Neal-I respect your opinion, but guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. I think bidding in an auction is fundamentally different than shopping in a store. Stores compete against other stores for business; usually they advertise "lowest prices" etc. In an auction, the seller does not set the price; bidders do, in competition with other bidders. I believe that placing a bid on ebay is the electronic equivalent of looking a guy in the eye, shaking hands and saying you will buy an item at a given price; a comittment is made-you have given your word. To say it is OK to renege on that word because someone offers you a better price later strikes me as saying that when you shook the guy's hand, you "had your fingers crossed behind your back" and were therefore not really bound by your comittment. I'm not trying to portray this as some "holier than thou" attitude; I just think that the entire auction process is based on good faith offers of selling and bidding. I know I would be mad if I were the high bidder on an item, and when I contacted the seller after the auction, he said, sorry, but after the auction closed some guy offered me a higher price, and so I sold it to him instead. I would have told him that I thought he had made a comittment to me and would expect him to honor it. Long post, but bottom line is I think people who place a bid are giving their word, and it is not OK to break your word to save a couple of bucks.