Ronald Gardner wrote:

Put one bid in just before this time hack and wait.

When you do this, make that bid the maximum amount you are willing to pay. Ebay
has this concept of "proxie bidding" and they will actually bid only the amount
it takes to win the item. This means that the high bid you see may be much less
than what the high bidder actually bid. If that's the case and you bid, say, $5
more than the high bid, all you will do is run the bidding up; Ebay will
automatically increase his bid by $6. If you tell Ebay that you're willing to
pay up to $150 for the item and the most anyone else is willing to pay is $45,
you'll get the bid for $46.

So. Why not just make that bid now? Why wait until the last half minute? Well,
there *are* people out there who will bid things up in $5 increments, just like
a real auction. If you bid early, they have time to outbid you (and you can see
them making bid after bid until they do). Wait until the last half-minute, and
they don't even know you're there until the auction's over.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.