Quote Originally Posted by epd View Post
Im sure you know this already, but on the off chance you dont (at some point this was a revelation for me) you only pay a couple dollars more then the last guy bid, so just bid 300, and keep your fingers crossed the last guy only bid 75. Guaranted win lol.
This strategy might go badly wrong if more than one bidder in any given auction uses it.

Also, am I right in thinking that you only pay a bit more if you're using the let-ebay-bid-for-you thing, and you only get the chance to set that going if you've already made a bid? Your first bid is 'flat rate', and if you want to hike the price by 225 you can? (It seems to be this way on ebay.co.uk, I assume it's the same everywhere.)