MEARS lot "vanished"

[glchen]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

and when did Mears switch their closing method. They had been closing their auction like most others late into the night all at once, now all of sudden its on a lot by lot basis.

It'd be nice if they mentioned this. Go to place bids later in the night and everything was closed.

They lost money for them and their consignors.

A couple months ago when they closed the old way they had a countdown clock and closed the entire auction when it had 10 minutes on it. When they restart it every 20 mins or whatever they should at least close down the auction on one of the times the clock hits zero, they lost money from me on that one too.

I've had zero problems with any other auction house closing, and now twice with them, disappointing.

I think they changed this policy after an auction went on for an incredibly long time. Something like into the next day Eastern time, and then all of the East Coast bidders woke up, saw the auction was STILL going on, then had another few hours of continual bidding. I think that angered a lot of bidders, so Mears started looking into different auction ending procedures then.

[djson1]

I've noticed that Mears is a bit sloppy when it comes to auctions. I won an item once and was even mailed the invoice. But then they contacted me saying the consignor didn't get his minimum bid and that they messed up (by not bidding me up, I guess). So, they couldn't sell me the ball...weird.

Also, I personally have issues with auction houses that seem to never end their 'extended bidding clocks'. Why not just add a few hours back on then instead of always renewing the clock at 14 mins or so? And yes, I noticed this last Mears auction ended a lot earlier than their usual constant resetting of the clocks.

[UnVme7]

Originally Posted by djson1

I've noticed that Mears is a bit sloppy when it comes to auctions. I won an item once and was even mailed the invoice. But then they contacted me saying the consignor didn't get his minimum bid and that they messed up (by not bidding me up, I guess). So, they couldn't sell me the ball...

That doesn't sound like your problem to me...

[djson1]

Originally Posted by UnVme7

That doesn't sound like your problem to me...

Yeah, but there wasn't much I could do. It was just some messy auctioning.