Median days to first sighting, by state
Each bar is the median number of days between a buyer's posting date and our first sighting, for one state, on bids posted more than a day before we saw them.
Bars run from 0 to 9 days.
- Date
- bids due August 3 to November 1, 2026
- Sample
- 7,207 cleared bids in the 18 states with at least 150 timed bids
- Left out
- 79,878 of 103,851 rows in the window were left out by the release rules. 15,471 of 23,973 cleared bids could not be timed: 8,937 have no posting date, 4,855 were posted before we began collecting their source, 353 carry a posting date after we first saw them, and 1,326 have a posting date within a day of first sighting, which may have been inferred from it
- Type
- Observed