You can read in more detail about reserve prices on the e-bay site but in short your bid after the time has finished on the item could be considered by the seller or rejected too depending if they like your bid or not.But as long as the reserve is not met they do not have to sell it.Hope this helps you out.
a reserve price is the lowest price a seller is willing to accept on an item. let s say the reserve price on the item you re bidding on is $50. this means the seller will not sell the item for any less. therefore your bid of $30 is not enough. you will not win the item. the reason the bid is showing only $.99 is because you are the first/only bid and that is the opening bid amount.it s possible the seller may contact you with a second chance offer if no one bids any higher than the $30 you bid. if you seriously want the item, you re going to have to increase your bid. when the reserve amount has been reached, the reserve not met will disappear from the listing. at that point the highest bidder will win.
A reserve means that the seller is looking for a specific price. The $.99 is just the beginning bid - it has nothing to do with the reserve.If the reserve is not met at the end of an auction and the seller is not happy with the winning price, they are allowed to back out of the auction and either relist it or not sell.
Reserve price means seller has offered to start bidding at .99 cents - but wants to get more than that - your bid of 30.00 is not the reserve price the seller has posted to EBAY as the sale price, so when you bid 30, it won t show! - if you bid 10.00 up each time - sooner or later you ll find the reserve price. Sellers don t want to start at real reserve price - cause they ll scare off small bidders.
