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On Jul 30, 12:53*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:41:48 -0800, Mark Thorson wrote:
> > I thought you had to be wrong. *I judged it
> > from the photo to be maybe four feet high.
> > I thought pots would hang from the horizontal
> > bars using S-hooks.

>
> > Reading the listing, it's only two feet high
> > and a foot wide. *You're right, it can only
> > hold three things.

>
> > And yet, with only three and a half hours to go,
> > bidding is over $1400! *I'm very interested
> > to see what the final price will be.

>
> > Those Griswold collectors are even more
> > aggressive than I thought.

>
> I don't Ebay, but what's to keep people from bidding $1 higher just
> seconds before the end of the bidding? *Does each bid within the last
> 5 minutes extend the deadline 3-5 minutes?
>
> -sw


You can do that but keep in mind that most serious bidders have a high
bid in that automatically goes in when someone else places a bid.