Bargains at Auction End

It's become clear to me that the best auction bargains are often at the end of the auction, not at the beginning. At the end, the bidding is just less intense - whether due to exhaustion on the part of the audience, or a thinning out of dealers, or a lack of any more cash on the part of the remaining people, or whatever. It didn't occur to me that attending the end instead of the beginning deliberately might be a good strategy until I was forced to do so because of work. Coming in late, and fresh, really helped (I got a set of Candlewick cups and saucers for next to nothing in one, and several boxes of good glass at another), so I've started going late - very late - to auctions.