"Submitting a bid 71 hours and 30 minutes after your last bid never works, and often, it will lock you out of the system for another 72 hours! " Hi - Long time lurker here, but had to register when I saw this one. It's absolutely not true. This has been discussed at length at TOBB, proven false there, and I've proven it false personally. Submitting an identical offer within 72 hours of the first does not "reset the clock".