Forza 2 Auction House has some problems

"Forza 2 is finally available here in Europe, however before blowing money in the Auction House you might want to read the following. It seems there has been a problem of the game taking the money but not giving any cars to the winners. The problem is being investigated, but no solution is currently available.

The guys at Turn10 have however issued a few tips on how to avoid the problem.

1) Don’t bid again immediately if you receive a failed transaction after bidding. Technically, the transaction might have not failed and if you bid again, you might be outbidding yourself and therein lies the problem, we only retreive your last auction bid payment to return to you, and you technically would have two outstanding bids on the same item.

2) After a failed bid transaction, wait a short bit and check to see if your transaction did indeed go through, you’d be listed as the high bidder if the transaction actually succeeded. You might want to re-search for the item you just bid on to ensure the data is refreshed and current; or back out of the auction house and re-enter and check your MyBids tab for the item and it’s highbidder status."

However forumers on the official forums state that the problem occurs despite the above steps, and there are also reports that swapping cars with friends also leads to cars magically disappearing. Very strange goings on.

Turn10 admitted a problem was caused server side that they patched, but again forumers have complained that the problem hasn’t been fixed. So enter the bidding at your own risk; just don’t be surprised if your money suddenly disappears. Hopefully a fix will be arrive soon.