Originally Posted by
maddmaxx
If you wanted it so bad, why hadn't you already entered your larger bid? It would have been in place automatically but would have not raised the price at all if no one else placed another bid. There is no need to last second bid on Ebay.............unless you have a change of heart and decide to bid above your final budget.
Not necessarily so. In the psychological game of bidding, there can be advantages to not revealing your intention until the last second. Sometimes a rival can be tricked into thinking his bid will hold if you don't raise until it is too late for him to respond.
I do agree with miss K that fate was in play here. Something bad was going to happen if he got that frame.