Auto Bid Auto bidding allows the system to bid for you automatically. Think of Auto bidding as someone who stays and watches the auction 24 hours a day while you're off doing more interesting stuff. You activate Auto Bidding by entering the highest amount you are willing to pay for an item into the "your bid" box. The system will then bid for you, bidding only enough to make you the high bidder. If someone tops that bid, our system places another bid for you and so on up to the maximum amount you've specified. Under no circumstances will Auto Bidding ever bid MORE than you said. But the system will send you e-mail about an outbid so you can enter a higher Auto Bid amount if you'd like.