Robert Edwards Auctions STILL going strong at 8:15 AM Est!!!!

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

This is venturing on the absurd. Find me one consignor who prefers a dysfunctional AH even if their policy is to add a day in the event of a meltdown. And find me one AH that actually is happy when their system crashes or doesn't really try to fix it because it's a revenue booster.

When such technological problems first started occurring in some lesser auction houses here and there, it was bad news for them. But now over time it seems that eventually all the auction houses, especially some of the major ones, have ended up occasionally having a technology issue here and there (not every single one, but a lot of them). So, it ends up getting accepted and overlooked. Kind of along the same lines of what came out from your thread about the 3-year anniversary of the scandal. No one really likes it, but it also appears no one is specifically being punished for it either, and business just goes on as usual.

And not only does stuff trump everything, so does the money that pays for the stuff. REA still set some record prices, and how much more in bids did they bring in for some of their consignors because of the added day due to the tech glitch? These tech problems are not so new and isolated anymore that they end up having such a negative impact and stigma attached to the auction houses they happen to. At least I don't think so.