What happened here? 3-day auction turns into 5-day auction

So, a noticed an item on ebay at a great price ($2.98) with no bids, and 23 hours to go before auction end.

I set up a snipe-bid set up at PowerSnipe. Sure enough, 20 seconds before auction end, powersnipe made the bid.

However, I didn't receive either a "you won" or "you were outbid" email from ebay, like normally happens. So I checked out the auction, and there were 2 days remaining!

Can sellers increase an auction's duration? I can't think of any other explaination.

 

yes, they can increase the duration of an auction.

 

As long as there have been no bids, you are completely within your rights to change to a longer auction period.

 

I have seen sellers do this many times when attracting no bids. I think a lot of sellers fail to realize that many people bid in the final minute (i.e., snipe).

 

Well, that's a bummer. I guess PowerSnipe doesn't check for increases before bidding at what it thinks is the last minute.

Oh well.

I won the item for $2.98 anyways.