If you do not use a snipe program then you are costing yourself money. I often throw in a bid to keep track of an item. If I am very serious about the item, I set up a snipe. There are times that I lose track of an item or time because of being busy. Those are the times I wish I just assigned a value to the item and set it up to snipe. I missed an item I was really interested in recently, but cest la vie. If funds were unlimited would have bought a few other items recently too. Do yourself a favor and get a link to an auction snipe program and use it. There are free ones that will execute a bid with 10 to 20 seconds left. For a fee you can get down to 2 to 4 seconds before the item ends. Lee 66 # 869