the one that got away..

I never bid until the last 7 seconds, and have studied the bidding patterns and buying history's of all those involved, then make a calculated bid maybe 2/3rds to 3x higher than the highest bid...with only 7 seconds left and 2 of those seconds as processing time, that leaves only 5 seconds for the outbidder to scramble to re-bid, but is never enough time for them to recover..