Anyone else having problem getting onto Aquabid? It's been like this all day, and it's frustrating when you have item up for sale or items your bidding on. Anyways just venting alittle!! :? :x
It wrries me too, I had an item close to ending, and based ont he number of emails asking about shipping that I recieved, I was expecting quite a few last minute bids!
I had an auction that should have ended this morning but have been unable to find out anything about it. With the server being down, the last minute bidding probably got completely closed out. Losing the web site for a full day is no way to run a business like AquaBid. They really should have had some sort of back up strategy in place.
From what Mark (owner of AquaBid) has said, everything was lost in an attack on the server. It will be 1-2 weeks before it is online again, and even then, it will be back to scratch, no previous auctions, no bid history, nothing!!!
Same goes with FishForums, AquaRank, etc, all lost when the server was fried.
From all the talk in the chat rooms, it looks like everyone has jumped ship to a new site which from the looks of it, only started up last week, www.aquaauctions.com
a lot of chatter online, and in chat forums is that this entire 'outtage' thing has been set up.
apparantly everything is there and functional, just all the content has been removed. Word is Mark needed to go to a new server, so this was set up so when aquabid come back they will charges fees?
if that is the case (based on what i have heard) that is morally wrong.
Art, will the auctions here be just for plants? (good luck)
Yep roy this happened last night also. It was gone for a hour or so but it came back up. Im hoping the same will apply for today. Ive got a bid on a pair of cacatuoides and i sure hope AB doesnt go down once again.
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