DL Sale: homeopath.co.uk (1,300 GBP)

Acorn Newsbot · Mar 29, 2013

Domain Name Sold at Domain Lore:
Sold price: £1300, Ended on: 2013-03-29 11:24:00

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DaveP · Mar 29, 2013

I kinda feel sorry for the buyer here, who outbid themselves 10 times to the sum of £1,300. Surely this isn't how advanced bids should work? An advanced bid should either be more like a proxy bid or if a user is already the highest pre-bidder then they shouldn't be able to outbid themselves? :S

foz · Mar 29, 2013

DaveP said:
I kinda feel sorry for the buyer here, who outbid themselves 10 times to the sum of £1,300. Surely this isn't how advanced bids should work? An advanced bid should either be more like a proxy bid or if a user is already the highest pre-bidder then they shouldn't be able to outbid themselves? :S

A reserve?

Pred · Mar 29, 2013

I agree
looks really weird
should be on £60
unless there was a reserve of £1300

but doesn't say reserve met anywhere

Systreg · Mar 29, 2013

foz said:
A reserve?

I saw it after it went live on the main page, and it didn't say "reseve met" like it normally does if there's a reserve price set, and all the bids were made at the same time on the advance bids page:

£1,300 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£1,200 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£1,000 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£800 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£500 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£410 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£400 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£300 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£200 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£60 Domainer55 (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47
£50 utterfly (autobid) 24-03-2013 11:25:47

Not sure what happened there.

StudioVision · Mar 29, 2013

I'm guessing the advanced bidder kept increasing their bid to get the seller to actually send the domain to auction in the first place? And the time shown on the bids in the auction is when the auction actually started?

Could be wrong though