Bruce asked me to post this...
To all registered bidders in eMoviePoster.com auctions:
For the first time in nearly 2,000 sets of auctions, our website crashed just as the first of our 999 auctions were closing. Our galleries and our entire site was "down" for 37 minutes, and only those who had direct links to actual closing auctions could place bids, and of course, many hundreds of people could not place bids at all.
As is clearly noted on every auction, we reserve the right to extend auctions by 24 hours if this happens as the auctions are closing, and so, for the first time since we went to our own auctions on our own site 10 years ago, we HAVE extended all auctions by 24 hours, so they all now end one day after they were originally supposed to (on Friday, August 13th).
We are working very hard to get our auction galleries updated to reflect the new closing times, but that may take a while, as it is very complicated. and while we HAVE fixed many of the problems with the website, a few still remain (but we should surely have those remaining issues fixed soon, or at the latest early on Friday).
BUT HERE IS WHERE THINGS STAND FOR NOW:
If you were planning on bidding on any of the 999 auctions we had closing today, Thursday the 12th, know that you now have roughly 24 additional hours in which to do so, and that they will all begin closing at 7 PM CST Friday, six seconds apart, exactly as they were originally going to on Thursday.
And any of you who were the high bidder on the first 400 or so items that appeared to close while our site was completely down, know that you did NOT win those items. However, ALL BIDS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY PLACED ARE STILL "THERE" and if you were the high bidder when the outage occurred and no additional bids are placed during the extended time, you WILL win those items for your previous high bid, but you will have to wait until Friday to find out (and of course you CAN place additional bids on any of the 999 items, either now or at any time until the close in the usual way on Friday).
And you CAN be outbid on any of the items if someone now places a higher bid than you, so please review your bids as the auctions close (or sooner) to see if you were outbid (and of course you can then bid again).
And of course we VERY MUCH apologize to ALL our bidders for this inconvenience. I realize this is not a perfect solution, but it is the one that is most fair to all bidders. Thanks for your understanding during this most trying time.
Bruce
eMoviePoster.com
