Evil Trout Posted:

Unless I’m mistaken, this is how proxy bidding is supposed to work?

http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/automatic-bidding.html

Otherwise what should happen — the second bidder’s bid fails with no record and yours is suddenly bumped to the maximum? I think that’s weirder.

That’s not what that page says. It says you’ll be notified if you max bid is equalled, but doesn’t explicitly say whose bid should succeed.

The first bidder by time should always have priority unless their bid is exceeded. If tied, the new bidder should be told “Someone else has the same max bid as yours, so theirs takes precedence. You must outbid them to become the high bidder.” or somesuch.