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Judge DredBen,
Your high bid rate is much higher than mine for sure. One out of ten to fifteen is not bad. I think I win about 1 in 50. I usually try to find bargains so I don't win much on ebay. There have been times when I've found a few neat gems (a D304 Cobb for example) and gotten lucky.
Typically if I really want something I'll watch it closely but I'm not going to go overboard for something I think I can find at a later date at a better price. Ebay is an open market so you it's hard to fault someone for bidding on items that are selling for below their market value. Dealers and collectors both can recognize a bargain.
What I detest is a dealer or anyone else that wins something that is encapsulated and then sells it whilst claiming "I was robbed by SGC, PSA or whomever". That kind of salesmanship bothers me as well as people that resell items without disclosing defects that were disclosed in the auction in which the item was originally won.