Incidentally, our policy is that if the auction host is down when auctions close, those exact auctions are cancelled and those items only are re-auctioned.
We have never had to do this even for one auction in our four years being hosted by AuctionAnything.com, but it came up several times in our years with eBay, including once in one of our Vintage Hollywood Posters auctions. On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Bruce Hershenson <[email protected] > wrote: > Around one hour ago, the site of our auction host (who actually conducts > our auctions), AuctionAnything.com went completely down. > > This means that while the galleries on our site still worked, no one could > place a bid on any of our current auctions during that time. > > *THE PROBLEM WAS JUST FIXED, AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL NOT RE-OCCUR!* > > Anyone who has followed our auctions the past four years knows that > AuctionAnything.com has had a remarkably consistent record of remaining > available at all times, and this is far and away their longest outage ever > (in the past, there have only been a few, and those were for a few minutes > each). > > We very much apologize to anyone who was trying to bid during this one > hour period, but we are not the actual auctioneer (just like those who sell > on eBay), so we have no control over this element of the auctions. We hope > that they can find the problem and ensure it does not reoccur. > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 26 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. Box 874 > West Plains, MO 65775 > Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we > take lunch) > our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> > our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> > > > > -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 26 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
