Did they give us a date and time zone when they're shutting this down?

Well, 4ct is from Texas.

Not that I know of.

All of the posts, messages, and boards disappeared, and the reappeared two minutes later.

Weird.

The SSL Handshake issues?

Yeah, same. I got this pit in my stomach. Oh well, its inevitably coming shortly.

Thought it was gone then. Every thing went down.

That's a shocker!

Yeah, there were a couple of minutes there when it seemed like the end had already come.

They are toying with us like a cat does with a mouse...

Or a child playing with food.

I used to babysit a toddler who had to smoosh every pea on her plate before going back to eat them all

No. I was worried for a moment that they'd started early.

Surely they should wait until 00:01 on 21 February UTC-12 time...then again, why would these prices be reasonable now?

It wouldn't be the WORST thing if they just shut it down now. Cut the proverbial cord a little early.

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This sounds a lot like you're speaking from experience. Really fucked up experience.