That $100 bid in the last 5 seconds of an ebay auction will do a LOT more good than "tipping your hand" with a bid a while BEFORE auction end.
ANYHOW, it works GREAT for me. I bid the absolute most I'm willing to pay in the last 3 or 5 seconds of the auction. If someone who wants it worse than me does the same thing with a bigger bid, so be it.
That way the other bidders don't even have time to realize there's another bidder and "up" their bids.
There's absolutely NOTHING to be gained by bidding earlier, driving the price up and revealing that another party (you) is interested in the item.
I've often done that at auction sales, as well.
Let the other bidders drive the price up, if it's still within my price I jump in with a bid just before the gavel falls and throw 'em a curve! Seeing there's someone else interested early on just fuels the bidding "fires".
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