Does anyone have any further info? Seems strange that they will 'not be returning'.
The site was too hard to manage. I asked biddingpond if he would like to would like to merge my site with his so it would be easier to manage, but he said the biddingpond staff didn't want to. So after being hacked, I just decided to close the site.
We can confirm this. We also extended an offer to work on a federated auction API protocol extension to BCSpec.