No offense, just enlightening you on the reasons why people bid like that. It's actually really humorous on the whole. People get the idea that since they bid on something first, it's their's until someone "steals" it from them in the last minute. Alot of the snipers on the bidding board have come up with the joke that they need to snipe more items to fill the potholes in the driveway. People think many of the snipers don't really want the item they snipe, they just want to make sure no one else gets it.Trust me, I can blow money on lots of other crap instead of keeping items out of the hands of others on eBay. But I have gotten my Simpsons World of Springfield up to date through sniping...