[KobraKarl]

Blykins,

My first ,second and third attemts to buy something on e-bay ended just like your last one......Iwould monitor the auction all week , making sure my bids kept me in the top position......then with 20 seconds to go ......bam......bam..... one sometimes two bids would come in from someone alltogether new......leaving me fuming about the a$$hole who just stole MY part.

It finally dawned on me that this was just the way thing got done .......so I tried bidding the absolute highest I would go.....and other bidders would bid me to the sky .....I got a couple things I wanted but never at the bargain prices I saw other people paying.......

So I joined em.....If its something I want , I watch it like a hawk the last 10 minutes..if the price is still reasonable i wait for about 8 seconds on the clock , THEN I bid as high as I would pay.....

Sometimes I pay more than I would wish ........sometimes I dont bid high enough,.....but I usually get what I want and usually for a lot less than my maximum.....

I guess that makes me one of those a$$holes..............maybe you too...pretty soon.

KK