Research dashboard / October 2026

Investigation overview

A reproducible look at publicly recorded auction bidding patterns, with consistent completed-day reporting and clear distinctions between evidence and interpretation.

Reporting cutoff: Oct 19, 2026, 00:00 TorontoLatest included bid: 2026-10-18 23:59:52Current day excluded

Interpretation boundary. Fast bidding does not establish automated bidding, seller involvement, or price manipulation. October 13 is the first partially observed day. Financial winner/spending claims are withheld until independently verified outcomes are available.

Recorded bids by day

October 13 begins at 11:27 AM and is not a full observed day.

How unusual are three-second gaps?

The high-frequency group was selected using speed; this is a descriptive contrast, not an independent statistical proof of anomaly.

Financial, operational and competitive evidence

Financial exposure →Listing-ID sequences →Competitive bidding →Pickup workload →Research archive →

Community discussion & moderation

Two public posts describing this research and its free Chrome extension are shown as removed by the moderators of r/barrie. The reasons are not known, and the removals do not establish any connection to KOTN.

Read the documented moderation history →

Explore the investigation

Bidder profiles →Category concentrations →Timing patterns →Data coverage →

October 19 data refresh

The October 19 export contains 43,536 bids. All dashboard bid statistics are recalculated from records dated before October 19 Toronto time. The listing catalogue was collected October 19 and cannot be used to reconstruct historical leading positions. No verified final outcomes are present.

Full dataset export: completed-day bids · October 19 catalogue snapshot · coverage and limitations.