opinion I hate those who bid days before auction end time

[Haris]

Why are you so stupid?

I hate you.

@Everyone who bids days before auction end time.

Now everybody has the domain on their watchlist

Because of you

How can someone be so dumb.

You've invited more competition, if few people saw the auction you would've had better chance at winning it for cheap. How stupid you are.

 

[baseballworld]

Good for the registrar when the domain is at expiring auction.

Indeed it is. lol

 

[Jv1999]

Frank Schilling usually bids days before auction end time, is he stupid?

Have you seen his XYZ love? Or the tlds he's letting expire?

 

[Dominic Belley]

If I know I will be out on vacation for a fews days I put my bids in advance.

On GD there is no such things as "snipper". When a bid is made the clock goes back to 5+ minutes.

 

[hookbox]

If I know I will be out on vacation for a fews days I put my bids in advance.

On GD there is no such things as "snipper". When a bid is made the clock goes back to 5+ minutes.

They mean snipe it when it goes to closeout.

 

[Dominic Belley]

They mean snipe it when it goes to closeout.

Oh Ok. I did not know the term applies to that phase of the process

 

[Haris]

If I know I will be out on vacation for a fews days I put my bids in advance.

Well, I can see a lot of people on this thread say they do that but I want to know whether you win the auctions when you bid in advance? The first thing I note while browsing through auctions is which auctions have received a bid, everything else comes after that. If I like the domain and I think it's sellable, then I bid until I beat the max bid of that advance bidder and I win the auction unless the price goes over my budget but most of the time I win, and even if I don't win, most of the time I see that the advance bidder didn't win the domain because he was not there during the end-times

On GD there is no such things as "snipper". When a bid is made the clock goes back to 5+ minutes.

Yeah almost every marketplace has this time extension after last bid but that doesn't make a difference if there are not many bidders watching that auction. An advance bid changes this as more people put the domain on their watchlist.

 

[hawkeye]

Why are you so stupid?

I hate you.

@Everyone who bids days before auction end time.

Now everybody has the domain on their watchlist

Because of you

How can someone be so dumb.

You've invited more competition, if few people saw the auction you would've had better chance at winning it for cheap. How stupid you are.

Geez, I guess you must also hate all the bloggers that post lists of domains in or going to auction too. They just bring in all those that weren't even looking to bid on anything until. Isn't being a domainer just so hard...

 

[Haris]

Geez, I guess you must also hate all the bloggers that post lists of domains in or going to auction too. They just bring in all those that weren't even looking to bid on anything until. Isn't being a domainer just so hard...

oh I forgot about those, need to hate them too

 

[hookbox]

oh I forgot about those, need to hate them too

That's funny.

 

[Want2learn]

Does anyone else not want to bid people up if they can't get the name? I typically have a max I will pay for a domain. As I am bidding if I get to that number I say I am done with it. But then I say if X is my top dollar then X plus 1 or 2 bids would be okay. I just know it cuts into profits. But I go to that number bc if I can't get it for X, you don't get to get it for X either.

 

[campout]

But then I say if X is my top dollar then X plus 1 or 2 bids would be okay.

Very dangerous! (Yes, I think we've all done that.)

 

[Haris]

if I can't get it for X, you don't get to get it for X either.

Not the right thing to do imo.

 

[Kuffy]

If names don't reach a proper sale price at auction, then sellers won't use the auction, so everybody loses.

 

[Haris]

If names don't reach a proper sale price at auction, then sellers won't use the auction, so everybody loses.

The 'seller' of an expired domain is the registrar and the registrar will have to auction the domain doesn't matter if a LLL.com is selling for $100. Only the registrar loses, but the registrar never paid for the domain. So what these advance bidders do is help the registrars make more money.

 

[Want2learn]

Not the right thing to do imo.

The other day I bid on iactivity dot com. I had a number I wanted to pay. As we got closer to auction end the bidding went nuts. Now maybe I was wrong to do this. And maybe my valuation was wrong on the name! But I then said if I can't have it for X I'll bump it up some. Now the bump up some carries risk of course. Risk for me of paying too much. But here is the thing. If I would pay 500 for iactivity, if 550 is too much then I don't need to pay 500, for EXAMPLE! If 200 is my max then 220 should not be a deal breaker.

But to your specific point. Why do you think it is either wrong or not right? If 200 is my max and we get to 200 why should I let anyone have it at 205? There are a few logical reasons why I should press it a little. I may get it for just a little more. It does increase the comps in the area It creates competition which is good for business.

 

[Want2learn]

The 'seller' of an expired domain is the registrar and the registrar will have to auction the domain doesn't matter if a LLL.com is selling for $100. Only the registrar loses, but the registrar never paid for the domain. So what these advance bidders do is help the registrars make more money.

I understand you don't want registrar to make more money. To be clear, and I do not think it will make a difference to you, I am talking about all auctions not just expiring closeouts!!

 

[Asfas1000]

If 200 is my max then 220 should not be a deal breaker.

Can you define max in this context ? I thought "max" means "I won't go over this number no matter what"

 

[Asfas1000]

It creates competition which is good for business.

I don't think so. Competition will not make the domain better, it just gets you to pay more ! If the other parties were not involved in the auction, you would have won the exactly same domain for peanuts !

 

[Marka]

@Haris, dont hate peoples. For every domain need min 2 days to end. If bids so many and sellers need buyers. Dont worry, be happy.

- @Celebrating

 

[Haris]

The other day I bid on iactivity dot com. I had a number I wanted to pay. As we got closer to auction end the bidding went nuts. Now maybe I was wrong to do this. And maybe my valuation was wrong on the name! But I then said if I can't have it for X I'll bump it up some. Now the bump up some carries risk of course. Risk for me of paying too much. But here is the thing. If I would pay 500 for iactivity, if 550 is too much then I don't need to pay 500, for EXAMPLE! If 200 is my max then 220 should not be a deal breaker.

But to your specific point. Why do you think it is either wrong or not right? If 200 is my max and we get to 200 why should I let anyone have it at 205? There are a few logical reasons why I should press it a little. I may get it for just a little more. It does increase the comps in the area It creates competition which is good for business.

Thread is getting derailed.. you should better create a new thread if you want to discuss this further.