I am a person who will bid people up and I admit it and have no trouble with the concept. People do it to me too.
While it's true that I GENERALLY still want a locker I bid on (at a certain amount) I sometimes regret having made a last bid that landed me the locker...we all make mistakes sbell. But the point HERE is that I was fortunate that I had left and didn't get the locker. I was happy to find that out AFTER the fact.
Let us know however if you NEVER get a locker that stings you when you DO pay that last bid amount you were confident in. If you never get stung you ARE a rare buyer indeed.
Don't get me wrong, I completely understand what you are saying. You recognize that had you bought the locker, you would have lost money.
We've certainly all ended up making well-reasoned bids on a locker only to have it turn into a turkey. If someone claims that they have never lost money on a locker, he/she is as big of a liar as the guy who has to pump himself up by spewing self-aggrandizing stories. My point is only that until you are actually able to sort through the locker, you haven't lost any money, really. Until that point, you are still the wise speculator, making things happen.
In the case of the locker that you 'lost' but is offered to you at the end because the 'winner' defaulted, your point of view is still where it was when you were standing in front of the door calculating your 'drop dead' bid. Therefore, any one of us would likely still buy the locker if 1) we still have the cash in our pockets and 2) our last bid wasn't above that 'drop dead' price. Like many of us, I NEVER bid above my 'drop dead' price, so for us, only #1 applies.
Given all this, my takeaway from your ealier post still applies. It behooves us to stick around at the end because a locker that interests us just might once again become available.