From a disgruntled under-bidder:
Dear [commanderflatus], Mr. [flatulence], I have a question for you relating to your recent sale of a Fugitsu s510m scanner. I bid on it for almost 24 hours as did at least one other person in increments of $5. For the last hour or so of the auction, I was the high bidder at $281. I had entered a max bid of $300. In the last 5 seconds of the auction, someone bid $305 and won. I find it exceedingly curious that, even though eBay's countdown clock showed no other bidding going on, suddenly in the last seconds someone knew enough to bid not just one $5 increment above the last bid (mine) but $5 over my unposted maximum. I am not questioning anyone's ability to bid at the last second as this person did. What I am wondering about is how that auction winner knew to bid exactly $5 over my unposted maximum. Are you aware of any way a person could hack the site to find out what maximum bids are? Thanks much. I remain, a Disappointed tyro-Pat - tyro_pat