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End of Lightning Round + Other Things

May 09, 2011 00:00

Hi, all! A few announcements:

1) The lightning round is now officially closed. Thank you so much for your participation and generous support! Per the timetable, any offers/bids that are made after Sunday, May 8, 4:00 PM (UTC/GMT+0) will be automatically discounted and screened. (For clarification purposes, this means any offers/bids timestamped at ( Read more... )

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juliet42 May 8 2011, 16:18:07 UTC

I had a lot of winners, if any feel they lost touch with me or worry that their work will go unfinished. (I'm working in order of obligation and am disabled, I warned most but in case I forget to mention it to any I'd hate for them to think I forgot)please let me know.

Also if anyone I won from believe I haven't contacted them, it's likely due to a mix up, I paid for everything so if you could also let me know, it would be most appreciated.

Also regarding the lightning-round will we be able to continue sorting out details of requests in threads?

hesselives May 8 2011, 17:00:05 UTC

re: sorting out details of requests --> absolutely! :) no threads will be frozen.

floette May 8 2011, 16:43:14 UTC

Hey! I'm slightly confused - I bid in this thread and, having not recieved a notification that I'd been out bid, looked and saw that someone did bid, but not in response to my comment. Am I the winner or is the other poster?

Apologies if I have missed something about this below; I have had a look around to check the rules, but wasn't 100% sure!

hesselives May 8 2011, 16:59:20 UTC

hi! indeed, munanna is the winner. we do not have rules stipulating how bidders are notified if they are outbid -- we leave the responsibility of checking on offer threads to the bidders themselves.

our apologies if this was not made clear.

floette May 8 2011, 17:11:03 UTC

Thank you for the response! That's absolutely fine, I just wanted to check so if I was the winner I could pay ASAP ^_^ Thanks very much!

juliet42 May 8 2011, 19:06:38 UTC

Will winners be receiving comments from the mods, or is that up to the offerer?

hesselives May 8 2011, 19:13:26 UTC

hi! we do encourage offerers to notify their winners first. but if there are still open/pending offers after a few days have passed, then yes, we will notify winners who have not yet confirmed their donations. :)

mothproof_ammeh May 10 2011, 00:12:04 UTC

For the pinch hitter post, might it be a good idea to add a "other things you might like" category or something? It seems like it would be a lot easier to find a pinch hitter for something off a short list than someone who's willing to do exactly what was originally bid on, if the bidder is open to other options.

hesselives May 10 2011, 13:29:37 UTC

thanks for the suggestion! :) we'll definitely take it into account and amend the post accordingly.

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hesselives May 10 2011, 13:32:22 UTC

hi! the procedure will be the same as for the first auction round: if the winner has not responded within one week from the offerer's first attempt at communication, the offerer should PM the mods (with a link to the offer thread itself). the mods will then attempt to contact the winner -- if three more days pass without a response, then the offerer has the right to discount the bid and declare the next-highest bidder as the new winner. (or cancel the offer entirely, if there were no other bidders.)

hope that helps!