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GL Question

spentshell

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Whats the deal with the close time vs the award time with GL, I bid on something today and had the high bid at the end of close time. Does this mean I won and the bidding is over or can the item still take bids until award time?
 

spentshell

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Open Time: [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]03/03/2009 12:00AM [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Close Time: [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]03/05/2009 05:00PM[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Award Time: [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]03/06/2009 12:00AM [/SIZE][/FONT]

Thats what I thought until I saw this
 

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Check your e-mail, the award time is when GL officially notifies you, by e-mail, that you were highest bidder and have won a new toy.
 

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That's okay, you just have more time to spend more money, GL likes it that way.
 

Militoy

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Just look at the bid history, if you were the last you won the auction.
I don't want to be a spoilsport, or to badmouth anyone - but I have experienced several events where this wasn't necessarily so. Sometimes, after the auction closes, it is re-opened for mysterious reasons. Occasionally, the apparent High Bidder is informed that they "were outbid", a day or so after the closing.

Maybe there are intricacies of the way bids are received and dealt with, that I'm not aware of, that might shift the closing time.

I understand the many ways that the condition and description of the lot that was bid upon may wind up different at the pick-up time, than it was during inspection - but the bid history / bid closing issue remains a mystery to me.
 
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