What's up with Mears???

[GoCubsGo32]

I'm giving up....it's getting late and I don't have the time or patience for it anymore.

The lot I'm bidding on isn't updating at all. So I have no clue still what the current price is, or if my bid made it and I'm the high bidder(?) or what.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by GoCubsGo32

I'm giving up....it's getting late and I don't have the time or patience for it anymore.

The lot I'm bidding on isn't updating at all. So I have no clue still what the current price is, or if my bid made it and I'm the high bidder(?) or what.

I wasn't alone? Imagine that Maybe Mike will call bids in for us.

[MikeKam]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I wasn't alone? Imagine that Maybe Mike will call bids in for us.

Scott, I meant using data on a phone rather than actually calling, it worked for me for some reason.

[Runscott]

Thanks Mike - I thought I had rubbed you wrong and not realized it. I do that quite often

Quite frankly, I'm worn out. I think a lot of people bid when they are bored and it is easy to do so, whereas they would skip the auction altogether if it has a lot of issues. This one is like that for me. If I could get my page up showing the status of each lot, I would almost certainly throw bids in every now and then.

Example: I checked out H&S a couple of weeks ago on closing night, purely because I happened to be on my computer and ran across the link a few hours before it closed. I ended up sending them a check for over $4,000. If their software had the problems that Mears is having tonight, I wouldn't have won anything. That could be read as me being stupid, or it could be read as H&S successfully inducing bidding through making it easy - similar to the McDonald's lady asking me if I want a hot apple pie that I didn't realize I wanted.

Mears - I might have eaten a hot apple pie tonight.

[MikeKam]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Thanks Mike - I thought I had rubbed you wrong and not realized it. I do that quite often

Quite frankly, I'm worn out. I think a lot of people bid when they are bored and it is easy to do so, whereas they would skip the auction altogether if it has a lot of issues. This one is like that for me. If I could get my page up showing the status of each lot, I would almost certainly throw bids in every now and then.

Example: I checked out H&S a couple of weeks ago on closing night, purely because I happened to be on my computer and ran across the link a few hours before it closed. I ended up sending them a check for over $4,000. If their software had the problems that Mears is having tonight, I wouldn't have won anything. That could be read as me being stupid, or it could be read as H&S successfully inducing bidding through making it easy - similar to the McDonald's lady asking me if I want a hot apple pie that I didn't realize I wanted.

Mears - I might have eaten a hot apple pie tonight.

No problem haha, I'm 20 years old, phoning in a bid did not even cross my mind

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by MikeKam

No problem haha, I'm 20 years old, phoning in a bid did not even cross my mind

Phoning in bids is actually fun. I miss the short personal interaction with guys like Barry Sloate and Lew Lipset. I'm sorry that you never got a chance to experience that...and the amazing esoteric items that helped many of us expand our interests to things other than cards.

I did call and talk with Troy during the Mears auction referenced at the beginning of this thread. He was very helpful and working hard to get things back to normal. This time I wasn't up for that.

[MikeKam]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Phoning in bids is actually fun. I miss the short personal interaction with guys like Barry Sloate and Lew Lipset. I'm sorry that you never got a chance to experience that...and the amazing esoteric items that helped many of us expand our interests to things other than cards.

I did call and talk with Troy during the Mears auction referenced at the beginning of this thread. He was very helpful and working hard to get things back to normal. This time I wasn't up for that.

I'm assuming it was more reliable but a lot more hectic than online bidding

[bobfreedman]

We have determined that there was a denial of service attack against MEARS's web site. We do not yet know who currently were responsible but we will find out sometime tomorrow. We have since shut down those IP addresses that were causing the outages and things seem to be running smoother. If you are a legitimate bidder and cannot get in, please let me know by emailing me at bob@simpleauctionsite.com and give me your name and email address and I will reinstate your IP address. I apologize for the issues you may have incurred.

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