Imagine wanting to buy something in an online auction, but as soon as you put in your bid, you notice that there is another, slightly higher bid.

Would you keep bidding, or would you let the other bidder win?

In today’s story, one person uses bidding as a way to get revenge on the person who won.

I took a gamble and made a bot spend $170 more on a Jeep Wrangler Wagon than its original MSRP

I found a local online auction house for my area about a week ago, and it got me addicted.

A few days ago I came across this $600 Jeep Wrangler wagon to carry my kids around in.

Bidding started at $5. So i bid it and waited.

Over the next couple of days the bidding kept going up, but i kept seeing this one user bid $.75 over my bid the second I sent mine in.

OP kept bidding.

After the total came to about $90 the user was still ahead.

I sat on it for a few hours, came back and saw that that user was still at the top.

I really didn’t wanna but I tossed up $150 and saw that the next one was sitting at $150.75 right after me.

I ended up bidding more and more until eventually it hit the last 5 minutes and I got it up to around $770 and the bot still had it at $770.75.

OP was okay with losing.

The bot ended up winning the auction.

Now IDK if that user is going to actually pick it up or not because the auction site uses automatic payments with payments being final. On top of the auction price there is a 20% fee of the total win price to include state tax.

I’m glad I gambled and it paid off because otherwise it would’ve been me who’d have to pay all that for the item cuz after 20% auction fee and sales tax it probably would’ve been closer to $1K

May not have gotten the wagon but at least I was able to beat someone to spend more money on something

idk if this js considered petty revenge but it was pretty petty imo.

That’s a lot to pay for a wagon!

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This person thinks the other bidder was pretty lazy.

This person has done something similar.

Another person thinks the revenge was well deserved.

This person shares an old eBay service they used to use.

It might not’ve been a bot.

That buyer might be surprised at the final price!

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