It looks a bit curious, but here's how the bid process played out:
(This assumes a $1 bid increment.)
The first bidder put a bid in on Dec 4.
The next one - "imgonnagitit" - puts a bid in on Dec 7.
Then, "donaldc1491" adds a bid about five hours later (with a $10 max) and beats out "imgonnagitit". The high bid is now $6. We don't see the $6 in bid history since it was an automatic bid.
Then, "sharon3988" tries a bid of $7 (she's automatically outbid by donald)...she tries again with a bid of $10 (again, outbid by donald since he place his $10 bid earlier than she did)...DONALD'S BID APPEARS ONLY ONCE (AS HIS MAXIMUM OF $10) SINCE HE ONLY BID ONCE.
Finally, after being bested by donald twice -- and with just over one minute to go -- sharon goes for it and puts in a bid (who knows what her maximum bid was) that matches the $27 reserve.
Frankly, since the seller clearly writes in the description, "My reserve is 27.00 a case with a $20.00 shipping fee", I don't know why she was pussy-footing around with the earlier bids.
Mmmmmm....MREs from 1995! And it only cost her $47.00 total! That's almost four dollars per meal for MREs that are twenty years old!
1995 MREs anyone?
I don't recall for sure, but I think that auction had a reserve of $27 on it. So maybe the winning bidder stuck with a low bid at first and then as it neared the end, he put in a higher bid that finally closed out at $27.
Either way, this bidder with 1 feedback is getting what he deserves - an expensive case of old-ass MREs. For just a few dollars more, he could have gotten stuff that was actually still fresh.
Either way, this bidder with 1 feedback is getting what he deserves - an expensive case of old-ass MREs. For just a few dollars more, he could have gotten stuff that was actually still fresh.