Technical error: Auction price jumps up minutes after the auction ends | Members help members

design-simson-2009 · 2026-06-28T16:55:30.718106Z

Hello, I’m really annoyed right now about the service as an eBay Plus member. In two phone calls with customer service staff, both times they just hung up. I have the following problem.Today I took part in an auction. The item ended at 16:43. At 16:46 I took a photo of the ended auction with €12.01. At 16:50 the price suddenly jumped to €25.68 (I also took a photo of this). I was still the highest bidder, but how can it be that the auction time remaining keeps increasing by several minutes after opening the page for a few seconds (but those minutes don’t match the actual end time of the auction)? This has happened several times now. I also could no longer bid after the auction I had initially won because, as mentioned, the auction was over. But when I then clicked on My eBay, the auction was still shown as running, so active, with several minutes left.I see this as a technical error on eBay and honestly don’t see why I should have to pay the difference. Of course I paid for the item immediately (the seller can’t do anything about that). I hope to find help here. In fact, after this I’m strongly considering canceling the Plus membership and continuing to buy on other platforms.Thanks for reading. I just needed to get that off my chest, and who knows, maybe someone here can still help me.

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