That's a good idea in theory Neal.
I've tried to do that a few times but it never worked out.
I think that so many of us are impulse buyers for the most part and don't want to add an extra effort to the equation.
You may have a better grasp on what it may take to do this sort of thing. Maybe twitter or something else quick and dirty?
Or maybe I'm just not the sort of guy you need for this sort of thing. I'm so cheap that I give up long before most other collectors would. In which case, if someone were to "bow out" of the bidding on my account, they could easily be disappointed at what a low bid I gave up at. In which case they might think to themselves that if they were also bidding, at least one of us would have gotten the tape.