[sdiy] ebay internal shill bidding?

[Barry Klein]

I don't get into such bidding wars too often but am very often left confused
at the bid history.  Often there are hidden bids you have to enable
visiually to see.  Another thing is that if two or more people are bidding
at the last moment with relatively higher bids, I would think the software
app would somehow go through them in an order until the clock expires.  It
doesn't necessarily take the highest bid but the last one enabled by the
clock timeout - right?  You sometimes see this process in the hidden bids.
When I get totally confused with it I call ebay and ask for an explanation.
Doing that everytime will at least put them ummm... at bay.

Barry