DL Sale: Gossip.co.uk (6,776 GBP)

Acorn Newsbot · Mar 8, 2016

Domain Name Sold at Domain Lore:
Sold price: £6776, Ended on: 2016-03-08 20:51:59

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Edwin · Mar 8, 2016

Another great sale, good enough to make it into DNJournal. Well done!

BG · Mar 9, 2016

People are going to talk about this for many years to come

dougs · Mar 9, 2016

Barry

They will talk behind your back about it

Edwin · Mar 9, 2016

dougs said:
They will talk behind your back about it

Scurrilous rumours...

BG · Mar 9, 2016

Gossip

Rumour has it Doug purchased it under a Russian alias....

spiderspider · Mar 9, 2016

No idea if its true or not, but I once got told this:

In the olden days, land owners and MPs wanted to know what was happening in the land. They couldn't check twitter (obvs!) so they had people they would send to the places where stuff was spoken about, like the local pub, to find out what's happening, and who's planning what etc.

These people would then report back to their masters with the details of what they discovered.

However, as the MPs and land owners were skin flints, and didn't want their charges bumbling around like drunken buffoons, they were told to 'go sip' at the tavern. After all, being tasked with sitting in a pub and chatting would be many a persons dream job.

Over the years this then changed into gossip.

As I said, no idea how true it is / isn't, but interesting time passer none the less

mart1n19 · Mar 18, 2016

Looks like its going to be a wasted auction, buyer not responding to emails. So frustrating & such a waste of time.

denchomsky · Mar 18, 2016

Disappointing, was it an anonymous buyer?

mart1n19 · Mar 18, 2016

i'll give the remaining agreed time by domainlore before publishing , incase he decides to get the sale completed, but looking unlikely. Nearly at the 2 week point

Sam · Mar 18, 2016

mart1n19 said:
i'll give the remaining agreed time by domainlore before publishing , incase he decides to get the sale completed, but looking unlikely. Nearly at the 2 week point

It's so annoying when people do this.

Let's hope he pays!

mart1n19 · Mar 18, 2016

wizard said:
It's so annoying when people do this.

Let's hope he pays!

Cheers Sam, Hope so. Just such a waste of time at the moment

Murray · Mar 18, 2016

Was the buyer a member here?

ian · Mar 18, 2016

Dropped you a PM

mart1n19 · Mar 18, 2016

Murray said:
Was the buyer a member here?

I dont believe so, i'll keep this post updated when/if we get any developments.

Cheers

Lovekraft · Mar 23, 2016

Did you manage to gain a response from the buyer for this?

mart1n19 · Mar 23, 2016

Lovekraft said:
Did you manage to gain a response from the buyer for this?

He emailed me to say was buying on behalf of a buyer, he didn't have the funds to buy himself. Not sure if he actually had a buyer or was trying to flip it on to someone for a quick buck.

George Adu is his name, website is Silverspoonbranding.com.

Reported to domainlore, Hopefully will be banned. Total time waster. Didn't even bother to even respond to 90% of my emails.

Anyway, Sold today to Mark on here for a bargain (IMO) Wish everyone done business like him.

Lovekraft · Mar 23, 2016

That's a real shame. Must be very frustrating. I don't know why people bid if they don't have the funds / or intend seeing it through, spoils it for everyone.

mart1n19 · Mar 23, 2016

Lovekraft said:
That's a real shame. Must be very frustrating. I don't know why people bid if they don't have the funds / or intend seeing it through, spoils it for everyone.

Exactly, really disappointing. Dont have the money then dont bid.

Nevermind. Not much i can do & all the best to Mark with it.

Hopefully domainlore bans him

grantw · Mar 23, 2016

mart1n19 said:
He emailed me to say was buying on behalf of a buyer, he didn't have the funds to buy himself. Not sure if he actually had a buyer or was trying to flip it on to someone for a quick buck.

George Adu is his name, website is Silverspoonbranding.com.

Reported to domainlore, Hopefully will be banned. Total time waster. Didn't even bother to even respond to 90% of my emails.

Anyway, Sold today to Mark on here for a bargain (IMO) Wish everyone done business like him.

In theory, if it sold for less than the auction price, you should be able to reclaim the amount you're out of pocket via small claims.

Grant