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Posted By: Brian McQueen

Chuck, that's a good point although the type of auction that I'm referring to is one of those "must have" type of items. For those, I would not use a sniping service period as I'll adjust my bid according to the auction's pace. I suppose in this case, I wouldn't even have a "max bid". Personally, there's not a lot out there that fits into the "must have" realm for me anymore. Actually VERY little would fall into this catagory but when something does show up, I go after it with a "just get the card" attitude, not a "This is my max bid and I won't go over it" attitude. And if I want the card bad enough, I'll figure out a way to be in front of my computer at auction's end so that I can go after the card myself. It seems that there's a million things that can go wrong with those. I don't care if it is only one out of every 300 auctions that malfunctions, on a card I really want I'm not going to take the chance that that "one malfunction" occurs during my auction.