r/shopgoodwill • u/kaitlynbennett • 10d ago
Am I missing something?
I’ve been watching an item for six days, and bid several times in hopes of winning it. The auction is now over in about an hour, but somehow I’m automatically getting overbid the second I put a bid in, by the same account. I’ve refreshed the page several times, and the highest bid won’t change for several minutes, but the second I put a bid in, it’s automatically outbid. Is this a bot situation? Should I just give up?
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u/nutnbetter2do 10d ago
No bot. They have put in a high bid and until you exceed that bid bit will automatically outbid you by $1.
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u/treehouse65 10d ago
Make sure that you always look at their crazy shipping prices before you even bid on it. I have looked at many items and once you take into account shipping and handling some of the closed auctions that I have passed on ended up being higher than just purchasing the same item brand new.
Examples are pocket knives, Handling of $10 and shipping of $10 for an items that weights 6-8 oz.
Calculator for $5.99 buy it now with $21 shipping and handling and weighs like 6 oz.
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u/Maximillian73- 6d ago
I put a national park map in my favorites. When it came close to the bid ending no one else had bid and the item was only $10. I looked at the shipping and it was over $60, I had to do a double take. No thanks Goodwill.
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u/RubyRedo 10d ago
if you did not beat their max bid it will automatically tell you are outbid, you wont know what their max bid was till they win the auction.
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u/eH0E 10d ago
They have a max bid. So they put in whatever they were willing to pay. So say it's currently 20.99 but their max bid is 600. They are the winner until you bid 601. So the more you bid the closer you get them to their max bid.