It’s a valid rant. As a consignor, I’d be pissed as well. Consignors should be kept in the loop and should be the first to receive info/updates. I don’t think the outage will negatively affect most prices in the end, provided they are back up and running today. Most of the serious bidding occurs at the end, and many of these auctions run a lot longer in duration than is really needed.
But you still want as many eyes as possible, and a few potential bidders could be missed because of the weekend outage. It’s aggravating as hell.
As far as switching servers, it is more complex than most people realize. A tremendous amount of work and expense is involved. From my understanding, SAS (despite the current issues) has a unique and turnkey platform on both the front and back ends. They have unique features which allow for ease of listing, invoicing and shipping that other companies simply do not offer.
That said, it’s still a clusterf*ck
