To expand on my first comment... I think I PO'D some overseas friends when I bid on and won several auctions on German sites. I didn't even snipe! They were all BINS (12). When I proxied some auctions, I was sniped by German snipers, at least it seemed that way, they bid in the last secs. The same thing happened on a Belgium site, that's when I decided I needed the help of AS. I seem to do OK on the Italian sites tho.