Snapnames auction history

[Rico]

halvarez is name admin

[denny007]

Halvarez - they do one big sh*t - they bump you price on domains they do not want. They cost me quite some money already. Example right yesterday:
denny007 05-Sep-2006 11:59 PDT $753.00
halvarez 05-Sep-2006 11:59 PDT $750.00
denny007 05-Sep-2006 09:56 PDT $309.00
From this was clear my proxy bid was $753. So if they really wanted this domain, they knew they can add just $4 to their current bid and get it. But they did not.
Last year when was the huge OVT drop I asked Snapnames for one domain to offer it to Halvarez for his lowest last bid under mer and first highest over Guy no 3 and told him I will pay the different. Because I made too high proxy bid by mistake. Guess what - Halvarez-arsehole rejected it, but Nelson was so nice he gave it for the 3rd guy for much much lower price and did not want the different.

[Raider]

Originally Posted by Rico

halvarez is name admin

I thought Benfranklin was name admin, can anyone provide a breakdown of the most active snap handles?........Thanks!

[Raider]

Originally Posted by biggedon

I got an offer for a domain on another forum, and then I posted the price I wanted for it in their chatroom.
Another member who was in the same auction where I originally bought the domain posted the price that I paid for it, so that the potential buyer, who was also in the chatroom,was able to see that price as well.

Thus exposing my potential profit margin.

These types of actions can take away your leverage, when negotiating prices.

Something very much like this happened to me, I bought a domain at Pool.com, unknowing to me, DNJournal publishes the domain and $2500 selling price on there site, the page gets indexed on google and yahoo, no problem so far. I then get contacted 2 months later by a serious buyer and the negotiating begins, he does a search and finds the DNJ page and what I paid for it, I was asking 10 times what I paid for it, well worth what I was asking. But is was extremely difficult trying to justify the price after only 60 days, Its like Biggedon says, you lose a lot of your selling leverage when the price is disclosed. DNJ runs a valuable service for all of us, I dont mind them posting sales on there web site, but make it so the darn search engines DONT index it!

[DomainsInc]

Originally Posted by Raider

Something very much like this happened to me, I bought a domain at Pool.com, unknowing to me, DNJournal publishes the domain and $2500 selling price on there site, the page gets indexed on google and yahoo, no problem so far. I then get contacted 2 months later by a serious buyer and the negotiating begins, he does a search and finds the DNJ page and what I paid for it, I was asking 10 times what I paid for it, well worth what I was asking. But is was extremely difficult trying to justify the price after only 60 days, Its like Biggedon says, you lose a lot of your selling leverage when the price is disclosed. DNJ runs a valuable service for all of us, I dont mind them posting sales on there web site, but make it so the darn search engines DONT index it!

I very much agree. There should be some kind of permission asked of the buyer to post sales, at least like you suggest not index it in the SE's.

[maroulis]

Originally Posted by Raider

Something very much like this happened to me, I bought a domain at Pool.com, unknowing to me, DNJournal publishes the domain and $2500 selling price on there site, the page gets indexed on google and yahoo, no problem so far. I then get contacted 2 months later by a serious buyer and the negotiating begins, he does a search and finds the DNJ page and what I paid for it, I was asking 10 times what I paid for it, well worth what I was asking. But is was extremely difficult trying to justify the price after only 60 days, Its like Biggedon says, you lose a lot of your selling leverage when the price is disclosed. DNJ runs a valuable service for all of us, I dont mind them posting sales on there web site, but make it so the darn search engines DONT index it!

you can email both Pool and Snap and request NOT to disclose price at DNJ.. I've done it many many times

[Raider]

Originally Posted by maroulis

you can email both Pool and Snap and request NOT to disclose price at DNJ.. I've done it many many times

I didn't know you could that...If that's the case, drop catchers should make it a option in our account panels. Thanks Maroulis!

[BonkersTwo]

Someone Didn't like that you were asking 10x the price what you paid?

Err...Tell them you bought it wholesale at auction, retail is much higher, 10X is normal, try to buy a domain from Benfranklin, VAXIS, Bum, myself, IT DOESN"T HAPPEN.

