"The leak" is stone cold dead, thankfully. Since the auction was hinted at before and found in the game files beforehand, I can only imagine the amount of money that would be thrown at the T22sr. if it were to be sold on the black market. This doesn't rule out that tank or other rare high tier tanks being sold though, and this being the mechanic to hide them behind.
This website, WGStatus, can correctly predict the item and price a few minutes before the item drops. In this case it had 0 price and 0 quantity which meant it's an auction item.
Wallets around the world will cry in terror if everything hype becomes an auction from now on…
I was doing some testing to figure out if I could get a reasonable framerate in various areas. Here are my (rough) averages of framerates in various ...