Katherine, take a look at the bid history again, you'll see it's not listed
in chronological order. abullen placed the $200 bid on Dec 4, and on dec 5
megan8585 placed three quick bids in a row trying to beat abullen, without
of course knowing what abullen's actual bid had been. In each case megan
lost. ianturnbull came in at the end and topped abullen by a few dollars. I
can'r explain megan's three bids on Dec 3, which seemed only to be driving
up her own bid.
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| I'm curious about the bid history on this and hoping someone who's
|familiar with the ways of ebay can enlighten me. To me it looks like one
|person made six bids in a row, running the price up from $65 to $145
|without any intervening bids from anyone else, and then dropped out of
|the bidding. Is there a reasonable explanation for this? To me the
|moral of this story isn't that the Diana is pure gold, but that all that
|glitters isn't, and furthermore that there's a sucker born every minute.
|Katharine Thayer
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