What a lovely design, as always! n.n I love her expression on the right <3

thank you!

Every time I try to bid I get a message that I have been out bid.

There's an auto bid system, you set the max amount that you want to bid, and it will beat other bids as long as they are less than that max amount
What happened to you means someone set a max amount greater than your bid.

yep this is correct!

That is kinda strange, so it doesn't tell me what the current bid is until I pass it? So if someone but a max bid of $100, and the price says $50 and I put down $60, it tells me someone already bet that try $70, and when I put $70 it will says nope try $80 until I pass $100? Why not just say the max bid is $100? It seems like you are kinda short changing the artist on here. Some could just put autobuy, wait for someone to try to buy it at the lowest price, get discouraged and stop trying, and you went from paying the max amount available to the second lowest price instead of getting more if an actual bidding war happened.

I think it is made as a convenience for the bidder. In your example, why did you put $60 first instead of $100? It was because you wanted to outbid the current bid right?
If it worked as you mention, then the first person would have bid $50, then you would bid $60. Then the other person would have to come back and bid $70, and you'd have to check and bid $80, etc.
The result would be the same, but instead of the people having to be present to bid, they just set the max amount they want to bid at which point they want to stop.

It is an interesting idea. But I can easily see it being exploited. If you bid a ridiculously amount, discourage others from bidding, and get it for much less then what they were willing to pay. And some times seeing those small increments from what you said last will encourage people to bid more. Like if someone bids $30, but doesn't get it and doesn't try again, but if they seen the max bid was like $32, they would be more willing to bid $34 and so on.

Also the same problem would persists if the previous max bidder gets out bidded and comes back to bid again.

I guess it is more of a personal disinterest in it. Especially when I think I am getting a bargain and get that sold out sign.