Interesting perspective Mark and that makes sense too. I just think a lot of what you are suggesting could go against you just as easily if the lots close all at once. For example, you’re winning your favorite lot and at 11:59 40 seconds you get sniped. If they all close at once you are pretty much finished. If they close lot by lot you can still potentially bid on something else. So I’m not sure ending them all at once necessarily solves that problem and it becomes just luck either way if you get outbid whether they all close at once or lot by lot.
To me closing them individually gives you a truer picture of interest and willing expenditure on an item. And if you lose an item you can then look at the rest that are open.
Perhaps there is no perfect system, but as I’m sitting by a computer at midnight last night and saying wtf just happened, I think a positive feeling becomes negative very quickly. At least in Heritage I have 30 minutes to regroup and decide if I want to bid on.
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