In a message dated 4/26/2007 05:23:48 Pacific Daylight Time, rexa@sonic.net
writes:

Can  anyone propose a sequence of bids on dates that explains this list
of  recorded bids and dates? I guess there must be one but it is  evading
me.

Could this be because of bid retractions or simply revising a bid?

Are the times/dates local time or Ebay UTC?

bye,
Said

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I cannot believe the confusion. This stuff is child's play compared to what
we typically discuss on here. Think about it, and re-read some of the
earlier posts, including mine. I have been on ebay for 10 years and I know
exactly how it works. There is nothing wrong or misleading about the amounts
or the sequence of bids as shown on the questioned item. - Mike

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From: time-nuts-bounces@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces@febo.com] On
Behalf Of buehl
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:33 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT: eBay bidding question

When I asked these questions of eBay; the unsatisfactory answer was that
only "actual" bids show.

This meaning a new bid submmitted would create new/ additional line,
similar to the series of bids on April 23.
Is not clear why this bidder put in so many bids within two minutes, since
no other bidder's 'proxy' bid shows as exceeding any of his bids.

Also does not explain following:  Bidder six placed bid on April 22, but
his bid does not show until after many other bids are placed on 23, 24, and
25 April.  It is expected he would show as a bidder if his bid was
4,000.  If his bid was less, then he would have needed to bid again; which
eBay says would result in the new bid submission being displayed.

Tom Buehl

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When I asked these questions of eBay; the unsatisfactory answer was that
only "actual" bids show.

This meaning a new bid submmitted would create new/ additional line,
similar to the series of bids on April 23.
Is not clear why this bidder put in so many bids within two minutes, since
no other bidder's 'proxy' bid shows as exceeding any of his bids.

Also does not explain following:  Bidder six placed bid on April 22, but
his bid does not show until after many other bids are placed on 23, 24, and
25 April.  It is expected he would show as a bidder if his bid was
4,000.  If his bid was less, then he would have needed to bid again; which
eBay says would result in the new bid submission being displayed.

Tom Buehl

At 03:17 PM 4/26/2007, you wrote:

At 04:17 PM 4/26/2007, you wrote:

Ebay processes the new bid, then checks for existing bids, so in this
case bidder 8 bid $4000 and became the high bidder, for just a
moment. Then ebay searches for any bids it has on hand to see if they
are exhausted, or as in this case bidder 6 had a bid in for the same
amount, placed earlier, so he goes to winning bidder.

John

At 05:33 PM 4/26/2007, you wrote:

Sheesh! Think about the process.

Bidder 6 bids $4000 on the 22nd.

If you watch after each of the bids less than $4000 is placed bidder
6 goes to the top of the list. The system does not show the
intermediate steps in bidder 6's proxy progression, each time that
somebody makes a bid which is greater than the CURRENT bid amount, by
an amount equal to or greater than the computed bid increment it
becomes the current high bid, until eBay checks for remaining value
in a previously placed bid.

You would only see that if you were looking at the item at the right time.

John