Clearing up some confusion.
Hey guys,
First of all, if you haven't already ALL WINNERS please read THIS POST. Thank you!
Second, just want to clear up some confusion that some people seem to be having when the auctions ended. Tanya screened comments EXACTLY at 11:59 P.M. Eastern time. She made sure. She double made sure, triple made sure. In fact, I'm pretty sure she was working herself sick to make sure she did it exactly right and exactly at the right time. So please do not fault Tanya for that. As soon as Tanya screened comments, the auction and bidding were officially over.
The reason we screened comments was so we can freeze all the threads to prevent ANYONE from bidding after the auction was over. Also, so we can weed out any comments that happened to come through at the very last minute AFTER the auction was over. After we did that, we then unscreened all the bids that were valid as well as the highest winning bid at the end of each thread. All bids that are visible are the valid bids. Meaning, the comment boxes on those bids are BLUE not gray. A gray box means your comment was screened, therefore not valid.
Also, Tanya and I get every single bidding notification sent to our emails. Even if someone changes, deletes, or edits their bids, we still get them. We get all the original bids, as well as every other bid they make after that. So we have every single bid in our emails. So to be even more thorough, right when Tanya screened all the comments we monitored our emails and made sure that every bid that came AFTER the auction was OVER, did not count. We hopefully didn't make any mistakes. We went over everything about five times over.
So I hope this clears up some confusion.
We understand perfectly the frustration and sadness some of you are feeling over losing your bid on your favorite entertainer, we really do. Be it Livejournal messed up for you the last minute, or your clock was a minute off, or your computer/browser froze, you have our sympathies and we are sorry that happened to you. However, since Livejournal was up and running about the last seven hours of our auction, we went through with it. And several bids and a majority of people were still able to get through. So their bids will stand.
Again, so very sorry and we understand the frustration. But we also truly hope that you all also understand that in the long run, you were doing what you could to help Japan. That ultimately even though winning a personalized message from your favorite entertainer was AMAZING inspiration, which is why we started this charity in the first place, your donations are going towards a country in great need of help right now. So we still encourage you to donate to all the various charities helping out Japan even if you did not win.
Again, thank SO SO MUCH for your time and generosity.
- Tanya and Moey
First of all, if you haven't already ALL WINNERS please read THIS POST. Thank you!
Second, just want to clear up some confusion that some people seem to be having when the auctions ended. Tanya screened comments EXACTLY at 11:59 P.M. Eastern time. She made sure. She double made sure, triple made sure. In fact, I'm pretty sure she was working herself sick to make sure she did it exactly right and exactly at the right time. So please do not fault Tanya for that. As soon as Tanya screened comments, the auction and bidding were officially over.
The reason we screened comments was so we can freeze all the threads to prevent ANYONE from bidding after the auction was over. Also, so we can weed out any comments that happened to come through at the very last minute AFTER the auction was over. After we did that, we then unscreened all the bids that were valid as well as the highest winning bid at the end of each thread. All bids that are visible are the valid bids. Meaning, the comment boxes on those bids are BLUE not gray. A gray box means your comment was screened, therefore not valid.
Also, Tanya and I get every single bidding notification sent to our emails. Even if someone changes, deletes, or edits their bids, we still get them. We get all the original bids, as well as every other bid they make after that. So we have every single bid in our emails. So to be even more thorough, right when Tanya screened all the comments we monitored our emails and made sure that every bid that came AFTER the auction was OVER, did not count. We hopefully didn't make any mistakes. We went over everything about five times over.
So I hope this clears up some confusion.
We understand perfectly the frustration and sadness some of you are feeling over losing your bid on your favorite entertainer, we really do. Be it Livejournal messed up for you the last minute, or your clock was a minute off, or your computer/browser froze, you have our sympathies and we are sorry that happened to you. However, since Livejournal was up and running about the last seven hours of our auction, we went through with it. And several bids and a majority of people were still able to get through. So their bids will stand.
Again, so very sorry and we understand the frustration. But we also truly hope that you all also understand that in the long run, you were doing what you could to help Japan. That ultimately even though winning a personalized message from your favorite entertainer was AMAZING inspiration, which is why we started this charity in the first place, your donations are going towards a country in great need of help right now. So we still encourage you to donate to all the various charities helping out Japan even if you did not win.
Again, thank SO SO MUCH for your time and generosity.
- Tanya and Moey