Why? It's a lottery system. Doesn't matter if you buy your cactpot ticket seconds after it opens or seconds before it closes. It's R N G. RANDOM number generator. period. Computer controlled random chance. Be as salty as you like, at least you don't get carpal tunnel from clicking placards for 8 hours, and still lose anyway. I try to be the first to bid regardless of how many others bid. I've been lucky, you haven't YET. Maybe bid on one last minute next time that doesn't have any/many bids already on it. It's not up to SE to fix your salt.