the site is hanging up....
 

It looks as though the site is having a hiccup. There is a call into our hosting company. I will continue to call them every minute or two. We might have to make the extended bidding start a bit later or, at the very worst, have another auction close tomorrow night. Scott is out of pocket for another few minutes but I wanted to post as quick as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience and are working on it.

edited to add that I just now spoke to our hosting company (8:26pm CST) and they are working on it now. We will handle this the best way we can keeping our consignors and bidders in mind.

Now I can't even reach their website. I just get redirected to ask.com.


Steve

Breathe people...

I would not worry about. I am sure the issue will be fixed and there will be more than enough time for everybody to place bids. Can only imagine how many people sent poor Leon and Scott emails...

Good luck with the fix. Hopefully it's a minor issue. Keep us posted.
I never stopped breathing or sent any e-mails.

You are right Greg :)

In the overall scheme, this is but a "flesh wound".

But come on now, baseball cards is serious stuff for some of us ;)


Steve

You can click the link at the top of this page and get to the B & L home page easy enough...but when you click the "auction" icon nothing happens.

to reiterate
 

We are working on it folks. Hang in there. We will make it right for everyone and apologize very much.

Site
 

I can not get on either!

Seems to be working now.

It's back! Darn, I thought I was going to get off cheap!

Auction
 

I was able to log in just now. When I went to bid on a lot, it told me that the auction is over.

Nope, false alarm.

We are back up
 

We apolgize for the problems. Fortunately the way the auction is set up everyone can still bid on any lot they wish.

Scott and Leon

Outbid but managed to to on.

Rawn

Just was able to get in to bid, but it states the auction is now over......

I'm still not getting on-- Ok, now I am

on, but can't bid "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"

Todd,
Same here. I timed out after hitting the bid button. Just a little auction nite excitement.

That's a great side effect of the way you guys have the auction set to end - none of us expected the auction to end at 9:45 PM EST so the site being down a bit right now doesn't really matter.

Getting there but still funky. Just put in a bid and was told simultaneously that I am current high bidder and that my bid was too low and could not be accepted.

How long
 

do you have to place a bid and is it to late to register? Thanks

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Up momentarily
 

I was able to get one bid in but seems to be down again. No worries, I'll check back in an hour or so

Exactly.

Scratch that. Auction live again, but my bids time out when entered.
I will continue to try.

UPDATE: Bid finally taken. Whewww, I'm spent..... :p

Bedtime
 

Still can't bid. Been up since 4:30 am. Time for bed.

Auction site is acting FLAKY ! ?
 

It's 10 PM EST and cannot get thru to place bid or Auto Bid on my prevoius lot.


Very Frustrating...........

TED Z

Can't get in either...I'm sure they are working on it....but if no one bids for a period of time because it is down, I hope that doesn't close the auction....

I think it did close and they are working to reopen it.

It's open. It time out on me two times out of three, but when I did get on I bid and it took my bid as highest.

Auction Closed?
 

It looks like the auction has closed and reopened twice now! This is crazy!

I'm leaving for the evening....maybe you could place a bid for me Lean?:)

It is crazy, there are actually looting rioters in the streets of my neighborhood because of this!

I'm sure they'll get it all figured out and just end the auction tomorrow or something.

Damn it! This is frustrating.

Just got an email that's it's back open, but still can't get in. I'll keep trying.

folks
 

All we can say is we apologize. We might have to end the auction tomorrow evening instead of this evening but that is not confirmed yet. Scott and I will discuss it and post about it here and email all registered bidders shortly, say in the next 30 minutes or less. I am sure the hosting company is working on it but we have to make a decision in the best interest of our consignors, while keeping our bidders in mind too. We apologize for this catastrophe. It was very much beyond our control.

I forgive you.

Looks like they got it fixed...seems to be working AOK now...

[5 mins later...spoke too soon...]

The site seems to finally be back and stable again.

Not sure about the stable part. Managed to get a bid in a minute ago but then couldn't get back to the auction.

Jeff: Looting rioters, you say. That's just crazy. It's only old baseball cards.

Leon & Scott: Having fun yet?

I guess it is tomorrow...all the lots now have 22+ hours on them...

9:46 cst nope

I
 

was on there for a few minutes but now it's frozen up again...

the only thing we can do
 

It looks as though our host got hit with a Denial of Service (DOS) attack. Someone was jamming the lines with IP addresses and it was cratering the site. We can not be 100% certain it won't happen again. We have made a decision to extend this auction by 1 day. It will now end tomorrow evening, with "open ended" extended bidding starting at 9pm EST. There is really not much else we could do since many folks had other things to do and were not able to bid properly. Same rules, same everything but the "open ended" extended bidding will start tomorrow night (March 7th), at 9pm CST. We apologize very much and will also send an email to all registered bidders. We feel this is the fairest thing to do at this point. The systems changes have been made already.

Good call. See you tomorrow. Thanks for the update and keep smiling!

Addendum
 

Bidding is still open and will continue until 9:00 EST on Sunday evening March 7th, although it may be sporadic tonight while the entire system is scanned for the IP's wreaking havoc with our site. Apparently someone does not wish us good will.

Scott and Leon

Thanks for keeping us updated throughout, Leon/Scott. You did the best you could under the circumatances and made the right decision. Much tougher for bidders to deal with an all night auction tomorrow night with work on Monday but what can you do? Many of the auction houses regularly end their auctions on weeknights anyway........

If Rooster Boy knew as much about computers as he does about double wides and poultry molestation I would strongly suspect he was the source of the problems.

Another day?
 

I understand why you're doing it -- technology isn't always predictable -- but can I throw in a small plea from one insignificant bidder? Please drop the "extra 15 minute" rule. It's a sham. What's magic about 15 minutes? Why not keep the thing open an extra hour? Or a day? Or a week? Why ever close it? Eventually the really big spenders will find a way to amortize their earlier massive debts, probably with a federal subsidy, and find themselves able to outid the rest of the world. The longer the auction goes, the less likely it is that my top bid, based on what I can reasonably afford, will be able to survive.

This is, of course, great for those whose stuff is being auctioned. And for those with more money than brains. But not so good for the average collector.

Don't fret too much Scott & Leon.....you're not the first auction house this has happened to. I can remember at least two other auctions just this year that had to extend a day due to website issues.


Steve