I don't understand the action at the end of this auction:

My guess is that oneeye put in a first bid at $333.33, then got nervous when he found he was only $13 above the previous high bid. So then he put in a bid of probably $450--$500 and said, "OK, let's see somebody beat that bid!"

Had you followed the auction while it was in progress, you would have seen that oneeye was high bidder right up to the end -- nobody else's bid was enough to unseat him. The clue is that the second-highest bid is exactly the $5.00 minimum increment below the winning bid, so the winning bid was almost certainly placed by ebay's proxy bid service.

3amsw tried to snipe him, but his bid wasn't high enough, and he didn't have time (or inclination) to try a second snipe at a higher price. If I had to guess, I would bet that oneeye's max bid was $444.44.

tanstaafl.