Simple Auctions Hacked Again

[notfast]

I just don’t understand why these auction houses, that are “breaking records” left and right, are putting up with this. I’m sure consigners don’t like their 6-7 figure cards being for sale on websites that go down so often.

[RedsFan1941]

i knew a guy once whose roof was damaged by high winds and started leaking. he put a couple blue tarps on his roof over the trouble spots. he left those tarps up for years even though they didn't fix the problem. but they were cheaper than a new roof.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by RedsFan1941

i knew a guy once whose roof was damaged by high winds and started leaking. he put a couple blue tarps on his roof over the trouble spots. he left those tarps up for years even though they didn't fix the problem. but they were cheaper than a new roof.

The problem with your analogy is that it's the guy's roof and if he made a poor decision, ultimately he's assuming all the risk.

In this case there's a problem at the top and it is trickling down to affect a bunch of AH, and those who do business with them. And nobody seems to be able to say conclusively what, exactly, that impact and potential risk is.

[RedsFan1941]

Originally Posted by Mark17

The problem with your analogy is that it's the guy's roof and if he made a poor decision, ultimately he's assuming all the risk.

In this case there's a problem at the top and it is trickling down to affect a bunch of AH, and those who do business with them. And nobody seems to be able to say conclusively what, exactly, that impact and potential risk is.

the problem with my analogy is that it was too hard for you to follow.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by RedsFan1941

the problem with my analogy is that it was too hard for you to follow.

Your analogy was to simpleton to be applicable here.

[notfast]

Guess they won’t be back up today.

AH better hope their stuff sells well or they are going to have some annoyed consignors.

[mantlefan]

"The decision was also made to install redundant security measures to prevent future attacks. "

Why wasn't this done after the first hack?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by notfast

I just don’t understand why these auction houses, that are “breaking records” left and right, are putting up with this. I’m sure consigners don’t like their 6-7 figure cards being for sale on websites that go down so often.

They seem to be very loyal to Bob, for whatever reason?

[okumeister]

Nevermind

[Exhibitman]

The servers will be back up on Saturday, er, Sunday. Monday morning absolutely, or possibly Tuesday...

[perezfan]

It’s a valid rant. As a consignor, I’d be pissed as well. Consignors should be kept in the loop and should be the first to receive info/updates. I don’t think the outage will negatively affect most prices in the end, provided they are back up and running today. Most of the serious bidding occurs at the end, and many of these auctions run a lot longer in duration than is really needed.

But you still want as many eyes as possible, and a few potential bidders could be missed because of the weekend outage. It’s aggravating as hell.

As far as switching servers, it is more complex than most people realize. A tremendous amount of work and expense is involved. From my understanding, SAS (despite the current issues) has a unique and turnkey platform on both the front and back ends. They have unique features which allow for ease of listing, invoicing and shipping that other companies simply do not offer.

That said, it’s still a clusterf*ck