From: Norman Palardy (npalardy_at_great-white-software.com)
Date: Fri Oct 28 2005 - 09:31:38 PDT
On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Frank Gruendel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> could somebody please shed some light on the following
> issue (preferably within the next 10 hours)? Please reply
> off-list.
>
> If there is an auction with a current bid of let's say
> 50 USD, and the seller's reserve isn't met, eBay says
> the current bit is 50 USD and the reserve is not met.
>
> If I now bid 100 USD, eBay tells me that this sum does
> not meet the seller's reserve. So far, so good, but
> after my bid the current bid is still 50 USD and not
> my 100 USD.
>
> Puzzled...
>
Your bid has been refused because it's below the reserve
The seller can set the starting bid which is probably the $50 you are
seeing, but even that is still below the reserve
it allows the seller to establish a minimum opening big, but why they'd
set t below the reserve is beyond me
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