How bid increments work

As an auction-style listing proceeds, we’ll automatically increase your bid on your behalf, up to your maximum bid, to maintain your position as the high bidder or to meet the item’s reserve price. The bid increment is the minimum amount by which your bid will be raised.

What determines the amount of the bid increment?

The incremental amount is predetermined based on the current high bid on the item. The following table shows the amount of bid increments.

Can my bid be increased by more than the standard increment?

A bid can be increased by more than the standard increment if more than a standard increment is required to:

• Meet the reserve amount. In reserve price auctions, we’ll automatically increase the bid to meet the reserve, and bidding will continue from there. We won’t exceed your current maximum bid, however.

• Beat a competing bidder's high bid. We’ll increase your bid to more than the incremental amount to beat another bid up to the amount of your maximum bid.

Can I be outbid by less than a full increment?

You can be outbid by less than a full increment. A winning bidder's maximum bid needs only to exceed the next highest maximum bid by one cent.

When in the posting an item section you want to select dutch auction which means multiple amount then below that select the amount that you have for sell and select buy out option if you want potential buyers to just buy it now at a price that you select.

At the top of your screen click the advanced search text to the left not the search box to the right and that will pull up advanced search page where you can search within your area or country etc.