I just got an email from them:
The server has been reset and bids are coming in. However, it is slow and some people have just been shut out
Out of fairness to everyone who has tried to get bids in, we are going to close tomorrow, Sunday, May 17th at 6:00pm Eastern
Extended bidding will begin Sunday at 6:00pm and we will go lot by lot close with the 30-minute rule at that time
We appreciate your bearing with us during this unprecedented response and traffic in our auction.
We were assured by our software provider they would be able to handle the unprecedented traffic we expected from this highly publicized auction, but the response overwhelmed them.
We suggest you use the extra time between now and 6:00pm Sunday to get in all your bids and use max bids if needed to protect your bids in case of system slowness as we approach extended bidding.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and are doing this our of fairness to all bidders and consignors so everyone has an equal chance.
Thank you!
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