AS monitors traffic and response times at eBay. AS will adjust your lead time in an attempt to get your bid placed and accepted at your requested lead time. Problem is, response times vary drastically from one second to the next. AS decided to send your bid in this early to ensure it was accepted before auction end.
Sunday evenings are the busiest time of the week for eBay, and auctions that end on an exact quarter hour especially so. All scheduled auctions end on quarter hours, so there are very high spikes in traffic.
Better to bid early, than to late and not get your bid recorded at all. Hope that helps explain things. Welcome to the forum.
The following table has been reorganized and sorted into date order. First
bid placed is line #1. That should make it easier to follow the auction.
Two additional columns have been calculated and added. They are the current
bid and high bidder, as displayed on eBay after each bid is placed. v2.1.08
* = Winning bid.
Max Current Winning
# Bidder Bid Day & Time Bid & Bidder
(US $)
1 cwakes2000 30.00 20-Jun 21:56:42 0.99 cwakes2000
2 adamantyr 51.00 20-Jun 23:21:44 31.00 adamantyr
3 larsthegreat 40.00 21-Jun 00:13:48 41.00 adamantyr
4 cwakes2000 50.00 22-Jun 18:55:16 51.00 adamantyr
5 cwakes2000 60.00 22-Jun 18:55:26 52.00 cwakes2000
6 blukshaw 100.00 22-Jun 19:33:50 61.00 blukshaw
7 cwakes2000 75.00 23-Jun 20:48:06 76.00 blukshaw
8 aesirrob 85.00 27-Jun 09:27:33 86.00 blukshaw
9 aesirrob 95.00 27-Jun 09:28:08 96.00 blukshaw
10 blkgryph2 100.00 27-Jun 16:16:07 100.00 blukshaw
11 blukshaw 115.00 27-Jun 16:20:34 102.50 blukshaw
12 umrgregg *175.00 27-Jun 18:59:12 117.50 umrgregg
13 adamantyr 153.00 27-Jun 18:59:28 155.50 umrgregg
14 adamantyr 175.00 27-Jun 18:59:50 175.00 umrgregg
End 27-Jun 19:00:00