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Originally Posted by steve B

It must be nice to have enough budget to bid on every item you're interested in.
That's not my situation. If it's yours I'm genuinely happy for you.

My watching is usually full, and I place snipe bids manually. On some items the decision to bid or not is made for me by other bidders, exceeding my max early. Sometimes not.
Typically I have a bunch of stuff I'm interested in and something more interesting comes along. So I'll bypass the less interesting ones to place a more solid bid. If I really want something I'll place an early weak bid and then bid my max right near the end. And rarely I'll have a relatively insane bid as a backup. (Bids at usually 8-10 seconds and 2-4 seconds. )

Nothing is as enjoyable as passing on some nice stuff to commit your entire months budget on something and find it ended early, but late enough that the other stuff has closed.

But then there's always some other interesting thing the next few days anyway so it's not so bad.

Steve B

And that is a fair point, Steve. But if you "really want" a particular item there is no harm in making your offer.
And I know about the frustration on both sides: 1)Losing what I thought was a great deal and 2) having to sell a $50 card for $.99 because I was SURE there'd be a bidding war! (Turns out it was my bad. I had only the title and pic correct, the description and category was from a pair of jeans i had listed previously. Bad Turbo Lister! BAD!)