This will be behind us soon and next time we can get back to the ritual banter about the catalog and its arrival, the breathless wow just wows, the bids placed!, and so forth.
Fortunately my too-high bid held up although it got bumped a couple of levels in the extended bidding. So it goes. I think it's hard to know what would have happened on Sunday night if the site had not had issues, and I think no matter what REA did some part of their constituency would have been pissed off.