hmmm... after seeing the bid history go from $1.00 to $503,300.00 in 10 days I can't help but think this is probably a rigged auction. I may be wrong but this just seems like an attempt to massively increase the interest on ebay for the "Extremely Rare" beer. I just have a feeling that this will be relisted with a note saying the first buyer failed to pay for the item and to "get it while you can". Call me a pessimist if you will but this just seems a little strange to be a completely normal auction.
Looking at the bid history, there are several people doing repeat bids with no compitetion.
Bidder 5 US $999.99 Aug-06-07 19:34:33 PDT
Bidder 5 US $775.01 Aug-06-07 19:06:28 PDT
Bidder 5 US $753.01 Aug-06-07 19:06:17 PDT
Bidder 5 US $732.01 Aug-06-07 18:41:12 PDT
Bidder 5 US $711.11 Aug-06-07 18:40:29 PDT
Bidder 5 US $690.01 Aug-06-07 18:40:15 PDT
Bidder 5 US $669.99 Aug-06-07 18:40:04 PDT
Bidder 5 US $645.02 Aug-06-07 18:31:37 PDT
Bidder 5 US $624.04 Aug-06-07 18:31:08 PDT
Bidder 5 US $603.04 Aug-06-07 18:30:53 PDT
Bidder 5 US $583.03 Aug-06-07 18:30:40 PDT
Bidder 5 US $562.02 Aug-06-07 18:30:27 PDT
Bidder 5 US $542.01 Aug-06-07 18:30:12 PDT
Bidder 5 US $521.99 Aug-06-07 18:29:59 PDT
Bidder 23 US $210,000.00 Aug-10-07 09:43:59 PDT
Bidder 23 US $200,000.00 Aug-10-07 09:42:43 PDT
Bidder 23 US $155,000.00 Aug-10-07 09:42:28 PDT
Bidder 23 US $135,000.00 Aug-10-07 09:42:22 PDT
Bidder 23 US $125,000.00 Aug-10-07 09:42:06 PDT
Bidder 43 US $500,000.00 Aug-10-07 17:41:01 PDT
Bidder 43 US $415,000.00 Aug-10-07 17:40:16 PDT
Bidder 43 US $412,290.00 Aug-10-07 17:39:50 PDT
Bidder 43 US $411,999.00 Aug-10-07 17:39:32 PDT