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I bid early because then it means I won't be tempted to go over how much I want to pay for the item. It's no different from sniping in that I've put in my maximum amount, and if someone bids over that then it's no problem because it's no longer a bargain, whereas if you snipe and someone has a max bid higher than you or also snipes with a higher bid then there's no time to make another bid.

As said, if you don't have bid early, no one can bid over it = higher chance of keeping the price low until your final sniper shot. And of course it's *good *that you can't put a second sniper bid, as your sniper bid should be your reasonable max anyway.

I also believe that having bids on an item with lots of time left puts other people off bidding on it.

This is a strange, but valid philosophy. But, I guess it's more valid with regard to high start prices, not bids. Therefore I would say early high bids make people believe into a very high value of something, which might lead to them being tempted to bid way over their initial max.