I can`t believe it but I just bought: AUTO.COM - Page 5

**mis_chiff** · 04-15-2008, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by italiandragon

Sorry guys about this 2 hours of excitement.

I don't know about the rest of them, but it's the best
2 hours of excitement I've had in awhile!

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I hope it works out for you, anything's possible

Ross · 04-15-2008, 01:34 PM

Im just pissed i didnt see it first. I would have made $10,000 liquid pretty quick. Smart to go after the BIN price rather than dink around with bids. LOL

james2002 · 04-15-2008, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by Tivo

Im just pissed i didnt see it first. I would have made $10,000 liquid pretty quick. Smart to go after the BIN price rather than dink around with bids. LOL

You, guys. Have you typed in auto.com yourself in search bar. You will see it is redirected to cars.com which is PR 7. I am 99.9 % sure cars.com will not sell at xx,xxx.

luffo · 04-15-2008, 01:39 PM

Holy Moly

Very, Very, Very (..) nice Lorenzo!

italiandragon · 04-15-2008, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Tivo

Im just pissed i didnt see it first. I would have made $10,000 liquid pretty quick. Smart to go after the BIN price rather than dink around with bids. LOL

I think it was listed from less than an hou, maybe just few minuts because if you notice:

Quote:

Offers Made on Afternic Listings (Last 60 days)
NAME AMOUNT TIME LEFT START DATE CURRENT STATUS
auto.com 10,000.00 6d 23h 04/15/2008 Accepted

I`m going now, but I don`t even want to close the browser.....I opened another page to see if it was still there but it`s not. Only the page of 2 hours ago still shows it in my control panel.

Ross · 04-15-2008, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by james2002

You, guys. Have you typed in auto.com yourself in search bar. You will see it is redirected to cars.com which is PR 7. I am 99.9 % sure cars.com will not sell at xx,xxx.

We know this, but if it was legit it would litterally be like hitting the lottery. Hence why putting 10Gs for it would be nothing. Lorenzo did the right thing in this case.

italiandragon · 04-15-2008, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by james2002

You, guys. Have you typed in auto.com yourself in search bar. You will see it is redirected to cars.com which is PR 7. I am 99.9 % sure cars.com will not sell at xx,xxx.

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YES, I DID IT BEFORE to click buy now, but it`s still a redirect....and you never know....I thought

james2002 · 04-15-2008, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by Tivo

We know this, but if it was legit it would litterally be like hitting the lottery. Hence why putting 10Gs for it would be nothing. Lorenzo did the right thing in this case.

Yes, sure. But I will not make payment for the time being as it is most likely scam.

luffo · 04-15-2008, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by james2002

You, guys. Have you typed in auto.com yourself in search bar. You will see it is redirected to cars.com which is PR 7. I am 99.9 % sure cars.com will not sell at xx,xxx.

Yes The owner of auto.com has the following site: http://classifiedventures.com/ ... and they have cars.com..
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.. Well you never know

good luck Lorenzo!

james2002 · 04-15-2008, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by luffo

Yes The owner of auto.com has the following site: http://classifiedventures.com/ ... and they have cars.com..

.. Well you never know

good luck Lorenzo!

Yes, there is still chance that cars.com owner is going mad and selling this for xx,xxx. But as I said, it is unlikely. When you look at the whois data of allbooks4you.com which the lister put for xx,xxx as well at afternic a while ago. You will see he is not from US but cars.com owner is from US.

domainstosell · 04-15-2008, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by james2002

Yes, there is still chance that cars.com owner is going mad and selling this for xx,xxx. But as I said, it is unlikely. When you look at the whois data of allbooks4you.com which the lister put for xx,xxx as well at afternic a while ago. You will see he is not from US but cars.com owner is from US.

Considering that the cars.com "owner" is a company with ownership made up of many of the major metropolitan newspapers in the country - I doubt it. I used to work for Cars.com (actually for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and JSOnline.com who are affiliates of Cars.com); a few major players like the Tribune, Times, etc. own the company and Cars.com works as an affilate with other newspaper properties to sell the ad packages.
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Same exact company (Classified Ventures) also owns and operates Apartments.com.

hawkeye · 04-15-2008, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by james2002

You, guys. Have you typed in auto.com yourself in search bar. You will see it is redirected to cars.com .

wow, 5 pages in and no one did this yet???

italiandragon · 04-15-2008, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by luffo

Yes The owner of auto.com has the following site: http://classifiedventures.com/ ... and they have cars.com..

