Originally Posted by Heb80
Incase you aren't familiar with Ebay. You can set a max price that you are willing to bid on an item, and if someone outbids you, it automatically up's your bid to beat theirs. It will keep doing this until your maximum bid price is reached. It is likely that this "careful watcher" had done this and that was why his/her bid was always higher, until is reached $275
Yeah, I know. There was at least two instances that I witnessed where that "careful watcher" person was, in fact, out bid on the item by a second person who surpassed his max bid. The first person immediately entered another, higher bid, though. It's probably more likely that this person is like me and was bored at work and had nothing better to do than watch that auction and was just outbid at the last second.