.com BONJOUR.COM sold for $220 at Flippa

[vast]

Wow, really?

https://namebio.com/bonjour.com
https://flippa.com/9973257-bonjour-com

 

[Satyajit Adhikary]

That seems money laundering to me..!!

The actual deal took place offline. This is just the documented price for the Government..!!

The actual deal might be for $50k or more.

 

[bynps]

I don't think it is real. I was the one who made the bid for $30k, seller messaged me, wanting $220k.

 

[Chris Hydrick]

I see a lot of red here..

Same here. But for different reasons than you.

1) Why didnt flippa pick it up as editors pick. and

It was listed in Flippas Editors Choice -- HERE

2) $220 is only 1 bid. was everyone else blind???

Where did the $220 bid come from? According to the bid history, there was a lone $30k bid -- HERE

3) People on flippa desperately scout reserve met domains to get a steal deal so how come it got just 1 bid of $220.

I viewed this auction while it was still live. There was a $30k bid, and reserve was still not met. I do remember noting the reserve was unusually low for such a high quality domain -- a nice round number like $50k or $500k if I'm not mistaken -- but don't quote me on that.

That seems money laundering to me..!!

The actual deal took place offline. This is just the documented price for the Government..!!

The actual deal might be for $50k or more.

I'm wondering if it's something similar to this. Possibly the domain sold, and the seller wants to short @FlippaDomains out of commission? Or the seller wanted a paper trail of passing off the asset. -- Just guesses -- As it is highly unlikely the domain legitimately sold for $220.

 

[Kate]

I don't know if the owner is French, but the French and other Europeans use the comma for decimals and the dot to group thousands, which is the opposite of the US notation.
So I could imagine the owner blindly typed 220.000 meaning 220K but the script quietly interpreted the amount as $200 as per US locale settings.

That probably explains some lowball offers received at other sites.
Also, there are not so smart people thinking they are submitting an offer in their own currency, not USD.

 

[Michael]

If you look at his post on page one he said he said his bid of $30,000 didn't win it and the owner was asking $220,000.

Oops, I missed that. I just removed the record entirely, if there was actually at sale at any level Flippa or one of the parties can report it manually. It is too unclear what happened, the listing says sold by negotiation and says bidding ended at $220, bid history shows one bid at $30k and nothing at $220 for some reason, but the negotiated price might be an entirely different number. I miss Kevin Fink being at Flippa, lol.

 

[kam]

Another good reason why we should not use Flippa to sell our domains anymore.

 

[vast]

That seems money laundering to me..!!

The actual deal took place offline. This is just the documented price for the Government..!!

The actual deal might be for $50k or more.

Could be also something like taking a fake loss for tax purposes or something similar...

 

[Satyajit Adhikary]

I don't think it is real. I was the one who made the bid for $30k, seller messaged me, wanting $220k.

Seems like the seller got 220 just forgot a 'K'..!!

 

[Michael]

Fixed, thanks for the heads up. The bid history clearly shows $30,000 so that's the price I put. Their recently sold feed still shows $220 though, I guess there's a glitch in their system:

 

[rathish]

I saw the domain before 2 days in flippa auction with 1 bid of 30k $ and reserve was not met .And before 2 - 3 months i saw the same domain being auctioned in namejet with a reserve of 75k - 100k $ and the highest bid was 49k $ . So, i am pretty sure that the seller knows the value of the domain ...

I am 100 % sure that it is a fake sale... No one in this world will leave such a money in table...

After the auction ended unsold , the seller has an option to make an offer to watchers in flippa . So , instead of 220 k , he entered 220 $ and someone accepted it immediately thinking that he/she is getting a bargain . But i am sure seller will be ready even to loose his flippa account, instead selling it for 220$, poor buyer ... i am 100 % sure that this had happened as the starting bid for this auction was 30k $ and there is no way a person could place a bid for 220$ ...

 

[creataweb]

No way

 

[Chris Hydrick]

According to HERE Tracy Fogarty of eNaming announced the domain becoming available for sale in 2017.

Then in 2018, eNaming attempted to auction the domain on NameJet.

And before 2 - 3 months i saw the same domain being auctioned in namejet with a reserve of 75k - 100k $ and the highest bid was 49k $

According to GoldNames, bidding reached $50k.

 

[Jay Ha]

The way this auction's outcome was handled it can be called a "floppa".

 

[BRANDERX]

one can't be so naive to believe it..

Flippa may have ended the auction for some reason.

 

[Darren C]

 

[Kingslayer]

Awesome domain, i remember looking on Flippa a few days ago and seeing a reserve of $200k+.

If i was the owner I'd contact NameBio and get the $220 sale removed as it may devalue the domain, but even then this thread is now forever on Google, potential buyers Googling the domain 1,2, 5 or 10 years from now and believing the domain sold for $220 once upon a time a go, that's not good when your asking for 6 figures+

If this is the owners doing, made a big mistake. If this is a typo error from NameBio or Flippa and i was the owner of the domain I'd want it correcting straight away, I'd also see about getting this threads title changed if it's not a mistake on the owners part.

 

[TRY]

So @bynps has won it?

If you look at his post on page one he said he said his bid of $30,000 didn't win it and the owner was asking $220,000.

 

[Brandables]

even $5000 is a desperate sale ... 220 is just outrageous

 

[Brandables]

No way

I see a lot of red here..
1) Why didnt flippa pick it up as editors pick. and
2) $220 is only 1 bid. was everyone else blind???
3) People on flippa desperately scout reserve met domains to get a steal deal so how come it got just 1 bid of $220.
4) Also was the seller a fool to set reserve so low??? domain age is 23 years which means there are high chances that the seller is a seasoned domainer.
5) even a newbie on flippa with set a good enough reserve price. people set 10000 for horseshits but this seller kept 1???


I believe this is some practical joke on flippa.

 

[Nahdism]

And it was a negotiation deal, no bids, no BIN !!!!!

FAKE, FAKE, FAKE !!!!!

But the buyer has made deals worth $34000, so at least the buyer seems a veteran of this industry. Hope he/she doesn't get into some fraud deal trouble. Smells fishy fishy

 

[bynps]

I viewed this auction while it was still live. There was a $30k bid, and reserve was still not met. I do remember noting the reserve was unusually low for such a
high quality domain -- a nice round number like $50k or $500k if I'm not mistaken -- but don't quote me on that.

I believe the reserve was around $250k, BIN $500k

 

[rathish]

I don't think it is real. I was the one who made the bid for $30k, seller messaged me, wanting $220k.

Exactly what i said above...

 

[vravis9]

That is too low...

That seems money laundering to me..!!

@Satyajit Adhikary never thought there could be an angle of money laundering...here...

Sounds fair explanation for this type of name...

 

[vast]

Bonjour is a TM term by Apple, not sure if that is relevant.
https://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/bonjour.php

I think it's pretty fine with such a generic domain unless you have software ads on it or something silly like this.

I notice on NameBio that in any form it has only once sold for more than $1k as part of any word. https://namebio.com/?s==gjM3UTN5gTM Exact word sold in .io for $205 last year.

Yep, and has 123 registrations in different extensions . It's no doubt an exceptional name; NameBio shows just a tiny slice of sales data.