Domain won at Namejet, paid, then refunded and put in pre-release again 1 month later

[Jotu]

Hi,

On October I won a pre-release auction for an expired domain. NameJet took the money from my CC but they never gave me the name and I have been refunded 2 weeks after (end of october). It seems that owner of the name transferred the name from current registrar (where it was expiring) to eNom during the auction. But while new registrar was eNom, they didn't managed to get the name for me (as you know, NameJet and eNom are both from the same company).
Well so auction took place, I won, I paid, but I didn't get the name and NameJet refunded me..
Ok in my opinion that was unfair but let's move on..

Problem is that about 1 month ago (so 1 month after my refund), in november, I've received an email saying that the name I was looking for was in pre-release again !
But hey WTF? Seriously ? Current owner decided to send the name again to NameJet so I should get it since auction already took place few weeks ago !
But no.. namejet don't want to award me the name. Here is what they told me :

Thank you for contacting NameJet support. This domain was pulled from the previous auction, because the current registrar at the time, <registrar>.com, cancelled the auction for this domain. Because of this, the auction at the time, must be cancelled per our agreement with the registrar of record. However, since this domain was still in the backorder list of many other individuals, we continued to attempt to acquire this domain name for auction.

Should the domain be made available, you should be able to bid on it again.

Oh.. what ? So according to the Support Team, NameJet managed to get the name again for an auction because there were people with a backorder for the name ? But.. why are they launching auction again ? And this way there will be more bidders than the first time because some people will see a domain which is going to pre-release with already some bidders so they will enter the auction too..
And also please note that whois for this name changed fews days before pre-release from Registrant "real" information to .. "Whois Privacy Protection Service" which is eNom's private whois service but also the service used by eNom for their portofolio.

So my question is : did it already happened to you? Should I get the name at the price I won it in october?

Thanks (and sorry for my bad english :p )

Regards.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Namejet = sleazy.

Sooner or later, they will have their Halvarez moment and then some.


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[tonecas]

sad to hear. was the name in one of these lists?

http://www.namepros.com/warnings-and-alerts/634821-be-careful-namejet-pre-release-auctions.html

regards,
tonecas

 

[URLtrader]

I had a domain on backorder. Was able to hand register it after namejet tried to get it for me.

Anyone else had such experience ?

 

[latenightdomainer]

As of August 2012 the dirty practice continues... NameJet refunds and list domain in SEDO... it´s obvious was them.

Good thing I wasnt´really attached to that especific LLLL and this show me that it is better to create a new trending name than auction on their site.

If they continue like this they will dry this market very soon form all of us, newcomers. Really Sad.

 

[tonecas]

NameJet is getting shady every month. I still don't get it how they haven't got a class action or a simple court action because of violations of their ToS. Where is the indication that they offer private domains for auction? And why don't they distinguish between Pre-release domains that should read expired domains from private sellers? Then comes the fake/shill bids that they allow and even promote. In a country where you can be sued by almost anything i guess domainers are only focused on domains

There is a way. STOP doing business with them, at least on auctions for private sellers. It's simple, but money talks everytime and people go there to get their precious domains no matter how the industry will be damaged by all these scams and silent acceptance by all of us.

regards,
tonecas