Sneer Gear Recovery Mechanic Not Working??

It explicitly states when you die (we died to the timer so no chance of being looted) that Sneer should have at least some of your gear in his pawn shop. We've scoured and read that sometimes you need to join and extract from another map / round, which we did.. but his timer for his pawn shop is 9+hrs, so does that mean we have 9hrs to buy our stuff back or that we have to wait 9hrs to see if our stuff is there? How does this work? Is it not working? We lost full blue gear to the timer (we got caught up on stuff on the way out), and were expecting to be able to get at least some back via purchase at the pawn shop. Any help would be great, thanks!