If I - some asshole - quickly understood that this was what was happening, then I am reasonably sure that the Foreign Office and the security services also spotted it early on.

I'm really sorry to hear this, Salma. You did an impressively brave thing. I hope you come to be as proud of yourself for doing it as we (your dedicated fan club!) are of you.

(This is from 5/6 years ago, so maybe things have changed since, but the errors would suggest otherwise.)
End of rant.

It make look like you've got the winning/leading bid, but by the time the operator reacts to the floor preference and updates the bid, the bidding is over.

Also, from memory, Invaluable doesn’t have a “Room” button for room preference where a floor and online bid may clash (or where another online platform gets to the bid first), leading to more confusion and removing time for the Invaluable user to react and bid.

Conversely, on Invaluable’s system, the €110 lights up as a gold button which then has to be clicked by the operator before being announced. This extra step leads to mistakes and time delays.

The-Saleroom’s system automatically populates bids by its users. Let’s say it’s €100 hammer in the room, if a Saleroom bidder bids €110 on their own screen it will automatically update as the "current bid" on the auctioneer's operator's screen, so the operator need simply shout out the bid: “€110!”

That's absolute spot on, but on this occasion it was well in excess of the hammer price. Just a mistake by someone operating the system, I think. Winning sleepers is hard enough!
Interestingly enough, having worked at an auction house...

So frustrating.
I've just received an outbid notice from Invaluable even though the absentee bid I left was higher than the hammer price!

And now I can: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6wL...

Dance/have a nervous breakdown.

Also, could watch Genevieve O'Reilly dance for hours.

This is lovely to hear. Little Dragon put on one hell of a show. Looking forward to checking out her solo record.

The first three episodes were excellent (as expected); the final half hour of ep. 3, tremendous.