Can someone explain the logic behind this eBay sale?

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As we all know, sometimes things happen on eBay that defy all logic. Maybe someone can explain how this scenario happens.
I saw this item on ebay several weeks ago.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/27538960148...p2047675.l2557

I really debated about whether to bid as I thought it was super cool item with awesome provenance (I love stuff like this) but ultimately decided not to bid. So one person put in a bid and won.

Within days, one of the stubs from this journal page shows up on eBay. Obviously the buyer purchased the journal page with the intention to remove the tickets and sell individually. I thought to myself…”I’m not sure he’s gonna make his money back but we’ll see.” I watched the auction and thought I might bid a few hundred bucks at the end. With less than a minute to go it was around $200 so I thought I might win it at $300-$400.

Well as you can see, it went from $200 to $2200 in the final minute.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125470615514

This is not the part that floors me. I’ve seen this happen plenty of times. The part I don’t understand is that there were 8 bidders in that final minute who drove the price up to $2200. Where were these 8 bidders a couple weeks before on the original piece? Any of those 8 bidders could have had THE COMPLETE PIECE WITH 2 STUBS for a fraction of the price. Needless to say, I felt foolish for not bidding the first time around.

Like I said, sometimes eBay leaves me shaking my head!


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