GC Auction Extended 48 Hours - Now End Tuesday, November 29th

ianrussell

About 45 minutes ago, a third-party network issue surfaced that could not be completely rectified before the auctions started to end. Out of an abundance of caution, we are extending the end times of our auctions today until Tuesday afternoon (ie. 48 hours from now).

We have held auctions over the past 600-odd Sundays, and this is only the second time we have had to take such action (the first was caused by a major East Coast outage).

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

• Ian

JerseyB

Postpone till when?

wondercoin

Postpone till when?

When I tried to sign in, it said back in “599 minutes”.

Wondercoin

TomB

It must have just happened to folks in my area as I was on the site less than an hour ago and everything was working well. Good luck getting this straightened out.

Goldbully

Davidcoins

Thanks for the update Ian! I'm sorry to hear you're having to deal with this headache!

Can we roll our coins over to next Sunday? No worries on the delay, these things happen! Thanks for keeping us updated, I hope it all resolves soon so you can rest ❤️

@ianrussell said:
For the second time in our history, we have had to postpone the auctions today due to an unforeseen network outage affecting a large part of the U.S. We are still looking into this - and will report back soon.

Flatwoods

It seemed to go down about 7 EST when a million people were logging on. Worked ok for me until then too.

tennbjj

Can I suggest you also post this to your Twitter, Facebook, etc. feed?

erwindoc

Dang! I was winning my two auctions too!

renomedphys

I'm actually bidding on lots that are affected. Wasn't able to get my last bids in. How will I know when to go back again?

Coin Finder

Sorry this happened, maybe the snipers will learn from this!

Stingray63

Not good. This is a big spending weekend.

ianrussell

Today's Auction End Times Extended 48 Hours - Now End Tuesday, November 29th.

About 45 minutes ago, a third-party network issue surfaced that could not be completely rectified before the auctions started to end. Out of an abundance of caution, we are extending the end times of our auctions today until Tuesday afternoon (ie. 48 hours from now).

We have held auctions over the past 600-odd Sundays, and this is only the second time we have had to take such action (the first was caused by a major East Coast outage).

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

• Ian

DisneyFan

Thank you for the update, Ian!

Davidcoins

Thanks for the update!

Davidcoins

Can we request to have our auctions delayed until next Sunday? Ending on a Sunday afternoon seems more convenient of a day then a work day, can we do Sunday instead?

Goldbully

As of now................

wondercoin

‘’Can we request to have our auctions delayed until next Sunday? Ending on a Sunday afternoon seems more convenient of a day then a work day, can we do Sunday instead?’’

I see no issue at all with Ian’s decision. I would have an issue with every consignor in this sale getting to decide which day of the week they would like their coins to end. Would create extreme difficulty for the bidders planning to bid on the coins in this sale.

Just my 2 cents.

Wondercoin

pcgscacgold

Still down at this time. No access to the site.

I had 35 things up for auction tonight. My first time using GC. I hope the bidders return on Tuesday to bid. The last time this happened I won 4 gold coins at very low prices.

renomedphys

I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I was going to try and buy something really pricey and the world ONCE AGAIN has conspired to keep that from happening. THANKS, WORLD!

CoinPhysicist

@pcgscacgold said:
Still down at this time. No access to the site.

I had 35 things up for auction tonight. My first time using GC. I hope the bidders return on Tuesday to bid. The last time this happened I won 4 gold coins at very low prices.

I bid on the double eagles every week. They have not been going for "low prices" the past few weeks. In my experience they are selling for 1 or 2 more bid increments than they were a month ago.

wondercoin

I reviewed a large % of this auction about 1-2 hours before the outage and prices overall were looking pretty strong. So, they will only get better between now and Tuesday IMHO.

Wondercoin

pcgscacgold

@CoinPhysicist said:

@pcgscacgold said:
Still down at this time. No access to the site.

I had 35 things up for auction tonight. My first time using GC. I hope the bidders return on Tuesday to bid. The last time this happened I won 4 gold coins at very low prices.

I bid on the double eagles every week. They have not been going for "low prices" the past few weeks. In my experience they are selling for 1 or 2 more bid increments than they were a month ago.

My comment was for the last time the auction ended on a Tuesday due to tech problems. Not the normal Sunday auction. I guess we will see if you have the same competitors on Tuesday as you would have had tonight.

habaraca

@thebigeng said:
Sorry this happened, maybe the snipers will learn from this!

So WHAT you have against snipers???
Pretty nasty comment to my thinking

CoinPhysicist

@pcgscacgold said:

@CoinPhysicist said:

@pcgscacgold said:
Still down at this time. No access to the site.

I had 35 things up for auction tonight. My first time using GC. I hope the bidders return on Tuesday to bid. The last time this happened I won 4 gold coins at very low prices.

I bid on the double eagles every week. They have not been going for "low prices" the past few weeks. In my experience they are selling for 1 or 2 more bid increments than they were a month ago.

