lol It was my first time ever bidding on an item. I've always avoided bids and focused on buy now stuff. Thx for the link. I was hoping he would repost. Now i know, don't bid until there's 1.29 seconds left!
I agree. Auto bid really works for ebay as it usually drives the price of the auction higher than it normally would be. That's why when I do find myself sniping at an auction, I enter at that one time the absolute most that I am willing to pay for an item. If the other person throws a last minute bid in, it has to beat whatever my highest bid is (which at this point, is still unknown to other bidders. All they see is what the current bid is) otherwise on their screen, it will automatically show "you have been outbid" at which point, they won't have time to enter another bid. Even this can go against you for the more popular items as their absolute highest bid may be closer to yours which causes you to pay closest to your absolute highest price for an item than you normally would. I call that one bumping heads. But hey, that's part of the excitement of ebay.Never auto-bid... you get a-holes like me that incrementally bump the bid amounts to push you right to your bid limit so you don't get notified, then snipe you in the last 2 seconds of the auction.
