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runscottYou have to get all of your initial bids in by a certain time. After that time you can only bid on items you've got an initial bid in for. Others (fewer) allow you to bid on ANY items, provided you have an initial bid in for at least ONE item.
Having thrown away the AM catalog soon after receiving it, I can't say how their auctions work, but if it's the first type of auction you should have gotten the item for minimum bid, if what you claim is accurate.
The way I handle this sort of thing - I bid what I'm willing to pay and if I win and things smell "fishy", I pay the invoice and then avoid the auction in the future. For instance, if I had ceiling bids in on six items and won all six for my exact ceiling bid, and this pattern repeated itself, I would consider avoiding that auction house. But to be honest with you, I have heard nasty stories about almost all of the auction houses, and if we avoided all of them, we would have to limit ourselves to ebay...yucch.