eBay has decided to change how bid history information is displayed so bad guys cannot target bidders with fake offers using this information.
Wow, if they're bonafide bad guys, ebay should send the lone ranger after them.
If ebay really wanted to be fair, for each auction, every bidder would make one undisclosed bid. At auction's end, all bids are disclosed and whoever's bid was highest wins (I think this is called a blind auction).
With the "blind auction", shill bidding and the mad race in the last 30 seconds would disappear. You see your item, make your bid, and walk away.
The reason ebay would never do this, of course, is because it would also kill bidding wars and likely lower the average sale prices.
I can't stand hovering over an auction for the last 10 minutes of its run.