OK, darkfrog, let's go over the bidding in detail. The auction was ended on Feb. 26 at 11:51:41 PST. Let's use that as a reference point. The first bid was by the eventual winner, surgeonplastic, on Feb. 20 at nearly one minute past midnight. The next three bids were by sweetie bun on February 23 and they had the combined effect of raising the bid amount to $12.00. Surgeonplastic is still high bidder. The next two bids, by dogydoc at 6:56:57 and 6:57:20 on Feb. 26, raised the bid amount to $20.75. Surgeonplastic remains the high bidder. Remember, your bid still hasn't been submitted by AS at this point. Your bid of $22.00 was entered by AS at 11:51:30, 11 seconds before the close of the auction. It wasn't enough and surgeonplastic walked away with the item for the next higher bid increment of 50 cents, at $22.50. Now, what don't you understand about that sequence? You said that your max bid was $22.00.