REA fun!
 

I really like the closing times of REA auctions. 5 minute bid clock will push the action. No way it goes past midnight EST so its perfect for early risers such as myself. Good luck to everyone bidding!

Yep
 

The last day is always crazy...in a fun kind of way. You just hope you end up on top on at least one of the 72 lots on which you initially bid. :)

+1, and you kind of hope you get outbid on at least some of the lots that you are winning on, so you don't have to cover a $10,000.00 bill (speaking as an average joe, good luck to all of the Net54 highrollers!). :)

Is the site moving like molasses for everyone or is it just me that jesus hates enough to slow my internet speed down right at closing time?


edit: also some steals with 5 minutes left....whats the normal ending like, the price doubles in extended bidding?(meaning bids come and roughly the final price is about double what the initial closing time price was)

Moving slow for me. My bids are in. I’ll be bidding later of course.

Site definitely seems slow to me.

As far as the bidding increases in extended time, it can stay at the current price, or go up 10x. Depends on the item.

The site totally froze up (for me) at around 2:51 Pacific Time. Maybe it was just my computer, but infuriating either way. :mad:

Nothing is loading on my end....then my bids loaded and noticed one lot went up $500 while I still cant open the page, get a runtime error

Technical difficulties

We are aware of the site issues which are affecting users in certain parts of the United States. This is not a system-wide issue, but we have implemented all backups to ensure it flows smoothly for the rest of the night. Users may experience slight lagging, but the extended bidding period will not begin until all user servers are functioning at 100%. We expect this to be resolved shortly and will post an update when complete.

Thank you for your patience and apologies for the inconvenience.

Not only slow, but gives an error message to me after a long wait when I go to up my bid.:(

I guess that's the system preventing any extended bidding for now? I thought maybe just the clock was put on hold.

The site is back up and functioning for all users. Extended bidding will begin at 7 PM EST now due to the technical difficulties.

Where are we at this point?
 

Are we in extended bidding? Can I still place initial bids? What’s going on???

Initial bids for the next 5 minutes, then extended bidding opens.

Nice work getting it back up and running Brian. And thanks for the communication

Well 9PM and I'm out. One has to know when to quit. :rolleyes:

Sometimes you gotta say, "A man has to know his limitations." :D

dunno about "fun?" i feel like the auction is slowing down the whole internet...and my wallets getting sweaty!!!

Site is crawling here. Looking to increase a bid but keep getting system errors, guess it's telling me to just give up :(

Site not responding for me again

Extremely slow again
 

So slow I can’t even bid.

agreed

now we know why!

Earlier this evening an outage to our site affected users in certain areas of the United States and rendered the site unreachable as a result. To be fair to all bidders and consignors, we extended the initial bid deadline to 7 PM EST. Since then we've been monitoring the activity and things have been flowing smoothly with intermittent lagging.

AT THE BEST ADVICE OF OUR SERVICE PROVIDER, WE ARE TEMPORARILY TAKING DOWN THE SITE TO ADDRESS CAPACITY ISSUES. THIS IS ANTICIPATED TO TAKE TEN MINUTES. IDEALLY THIS WILL ADDRESS ALL LAGGING THAT IS BEING EXPERIENCED AND ALLOW THE FINAL HOURS OF THE AUCTION TO FLOW SMOOTHLY.

This decision is not being made lightly but we are confident that it will improve the user experience while still leaving several hours in extended bidding. The auction is still expected to end as planned.

We thank you for your patience and appreciate your participation.

They told me they’d be down until ?9

Very disappointing! I guess that’s all for me.

Anyone else still having issues getting on the site? I cant seem to get on right now.

Here in Boston Ma.
 

Having difficulty was logging in.

I can get on the homepage, but not the auction.

Same issue as others.

I have one item I was contemplating one last bid on. Perhaps this is divine intervention telling me no... :D

As a consigned, I’d urge you to reconsider. 😂

As of 8 minutes ago, we are back up and running and seeing much improved traffic flow.

We appreciate the patience and participation.

Works fine for me now. :)

And now it's down again. :(

Yep, down here too.

edit: Back up for me at 8:57 p CST

I'm out anyway...I hope the auction doesn't not end today as a result of these issues?

Back up

Working
 

Working on my end.

So now regular bidding ends at 10:15 ? I bid on 2 high dollar lots and I think this is ridiculous.

don't think
 

that's what was said. It seems fine now. I'm sure Brian will post something if there's a question.

Holy crap, that Claxton is moving...

