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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Yes, but that automatic bid stuff sucks. I should bid then they should bid, it sucks to bid and have it not even count.

so the current bid is $50, you think item is worth $200, but you are only willing to pay $150. Someone else thought, "I'll pay $120 for this thing," so they put $120 in as their max bid. If you were willing to pay up to $150, you could have put that in as your max bid and you in the hypothetical case above, would have had the winning bid. If the tables were turned and you were willing to pay $120 while the other guy was willing to pay 150, then you'd have put a bid in and known right away that someone else was willing to pay more. One bid, one time. The problem is that if you put your max bid in early, the seller may put a huge bid in and retract it just to get you up to your max bid. The secret is to figure out your max bid and snipe with that. Easy peasy