I'm sorry this has happened Verne and wish you the best of luck w/ it all. .
Just a thought but reading how this has transpired, if it's possible to wipe all the bids out and the auction continue, doesn't this makes it possible for a trickster bidder who has the technology to wipe the bids out, make a low bid in the final minutes of a no reserve auction and win cheap? .
Unless the seller was checking for this, they may never know just thinking it reached a low amount and let it go? .
~ Pete