ok this is how I feel about placing your highest bid on ebay. I have found that if you place your highest bid for what you are willing to pay for an item, You just open yourself up to paying exactly that much for that item because some one will come along and just keep bidding because they want to see themself as the high bidder.Some people may not even want the item that much but get so caught up in bidding and seeing if they can get it, I have done that myself and it's a rush, but the prices of stuff on ebay has gone out of control of this. I now watch items untill the last few seconds , and use a sniping program, I dont get aggraviated over this anymore .