Well you helped run up their price there if that is you there at (16)?

This is My Idea of the ( art of bidding to win - anywhere ) is to place a maximum of Two '2' bid's!

First bid placed shoud be a bid to show interest , does not matter if you are the winning bidder at that time or not!  Also to place it in your ( top view ) bidded section of your epay page.

Second Bid should be placed near the ending time ( aka sniping ) and at that time ( set a alarm for about 1 hour ' before item ends' or as much time needed for you get set up to bid to win ) you should then be able to determine if your top bid is within your budget at the near time that the item that you are wishing to win is ending based upon the price of the item at that time - and how much you are willing to also bid beyound the amount that you have in your bank account and THEN how much into your creditcard - again depending upon just how much you REALLY desire to have that item then.

Those that have multiple bids; more than Three ( 3 ) in something and ( running up the price ) are playng games - I think.

with all ebay auctions --its best to stay silent - post NOTHING here -

then win it --and post all about your victory in ' collections'  ..

none of us will really know -- if posting live ebay auctions here will effectively raise the

final price by 10% or by 300% or sometimes... not at all ??

but we are all 100% sure that posting your bidding intentions cant possibly

do  $$ any good ( pricewise )