Trust and FAQ
What happens to your login, your money and your data when you try a GAVEL room, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Short answers for a judge about to try a . Where this page and docs/GATES.md disagree, the gate record wins.
No. The hosted server refuses to start judge rooms unless it is on the PayPal sandbox, and refuses fake payments in production mode.
No. The login happens on PayPal's own sandbox pages. See the privacy notice.
The display name you type, your bids and holds (amounts in cents, times and sandbox order ids) and the room . No analytics, ad identifiers or cookies. Voice is off unless the host turns it on. Records are removed when the demo is shut down.
Yes. Every event goes into a chained by hash; the audit trail link in a room shows it and an edited entry breaks the chain at that entry. See engine and ledger.
The API is set up with a persistent disk, and the settlement saga resumes from its journal. If a room is gone, start a new demo auction. Crash-safe settlement is tested against the and on the real sandbox (one lot of three holds and one in-process crash); a whole auction on the hosted server is the next step. See crash recovery.
Next steps are a whole auction settled through the hosted server, a real process kill on the deployed host (one on a CI runner is recorded), a guest-card final_capture and void, the remainder release read on a buyer balance (inferred today), real-room voice confirmation and the final G3 reading on 12 Nov. See limits and next steps, tough questions and real, simulated, recorded.
- Reload and retry the room code.
- If the room is gone or the host is busy, start a new demo auction.
- If judge rooms are off or the host is down, open
/demo/scriptedon the web app: a recorded room with no login. - If the sandbox login is refused, see sandbox buyers.
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