Strange eBay Bidder ID's - Am Very Curious
Tonight I placed a bid on an item - it was a very low cost item that I collect, and with eBay's new countdown feature I watched the item close. With 1 minute left (I was the only bidder) exactly 2 seconds before the auction ended another bid was placed. Okay, this often happens, and I am familiar with sniping bots, etc.
However, when I searched for the winning bidder's ID using advanced search, it said there was no bidder by that ID. Yet the bidder showed up as a winner in my eBay summary with 150 positive feedbacks.
Here are the screenshots to show what I mean:
From my eBay page this shows that I bid $6.00 and the winner was bidder r***7
So I tried to located that bidder and got this message:
Can anyone shed some light on this situation? I'm very curious as to why I've seen so many of this type of winning bidder's user name as of late.
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Gene Pimentel -
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