Days from posting to our first sighting

Each bar is the number of days after the buyer posted a bid that we first saw it, for bids posted more than a day before we saw them.

  1. Median5.2 days
  2. 75th percentile9.5 days
  3. 90th percentile15.6 days

Bars run from 0 to 20 days.

Date
bids due August 3 to November 1, 2026
Sample
8,502 cleared bids with a usable posting date more than a day before our first sighting
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

Public Bid Access Observatory, release 2026-11-01-r2. Full page, tables and downloads