One selling philosophy is that it is a lot less work to sell an item for $10.00 than 10 items for $1.00 each, or "make your money on each item" vs "make your money on volume." If someone is trying (or needs) to make money, it makes absolutely zero sense to price items *hoping* for the right bidders to come along and bid the price up. Take a look at the final bids on any item, and try to guess what the person who won it was actually willing to pay. Unless you talk to the person, you will have no idea how high the winning bidder was actually willing to go. My guess (now) is that computermkt has a pretty good handle on what an item *can* bring, and prices his stuff accordingly. There is also little doubt that unless he is buying things for his collection (assuming he is a collector), it costs nothing to put in a low bid on something and he will only win if he gets it at his bid price. I saw something simliar at an early VCF (Pleasanton?) where someone brought in some interesting machines, and priced them (in my mind) rather high. Just goes to show what I know since most of them sold!