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 Mille
    Posts: 173
 Join Date: Apr 2002
 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
 Mood: Electrically challenged
  
    
     The Flanker/Skidlid technique is what I use and works best. 
 As far as I'm concerned it's the only way to bid. 
 
 No point in showing your hand too early, but I can appreciate how you'd get hacked off at it when auction is closing at a time you won't be near a PC.