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Hmmm, PM's, you gotta love those PM's - What a great way to safe guard a domain....
Barry
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Was I right about him double/tripling the current increments ? So the forum was doing £100 a pop, did he go a multiple of that like £300-400, I do that on ebay
(I assume you can only answer this if he's ok with the final sum)
To be fair it could be 1p over or £10k over
final sales price would be interesting though !
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Nah, I learned on ebay that people (like barry did here) have multiple windows open, with bids ready to rock and in the last 10 seconds they hit one after the other to secure the win. To counter this I double the expected interval upto my extra which makes snipers in effective, never thought I'd apply ebay logic to a forum tho 
No one wants to pay much more than next man so I think its something like that, but I agree the sum will be interesting
No one wants to pay much more than next man so I think its something like that, but I agree the sum will be interesting
Up to Nismo if he wants to disclose winning offer.
I'd been contacted by a couple of potential buyers who didn't want their offers made public, the only realistic way of doing this is by accepting offers both in thread and by PM.
Clearly those making in thread offers are disadvantaged by not knowing the highest offer by PM, and those making offers by PM have the potential of paying more than the next incremental bid ammount would have been.
Thanks to Nismo for the sale and to those who made offers especially Dale for making such a bold bid increment.
Mark.
I'd been contacted by a couple of potential buyers who didn't want their offers made public, the only realistic way of doing this is by accepting offers both in thread and by PM.
Clearly those making in thread offers are disadvantaged by not knowing the highest offer by PM, and those making offers by PM have the potential of paying more than the next incremental bid ammount would have been.
Thanks to Nismo for the sale and to those who made offers especially Dale for making such a bold bid increment.
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e-commerce.co.uk
Personally i think you cant run an auction to the highest bidder to then announce the winner via PM, it makes a mockery of buying and selling names on AD - If it was a " blind auction " then fair enough, but it wasnt! You dont even see Sedo pulling these kind of stunts...
Fingers burnt, never again, expected more professionalism when dealing with a domain of this nature.
It honestly Couldnt have gone to a nicer guy - Congrats to Richard, well done buddy.
BG
Personally i think you cant run an auction to the highest bidder to then announce the winner via PM, it makes a mockery of buying and selling names on AD - If it was a " blind auction " then fair enough, but it wasnt! You dont even see Sedo pulling these kind of stunts...
Fingers burnt, never again, expected more professionalism when dealing with a domain of this nature.
It honestly Couldnt have gone to a nicer guy - Congrats to Richard, well done buddy.
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Thread did state in thread or PM's by timestamp, the latter was something I missed out when trying to clear the way for a run at bidding in thread
On a more serious note it does mean no more BG based action in LLL threads
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How do forum readers rate this domain name against the unhyphenated variant which dropped the other week? My thoughts on both are whilst "e-commerce/ecommerce" are used in b2b environments, and I'd imagine a good percentage of the general public know what the term means, I'd have trouble applying it to anything other than perhaps a company that provides e-commerce/ecommerce solutions in the b2b marketplace. Has the term been surpassed in mainstream usage by others such as "internet shopping" or "online shopping"?
I cannot be sure whether I'd want the pair together or which one I'd prefer above the other as I've seen both instances used interchangeably.
It is a nice name that looks nicer than it is, for the record my part interest was due to a client lined up for it.
Shopping.co.uk / OnlineShopping.co.uk etc are miles better IMHO due to wider market and mass appeal. Not to diss Rich's purchase that is, excellent name at a (I assume) good price!
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Thanks Barry,
Just to stop people guessing, I didnt see Barry's bid before i sent mine via PM.
My bid was £4771.99 (wierd bid I know) and time stamp of PM was 23.59
Cheers
Rich
Barry I did make clear from the offset that I would be accepting offers by both in thread and by PM.
On previous occasions I have said in thread only offers, the main reason I included PM's this time was that you had PM'd me earlier in the day saying you were interested but didn't want other people knowing your offer. I did PM you back stating I would accept offers by PM.
I can't win.
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