My classic eBay bidding technique is to look long and hard at an item,
think it over, and then bid my maximum price - once, by proxy. If I
win, fine, if not, then it wasn't meant to be.=20

Just one comment. Bidding once is a good technique, provided that you =
only place your bid 20 seconds from auction end.

As a matter of fact bidding hours or, worse, days before auction end =
will give others time to place successive bids in small increments, =
until they surpass you by just 1$.

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Tony, I0JX