Find Out an Item’s Bidding History

You can access the bidding history by clicking the History link, which appears after the number of bids on the item page. The bidding history lists everyone who is bidding on the item. You can see how often and at what time bids are placed, but you can’t see the bidder’s real eBay username because (to protect the innocent) eBay changes user IDs to a gibberish of asterisks and numbers. Each bidder is assigned a faux bidder ID in the history. Look at Figure 7-2 to see the bidding history on an auction where I’m no longer the highest bidder.