Hi I rarely bid on an item before the last day. This is mostly because there are so many items that one doesn't have time to stay more than a day or so ahead. Also, some people seem to like to have shorter time auctions. If I look to far ahead, I might miss one of these quickies. I usually do last minute bidding if I'm around a computer but I also like to put in what I call a place holder bid. People can then look at my previous bidding and deside if they want to waste time bidding against me. I get pissed when someone pulls an item early. It has only happened a couple of times. One the really ticked me was that someone had a mod-8 board populated with 1702A's. I'd just placed my place holder bid and they pulled the auction. What is worse is that I suspect that they later pulled the EPROMs from the board to sell separately. Now the program data that was in the EPROMs are surely lost :( Dwight