Hey, maybe I am missing something obvious, but how come, when you look at ebay bidding history for a certain item, you sometimes see smaller bids appearing later than larger bids?
For example, item 859086731 was a very active bidding contest (it was not sniped, though). moonflowerkeep was actively bidding, with his/her latest bid of $160.00 occurring Apr-18-02 07:17:18. However, ey2ly1@msn.com bid $155.00 at Apr-18-02 16:16:41, that is, $5.00 less 11 hours later. There is an even more extreme disparity just below that pair of bids between mjkundaitis and moonflowerkeep where the difference in time between the earlier larger bid and the later smaller bid was three days!
Please help me understand what's going on here. Thanks.
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