Ebay changed rules and some other things back in 2008. There used to be a 3 month history of completed auctions and buyers history but that has been reduced to 4 weeks or so. Still you can tell who outbid you at the last second on that item you bid on.

Any Ebay user can do this and its all perfectly legal since it is public information.

1. First thing is to click on the "Advanced Search" link to the right of the main green…