Goldin

[Topnotchsy]

Am I wrong, or did Goldin just extend the auction that was supposed to end tonight for another 24 hours without making an announcement or releasing a statement?

Edit: Got an email at 10:28 EST. Around 26 minutes after they extended the auction for the day.

[sycks22]

I thought it was going to be in extended bidding, then I see another day. I'm equally confused.

[Thromdog]

email just came out.....24 hours added.

Think they will retract all bids after 9PM Cent/10PM Eastern? Seems they let everyone expose their bidding strategies.

[Topnotchsy]

Originally Posted by sycks22

I thought it was going to be in extended bidding, then I see another day. I'm equally confused.

It seemed like the site was slow for maybe the last 5 minutes before extended bidding. Not sure if that is what did it.

But with millions of dollars of items up for bid, and sellers and bidders watching and waiting, it seems like a decision like that warrants a tweet at the very least.

[Mark17]

I was high bidder on a few items as time was ticking down, and pretty happy about that.............................................. ....

Only to discover that, yet again, there will be an extra day added to the auction.

[philo98]

Why even hold an auction if the plans are to move everything to their own network. Get everything moved over, test it, then have the auction. How many times can the same mistake be repeated. Its essentially incompetence.


Due to a server crash to overwhelming traffic spike, per our prior messaging if such an event occurs , the auction will now close Tomorrow Monday August 8th at 10pm eastern for initial bidding . All session 2 lots will remain open until then. We are sorry for the inconvenience and remind everyone we have been working aggressively to get off our existing 3rd party platform and onto our own network powered by AWS. This will be occurring shortly so we can avoid these issues and handle any traffic demands. The auction remains open and bids may be placed at https://goldinauctions.com/catalog.aspx

[Topnotchsy]

Originally Posted by philo98

Why even hold an auction if the plans are to move everything to their own network. Get everything moved over, test it, then have the auction. How many times can the same mistake be repeated. Its essentially incompetence.


Due to a server crash to overwhelming traffic spike, per our prior messaging if such an event occurs , the auction will now close Tomorrow Monday August 8th at 10pm eastern for initial bidding . All session 2 lots will remain open until then. We are sorry for the inconvenience and remind everyone we have been working aggressively to get off our existing 3rd party platform and onto our own network powered by AWS. This will be occurring shortly so we can avoid these issues and handle any traffic demands. The auction remains open and bids may be placed at https://goldinauctions.com/catalog.aspx

With over 8,000 lots in this auction (I believe that is the largest they ever had) I understand running the auction. I'm more confused why they didn't use some of the precautions they instituted in the past around auction closing.

Edit: And I wish there was more communication. If there were traffic issues for 2 hours before the end of the auction (I only noticed issues in the last 2-3 when it seemed slow, but others may have had a different experience), then they should have posted something earlier. Not wait until everyone submitted their final bids that they could get in, bid on auctions they thought were in extended bidding etc. and then announce that they are adding a day to the auction.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Mark17

I was high bidder on a few items as time was ticking down, and pretty happy about that.............................................. ....

Only to discover that, yet again, there will be an extra day added to the auction.

Sisyphian. That sucks. Good luck tomorrow.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Sisyphian. That sucks. Good luck tomorrow.

I'm done bidding. Either my bids that would've won tonight hold up or they don't. I'm not playing this game.

Usually when a company continues to have problems that go unresolved like this, it's to the company's detriment. In this case, another day just means, on some lots, more and higher bids.

[NYYFan63]

https://twitter.com/goldinauctions/s...288432129?s=21


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[robertsmithnocure]

[QUOTE=NYYFan63;2131717]https://twitter.com/goldinauctions/s...288432129?s=21

Due to an unprecedented high level of web traffic. They need to get that figured out.

[mrreality68]

[QUOTE=robertsmithnocure;2131731]

Originally Posted by NYYFan63

https://twitter.com/goldinauctions/s...288432129?s=21

They always blame it on an unprecedented high level of web traffic. LOL.

hopefully it is not a "tactic". To get another "final days and final Hours" of potential bids to drive up the auction prices and thus there Buyer Premium.
Although also good for the consigner

[tbob]

Their lot descriptions on ungraded cards leave a lot to be desired. How can you sell a complete set of 1965 Topps cards ungraded with the only description Fair to New Mint??? I asked for at least a generic breakdown like ‘10% NM, 25%EX to EXMT, 50% VG/VG+, balance F/G’ and although they promised in an email they would send me one, they never did. Cards Fair to NearMint? Wow.

[notfast]

Same sh-t, different day

This isn’t the first or 10th time this has happened with Goldin. I hardly pay attention to their auctions anymore because it’s always something with the “server” that a fix has been “in the works” for about a year now

[nwfsteve]

What I bid ended up holding overnight, and the issue on my PC was clearly slow but not totally down. But we needed a banner flash for sure. And terms and conditions should be rewritten to clarify their duties and what happens to bids in such circumstances.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by nwfsteve

What I bid ended up holding overnight, and the issue on my PC was clearly slow but not totally down. But we needed a banner flash for sure. And terms and conditions should be rewritten to clarify their duties and what happens to bids in such circumstances.

Congrats on the win Steve. I would only say with all their famous fancy investors, bullshit YouTube hype, and media marketing, the one thing they should get right is process. That's if they cared about folks like us of course.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Congrats on the win Steve. I would only say with all their famous fancy investors, bullshit YouTube hype, and media marketing, the one thing they should get right is process. That's if they cared about folks like us of course.

Hey now, it's the auction house for the millennial crypto iPhone twitter Instagram snapchat tshirt exquisite national treasure prizm 1/1 investor sneaker gem rate age. Get on board!!