Charles Bukowski - American author

Momentarily putting aside my hatred of reserve auctions on ebay - the bidding system has me stumped.

I thought you had to put in your bid and wait for someone else to help bid it up before it reached the reserve. The system automatically adjusting your bid up.

But on the recent 'You Get So Alone' auction below - you can see that the winning bidder placed a knock out bid and won.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160278370357&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:AU:1123

Well done to them but can anyone shed some light???

Interested as I have bid on items before with a reserve but it never reached the reserve and I was stuck on lower amounts.

Thanks