Hi Lucy, bids in the final minutes are what I theorized may have happened. I don't know for sure. I don't know what happened all I know is the timer counted down, the auction ended, and I got a banner at the top of my page declaring me the winner of the auction. 

S, This sucks. I have done that. 1 and 2 are all good on my end. It happened just like it did with you. The auto extended run down. I kept refreshing so that if another bid came I could counter. It ran down and ended and the banner across the top in blue I think said I had won the auction. To me this is not I lost something I wanted, this is what I do for a living buy damaged vehicles repair and resell them. This was looking like a $20k+ payday for me. The seller runs an auction linked to Trademe simultaneously, Now if that interferes with the running of the auction and timing someone has t...

I have just had this happen. Not happy at all, my bid and the clock counted out the final seconds It had ended I went to tell the family and came back to show them to find bidding had started again. How do you report anything to Trademe every link just leads to a dead end with no link to email or contact them. So this is still happening.  If this is because someone is trying to be smart and leave their bid to the last second and the clock counts down while they are trying to load a bid it should be their tough for taking so long. If it is 2 or 3 bids at the same time that mixes up that end ...