Posted By:
The Other One
You KNOW someone will step over that line!
Do it the old fashioned way: enter a bid on the thing or things you want, as soon as you deciude you want them. Nurse them all night the night auction closes. NEVER assume your best-loved thing is going nowhere and bid too much on something else and get caught short. NEVER enter a sky-high bid hoping to discourge someone else! There's (almost) always someone with more dough to throw around than you. Bid as infrequently as you can-- stand. There's no "snipe," because the auction is theoretically, and sometimes actually endless..but there is something to be said for bidding determinedly when the white man is sleepy.
Earlier entrants in this thread have shown that if you bid high ENOUGH, like 50K for an old pack of cards, you may have a different system to work with. You also have more money than almost anyone.