I feel you on one side, but I also understand the flip side of providing BINs for 30 days and finding your exact "match". Since I don't buy much on there these days, the BIN for 30 appeals to me. My last few auctions - the first in nearly a year - went low. Perhaps, had I listed BIN for 30, the right person would've seen it, thought "I've gotta have that right now" and voila, more money

I used to have fun with the thrill of "winning" right at the last minute with a manual snipe bid, but like lots of things it wore off. I won an item or two for the opening .99 bid, got some great deals because the description sucked...you know, the typical things that can happen with an auction format. But now I just see it as a clearinghouse for my excess spare parts. I must be getting less sentimental and more pragmatic as I slowly approach that six-foot-deep hole in the earth!

DD