[mockingbird812]

My experience with R&S: Early sign up (August or so) may allow you to avoid entry fee altogether or at most a nominal fee ($100 to $150). Your car, generally, will drive what slot it gets. They will not put a $25K car shortly before (or after) a $300K car. The flow of the auction is like a sine wave (gradually ramping up in value then ebbing in value and so on) The auction house wants to draw in the big spenders by putting prestigious/rare/well done/desirable cars in the hot slots such as 8:00 pm. on Fri or Sat. Of course there are exceptions to the rules too that seem to defy logic.