Ebay scammed me into bidding!

Clicked on "view item" link but was forced to place an unintended bid!

[neonrider]

I was browsing some items photos just to get some information of someone's ebay store and suddenly I saw "PAY NOW" button which said that I committed to buy the item! I never clicked any "BUY IT NOW" or "BID" buttons! I am sure! So I emailed the seller to cancel the bid and kept on browsing their store clicking on "VIEW ITEM" links of their items and again, on some links nothing happened, but on some links once I clicked "View Item" link I was sent to a page which stated the same again:
I saw "PAY NOW" button which said that I committed to buy the item!
Then I realised I was logged in and then I logged out and deleted all cookies and cleared all files from my PC. But even if I was logged in it should have never forced me to bid like that against my will! I guess it's a new Ebay's scam, or an error, not a fishing or a fake link, but a true EBAY.COM that scams you into bidding on goods on EBAY.COM while clicking on VIEW ITEM links. I am revealing this scam by Ebay itself right here so everyone is careful.

[Quadrille]

As this seems to have happened only to you, not the other 15 million ebay users, you may care to check your pc for malware of some kind.

Or did you follow an email link to ebay?

If you want ebay to sort it out, I'd definitely tone down your accusations until you know for sure what occurring.

Good Luck!

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I am revealing this scam by Ebay itself right here so everyone is careful.

Are you kidding? Do you honestly think that eBay would do this?

If they were caught doing anything like this the resulting publicity could ruin them.

I would be contacting eBay about this if I were you. If it happened to you it probably happened to someone else. If so they may have records of this that could explain what is going on.

[Automan Empire]

You may have been on a spoof/phishing site, not the real ebay. They were hoping you'd obligingly enter payment details. Check your address bar when in doubt. Change your ebay password to prevent your account from being hijacked.
Ebay is such that you have to click TWO things to commit to a sale.
-Automan

[Corey Bryant]

I look at eBay quite often but I have not ran into this problem. You can get a free online virus scan from TrendMicro

-Corey