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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HokieJoe, post: 1828791, member: 43224&quot;]It looks like an artifact of competing sniping programs to me.&nbsp; Many of the bids were under 3 seconds apart and the bid increment changed at the appropriate threshholds.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen similar bid histories when I&#039;ve won an auction using a snipe.&nbsp; On one auction, I placed one snipe bid and won, but the bid history included the 19 increments necessary to make me the highest bidder.</p><p><br /></p><p>Using that line of thinking, here&#039;s a possible timeline of bids:</p><p><br /></p><p>Item is at $32 when I***1 places bid with max value of $620.&nbsp; Unknown to him, j***s has a snipe/bid with a max value of $605.&nbsp; This drives the bid, via the appropriate increments, to $620 in a matter of under 4 minutes and j***s receives a notification that he is outbid.&nbsp; 45 minutes later, j***s ups his max bid to $1200.&nbsp; Meanwhile, a***a was using a different snipe program with a max bid of $1050 and his bid drove j***s up to his max of $1200.&nbsp; Later, e***0 manually enters his bid with a max of over $1225.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Or maybe not...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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