HP35 Price on ebay - what am I missing?

[grsbanks]

With the inevitable bidding frenzy that takes place in the final minutes of the auction, if you place a bid early on then you are bound to lose.

What I do is place a low bid fairly early on so that the seller can't just take the item off for no good reason (they can if there are no bids on it). I then set myself a limit and take part in the frenzy, ramping up my bids gradually until they reach the maximum I had set myself. More often than not, I win the auction that way.