We are HALFWAY through the bidding window!

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As of 2pm today, bidding has been open for 54 hours, which leaves 54 more until the bidding forms close at 8 PM Eastern, Saturday March 9th.

Behind the scenes your mods are marveling at the numbers.

You would think that with 33% more auctions than last year (which, remember, was already our largest year ever), the bids would be spread a little thinner than usual, right?

But that's not what's happening.

The percentage of auctions with one bid halfway through has actually gone up by 8%! That's right, with 33% more auctions, we have 50% more bids! And the percentage that have multiple bids has gone up by 10%.

You guys are ON IT.

Of course, if your auction doesn't have one yet, don't fret! While we can't guarantee every auction will get a bid, we know that a lot of people do wait until the last minute.

To help those people find unbid auctions, we'll be tagging golden needles this time tomorrow.

And as a quick reminder, the Craft Bazaar is open! New stalls were added through March 5, so if you looked before then, you might look again to browse the new crafts offered.

Possible Google Sheets glitching

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We've been alerted by a few people that sometimes bids (their own or others') are not appearing in bid sheets until hours after the bids were placed. It appears that the bids do go through, it's just that some people (but not everyone) can't see them immediately.

This seems to primarily be an issue on mobile, so if you can view the bid sheets on a desktop, we encourage you to do so. If you only have a mobile device, try viewing them in both a web browser and the Sheets or GDrive app; some people are only having this issue in one or the other.

If anyone who is having this problem can tell us whether the tracking sheet we posted earlier today shows bids before they show up in the bid sheet for you, or if signing up for notifications for a bid sheet gets you new bids before you can see them, that would be great info to have!

Remember that even if you can't see a bid until later, we go by the timestamp on the bidding sheet. This may complicate things - you might place a bid that is not, in fact, higher than the current high bid, or you might assume you are winning an auction that someone else has actually beat you on. Right now, this all seems to be on Google's end, and unfortunately there isn't much we can do about that. All we can do is encourage you, as auctions draw to a close on Saturday, to check all of your auctions using desktop or multiple mobile formats.

Luckily, most mobile users do not seem to be having this issue, but we don't know how to predict who will. We will keep you updated as we get more information.