This is NOT true! They DID profit. How did you not see that the auction ended with me being the winning bidder and after the auction already ENDED, I was OUTBID so GoDaddy 100% absolutely did PROFIT from this which is why I have been saying this is auction fraud, not only that, but there have been multiple crimes committed here including false & misleading advertising for financial gain, stating I won the auction and it ended, extreme negligence in handling legal binding contracts, and then having an auction with 2 different end times and honoring the 2nd end time is corrupt & unlawful.
Saying it cost them money is a WHAT IF, not a FACT! The FACT is they made more money than they should have because I was outbid after the auction already ended. That's fraud!
@member-162055 .. the problem to begin with is that you do not fully understand both potential reasons for this glitch/bug. But the fact remains that in both reasons for this glitch, the other bidder made his or her bid at 11:24, which is before the "first end time", therefore they were the highest bidder at both 11:25 and 11:30.
That $9100 bid is a legally binding bid at 11:24, GoDaddy did not profit any more than they should have. However .. the bug caused you to think the auction was over, effectively removing your ability to bid $9200 and a potentially escalating exchange with the other bidder potentially far beyond $9300.
If GoDaddy sides with the 1st end time, I win.
Again, unfortunately that simply is not true.
That was not a legit bid, why else would the auction END @ 11:25 with me being the winning bidder?
As many of us have told you repeatedly .. because of a bug / glitch / error. Nobody is saying GoDaddy is not responsible for that problem, but that does not equate to you being the winner of the auction .. it more specifically equates to you being the victim of a sloppy GoDaddy platform. Should they be liable? Potentially ... Did you win the auction? No.
So upholding my legal right to the domain since I was the 1st winning bidder to win the legally binding auction is beyond you?
You are taking me out of context here .. what I mean is that it's beyond me knowing if it's something that can be taken to court with a reasonable chance of winning. Essentially all I was saying is that I am not a lawyer .. I am not at all saying that you do not have legal grounds to sue .. I'm simply saying I don't know what your chances are in court, nor if there are laws that give you rights to damages (regardless as to whether there actually should be or not).
This is BS, first you say no one person is to blame, then you say upper management is to blame. Aren't corrupt? They have been scamming people like this for over a year and are 100% aware and continue to do this to people and you think
@Joe Styler &
@Paul Nicks aren't to blame when they have done absolutely NOTHING to fix this problem for over a year now which is deliberately scamming people.
Let me be 100% clear here .. Fraud, Corruption and Scamming are VERY different from Negligence, Laziness and Incompetence. Nobody is saying you were not victim of a gross bug/error that GoDaddy is responsible for ... I'm just saying that your claims that there was deliberate and personal intent to fraud or cheat you specifically, have no basis in fact (although I doubt it, I'll grant you that it could be possible, but unfortunately that would be almost impossible to prove without looking at email/phone records, etc).
I do have PROOF, did you not see my original post in this thread?
@Joe Styler &
@Paul Nicks are 100% responsible for all of this, it's their dept., they are in charge, why do you think they make it impossible to contact auction support because they are scamming people, no phone support, no email support.
This is ALL on them, they run the show @ GoDaddy Auctions!
What's really crossed the line of inappropriate is @Joe Styler & @Paul Nicks continue scamming people for over a year now and think it's OK while destroying peoples lives and then treat them like crap, but you seem to think that's OK too.
Again you are twisting what I have said. At no point did I ever say that GoDaddy was not responsible. Nor that indeed some of their management could ultimately also be responsible. But you are using words associated with criminal intent .. to which you have absolutely zero proof of. Arguably you most certainly have proof of the incompetence of GoDaddy as a company, but you have zero proof of any deliberate criminal activity.
I can tell what 99.9% likely happened. This bug was reported several times .. but for the most part nobody really cared enough to go through the effort of taking responsibility and making the needed changes. Either that, or they did know, but the alternative and correction was found to result in worse bugs or a significantly reduced user experience.
That's one point I will agree on is that poor communication both internally and externally is a colossal problem at GoDaddy. I've had nothing but polite exchanges with employees and have zero doubt they are mostly all genuinely good people .. and it really bothers me when people say they are criminals.
I will also agree 100% that their support for auction issues needs to be improved significantly .. the one thing that isn't acceptable is for serious issues like this to not be addressed pretty much instantly and directly. But again .. this is not a crime .. it's negligence, bad customer service and another example of very poor communications at GoDaddy .. I'm not even saying that some people shouldn't be ultimately be held responsible .. but nobody deserves to actually go to jail over these problems. By saying this is fraud and scamming you are in turn being libellous .. which in some circumstances actually is illegal.
So by posting the TRUTH, I am being over the top and irrational?
The problem is that you are no tonly posting the truth .. you are posting accusations of personal intent by Paul and Joe to fraud you and everyone else. While I concede that this is technically possible (although unlikely in my mind), you have absolutely zero evidence that this is anything more than a case of neglect and/or incompetence .. which is the line that you should limit your accusations to unless you have tangible proof of criminal intent.
What exactly have I posted that isn't factual or constructive?
A lot of it is ... but not your unfounded claims of what essentially equates to criminal activity.
I'm not saying that GoDaddy is not on the wrong side here .. both causes of this technical problem are foreseeable things that they should have been aware of from day 1. They most certainly owe you, me, and anyone else who lost auctions because of this glitch an apology. They also owe people who report issues and apology and much more importantly .. significantly more respect by ALWAYS following up. Such things are a result of a deep underlying problem in the corporate culture at GoDaddy (or a sign that they are vastly understaffed .. which still means it's a corporation level problem) ... although again .. it's the sort of thing you find in most large organisations. It's frustrating and wrong .. but in this case there is zero evidence of anything "illegal".
Anyhow .. let us know what becomes of your legal pursuit .. you aren't alone in being both emotionally and financially affected by GoDaddy platform bugs, so there definitely is a lot of interest as to how this develops .. but you need to limit your accusations to neglect and corporation-level responsibility, as opposed to anything related to personal accusations of deliberate fraud and criminal intent, otherwise you'll end up with very few people standing behind you.
Anyone with legal experience have a moment to chime in on the quote from 
This is a HUGE step forward!
