Hondo - you need to realise that the person who wins on ebay isn't the last bidder but the highest bidder. It's the same if you're bidding manually, sniping manually or using a service such as AS.
All AS does is snipe on your behalf as late as possible so that no-one can respond to your bid, thus creating a bidding war.
So set you max (search for 'Proxy Bidding' on eBay's help), set the lead time to 8 seconds and chill...
R2