While sniping may be a good game when you have a price you want to pay in mind, and bidding your max on the first bid on ebay(i also learned how to bid against myself by reposting my highest bid after i did it once) doing one bid at the beginning or a couple of days before the end gives you a chance to remember through the email you get from bay that you are interested and what it is. Much faster I think then their sign in page.