Psychological. Once you've bid on something, you have an interest in it, you already feel it's part yours. Makes you far less willing to let it go. That's why I first took to sniping - makes it much less traumatic to lose an auction when you haven't been putting emotional effort into it all week :)
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Date: 2004-06-17 10:56 am (UTC)