I was wasting some time on Ebay just now, and there is a 1969 w114 for sale. The main screen for the ad says Current Bid $5000 and says that there have been two bids (see pic 1). If you check the bid history, both bids are by r***d and both are for $5000 and both occurred within a few seconds of each other (see pic 2). The same list of bids are shown regardless of whether you click on the "show automatic bids" button.

So question one is: are these two bids actually the same person, or did ebay happen to pick the same random pseudonym for two different people.

And question two is: assuming that is only one person with one bid, why did the current bid amount go up? The starting price was $4000 and if one person entered a bid of $5000, I thought the price wouldn't go up until someone else bid. If there is only one bidder, I guess I thought that the price wouldn't jump by $1000.

The main context to my question is that $5K for that car seems like a lot. The air filter is in the trunk. It has dents. The carbs need adjusting. The interior is sort of a mish mash of two colors. Etc. Etc. Etc.

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1968 220D, w115, /8, OM615, Automatic transmission.
My 1987 300TD wagon was sold and my 2003 W210 E320 wagon was totaled (sheds tear).