Live Auction

[HFear]

Just a suggestion for the live auctions. Before holding a live auction, we should make a poll and decide at what time the auctions should be started. The time that gets the majority of the votes is the time that the auction should be started. That way alot of people won't miss out on auctions.

 

[Sabre]

I often miss the mid-week auction, as I simply cannot make them....

What happened the live auctions being on Fridays? :td:

I think the times are pretty good as they are though.

 

[CrazyTech]

I agree here. Perhaps I am biased, but I always enjoyed the turnout and times we had on Fridays. I don't think you're going to find a date that exactly everyone can always make, of course, but the turnout seemed to be higher to me on Fridays. I think everyone also is ultimately in a better mood on Friday (and that means more buying) because it's a relaxing and fun windown to the week.

 

[GJ]

The unoffical Friday auctions should be returning soon but on NPGeek as we have been told not to use the Namepros chat. I find this really unfair personaly as Karim, the owner of NPGeek coded the system that Namepros use for auctions, can't use Namepros Chat for unoffical auctions. We havn't held a event over at NPGeek before but in my opinion I don't think it will go that well. There will be a smaller turnout with the members of Namepros can't be bothered to sign up for something else. I enjoyed the day where we were put in another chatroom her on Namepros with members deciding if they would want to stay in this unoffical room or go to the normal one.

I know that the majority of that post was nothing to do with the day but I just want to inform fellow NP'ers what is happening!

 

[Sabre]

I agree here. Perhaps I am biased, but I always enjoyed the turnout and times we had on Fridays. I don't think you're going to find a date that exactly everyone can always make, of course, but the turnout seemed to be higher to me on Fridays. I think everyone also is ultimately in a better mood on Friday (and that means more buying) because it's a relaxing and fun windown to the week.

Precisely.

I think we had one on a Monday a while back (correct me if I'm wrong), and it was pretty lack lustre there, simply from the fact that the majority of people were tired and stressy from returning to work after the weekend...

 

[stscac]

When was it determined that unofficial auctions could not be held in the NamePros chat room?

I must have missed that bit.

Anyways, the livelyhood of the auction depends on if it is promoted well. If RJ posts on the top of the forum like he usually does for an auction that there is an auction over at NPGeek, then I think we will get most of the traffic that would usually come out for an auction. Otherwise, I don't think that the auction would get more than 25-30 people at all, and then names are going to be going for low prices, sellers are not going to be making as much money as they could with a larger bidding pool, then are not going to be buying other seller's domains, making a cycle.

I think you get the idea.

-Steve