Actually, the way ebay works, he didn't neccecarily have to be taking advantage of them. As I recall, you set a maximum bid and an incremental bid, and ebay au

Actually, the way ebay works, he didn't neccecarily have to be taking advantage of them. As I recall, you set a maximum bid and an incremental bid, and ebay automatically outbids other people for you until your maximum bid was reached. He could've set a maximum bid of $60k, but, when no one else bid, wound up winning at the starting bid- which was set by the district at $1.