benny, my only warning is that if you do decide to manually bid, make sure that you cancel AS with PLENTY of time before the auction ends, or else AS will claim a victory and charge you for the AS snipe EVEN IF the bidding and YOUR MANUAL WINNING BID is well above the AS bid . . . by that i mean if the bidding gets up to, say, $100 and you manually bid and win it at $105, but you still had not cancelled your old AS bid of $30, then AS still will claim a victory and will charge you for it . . . one of the problems with AS that no one else will tell you about!
regards, steve