KY Jon is absolutely right about early bidding on E bay or any other auction. All you do is give the competition time to think and decide to spend more. And I have always searched for Ithaca items under the correct spelling , and the incorrect spelling "Ithica." When you search under "Ithica" your only competition is guys who can't spell. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them.
I once was typing too fast when doing a search on E bay for French Walnut gunstock blanks. I misspelled it "Frech" walnut, and four nice two-piece blanks popped up listed with the same misspelling. I was the only bidder, and naturally won for the very reasonable starting bid. They actually had correct grain layout, unlike a lot of wood sold on E bay, and when the guy shipped them, he threw in four extra forend blanks. But good deals on E bay are few and far between anymore.