I like when there is a minor auction closing night technical snafu of some sort and people act all outraged and shit ..... like we are bidding on life saving medications for our children or something really important.

We thank all participants for their patience during the short maintenance period earlier in which the site was offline. This was a necessary step to ensure smooth functionality for the remainder of the auction.

The auction will end as planned no later than 12 AM Midnight EST. The site is functioning as designed, all bidders and phone callers have been kept apprised of the situation, and all expected participants are engaged and bidding.

This will be one of two emails prior to the end of the auction. We encourage bidders to use Honest Auto Bid to avoid disappointment. That is the best way to ensure you are not locked out of the action.

The next e-mail will be a FAIR WARNING e-mail indicating that the close of the auction is imminent.

THE AUCTION WILL END PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT TO AVOID A CRUSH OF TRAFFIC. THE EXACT TIME WILL BE UNKNOWN SO PLEASE DO NOT DELAY ONCE THE FAIR WARNING E-MAIL IS RECEIVED!

The entire auction will close at once. It will not continue beyond Midnight EST under any circumstances!

Timed out on me again. Site gives me either runtime error message or "system error" message. Very disappointing.

+1.

I can't sign in.

It's working fine for me at the moment.

can't bid.

Seems to be the general consensus. No bidding

System error.

Yep

Being unable to bid is a minor technical snafu with the site apparently; what would be a major snafu? Brian comes to your house and stabs you to death?

I can't bid

Along with many others apparently

I'm still getting intermittent errors and/or general site slowness

Same here. Says "Runtime Error". Cannot get past it.

Can we change the title of this thread to "REA Funk"?

I can't bid now either. If you consigned Tango Eggs or Hires Test you got screwed, I had a few more bids left. Oh well, more in the war chest for Heritage and LOTG.

I can view my bids, but not open an item's page to bid on it. Wait, now nothing works, I just get a page saying: Server Error in '/' Application.

Same here.

I give/gave up
 

Somebody famous once said that you have to know when to fold ‘em or something like that. Somebody probably lost out because I was gonna go all eBay/museum price crazy just out of convenience in order to get five items I’ve wanted for too long.

Yikes.

Not really enjoying this as a consignor.

I’ve been collecting Old Judges for a long time but can someone please explain to me why the 1890 Old Judge Clement is at $1100. I know 1890 cards are scarcer, but unless you are collecting every variation in the set—so what. It’s an existing pose, one with a typically bad 1890 image. Unlike all Players’ League cards and many 1890 National League cards it does not portray a team change for the player. Whoever wants this card should also want the 1887, 1888 and 1889 Clement cards because they are no different, just another year of a Clement Philadelphia card. Amazing.

Guess I am the only one who thought this was hilarious...I mean, you were joking, right?

Possibly.

We thank all participants for their patience during tonight's server issues. We have been working tirelessly to address with our service providers.

Since our last e-mail, service to the site was interrupted and as a result we are extending the auction 30 minutes in accordance with section 25 of our Terms & Conditions to accommodate all bidders and consignors.

The auction will end no later than 12:30 AM EST.

This will be the FINAL EMAIL prior to the end of the auction. We encourage bidders to use Honest Auto Bid to avoid disappointment. That is the best way to ensure you are not locked out of the action.

There will be no warning as to exactly when the auction will end prior to 12:30 AM EST.

THE EXACT TIME WILL BE UNKNOWN SO PLEASE DO NOT DELAY! The entire auction will close at once.

They've extended their closing time to 12:30 AM. Still plenty of time for me to be outbid.

Oops, Brian beat me to it.

Still not letting me bid

Site down

Yep

Was able to adjust my bids about fifteen minutes ago but can't get bid-pages to load now. Tough to win an auction this way.

yep can't bid.

I've been outbid on everything i was going after, and have reached my limits, (unless I get caught up in things and bid beyond what I told myself I would :) )

Hope everyone gets the bids in they were intending. Hope the sellers get the prices they were hoping for (and more).

@Bryan, I'm sure the internet issues are making for a brutal evening. In our few interactions and when I consigned last auction you were always great. Hope this gets worked out in a way that works all around.

Good, so you won't see my bids which topped yours. Just the way I like it.

Shut it down...
 

Please make this stop.

No shame coming in second to you, Jeff. I respect your passion.

A song for our times
 

I read that it would close no later than midnight. It is 20 past.

It also seems like the site crashes every 5 minutes. It might be worth upgrading your technology so it can handle the load.