My comment was for the last time the auction ended on a Tuesday due to tech problems. Not the normal Sunday auction. I guess we will see if you have the same competitors on Tuesday as you would have had tonight.

Fair enough. I think a lot of the bidding on the double eagles has already been done if memory serves me right. I don't remember though. They typically don't normally get bid up that much at the last minute, but they do over the course of the last day.

U1chicago

@pcgscacgold said:
Still down at this time. No access to the site.

I had 35 things up for auction tonight. My first time using GC. I hope the bidders return on Tuesday to bid. The last time this happened I won 4 gold coins at very low prices.

I had some bids in on your Carr pieces. Usually there is more action at the end and I think it will still happen Tuesday. It might not be as strong as on a Sunday evening but I doubt there will be too many items going for below market values.

pcgscacgold

Thanks for the info @U1chicago
I had not checked in a few hours. One item had an $8 bid and two were at melt.

pcgscacgold

I will add that it has been a great experience using Great Collections. I will use them again in the future. Ian was responsive to questions early on with my submission and all items had bids the second day posted.

jclovescoins

YIKES!

lermish

@wondercoin said:
I reviewed a large % of this auction about 1-2 hours before the outage and prices overall were looking pretty strong. So, they will only get better between now and Tuesday IMHO.

Wondercoin

I had half a dozen fairly strong bids (guide or higher) in on various type coins and was blown out on all but one by yesterday. Leading on the last one by a few increments but I agree... STRONG prices thus far (at least what I was bidding on)

FranklinHalfAddict

Is anyone able to log onto the site at all? I can’t even view the home page at the time of this post.

jdimmick

I had forgot to go back and check an possibly bid on something, then saw the notice. I m glad for the consigners, very slow unresponsive connections to the server

VanHalen

I real feel for Ian and Raylene. Extending the auctions 48 hours sounds great.

U1chicago

@FranklinHalfAddict said:
Is anyone able to log onto the site at all? I can’t even view the home page at the time of this post.

I still can't get beyond the notice screen as of this posting.

Davidcoins

I can only see the notice screen as well

pcgscacgold

The site is still not working as of this time. I hope it is back up soon.

Rampage

I hope it gets resolved soon. Still not working as of this post.

Maywood

@Rampage said: I hope it gets resolved soon. Still not working as of this post.

Agreed, if it isn't fixed soon there'll be another extension. It's now 7:40am EDT and it isn't fixed.

Catbert

Patience. They are in Pacific time zone.

ricko

Now that is unfortunate. I was not bidding on anything right now, but certainly adds a bit of complexity to the auction process. Cheers, RickO

1madman

@Maywood said:
@Rampage said: I hope it gets resolved soon. Still not working as of this post.

Agreed, if it isn't fixed soon there'll be another extension. It's now 7:40am EDT and it isn't fixed.

I find it facinating that the auctions have been available to bid on for at least 2 weeks, and people are trying desperately to bid on coins now which end in approximately 36 hours? My initial thought when I saw the outage was that the auction prices were going to end lower than expected due to being changed to Tuesday. Now I’m thinking prices will be higher than expected due to this sudden surge in demand?

jshaulis

My wife asked me about 10 last night if I won anything, it had completely slipped my mind. Tuesday is round 2.....unless I forget again.

FranklinHalfAddict

@1madman said:

@Maywood said:
@Rampage said: I hope it gets resolved soon. Still not working as of this post.

Agreed, if it isn't fixed soon there'll be another extension. It's now 7:40am EDT and it isn't fixed.

I find it facinating that the auctions have been available to bid on for at least 2 weeks, and people are trying desperately to bid on coins now which end in approximately 36 hours? My initial thought when I saw the outage was that the auction prices were going to end lower than expected due to being changed to Tuesday. Now I’m thinking prices will be higher than expected due to this sudden surge in demand?

I place an initial bid when I find the auction, usually two weeks before it ends. Then I come back and place a last minute bid within last 10-15 seconds in the case I get outbid I can make the quick decision to increase my bid or not.
It seems that’s the way most bidders do things as the winning bid usually doubles, triples or more within the last 15 seconds.

In this particular case the delay helped me a lot as I am away with family for thanksgiving and was distracted and missed what would have been the normal auction end. I know if I just placed my max bid right off the bat I wouldn’t have had to worry about missing the end, but that’s not how I do things.

FranklinHalfAddict

Also, still no access to the website as of 8:30 eastern.

Catbert

@FranklinHalfAddict said:
Also, still no access to the website as of 8:30 eastern.

and that was 5:30 am Pacific

Coin Finder

Well, this would be a great time to upgrade if they needed to. I don't know what happened but take advantage of the down time to improve the reliability would be a good thing..

Catbert

"Our full website will be operational later today (Monday), and we will e-mail all registered users at that time."

pointfivezero

As someone who works in IT, it can be very hard to predict an exact restoration time. Especially when a third party is involved in the equation.

Tim

PeakRarities

site is back online for me

Goldbully

@DeplorableDan said:
site is back online for me

Yup!

VanHalen

Get your bids in now.