Tom; Personally, I like the BIN provision. Many times when I get engaged in bidding ... others seem to jump in because I'm bidding on an item. Rather than get into bidding wars... I prefer to excersize the BIN option if I'm the first bidder and avoid the incremental bidding that is sure to follow as soon as I open up a bid. Here are two recent examples. Look at Items #3257284514 and #3257284514