About a hour after I bid on this router, a buy it now one popped up. I had three days left on this auction, with me being the highest bidder. So I watched the cheaper one until somebody out bid me, unfortunately the other buy it now was gone by time I was out bid on this one. Sometimes taking a week or two off seems to help the bidding wars, but lately too many will buy low and relist what they just bought at a high price, next week. I have been out bid on car parts by the same guy for the same part on many different auctions, my strategy was to bid him up finally, and jump out leaving him with a high price, then come back a day later to buy another of the same part. I think he finally lost by winning one too many times to where I could finally buy my parts at a reasonable cost. Just get annoyed with the pros taking the deals away repeatedly, but I realize like many have said, it is the best deal in town most days.