I was the fellow head-fi-er who bumped the bid at the end but had no idea that it was Tom who was the other bidder, or how much his bid was, or I would have let them go! Nor do I have any idea who the seller is. I learned about the auction from the thread started by the seller here at head-fi last week and figured there would be other head-fi'ers in the run, but what can you do?
The price stayed at $1,325 for several days and until about 1 minute remaining, when it went to $1,350. My connection does not allow me to bid safely any closer than 7 seconds remaining, and I was not about to undo everything to fish back and see who the other bidder was. In fact, I expected others on the board here to jump in as well, and was surprised that nobody else did. So I just waited with my finger on the trigger until 7 seconds remained and submitted what I felt in my gut was my best bid (based on what I'm about to spend on a new pair of R-10's). I figured that I'd have a 50:50 chance at best. I was tempted to bid about $3,100 but decided against it.
I sent a PM to Tom soon after the auction ended to explain my position and I certainly hope there are no hard feelings. We have had prior communication about the possibility of my buying his HE60's and had a very good rapport at that time. I hope this doesn't affect that in any way. Had I bid $3,100 then perhaps Tom's bid would have cost me a big chunck of money - just another way of thinking about it.
