Morning, folks. Glad to see this holiday auction business has, uh... sorted itself out.
What I'm finding kind of amusing is that this gem business has resulted in a major flood of items *out* of the market, making things that were once extremely common, well, potentially rare. There's nothing out there for only $0.03 anymore. The old Summer Sale 2014 / Holiday Sale 2013 stuff has been reduced to hundreds, rather than thousands, of items on the market.
Now that the gem market will theoretically be normalized when it returns, it could still be worth owning a load of backgrounds or emoticons that can be converted to 100 gems a pop.