ebay encryption?

[Jules Richardson]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:17 -0500, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> I use Firexox on Linspire and had the message once yesterday.  But
> what really concerns me more after reading this thread, I had seven
> auctions that ended this morning and most of them went without bids
> even though there were over 30 people "watching" each of them.  I
> wonder if their sniping which usually happens in the last hour somehow
> got stifled.  I also noticed that the only bids I got came from the
> north eastern part of the country.  I am beginning to think I got
> hosed  with three minimum bids that got away with it.

Someone over on the BBC micro mailing list just mentioned exactly the
same thing happening to them, FWIW...