Below you will see a bid I placed, it was one second before the winning bid of $1305. I thought this was very strange because due to the price level the next highest bid would need to be $25 higher than my high bid which would have been $1326.02 so I contacted ebay live support and they looked into the high bidder's account and his maximum bid was $1326 which would have still been too low as $1326.02 is what it would have taken to be $25 or higher. Even that is moot as the winning bidder placed his bid a second after my bid. If he would have placed his $1326 bid at the exact same second or earlier his bid would have taken precedence over mine. My auction sniper status on this particular auction shows "bid to low", but as the time stamp shows that is incorrect as the high bid was placed one second after mine and did not exceed by a full $25, I just think this was a major screw up by the sniping servers not recognizing what was happening. Why would it have exceeded my bid by $3.98 (1305 - 1301.02) and not by 1 penny or the full $25 that would have certainly been required in a manual bid?
US $1,305.00 Sep-21-06 14:47:43 PDT (Winning Bid
US $1,301.02 Sep-21-06 14:47:42 PDT (My Bid)
US $1,250.00 Sep-21-06 01:28:49 PDT
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