If I manually place a bid, then schedule PhantomBidder to bid at a higher price, will I be outbidding myself?
PhantomBidder will always place your bid, no matter who is currently the highest bidder. eBay uses a system called proxy bidding which ensures that you will only pay one bid increment higher than the next bidders highest bid. The same person placing multiple bids simply increases your maximum price, not your actual win price…that is determined by other bidders. However, proxy bidding only applies to single item auctions. If you are bidding on a dutch (mutli-item) auction, then your highest bid price will be used as your win price. One important thing to be aware of, when PhantomBidder is used as a backup to your manual bid, a bid credit will be debited if you win, even if the bid placed by PhantomBidder was required or not.
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