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It was 10:00:44 so I would think Diablo has the domain.
Great name, plenty of ways to use it..Or just flog it to Markets dot com.
Great name, plenty of ways to use it..Or just flog it to Markets dot com.
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Since when did she say specifically Acorn time? By 10:00 means up to and including 10:00.
Any other forum or auction like DomainLore and Sedo always add a 5-10 min snipe rule to prolong bidding and stop this happening. Bidding with 15s remaining is just immature on an auction like this.
Should be restarted imo.
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Surely you have to be joking ? Saying it should be restarted because you lost out on the name due to having a different understanding than everyone else at what "Highest offer by 22:00" means is VERY immature - you snooze you lose, simple as that.
Laura clearly said "Highest offer by 22:00" that means 22:00:00 NOT 22:00:01 or after and obviously it mean acorn time as nothing else would work as everyones clocks aren't syncronised
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First of all, I don't think this thread has been run very professionally. Laura hasn't even used the word auction and it's not even posted in the auction thread. She wanted to sell a domain and was giving enough time for offers until the end of the day. Therefore any strict time-limits based around 15s sniping should be irrelevant. It's not like I fell asleep during the auction, I bid 1 min after him.
Laura also gave me a BIN of £1500 yesterday during which she then ran this thread with a time of 10:00 without telling me, apologising then saying the whole thing should've been done through domainlore instead.
This thread ran during a day in which there were no new bidders, until the final 15s, and any other forum or auction like Sedo and Domainlore would add additional minutes to stop this from happening. It's up to Laura since she set all of this up but any professional should've added a 10 minute snipe rule, put this in the correct auction thread and started this again with clear auction parameters.
Laura also gave me a BIN of £1500 yesterday during which she then ran this thread with a time of 10:00 without telling me, apologising then saying the whole thing should've been done through domainlore instead.
This thread ran during a day in which there were no new bidders, until the final 15s, and any other forum or auction like Sedo and Domainlore would add additional minutes to stop this from happening. It's up to Laura since she set all of this up but any professional should've added a 10 minute snipe rule, put this in the correct auction thread and started this again with clear auction parameters.
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It wasn't 10.01pm though.
Why not open the bidding at £1010 and re run it. Can only be win win for the seller.
Some people need to relax a bit.
Why not open the bidding at £1010 and re run it. Can only be win win for the seller.
Some people need to relax a bit.
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It's up to Laura what she means "by 22:00" since that may include 22:00:45.
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the bottom line is the OP said best offer by 22:00 tonight gets it
as it didn't say any new offers would extend the time by extra x amount of minutes to me means that option is not available.
It also clearly says BEST OFFER not BID which means its not an auction as such.
In my opinion diablo should take the domain as it was the best offer within the time frame stated. All this talk of re running is rubbish (just my opinion)
as it didn't say any new offers would extend the time by extra x amount of minutes to me means that option is not available.
It also clearly says BEST OFFER not BID which means its not an auction as such.
In my opinion diablo should take the domain as it was the best offer within the time frame stated. All this talk of re running is rubbish (just my opinion)
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It's not win win for the person that has won the domain though!
It seems clear to me, highest offer BY 22:00, "Please POST any offers on the thread"
Addz offer was posted after 22:00. And it's totally up to the seller whether they add a snipe rule or not.
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Completely correct
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Of course it's up the seller but considering there were no bids all day it seems she wasn't expecting this to happen and failed to mention anything in the thread nor was she even online at this point. The seller has basically made mistakes with this thread by not adding appropriate rules or putting it in the auction thread.
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