Why Can Members Bid Higher Than The Maximum Bid Amount in WTB?

Sean101 Level 1

June 22, 2013, 4:17 pm

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Why Can Members Bid Higher Than The Maximum Bid Amount in WTB?

Why is it that when the Maximum Bid amount is set on a Want To Buy, bidders can still bid more?

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Everett

Hello,

I've noticed this too, it may be a programming issue? There were never any updates regarding the maximum bid change if there ever was any. I remember when you could only bid the amount the maximum bid was, and lower.

I just checked a couple of WTB services, and I saw a lot of users bidding more than the maximum bid amount, not sure why but you may want to contact an administrator to either report this error[?] or get more information as to why this is happening.

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Everett

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abetti17

Although seoclerks advises against bidding above the max bid, they still allow it for some reason. Interesting question.

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Sean101

yeah, think it must be an error or something

Hopefully it will get sorted, it is quite annoying when putting a max bid of lets say $2, then most of the bids are over that

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ultimate

It is not an error but an feature. Some buyers set very low rates as bid-max-rate and due to this reason they often tend to get low number of bids / low quality bids.
To encourage freelancers to suggest a right price to the buyer SEOClerks allows bidding higher. Remember its the buyers' choice to select or not to.

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