Archie and BriaN, if you're going to have a discussion in a thread, the least you could do is actually read what other participants are saying.

1) "Mr." Soze's first name is Oksana. I do believe that is traditionally a female name of Russian/Ukrainian descent. Not that it matters, but at least we can stop referring to her as him.

2) Of 3 identical chips Ms. Soze bid on, only BriaN's had the bid retracted in the last minutes. A second is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=497225836

Ms. Soze bid $50, and was outbid by two others who duked it out, with a final price of $66.99. Ms. Soze DID NOT retract her bid on this chip. Had no reason to.

The third chip is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=499353509

Ms. Soze WAS the high bidder on this chip, and WAS a registered eBayer at the close of auction, and IS technically entitled to buy it for the winning bid of $56. Of course, it would do my heart good to see Dave at Cheques in the Mail, Inc. refuse to sell this chip to Ms. Soze now.

3) I have explained twice now who was high bidder at $51, and how the bid wound up at $36 after Ms. Soze retracted her bid. I'm not going to explain it
again. If you don't want to know how it happened, please don't go back and reread my other two posts in this thread again.