I checked out the auction I think you're looking at. It's at $41.00 and the reserve is not yet met. You can put whatever amount you want in there and it will continue to bid incrementally on your behalf until your bid is beaten. 3 pieces of advice:
1. you could stay up for the 5+ hours left in the auction and with about 2 minutes to go, put in the price you are willing to pay. If you get it, great...if not, no biggie. I noticed that the seller is paying the shipping...that's good.
2. That particular seller has 0 feedback. That's not good. That means he has never sold anything before. He has no history. He could be a crook, an idiot or worse. Since at $41 the reserve is not yet met, who knows what that knuclehead might think he can get for them. They might end up going for more than you could get them elsewhere..
3. You could just buy them
here like I did and be done with the whole thing. If you want to read about my buying experience click on
this thread for the whole story.
In any event, ebay is fun and you can get good deals. This one might not be worth the hassle of staying up all night and end up saving $5...good luck
quick note: obviously you could put your amount in and go to bed and see if you won in the morning...if his reserve was not too high, you'd probably get beat by the nearest increment as people tend to lurk around and slam dunk bids at the last possible minute.