Before revision:  With our analysis, we find a counterintuitive characteristic of the problem: Intuitively, one would expect that the possibility of rejecting items becomes more and more helpful for an online algorithm with growing reservation costs.
After revision:  With our analysis, we find a counterintuitive characteristic of the problem: Intuitively, one may expect that the possibility of rejecting items becomes more and more helpful for an online algorithm with growing reservation costs.