I see that eBay now shows the amount bid for all losing bids on open auctions. Isn't this a new policy? This seems to give away important information that wasn't available before. For example, look at this auction: http://offer.ebay.com/ws3/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=6114387927

8hapai8 was high bidder with a $25 bid - the same amount as the next lowest bidder. That would mean he didn't bid enough to reach the next increment ($26). So just to test it, I bid $26 and sure enough I became high bidder - I would of course be happy to get this chip for $26.

Also, it looks like the new policy on "Reserve Auctions" is to set the bid at the most the bidder has entered as long as it is less than the reserve rather than just the amount it would take to make them high bidder. This might actually help Reserve auctions.