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I have participated in many GoDaddy auctions before but saw something very weird yesterday that I haven't seen before. I tried tweeting my question out from my twitter account but there was not enough room for me to tweet my full story on there so my tweet probably looked like it didn't make much sense.
This is the tweet I posted...
https://twitter.com/MediaBrandingVP/status/1066815599123279872
Before I post screenshots of the domains and what exactly happened yesterday and get into this, I guess I will just try narrow this post down to 1 or 2 questions in case I am missing something.
So all Expiring GoDaddy Auctions always start at $12.
If no bids at all, then the domain goes to an $11 Buy It Now price. Seen it hundreds of times.
Something different happened yesterday that I haven't seen though. Has anyone ever seen this before though?
Immediately at end of expiring GD auction w/no bids at all, almost 1 second after auction has ended, it shows back up immediately with a bid of $10 and now 5 minutes remaining? So of course as it shows to me now, it completely ended the $12 auction and skipped the $11 BIN process and created another auction starting at $10 immediately. How do I get this domain now? Well I have to bid $15 to get this domain now with an additional new 5 minute clock ticking. Happened 3x. I bid my $15 and won it. Almost like there really was not a $10 bidder, which I believe even shouldn't have been there.
I never seen this happen before and it happened to me 3x yesterday.
What changed, or what am I missing here?
This is only on 3 auctions that I was watching pretty intently for the last 5 minutes of normal $12 auction process.
I followed a couple other random ones yesterday within the last 30 seconds of auction that were very crappy domains and those did go to the $11 BIN within minutes like I have seen tons of times before. Only difference is the (3) I watched throughout entire last 5 minutes created another auction w/one bidder at $10 and when I bid the $15, I won.
Hope I am explaining myself pretty well here.
When did these1 bidder $10 auctions start after the $12 auctions expired?
Almost like there wasn't even a bidder there but showed a new one.
Anyone have any idea what happened there at all?
This is the tweet I posted...
https://twitter.com/MediaBrandingVP/status/1066815599123279872
Before I post screenshots of the domains and what exactly happened yesterday and get into this, I guess I will just try narrow this post down to 1 or 2 questions in case I am missing something.
So all Expiring GoDaddy Auctions always start at $12.
If no bids at all, then the domain goes to an $11 Buy It Now price. Seen it hundreds of times.
Something different happened yesterday that I haven't seen though. Has anyone ever seen this before though?
Immediately at end of expiring GD auction w/no bids at all, almost 1 second after auction has ended, it shows back up immediately with a bid of $10 and now 5 minutes remaining? So of course as it shows to me now, it completely ended the $12 auction and skipped the $11 BIN process and created another auction starting at $10 immediately. How do I get this domain now? Well I have to bid $15 to get this domain now with an additional new 5 minute clock ticking. Happened 3x. I bid my $15 and won it. Almost like there really was not a $10 bidder, which I believe even shouldn't have been there.
I never seen this happen before and it happened to me 3x yesterday.
What changed, or what am I missing here?
This is only on 3 auctions that I was watching pretty intently for the last 5 minutes of normal $12 auction process.
I followed a couple other random ones yesterday within the last 30 seconds of auction that were very crappy domains and those did go to the $11 BIN within minutes like I have seen tons of times before. Only difference is the (3) I watched throughout entire last 5 minutes created another auction w/one bidder at $10 and when I bid the $15, I won.
Hope I am explaining myself pretty well here.
When did these1 bidder $10 auctions start after the $12 auctions expired?
Almost like there wasn't even a bidder there but showed a new one.
Anyone have any idea what happened there at all?
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