.. Well you never know

good luck Lorenzo!

Thanks

Anyway, just in case, I also received the email from Afternic about the Escrow payment and the email about the confirmation of my bid that was successful.

I could always ask Afternic to get me AUTO.com for $10,000 ......hey..it`s a binding contract, right?

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Quote:

A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce.

Ross · 04-15-2008, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by james2002

Yes, sure. But I will not make payment for the time being as it is most likely scam.

We know that but whats the harm in throwing down the BIN and holding the payment until its comfirmed legit(not likely) or not.

squid · 04-15-2008, 02:10 PM

I don't see why people are fussing over him bidding when it's 99.9% chance it's fake. He has nothing to lose, only to gain, unless he were to pay without any proof.

Good luck ID

james2002 · 04-15-2008, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by squid

I don't see why people are fussing over him bidding when it's 99.9% chance it's fake. He has nothing to lose, only to gain, unless he were to pay without any proof.
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Good luck ID

That's the point. Not to pay until you are absolutely sure.

italiandragon · 04-15-2008, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by james2002

That's the point. Not to pay until you are absolutely sure.

eh...I`m not THAT fool

Plus $10,000 for me are still an amount that I don`t have sitting in my credit card....I would have to do some urgent sales to get that or ask a loan.

Pred · 04-15-2008, 02:19 PM

i bet when we check alexa next week, RJ will be having a big spike tonight lol

RegFee · 04-15-2008, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by italiandragon

Plus $10,000 for me are still an amount that I don`t have sitting in my credit card....I would have to do some urgent sales to get that or ask a loan.

I'm sure NP members would be willing to buy your names up quickly (for not too much below market value) to get you enough funds to complete the purchase. We're all friends here

Steven · 04-15-2008, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by RegFee

I'm sure NP members would be willing to buy your names up quickly (for not too much below market value) to get you enough funds to complete the purchase. We're all friends here

Absolutely.
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We are here for you ItalianDragon

Anyways, I really hope that you get this name though.

grossad · 04-15-2008, 02:34 PM

Hi,

We removed the listing from the site earlier today. Our customer service staff is working with the "seller" to eliminate the possibility of any more false listings.

Adam Gross
Afternic

scoops22 · 04-15-2008, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by grossad

Hi,

We removed the listing from the site earlier today. Our customer service staff is working with the "seller" to eliminate the possibility of any more false listings.

Adam Gross
Afternic

Hmmmm. what does this mean?It was after all a fake?
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Or ,are they still investigating it?

Steve · 04-15-2008, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by grossad

Hi,

We removed the listing from the site earlier today. Our customer service staff is working with the "seller" to eliminate the possibility of any more false listings.

Adam Gross
Afternic

Thanks for the update, Adam!

Glad to hear you're working on rectifying this issue. It's unfortunate that some people list names that they don't have, but I'm glad Afternic is taking steps to stop this behavior.

italiandragon · 04-15-2008, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by grossad

Hi,
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We removed the listing from the site earlier today. Our customer service staff is working with the "seller" to eliminate the possibility of any more false listings.

Adam Gross
Afternic

iS THAT it ? IS that ALL ???

4 hours of my life plus all this emotional pain...how am I going to recover now???

Just donate me some 3 letters .com .....that will do

Spade · 04-15-2008, 02:48 PM

And I guess thats, that. Afternic is confirming this was in fact a fake listing. Too bad. This was one of those cases where if it was too good to be true.

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Ross Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2,132	Im just pissed i didnt see it first. I would have made $10,000 liquid pretty quick. Smart to go after the BIN price rather than dink around with bids. LOL

04-15-2008, 02:10 PM	#115 (permalink)
squid Account Suspended Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Stafford Posts: 993	I don't see why people are fussing over him bidding when it's 99.9% chance it's fake. He has nothing to lose, only to gain, unless he were to pay without any proof. Good luck ID

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Pred Account Closed Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6,713	i bet when we check alexa next week, RJ will be having a big spike tonight lol

04-15-2008, 02:34 PM	#121 (permalink)
grossad New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3	Hi, We removed the listing from the site earlier today. Our customer service staff is working with the "seller" to eliminate the possibility of any more false listings. Adam Gross Afternic

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