What Is Your Auction Strategy?

[glchen]

I agree with Leon about the strategies. Generally, I go w/ the put an earlier marker in and then bid during extended bidding. However, sometimes you know that a lot is worth X dollars. The cards in the lot are common enough that you can buy elsewhere, so you want to stake your max bid at X since at the next high bid, the lot won't be worth it anymore. Finally, sometimes you want to go with a straight bid early rather than a max bids that jumps a number of levels to knock potential bidders out of the lot.