In my opinion, these sales were made by .club registry (as usual) not by domainers (maybe 5%).
I say this because I've 50/60, ALL 1 word .club domains (like sold and specified in namebio), but only 2 offers in the last year and only 1 sale (1000 euro).
The only one make sales with .club (and new G) are registries, not us.
I've noticed that.
.club registry said, here on np, they will never taken back the expired domains.
This is a BIG lie. They take back ALL good domains.
They're greedy like all other new G registry.
Result? For me, .club domains are dead.
Good move .club registry, good move.