (they've been great, I'm just a rock):

Hi Tracey. Thanks for trying to answer the question, but now I'm even more confused. The issue had nothing to do with the max bid feature, these were all just straight bids. Here's is a scenario ... There are 2 items available in a lot. Bob makes a $10 bid for one item on Monday. Charlie makes a $10 bid for one item on Tuesday. They are both shown as winning bidders. Dan makes a $13 bid on Wednesday. Who is the losing bidder, Bob or Charlie? If I understand what you said, Charlie is the losing bidder because Bob made his $10 bid earlier. Thanks again for the help. RG

Anybody want to give it a try ???

First to bid, first to win. If Bill would come along and bid $13, Bob would be knocked off the auction and Dan moves up to #1 spot

The kinks are still being worked out of the new system. Customer service got with the IT guys and talked them into developing their own software instead of buying a known good working product off the shelf to ensure job security. [sarcasm]

Tony is bad with names, but he did confirm how it works. First winning bid stay longer, sorry Charlie

The layout even confuses me at times. I'm used to other sites where the winning bidder with the oldest high bid is always listed on top, 2nd oldest 2nd, 3rd listed 3rd, etc. It would be nice if they would do that here, so you can tell how your bid is holding up at a glance, instead of having to read when everyone's bid was placed.

Example:

1) JD $13

2) AC $13

3) FA $10

4) CQ $10

5) ZF $10

If you place a $13 bid, you take over the #3 spot, FA is moved to #4, CQ is moved to #5 and ZF is out. If you bid $15, you move right to the top, and everyone moves down one spot, again knocking out ZF. Heck of a lot easier then the format used here.

Just bid 3$ more and you win. Cheapasses!

Being outbid is a sign of weakness and lack of manhood.

I second that!