2019 Auction Winners: contact your creators!
For whatever reason, we’ve had a large number of auction winners go AWOL this year (7 or 8 that we know about, and probably a couple of others as well.) This is, of course, confusing and not-awesome for the creators whose auctions they have won!
Since we can’t actually reach through the screen and make creators contact their bidders, we’re doing the best thing we can do for the creators’ peace of mind, which is to set a contact deadline for auction winners.
Any 2019 auction winner who has not contacted their creator by June 14th will lose their claim to the fanwork they bid on. If a creator has not heard from their high bidder by that date, we will stop tracking that auction, and will consider the creator to have fulfilled their obligation.
N.B. This deadline only applies to situations in which auction winners are AWOL. If you and your creator have been in contact already, don’t worry, this is totally irrelevant to you! (Though it never hurts to check in, in either direction.)