Reply to "max bid, proxy bid. whatever. newbie in need of help. my auction ends tomorrow"

Jayolsen writes, "The same can be done for pricier items, but it's a little harder to know what price the item will end at. If you are good though and can guess within a bid increment then maybe try sniping earlier and forcing the other sniper to have a bid one increment above yours."

You can get an idea by checking out the bid profile of the current high bidder. Just go to eBay Search, select "By Bidder" and enter the high bidder's username in the window, being sure to click on the little round window that says "Yes" for closed auctions. Study the results by looking at the bidding record for a few of the person's successful bids and getting an idea of how close to the end of the auction the guy or gal bids, and by how much of an increment. People don't know it, but they get stuck in bidding patterns that are really simple to uncover and use against them.