Offers e-commerce

Slater · Jan 31, 2009

Top offer received by PM at 11:59.

Just confirming with buyer whether he wants bid ammount to be made public.

Thanks to all bidders.

Mark.

aZooZa · Jan 31, 2009

Shi*. Anyway, I knew it would make its money and that's why my early bid was at £4,000 without hesitation. I had a client for it, as I did with ecommerce.co.uk Oh well, can't win them all. Congrats Barry.

Skinner · Jan 31, 2009

Barry may not have gotten it as he posted on the thread and the winner is a PM

BG · Jan 31, 2009

aZooZa said:
Shi*. Anyway, I knew it would make its money and that's why my early bid was at £4,000 without hesitation. I had a client for it, as I did with ecommerce.co.uk Oh well, can't win them all. Congrats Barry.

Hmmm, PM's, you gotta love those PM's - What a great way to safe guard a domain....

Barry

Slater · Jan 31, 2009

Didn't go to Barry in the end.

Skinner · Jan 31, 2009

I wish I could sell the space on my post that I left a cheeky note to rob

that would have been the winner as it was 11:59:55 according to the program I have minitoring acorn time

3 potential buyers as it would be the winnind bid

Skinner · Jan 31, 2009

I think he means the PM bid could have been £300 higher than the last forum bid, meaning you got 2 sniper hits to win.

Skinner · Jan 31, 2009

I recon the other LLL username took it

Slater · Jan 31, 2009

Winning bidder was ...... Nismo

Skinner · Jan 31, 2009

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)

rob · Jan 31, 2009

Skinner said:
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 !

Skinner · Jan 31, 2009

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

Slater · Jan 31, 2009

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.

BG · Jan 31, 2009

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

rob · Jan 31, 2009

commerce.co.uk said:
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...

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

Fingers burnt, never again, expected more professionalism when dealing with a domain of this nature.

On a more serious note it does mean no more BG based action in LLL threads

rob · Jan 31, 2009

invincible said:
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!

Rich · Jan 31, 2009

commerce.co.uk said:
It honestly Couldnt have gone to a nicer guy - Congrats to Richard, well done buddy.

BG

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

BG · Jan 31, 2009

rob said:
On a more serious note it does mean no more BG based action in LLL threads

Dont be silly i'll just bid by PM, its the new craze...

BG · Jan 31, 2009

Mark,

Did you get my email ok which i sent at 11:59.38 with my offer of £ 5150.00, just thought Id check incase you didnt open it yet

BG

Slater · Jan 31, 2009

commerce.co.uk said:
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.
BG

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.