the bid on item was 1.61 and my high bid was 3.50. i won the auc.. but it went from 1.61 to 3,05

[anniemalice]

the bid was 1.61 and my high bid was 3.50. but itwent from 1.61 to 3.05 under my bid hqw can this happen

[marnotom!]

eBay employs something called "proxy bidding" for auctions.  It doesn't work quite the same way as it does for a live "going-going-gone" style auction.

Your current bid is one bid increment higher than the maximum bid amount put in by the next highest bidder.

See if this eBay help page explains it for you:

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/buy/automatic-bidding.html

[pjcdn2005]

To see the progress of those bids, click on the number of bids which is next to the current bid. Then click on show automatic bids which is on the top right of the bidding history box.