How do you bid on eBay?

How do I automatic bid on eBay?

• I read this article, http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/automatic-bidding.html and I KIND OF understand but how? So if the current highest bidder's bid is $31, if I place $40 as my highest bid will my bid appear as $32 and $40 will not be revealed until someone bids higher? O.o How do I set it? Please anyone help me. I have bought from eBay before but using the "Buy It Now" button, and that's easy for me. But I need help on this. Thank you

• Answer:

  you dont have to set it. you just enter the highest amount you are willing to buy it for. $32 is what you will pay if you outbid the other person and they dont bid again. if they do bid higher than $40 you will either lose, or bid again. for example: i bid on a book for $1. i am willing to pay $20. so someone else bids $4, it would automatically bid $5 for me. (the increases on the auto bids are more as the bidding gets higher, i believe its a quarter then 50 and $1 and after $100 the bid goes up by $2.). then he bids $7 and my auto bid would be $8 and so on. if he stopped at his highest bid of $18 i would win my book for $19.