Same unique item sold by different sellers.

[reverendeviljim]

How can this happen?

Same image, same description, different seller name, different end times.

I have had this happen many times before where at the end of an auction my bid is bumped by some PRIVATE bidder with a weird time stamp after the auction has ended.

I was bidding one this.

private listing - bidders' identities protected
$41.00
23 Oct 2022 at 2:13:01pm PDT
The above final bid makes no sense. 

These bids make sense.
$40.00
26 Oct 2022 at 8:38:49pm PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$32.00
26 Oct 2022 at 8:38:19pm PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$26.00
26 Oct 2022 at 8:38:15pm PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$24.00
26 Oct 2022 at 8:38:12pm PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$23.00
26 Oct 2022 at 8:38:09pm PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$22.00
26 Oct 2022 at 8:33:23pm PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$20.00
23 Oct 2022 at 2:18:55pm PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$10.00
20 Oct 2022 at 6:59:37pm PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$5.00
23 Oct 2022 at 10:11:13am PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$4.00
20 Oct 2022 at 12:15:34am PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$3.00
20 Oct 2022 at 12:15:31am PDT
private listing - bidders' identities protected
$1.00
20 Oct 2022 at 3:07:04am PDT
Starting price
$0.01
19 Oct 2022 at 8:38:54pm PDT

[reallynicestamps]

Because the seller has decided to "protect" bidder identities, we can't see if there were two bidders or 20.

And remember there is a three hour difference between PDT and EDT time zones. So an East Coast bidder who bids at 9pm will show as bidding at 6pm.

It looks like there were two at the beginning whose bids moved bidding from 1c to $3. Then they went to bed.

On the 23rd another bidder, moves the price to $10. This indicates to me that the $4 bidder has a maximum bid that others will bid against, constantly losing until they bid higher than he did. He bids again on the 23rd leaving a maximum that is higher than the $41 he won with.

It is the highest bid that wins, not the last.

There's a pretty good chance that the two "crystal" sellers are the same person with different accounts. FWIW, those accounts cannot bid on each other.