Hello 'motorbodies',
If you plan to do much bidding on ebay, it would be wise to familiarize yourself with how
the whole automatic bidding thing works. This link explains it clearly and plainly, and there are
related links about bid increments, and getting outbid on the right:
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/buy/automatic-bidding.html#how
Especially see this one about sniping, - that always puzzles new users until they get the hang of it:
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/buy/outbid.html#avoiding