I'm not back yet, just dropping by for an error-correction announcement in what must be the busiest .mobi forum around.
I got a dozen or so LLL.mobi offers in the $175-180 range via SEDO this week, mostly where the first and last letter are the same - as in VUV, WYW, YTY, etc.
I know this is way below premium retail prices, but I thought I'd just send one of the less memorable ones to auction to test the market, as I haven’t followed it that closely in recent months.
Two mistakes:
1. I picked the wrong one to sell - didn't realize until after I sent it to auction that EUY is a prime typo of EU.mobi (with Y being right next to U on the standard western keyboard, which of course is what more and more mobile devices will have in the future).
Yes, I know there are no LL mobis in existence (yet) but if anyone has other typos of EU.mobi in this price range I wouldn’t mind looking at them. Mobile internet literacy is one area in which EU countries are definitely ahead of the good old USA.
2. On a much more embarrassing note, due to a stupid oversight I almost doubled the price of the recent ATL.mobi sale in the description – while adding it manually to the other notable sales which I extracted from the year-to-date charts of dnjournal.com I idiotically forgot to change the price after I copied the line above it.
So now I’m stuck with a description which states:
“Recent non-word 3-letter .mobi sales (all data below is taken from and verified by the industry publication of record, dnjournal.com):
LGD.mobi $10,000 Pvt Sale 06/12/2007
ATL.mobi $10,000 Pvt Sale 06/12/2007”
Amazingly, the SEDO system doesn’t allow corrections to descriptions after the domain is sent to public auction.
The correct version of course should be as follows (SEDO forum liaison/s, please surprise me by reading this post and actioning it during the weekend):
“Recent non-word 3-letter .mobi sales (all data below is taken from and verified by the industry publication of record, dnjournal.com):
LGD.mobi $10,000 Pvt Sale 06/12/2007
ATL.mobi $5,500 Pvt Sale 06/12/2007”
The dates btw refer to the time of publication in DN Journal
I’m sure Rick Latona (being the reported seller) would prefer the above wasn’t a typo, but to him the difference between $5.5k and $10k is probably not that significant anyway – after all he just bought Iran for almost 100 times the difference of $4.5k
In any event, apologies to Rick if this generates any unnecessary emails. Apologies to RJ too, for inadvertently misquoting the Journal. No apologies to SEDO for the absence of a way to correct typos in public auction descriptions.
I got a dozen or so LLL.mobi offers in the $175-180 range via SEDO this week, mostly where the first and last letter are the same - as in VUV, WYW, YTY, etc.
I know this is way below premium retail prices, but I thought I'd just send one of the less memorable ones to auction to test the market, as I haven’t followed it that closely in recent months.
Two mistakes:
1. I picked the wrong one to sell - didn't realize until after I sent it to auction that EUY is a prime typo of EU.mobi (with Y being right next to U on the standard western keyboard, which of course is what more and more mobile devices will have in the future).
Yes, I know there are no LL mobis in existence (yet) but if anyone has other typos of EU.mobi in this price range I wouldn’t mind looking at them. Mobile internet literacy is one area in which EU countries are definitely ahead of the good old USA.
2. On a much more embarrassing note, due to a stupid oversight I almost doubled the price of the recent ATL.mobi sale in the description – while adding it manually to the other notable sales which I extracted from the year-to-date charts of dnjournal.com I idiotically forgot to change the price after I copied the line above it.
So now I’m stuck with a description which states:
“Recent non-word 3-letter .mobi sales (all data below is taken from and verified by the industry publication of record, dnjournal.com):
LGD.mobi $10,000 Pvt Sale 06/12/2007
ATL.mobi $10,000 Pvt Sale 06/12/2007”
Amazingly, the SEDO system doesn’t allow corrections to descriptions after the domain is sent to public auction.
The correct version of course should be as follows (SEDO forum liaison/s, please surprise me by reading this post and actioning it during the weekend):
“Recent non-word 3-letter .mobi sales (all data below is taken from and verified by the industry publication of record, dnjournal.com):
LGD.mobi $10,000 Pvt Sale 06/12/2007
ATL.mobi $5,500 Pvt Sale 06/12/2007”
The dates btw refer to the time of publication in DN Journal
I’m sure Rick Latona (being the reported seller) would prefer the above wasn’t a typo, but to him the difference between $5.5k and $10k is probably not that significant anyway – after all he just bought Iran for almost 100 times the difference of $4.5k
In any event, apologies to Rick if this generates any unnecessary emails. Apologies to RJ too, for inadvertently misquoting the Journal. No apologies to SEDO for the absence of a way to correct typos in public auction descriptions.
