Online auction strategies

[BioCRN]

A chunk of us that bid low and early on lots of stuff are in the market for multiple cards, but the goal isn't to win all the auctions.

It's not uncommon for me to bid on 5+ things with low/next bids just to get them on my "bidding" page on the website. Out of those 5+ items I know that I am only counting on being in the running for 1-2 of those items, but I have no idea what the market will dictate until the late bidders show up to drive the price.

I don't feel like setting a higher mark on an item when I know I'm going to be there in the last hours to check out the situation and where things stand with the bidding prices.

That said, I'm not one of those people that will stay up all night to extended-bid for hours on end. At some point it's a bid that's the highest and I walk away...but also at that point, I've already passed on a good chunk of my initial bid items.