How are they doing everyone a favor by staying 
open right now?

As for being second in line, yes, they informed me 
of that on a couple of other auctions I tried to 
bid on.  But with the Ryoko auction, they simply 
said that they placed my bid (no mention of any 
others).

Yes, I can see where there could be a simple case 
of confusion---they seem to deal with everyone's 
orders a bit hapzardly.  But if this can happen 
again---I don't know if it's worth the risk.

I DIDN'T see any mention of putting another 
bidder's order ahead of yours simply because they 
have a longer history with the service.  Wow.  
I'll have to verify that.  If true, I would drop 
them in a heartbeat.  That's bad business.  If the 
other bidder asked first, however, that's a 
different story entirely....

JP