can someone explain something about bids

[tigertea]

Hi - have been looking at bidding histories for items on ebay and have noticed that that starting price is often 99p but then the bids go up by £2 or so at a time, e.g. starting price 99p, 1st bid £2.50, 2nd bid £3.75. Why do the bids go up by so much and not say 50p at a time, especially the first one when there is no bidding war taking place - does any one know?

[gigglewitch]

oooohh!! I thought they tended to go up in £1 bits... now you've flippin started something - I'm going to have to go and look (i am a witch with no cat cos curiosity killed it)

[chipmonkey]

AFAIK, the bidding history shows actual bids, not automatic bids. If you click on the button that shows actual bids, then you get the automatic bids generated by ebay which do do up in equal increments.