petal666 wrote:Why not bid what you are willing to pay and then forget about it till the auction has finished? Otherwise you end up spending more than you originally intended. Sometimes that works and sometime it doesn't.
That's not my strategy once I frequently played bidding game on eBay, i rather stay silent and wait until the last second of the auction and bid with the maximum high price that I think no one will bid for, and walk away with the winning. My bid reversed back to the higher bid below mine, sometime I got caught with it but very rarely.
You have to spend time, stay alert and ready for the last minute of the challenge like ambushing tactics.
If you bid to high from the beginning then maybe the owner may leave a bid close to your bid.