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Jar1 - thanks for the description of sniping, and I admit that I've been guilty of it a few times - hitting the "Place Bid" button with two seconds remaining. Randy - I think people might understand that you won't have to pay your max bid, but still snipe. If you place your max bid early, there's a better chance that someone else will pump up their bid at the end, when they get "emotional" about it. Then you end up getting outbidded by $.50. If you place that max bid, with not time left for additional bidding - you reduce that risk. There was an auction site up back in the 90's that had a policy that an auction wouldn't end until five minutes after the last bid. So if someone placed a bid with 10 seconds left, the auction would get extened 5 minutes for others to respond with a higher bid. You would still have to be around when the auction was ending, but this seems a little fairer to the seller. John
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