I understood that Frankenstein. However, if you have the time/opportunity to snipe, that greatly minimizes what happened to you. With a snipe bid, you never pay more than you intended and if a previous bidder has already outbid you, it just wasn't in the cards. At least that is the way I see it. I bid a lot via my phone, but if I had to do it in front of a laptop/computer, that would lessen my ability to bid like that. The only time I've bid early is when I knew that I was not going to be in cell range for my Ebay app. Yep, I lost that auction to a sniper...