Mandarake down?

Drac of the Sharp Smiles · Thu May 06, 2010 7:00 am

Does anyone know what's going on with Mandarake auctions? I can't connect to the site this morning, of course, since I have an auction I was planning to bid on that ends in a couple hours now. I've been trying on and off to connect for 2 hours... Thanks!

Sky Rat · Post by **Sky Rat** » Thu May 06, 2010 7:26 am

Itâ€™s not just the auctions; I canâ€™t get into their shop either. Seems like the whole site is downâ€¦

No idea what is going on but I hope they fix it before your auction ends!

cutiebunny · Post by **cutiebunny** » Thu May 06, 2010 8:01 am

Doesn't Mandarake usually give a 24 hour extension to auctions that ended while the site is down?

I recall them doing that in the past.

Drac of the Sharp Smiles · Thu May 06, 2010 8:18 am

Well, I've never had this happen, so I don't know how they handle it. It would be nice to have a chance to bid on it while I'm NOT at work. LOL (I'm sneaking online right now to keep trying to check if the site is up.) On the other hand, I did put in a small "placeholder" bid and was still high bidder as of 1a last night..... I don't know when the site went down, but if it was down by 7a this morning, it's possible no one had a chance to bid against me and I'd win anyway.

Still, I'd rather be able to see. o.O;;

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac

zerospace · Post by **zerospace** » Thu May 06, 2010 9:07 am

I can't access it either -- been getting timeouts every time I try to load any of their pages for the past 2 hours.

I recall reading on their main auction page that they will extend auctions when their server is down at the ending times.

theultimatebrucelee · Thu May 06, 2010 12:05 pm

eh, I had this problem since late last night and thought the computer was on crack..well good to know its not just me

iceman57 · Post by **iceman57** » Thu May 06, 2010 12:53 pm

theultimatebrucelee wrote:eh, I had this problem since late last night and thought the computer was on crack..well good to know its not just me

Yeah, Mandarake is a damn persistant spyware that takes your credit card number to pay cels though Paypal

Drac of the Sharp Smiles · Thu May 06, 2010 1:19 pm

iceman57 wrote:
theultimatebrucelee wrote:eh, I had this problem since late last night and thought the computer was on crack..well good to know its not just me
Yeah, Mandarake is a damn persistant spyware that takes your credit card number to pay cels though Paypal

OH! So all I have to do is disable my firewall? (*grin*) ^_^

iceman57 · Post by **iceman57** » Thu May 06, 2010 1:39 pm

More seriously, there's 4AM in Japan, as the main page is different thant some days ago, maybe they have maintenance on server.

Do some people have auction running that they lost (or believe to) due to this blackout ?

ReiTheJelly · Post by **ReiTheJelly** » Thu May 06, 2010 2:03 pm

It must be something pretty serious, because it is still down for me. It's been about 18 hours at this point; at least since I tried to access their site last night. I wonder what has happened?

iceman57 · Post by **iceman57** » Thu May 06, 2010 2:20 pm

A ghost ?!...

theultimatebrucelee · Post by **theultimatebrucelee** » Thu May 06, 2010 2:53 pm

kira · Post by **kira** » Thu May 06, 2010 4:14 pm

that would be nice if they extend auctions that were going while this happened.

yeah, was wondering myself. thought i was the only one getting the cant connect message.

anyone know mandarake's email?

Gabe · Post by **Gabe** » Thu May 06, 2010 4:25 pm

their email for the auctions: auction@mandarake.co.jp

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Thu May 06, 2010 4:32 pm

It's been down for a long time.

Hope it comes back before I remember to do my last cel/sketch search for the night. I don't think I had anything to bid on though. At least, not on anything that was showing last night.