It's been a while since I've posted any auctions and I tried to be as thorough as I could on the initial post so I apologize for this.
1. While I have been away, I'm not unfamiliar with the trade forums. This isn't the first auction I've seen or handled on the forum that was closed via an offer outside of the forum. Many times I've seen auctions where if a high offer was made the auction was closed. The problem is I didn't make this clear in the initial post.
2. I've personally bid on auctions on the trade forum where terms changed during an auction. I don't like it, I don't like to do it, but as I said at the beginning it's been a while and I was adding stuff into the initial post for several edits after finally making sure everything was correct.
EDIT: I'm sure someone on here has seen me spamming on ATL and LS about rubble walls for the past few days - just to somewhat validify that I was actually taking offers from other sources, also posted on UO PVP Discord.