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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
While I've never bid on bat, I think you're allowed to bid as high as you want and that is what it shows up as, your highest not the minimum bid over what it was before you bid.
I've seen bids on cars go from $xxxx to $xx,xxx in one bid.
Now on the Goodwill auction site, your bid only goes whatever the minimum bid amount is over the present bidders highest bid if it exceeds that bid. I have bid on that site and have lost a few and won a few as well.
As for ebay, my wife is usually the one doing the bidding there and uses the BIN on LGB train cars for the most part.
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Thanks, Scott. I think you're right. So B.a.T. auctions more closely mimic what you'd have in a real live in person auction, except there's no one barking out "Can I get XXXX?"
Whatever a participant barks out is what the new bid is. OTOH eBay uses "proxy" bidding. You place the highest amount you want to pay and it will only increase the bid X amount at a time, dictated by others who place their bids.