I have found good deals there over the years. The trick is to NOT let yourself get caught up in a bidding frenzy. If the price goes too high
- walk away.
I also unabashedly snipe. I don't care what people think. It is pointless to toss in a bid early on and keep bidding it up. I'll wait and jump in at the last minute, unless the price has already gone too high. I've been called many nasty things - I still won. And I do it manually to be fair, not using eSnipe, or tools like that.
When I sell things I have had people bid on my old VHS tapes, etc, and drive the price up not only higher than retail - but higher than DVD retail (which is generally why I sell VHS, because I bought the DVD), before shipping. And I usually put the original MSRP right in the listing, making it doubly dumb. :-)
-MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762