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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

What Jim said is correct and the result of the new policy has been a painful one for me when bidding on expensive cards. Luckily, Don Spence uses a sniping service so the pain of losing to him is only apparent to me when there is 5 seconds left in the auction that I had been leading for 1 full second at the time my own snipe went in. However, each set, each issue has a particular group of bidders with their own set of quirks and limits as to how they bid. Many a card has been won by me (or lost) by knowing who is bidding a card up prior to the last frantic seconds. Without this information it feels as if I'm bidding in the dark.