Simple Auctions Hacked Again

[Kenny Cole]

Originally Posted by BRoberts

Why in the world does someone have to talk to Al or Lee to determine whether switching auction providers is cost prohibitive? What might be cost prohibitive to Al might not be to Scott. Or Ken Goldin. or Kenny Cole.

Scott says he has done it, and it wasn't cost prohibitive. Just because Al and Lee say it is, that invalidates Scott's opinion? Having trouble following your logic, Kenny.

They aren't nearly on the same site, nor do their respective sites even remotely have the same features or functionality. That is a huge difference. And that is why what works for Scott may not come even close to working for Al, Lee, Goldin, or whoever. That is also why I don't think Scott can presume to speak about what works for Al or vice versa. Opinions are only as valid as the information upon which they are based. That is and has been my point.

[perezfan]

Yes, the situation is more complex than 90% of people here seem to comprehend. Probably best not to comment unless you have worn the other man's shoes.

As for SAS.... at least this latest outage was the result of taking proactive measures to combat the issue moving forward. Did it take longer than desired? Of course... it sucks. But it's a good bet that these annoying measures will protect against something far worse.

Other servers should probably be doing the exact same right about now, as ransomware attacks have now become the #1 form of international terrorism.

[Stampsfan]

Interesting comments, especially about migrating data from one software provider to another. However, some of the comments indicate that SAS is not used for the larger AH's. Is this truth or conjecture? Also, developing your own proprietary auction (and inventory) systems is not an inexpensive undertaking.

I am old enough to have worked for companies that developed their own accounting, payroll, and inventory systems, but that just is not the way things are done now. I would assume that AH's would pay to use a cloud based (SaaS) inventory application, coupled with auction type software.

Are there larger auction house type software that the biggies are using, other that SAS?

More curious than anything... Thanks.

[notfast]

It’s weird to me the perceived loyalty that members have here to an auction hosting site/AH that has had repeated issues. This isn’t a one or even two or even three time issue.

I don’t know the logistics of a specific solution, but there has to be another way to go.

[GeoPoto]

You have to shoot ducks where they fly.

[Shamus]

As a bidder I prefer the nuisance shutdowns to the in-house shill bidding that was prevalent when the auction houses controlled the servers. Lesser of two evils.

As a consignor I wouldn't be thrilled with the stop and go format created by the hacks.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by Shamus

As a bidder I prefer the nuisance shutdowns to the in-house shill bidding that was prevalent when the auction houses controlled the servers. Lesser of two evils.

As a consignor I wouldn't be thrilled with the stop and go format created by the hacks.

Welcome to the board. Please post your full name since you're making a comment about an auction company.

You may have forgotten (or not known) that many of SAS's auction houses have had the ability to see your max bid. So saying that this way beats in-house software is not correct in this case.

Do they still have that option? That they have to manually turn off seeing Max Bids placed using SAS websites?