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I generally enter a bid ending in $0.77 or $0.87 as most people proxy a bid ending in $.01 or $0.51, and am amazed how many times I've won an auction by less than the minimum bid increment.


I started this practice several years ago after reading about Ebay bidding. I try to bid an "odd" amount when I use them. Last year it paid off when I was bidding on a leather bomber jacket made by U.S. Wings. I put a top bid of $100 on it and thought that someone would probably do a little better than that. I bid $104.63. The next highest bid was $102.50. I got the jacket.