Sorry, you did post a question. Not sure how I missed that - must have been reading too fast (doing too many things at once this afternoon/evening) and hastily read your post as a statement.
lucky's post was, as you pointed out, about fixed price. I do not know the answer to how one can place a "bid" on an auction format listing without viewing it or if that's systematically possible. What I do know is this:
I gave the post a thumbs up because I believed the info, while adjacent to the OP (fixed price vs auction), was still relevant and good info to share.
Some people come here and mix up terms, calling all listings (including fixed price) auctions and calling all sales (including fixed price) bids so it's possible someone will come here searching those terms and find lucky's answer to be the solution to their question.
I also believe the view counter is wrong. I'm part of a seller group and we did some testing this past Fall on the view counter and results showed that views, even direct clicks when a listing comes up organically through search, are not always registered. Not even delayed - just not registered at all. We had a few listings that received many organic views from our test and some direct views from shared listing links, yet several days later still displayed zero views.
I do not doubt that some views are registered with delays as you suggested, but I have no testing to back this up.
None of that is a direct answer to your resolve questions @pburn, but I hope it helps you and/or others in some capacity.
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