Why sell something today, unless it for 100x?

I got a email from someone who was on holiday for PlayItAgain.com, I told them I wouldn't even think about it unless is was 10x what I paid for it.

If you paid > $1,000 for a domain, it long term potential has to be at least $25,000+ or who would pay 1k for a domain at auction? (other than me)

[gpmgroup]

Originally Posted by maroulis

you can email both Pool and Snap and request NOT to disclose price at DNJ.. I've done it many many times ;

If no sales are ever reported you can guarantee the prices and quantity of sales will decline.

[maroulis]

Originally Posted by gpmgroup

If no sales are ever reported you can guarantee the prices and quantity of sales will decline.

well I can guarantee to you that everything I bought and didn't list at DNJ or elsewhere I sold for x3 at least

[gpmgroup]

Originally Posted by maroulis

well I can guarantee to you that everything I bought and didn't list at DNJ or elsewhere I sold for x3 at least

chicken and egg


Most people don't make the market they follow it. Sales at DNJournal provide good benchmarks. Without flowers.mobi how many of the subsequent $xxxx & $xxxxx .mobi sales would have followed so quickly?

[maroulis]

Originally Posted by gpmgroup

chicken and egg


Most people don't make the market they follow it. Sales at DNJournal provide good benchmarks. Without flowers.mobi how many of the subsequent $xxxx & $xxxxx .mobi sales would have followed so quickly?

I don't invest in .mobi which is why I don't have to worry about that LOL.. Besides even .net have recently increased in value, I don't see why listing on of the domains will fuel price increases when I can already command the higher price when selling privately

[Raider]

Originally Posted by gpmgroup

If no sales are ever reported you can guarantee the prices and quantity of sales will decline.

I'm referring to domains that drop, not retail sales. I'm not proposing drops should'nt be reported, just make it so the search engines dont index the pages or domains, what's so hard about that?

[Banned: AlienGG]

Originally Posted by Raider

I'm referring to domains that drop, not retail sales. I'm not proposing drops should'nt be reported, just make it so the search engines dont index the pages or domains, what's so hard about that?

Talk to Ron.

[gpmgroup]

Originally Posted by Raider

I'm referring to domains that drop, not retail sales. I'm not proposing drops should'nt be reported, just make it so the search engines dont index the pages or domains, what's so hard about that?

Without the oxygen of publicity there would be far fewer sales. Every time there is a well publicised big ticket sale it brings more and more money into the industry and that is good for the industry.

Most people follow the market not lead it they want to feel reassured that they are not paying vastly over the odds. If there is doubt in their minds they will walk away.

A sale is simply the transfer of confidence.

[GAMEFINEST]

I am also getting in the mix..

[gpmgroup]

Originally Posted by AlienGG

Talk to Ron.

Why would he want to ban his [probably] most visited pages from the engines?

[Raider]

Originally Posted by gpmgroup

Why would he want to ban his [probably] most visited pages from the engines?

Your not getting what I'm saying at all...Read my posts again.

[gpmgroup]

Originally Posted by Raider

Your not getting what I'm saying at all...Read my posts again.

I have and I think I understood you the first time

You said:

I'm referring to domains that drop, not retail sales. I'm not proposing drops should'nt be reported, just make it so the search engines dont index the pages or domains, what's so hard about that?

A sale is a sale there isn't a difference between a "drop" and a "retail sale"
To only report "retail" sales would be to skew the marketplace.

And I still say to ban the engines from the sales pages of Ron's site would be commercial madness as they are mostly likely by far the most visited pages of his site.

[Raider]

Originally Posted by gpmgroup

And I still say to ban the engines from the sales pages of Ron's site would be commercial madness as they are mostly likely by far the most visited pages of his site.

I'm not asking to ban pages, if DNF has the ability to prevent our domains from appearing in the search engines, so can DNJ. Publishing our wholesale prices in the search engines "without" our consent is BS!, and I dont see the benefit, retail sales promote the domain industry FAR more than wholesale prices do, if they do at all.