Be careful at NameJet pre-release auctions

tonecas said:

hello,

the first case can be because NameJet seems to (sometimes ?) change the bid time for the starting winning bidder. also, there are some that use bots to subscribe to auctions in the last minutes, to get the final auction prices, so that they don't enter in auctions with less than 3 to 5 bidders.

computersupply(.)com is one in a increasing list of domains that are showned in pre-release lists and then go to deletion. the situations vary and NameJet answers that it is the Registrar option to send or not domains to NameJet (which is true but is somewhat odd when the domains come from the shareholders of NameJet).

for today:
privatejetaircraft.com (5)

not hiding now who the owners are but with new whois contacts...

regards,
tonecas

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electrojon said:

I think you misunderstood or I need to clarify..

Namejet's backordering-(subscribe) for a domain auction ends every night at 8:00 PM PT right?

So how can you enter the auction (back order) from 8:00 PM PT to 11:00 AM PT once it is closed?

All of a sudden, at 10:32 AM PT (the next day after it was closed), a new bidder appears?

Everyone gets a confirmation email at 11:00 AM PT that you will be part of the auction when it starts or you were the only bidder. right?

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Makis.TV said:

How do you find all these domains?

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maximum said:

I could quote many NP users above, but I won't go into details about a lot of what is being said here. Folks, why are we even having this discussion? It boils down to what some said (sorry to those that did, for not rereading, directly quoting you, and giving that credit here):

Regardless of other bidders, scamming or not, owners of the domains already or not, or rather the drop service knows about it or is even in on the game, it does NOT matter! If you bid on a name, you should be willing to pay that price to get the domain, plain and simple. If you're worried someone is driving your bids up, without them actually having any intent on winning themselves, or that they are the current registrant and are making money off it, then treat it as if you were buying the domain out-right through cold-calls/emails to a buyer or someplace like Sedo, and not "snapping" it in an auction or through the drop. Only bid the maximum you'd be willing to pay to own the domain, regardless of the situation. If you don't know what it's worth, and are using the number of bids already there to see if it's "worth bidding on", you don't belong in the drop-catch game to begin with - go read and learn more before you loose your shirt. Even if the drop services did all they could, some people will (like everything else in life) find ways to muck it up for others, or to try and scheme around the system. If you want the name bad enough, you'd pay the price, regardless of the "reason" it got that high (scam or not) - You can't overly care about a cold-call you make to another domainer or domain registrant, then think it matters when you try to argue the reason with them why they want more than you're willing to pay. Kow what you're bidding on, what it's worth (at least to you and your plans/strategy for it), and go that far with it.....Otherwise, don't play in the game. This is a game about $, and the fact there are folks finding ways to take advantage of it should be the EXPECTED and not the HOW COULD THEY...welcome to greed and, sadly, human nature.

Just my opinion on the matter

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