u/Expensive-Lie4494

I placed bids several months ago for both business and PE upgrades for an ORD to MAD itinerary. Received confirmation yesterday that my outbound bid had been accepted 4 days in advance (Friday am for a Tuesday departure). I noticed they assigned me a new confirmation number which is interesting but using the old one to pull of the reservation still works but my question now is that when I enter into the upgrade bidding area, it shows my return flight bids as $0 when I know I had placed bids and found the confirmation emails. I wouldn’t be concerned to rebid except that now the minimum bid for business on a daytime flight has increased to $911 when previously it was around $700. Anyone have insight as to whether my original bids might still be active in the system? I don’t think I want to bid over $900 for a daytime flight and might just reenter a PE bid… Especially given I got the overnight segment cleared for $901.
Edit: maybe I should just wait until the SeatBoost bidding window becomes active ?

Chatted in to CS this morning and asked to change my airline selection for the credit to United. Wondering how long I should wait to pay for seat selection fees…? Does anyone know how long the system takes? Agent said up to 48 hours.