Original Commentary
If she were at her booth, she'd be rearranging the merchandise, making eye contact with passers-by, and generally trying to attract attention. What else can she do? - Terrence

Modern Commentary
I wonder if she knows she needs to refresh the page. I mean, I'm sure all the auction sites have live updates now, but back then? Probably not.
But yeah, she's caught in that moment of hoping something happens. I'm wondering if eBay had any kind of category alert back then, so the right folks would automatically be informed when this went up for sale. I don't think they did. -Terrence