Today was the first day of bids, and my team, Brett's Money Watch, was not watching their money closely enough. After being beaten on my first two bids by Seth's Unreasonably Inept, I won 10 bids in a row, paying an average of 1,084 gold more than the asking price for each one. My next bid was deleted because I didn't have enough gold in my treasury to cover it. This actually happened three more times. I picked up a handful of less-expensive orcs, though.
So now I have 27/35 orcs. Not optimal, but I'll take it.