Flooding can be blocked if you take advantage of proxy bidding. Just decide what your _maximum_ bid is, and enter that amount (near the end of the auction, if you want, but not at the last second). Your actual bid will only be the minimum increment above the next highest actual bid (and not necessarily what you are willing to go up to). For example, when the high bid is $20 and the increment is $1, you bid $50, and have an actual high bid of $21. If someone floods with 10 bids of $1 each, you still win with a bid of $41: you go $1 over each of the flood bids as each is made. -----Original Message----- From: Carlos Murillo [mailto:cmurillo@emtelsa.multi.net.co] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:25 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Amiga items on eBay -- advertising auctions on classiccmp <snip> Another strategy that is beginning to become commonplace is "last-minute flooding", when a bidder will send 10 or 20 bids with the smallest value increment within the last 10 seconds or so of the auction. <snip>