There are also bidding cascades that sometimes don't start until the "fair warning" email has gone out. If I had perhaps 50x the card budget that I actually have, I'd just go ahead and put in my max bids early on, but I rarely see an auction catalog in which I can afford everything I want to bid on, so I put in placeholder bids in the opening hours of the auction, prioritize, and start working my way down my list as I'm bid past my max on each item. Maybe I'll end up getting the #8 item on my list, but I'm not going to bid on it in overtime until I know I won't be winning #1-#7. I assume others are doing the same thing.
Edited to add: Glenn and Glyn are in agreement.
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