Repeated calls for offers with no other guidance - what do you think?

[bensd]

I think there are 3 separate issues being discussed here:

- Bumping threads with names at auction
Maybe there should be a separate forum for names at auction. Most of the other domain forums have this and it keeps these threads separate from names open to offers.

- Bumping threads with no real info
You cannot open a new thread in the sales forums within 24 hours of a previous one, maybe there should be a similar rule (24 or 48 hours) for bumping threads.

- Putting names up for sale without a guide price.
This has been discussed a couple of times lately and i don't think there is an easy way to solve it. Maybe sellers should be forced to give a guide, not hard numbers just low xxx, high xxx, low x,xxx etc.
You can see why some sellers don't put a guide as they just want to sell the level of interest and what offers they get (i have done it before myself). However, it is very annoying as a buyer making a xx or xxx to be told they are looking for x,xxx - xx,xxx minimum.

 

[bensd]

whilst we're moaning i'd like to say i'm not interested in .org domains but still have to waste time looking at those.

And that is another argument all together

 

[websaway]

Ban bumps. D.S. never tolerated them, no exceptions.

if you ban individuals bumping there sales thread you could allow a cohort to develop who bump each others threads and isolate individuals who were for some reason not part of the inner circle. When you can reasonably bump your own thread this gives you an independance which is healthy for the continuity and expansion of the forum membership. I believe it is in everybodys interest to be able to keep there thread exposed whether or not it is pleasing to everyone so long as it is within the rules, otherwise the stronger dictate for there own purposes which might not be in the interests of the many or the forum.

 

[domainseller200]

if you ban individuals bumping there sales thread you could allow a cohort to develop who bump each others threads and isolate individuals who were for some reason not part of the inner circle. When you can reasonably bump your own thread this gives you an independance which is healthy for the continuity and expansion of the forum membership. I believe it is in everybodys interest to be able to keep there thread exposed whether or not it is pleasing to everyone so long as it is within the rules, otherwise the stronger dictate for there own purposes which might not be in the interests of the many or the forum.

I agree 100% with allowing to bump your own threads - just would be useful if when it was bumped, some extra info was added to give people more of an idea to go on, thats my only gripe.

Eg Lee Owen was notorious for bumping, but that is due him updating it with more information £100 > £50 > £25 > £10 > bogof

 

[pugyrob]

I agree 100% with allowing to bump your own threads - just would be useful if when it was bumped, some extra info was added to give people more of an idea to go on, thats my only gripe.

Eg Lee Owen was notorious for bumping, but that is due him updating it with more information £100 > £50 > £25 > £10 > bogof

LMAO, but think it was more like:-

kitchensappliedappliances.co.uk 30k>20k> had an offer of 10k>(2 weeks later) 5k>1k>£50> BOGOF>drops

 

[Edwin]

I wonder if there's a VB plugin that could let people flag threads they don't want to see again. That way, you look at a sales thread, find none of the names of interest, whack the "hide this forever" (or whatever it's called) button at the bottom and the thread NEVER shows up for you again, regardless of follow-ups, bumps, or whatever.

That would save anyone having to look at a particular un-interesting sales thread more than once. Very handy!

Optional additional tweak: if 20 separate posters hit the "hide this forever" button then it disappears for everyone. (again, only if a plugin existed that supported it). It should be hard for a legitimate thread to get 20 "hide" votes, but e.g. that could kill pointless spam threads within a few minutes pretty much automatically through group input.

 

[woopwoop]

I think there are 3 separate issues being discussed here:

- Bumping threads with names at auction
Maybe there should be a separate forum for names at auction. Most of the other domain forums have this and it keeps these threads separate from names open to offers.

- Bumping threads with no real info
You cannot open a new thread in the sales forums within 24 hours of a previous one, maybe there should be a similar rule (24 or 48 hours) for bumping threads.

- Putting names up for sale without a guide price.
This has been discussed a couple of times lately and i don't think there is an easy way to solve it. Maybe sellers should be forced to give a guide, not hard numbers just low xxx, high xxx, low x,xxx etc.
You can see why some sellers don't put a guide as they just want to sell the level of interest and what offers they get (i have done it before myself). However, it is very annoying as a buyer making a xx or xxx to be told they are looking for x,xxx - xx,xxx minimum.

I was going to split the issues like that too.

The thing I'd say about names up without a guide price is that I think it's fine. After all offers are invited. I don't think that the sellers have to give any other information if they don't want to.
This probably has been discussed in the other thread, but potential 'buyers' although many would never buy near market price, feel entitled to get a price out of you.

I think it's fair to say here's a domain make an offer, if it's not high enough or it's insulting, I might reply or I might not waste my time any more.

Personally I'm only like this with a few of my domains, most of them I'd counter.

The bumping issue is a whole different thing. I don't think I've ever used it as a strategy to sell more - and it never really works. If a name is a goodun and is fairly priced it will sell without 5 bumps.

I think reputation means a lot in this business and bumping so often only hurts reputation - it looks a bit desperate). I'm not talking about a specific member but in the past when bumping was more obvious, I started to ignore that members new threads

 

[mat]

I wonder if there's a VB plugin that could let people flag threads they don't want to see again.

Ignore Thread: Allow Users to Ignore Threads of Their Choosing - vBulletin.org Forum

 

[HariSeldon]

Maybe we should all use the "user" reputation feature more closely. I'm sure as someones rep bar turns red then people will get the message.

Good point. I do use the rep feature from time to time when a post particularly annoys me or conversely wows me.

I've sometimes thought an "ignore user" feature would be useful but in the absence of that I'm going to start being more proactive with the existing rep button.

 

[stender]

There is an ignore user feature already. I have one member in mine.

 

[pugyrob]

Think its a shame bumping has been disallowed. I sold 2 names in a sales thread and wanted to reduce bins on a couple but couldnt update the thread for 9 hours. I think there are sometimes fair reasons for bumping if there is new info to produce

 

[HariSeldon]

There is an ignore user feature already. I have one member in mine.

OK, so I've just found the 'Ignore List' feature in the control panel but can't find any explanation of exactly what it does...

Does it stop me having to see their posts in a thread or does it just stop them sending me PMs or both?

 

[grantw]

OK, so I've just found the 'Ignore List' feature in the control panel but can't find any explanation of exactly what it does...

Does it stop me having to see their posts in a thread or does it just stop them sending me PMs or both?

I'm pretty sure you won't see any of their posts.

Grant

 

[retired_member13]

Think its a shame bumping has been disallowed. I sold 2 names in a sales thread and wanted to reduce bins on a couple but couldnt update the thread for 9 hours. I think there are sometimes fair reasons for bumping if there is new info to produce

Surely you can update the info that's in the thread you posted though can't you?