ebay purchase

i decided to purchase an atlanta hawks snap-back starter cap which i won for 15.75. There were only 4 bidders total in history. I made the last bid of 15.25. i think it jumped 50 cents on its own afterwards. No1 seemed to pay much attention to the hat. i won it with ease. although just because i won doesnt meani will be sending the seller a payment. i didnt think spending money for an assignment was neccessary. especially since i would be constantly bidding, what if the hat rose to almost 50 dollars for no crazy reason, and i was the miraculous winner. spending that much for some hat would be ridiculous. My ebay rating is now effected by my lack of payments, but i dont care much for that. i wown easily, but it made me think how maybe the bids are so quiet lately because people were planning to do a last minute counter-offer, possibly with j-bid or some other program out there people use because they dont like the computer stalking i guess. it would really suck to stare at an item for hours or even days, to just be defeated by someone with a last minute stick. i plan on buying sumthing on ebay tho seriously next time, something i really want. a rookie-year jersey of Jason Kidd no.5 on dallas mavericks. Its a hardwood classics jersey, and probably extrememly expensive. but i plan on taking my chances..