[asiak75]

As a fellow seller and buyer in eBay I know exactly were you come from.
Bidding at the last moment is usually to keep the price as low as possible and I agree thats a good way to get a bargain...sometimes.
But then again some items that are listed have an initial value so low that some people just want to secure that the item does not get changed or edited. So they do that initial bid for 0.99 cents. As a seller i have many times observed that depending on the item you have listed it can go from start to finish bidding up slowly or just get bid up at in the last couple of minutes in the auction.
Sometimes when i am interested in a particular item such as at the moment a listed Assassins creed press kit book i wait till up to the last 24 hours and then start to bid on a regular base bid by bid. 20 seconds form the end, and of course if i really want it i will set the bidding increase price quickly to a 10er above my last bid. sometimes it works and sometimes well i get outbid and then again I am happy i did not win because it went of the roof.