watching bidding wars on YJ that you aren't 
participating in?

Maybe I am just really demented, but sometimes I 
bookmark a cel I like or know will be liked by a 
lot and even though I suspect the price will be 
more than it's worth to me, I check it near the 
end to see the current price. You never know, 
maybe everyone else who likes it is tapped out at 
the moment and I'll get lucky.

I am always amused that even though Yahoo adds 10 
minutes to the end of the auction when bids are 
placed under that mark, there are still many 
people who wait for the end, hoping other people 
won't bother and will have judged the going price 
too low. Or perhaps they actually enjoy a good 
old fashioned bidding war, with no real time 
limit and only dollars determining the winner.

Anyway, so you go check the auction and the price 
is higher than you think it's worth, but there 
are two to three people in a bidding war. The 
timer on the auction goes up up up, right along 
with the price. Even though you could go do 
something productive for the next hour and then 
come back and see the final price, you find 
yourself fixated. You hit refresh every couple 
minutes and watch the price soar.

Maybe, not even knowing the bidders, you for some 
reason find yourself rooting for one of them over 
the other, because you like their bidding style.

I dunno, maybe I am truly deranged. I find myself 
doing this every could months and today was one 
of those days. I wonder how many other people are 
possibly watching the same auction and are not 
the people bidding.

Hope I haven't scared anyone into thinking I have 
bigger issues than I actually do. =p

-Remi