I'm tempted to chalk it up to whingeing, and tell myself to get over it, but there were a few things that didn't quite happen for me this test that confuse me a little bit.
-didn't get anything for starting my first skill
-didn't get anything for buying my first Bigger Bag
-auctions were extremely slow for me for the first two days ("slow" as in, it took me about two hours to get papers I bought on auction, and I only got the first one I bought after getting annoyed and buying another).
-didn't get the Gem Collector trophy, despite having gotten all the gems (even handled shakha's moonstone when one wasn't forth-coming, but eventually got one of my own).
and just for icing, couldn't really get the pickle to do anything aside from throw my stuff all over (all but 2 times I used it).
On the plus side, I incited a full-on Rook attack on the subway, leveled up more quickly than my first time, and got the house I'd been scoping since the end of last test :)
I'm wondering if anybody else had problems with basic, automatic functions like the above.