[Cupid]

Great,

... and if you subsequently get a rejected Gixen bid I'm sure Mario will be very interested in taking that forward with Ebay directly... He closely monitors the support email address provided on the Contact page.

Actually, if you even get a rejection from a manual bid which you don't expect, that could be interesting too, especially if that rejection provides some information about what you can do to resolve being able to place the bid.

I don't know if you buy from the same sellers consistently, but if you do I'd be interested to hear of instances where you can bid manually on auctions from sellers where you've had restrictions of this type reported from Gixen snipes.