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Posted By: T206Collector

If you bid on an ebay auction with more than 30 seconds left you are simply throwing money away. Better yet, make it 20 or 15 seconds. This is a no-brainer. I can honestly say that in the last five years of ebaying, I have never bid seriously on an auction with more than 30 seconds left. It is not only a huge waste of money, but it invites the kind of sniping that is so obviously irksome. The only reason you should bid on an auction with more than 30 seconds left is if you are best friends with the seller and want to drive the price up for him.

The reason ebay created a "watched items" function is to facilitate monitoring an auction without having to bid on it. Watch all the items you wants, but then sit at your computer hitting refresh (or use a sniping service if you're not going to be at your computer) until the auction winds to a close. Then put your bid in.

Seriously, people bidding hundreds of dollars on cards with 3 days remaining is one of my pet peeves. The only function served by this is driving up the price and almost ensuring that you will never win an auction for anything good.