On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Adrian Vickers wrote: In my experience running automatically extended auctions, no. It tends to temper the bidding. Bidders know that they don't have any advantage waiting until the last minute to bid. There may be a psychological factor in waiting it out to see if the bidding goes higher than what you were willing to pay before you submit your first bid, but for the most part it tends to result in a more, what I would call, realistic market value. Where sniping really jacks up the price is if the high bidder put in a really high maximum in order to secure their win. So say the item is at $1,000 up until the last 4 seconds, but the high bidder has a maximum bid of $5,000 and some sniper comes in with a bid of $2,999, the price will all of a sudden shoot up $2,000. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *