adult auction

[retired_member13]

I bid on one, won one, & I think it was a pretty good deal.

As a buyer I like badly run auctions - they're like an early Xmas present.

Sure, a lot of the domains were overpriced, but i think that the sellers do have the options of contacting the non-winning bidders to sell later if they want to. at least that used to be the case.

 

[devolution]

These are the only UK ones that sold...

asses 260
virgins 1000
boobs 5,100
burlesquedancing 70
jizz 499

 

[redbird]

These are the only UK ones that sold...

asses 260
virgins 1000
boobs 5,100
burlesquedancing 70
jizz 499

Yes and asses is one I let drop as couldn't get any interest in it when I had it !

 

[woopwoop]

Related aside #2: assuming nothing changes in the last 4 minutes, the £1,500 top bid for porno.co.uk backs up the discussion a while back about that being almost exclusively a US term...

Whether a US or UK term it's gotta be worth more than 1500.
I think the reason it ended so low was because the reserve was so high (50k I think) - people think what's the point...

If the reserve wasn't shown, I'd guess this domain would have reached 7000 minimum.

 

[redbird]

If the reserve wasn't shown, I'd guess this domain would have reached 7000 minimum.

I don't understand why the resevere is shown (well a range anyway) I don't think most auctions give any indication of reserves other than whether it has been met or not. I think it's counterproductive and as you say it would have been interesting to see how high some domains would have gone had it not been for the high reserves.

 

[mojoco]

I don't understand why the resevere is shown (well a range anyway) I don't think most auctions give any indication of reserves other than whether it has been met or not. I think it's counterproductive and as you say it would have been interesting to see how high some domains would have gone had it not been for the high reserves.

The idea of auctions is to sell at current market value.
Publishing reserves beforehand can only be a bad thing IMO. How many people couldn't be bothered to get preauthorised, who would very likely have bid in an open auction environment. I know that I was one for a start! In most auction houses you have to register to bid but not for specific lots.

Scenario one:
Publish reserve price range.
Small number of bidders get preauthorised to bid.
Small number of bidders get involved in the auction.

Scenario two:
Don't publish reserve price.
All bidders have to register to bid on any name in the auction.
Several bidders get involved and push the price of individual lots to the current market value.

It seems simple in my tiny pea sized brain. :shock: