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

ianrussell · November 27, 2022 5:08PM

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 · November 27, 2022 5:09PM

Postpone till when?

wondercoin · November 27, 2022 5:11PM

Postpone till when?

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

Wondercoin

TomB · November 27, 2022 5:13PM

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 · November 27, 2022 5:15PM

Davidcoins · November 27, 2022 5:16PM

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 · November 27, 2022 5:17PM

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

tennbjj · November 27, 2022 5:17PM

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

erwindoc · November 27, 2022 5:19PM

Dang! I was winning my two auctions too!

renomedphys · November 27, 2022 5:20PM

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 · November 27, 2022 5:22PM

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

Stingray63 · November 27, 2022 5:24PM

Not good. This is a big spending weekend.

ianrussell · November 27, 2022 5:25PM

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 · November 27, 2022 5:28PM

Thank you for the update, Ian!

Davidcoins · November 27, 2022 5:30PM

Thanks for the update!

Davidcoins · November 27, 2022 5:31PM

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 · November 27, 2022 5:35PM

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

wondercoin · November 27, 2022 5:36PM

‘’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 · November 27, 2022 5:54PM

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 · November 27, 2022 5:59PM

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 · November 27, 2022 5:59PM

@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 · November 27, 2022 6:00PM

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 · November 27, 2022 6:01PM

@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 · November 27, 2022 6:03PM

@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 · November 27, 2022 6:05PM

@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 · November 27, 2022 6:06PM

@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 · November 27, 2022 6:09PM

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 · November 27, 2022 6:15PM

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 · November 27, 2022 6:22PM

YIKES!

lermish · November 27, 2022 6:32PM

@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 · November 27, 2022 8:05PM

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 · November 27, 2022 8:16PM

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 · November 27, 2022 8:17PM

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

U1chicago · November 27, 2022 8:18PM

@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 · November 27, 2022 11:11PM

I can only see the notice screen as well

pcgscacgold · November 28, 2022 4:05AM

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

Rampage · November 28, 2022 5:23AM

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

Maywood · November 28, 2022 5:42AM

@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 · November 28, 2022 5:47AM

Patience. They are in Pacific time zone.

ricko · November 28, 2022 5:56AM

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 · November 28, 2022 6:19AM

@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 · November 28, 2022 6:19AM

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 · November 28, 2022 6:35AM

@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 · November 28, 2022 6:35AM

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

Catbert · November 28, 2022 7:34AM

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

and that was 5:30 am Pacific

Coin Finder · November 28, 2022 7:39AM

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 · November 28, 2022 7:48AM

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

pointfivezero · November 28, 2022 7:57AM

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

DeplorableDan · November 28, 2022 8:32AM

site is back online for me

Goldbully · November 28, 2022 8:35AM

@DeplorableDan said:
site is back online for me

Yup!

VanHalen · November 28, 2022 11:20AM

Get your bids in now.

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

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