I miss the old days when you could follow everyone and know what they bid, or check what a seller had bought it for 6 months earlier. It was fun to try and figure out what someone might bid based on previous auctions.

I won a guitar by following one guy who had lost 2 other auctions for the same guitar and I checked what else he was bidding on and could see how much he increased his max and figured that if he wanted it he would bid x amount. Got lucky and outbid him by $5. I'm sure he was ticked, but all I did was my homework.

John