You can always fight fire with fire:
www.auctionsniper.com I've used it for years as a time saver since I cant be around the computer all the time. You set your max bid and it puts it in at the last minute so that way you dont get into a bidding war with 6 days to go. I've only lost an item when it was well over what my sanity (or my wife) would let me pay.
