I was doing last minute bidding on an item on eBay yesterday morning around 10am, and (unfortunately) was outbid in the last few seconds. If I had won, the sale price would have been about NZ$200.
In my e-mail this morning (it arrived around 2am) was a Second Chance Offer* on the item, with the exact listing number and all.
Firstly, it looked suspicious as it was not the typical e-mail you would receive, if you send messages via the eBay system, which are in HTML (not plain text), and the message had not been Cc'd to my eBay message Inbox.
Secondly, and what is rather scary, is that it the offer had been sent to my Gmail e-mail address. Noting that I've registered on eBay with my Orcon e-mail address.
So, within 16 hours of the auction ending I had been targeted.
*i.e. an opportunity to buy the item if the winning bidder withdraws under certain circumstances