If the item is taken away from you your donation has been counted. We're keeping an eye on the totals as we fix the problems around the site and are confident that they are being counted correctly (in addition to us testing ourselves).

There is nothing wrong. It all depends on the users online, who is donating, etc. If more users who have big hoards are on team gold, they're going to win, that's how a donation drive works.

Beyond that, the number on the page updates every 5 minutes so that is how they can go up by thousands at a time :)