.mobi Watch your back with Sedo

[scandiman]

If you have any domains in a brokered Sedo auction, WATCH OUT! In the middle of the auction they arbitrarily removed the reserve price from a domain I had listed. Unbelievable. I called them on it and pulled the name from the auction. Needless to say, I have lost trust in Sedo.

Not exactly a .mobi related discussion, but it was a mobi domain involved.

 

[Jeff]

What was the .MOBI domain name (and what was the Reserve price)? :gl:

Thanks for the assist.
-Jeff

 

[scandiman]

What was the .MOBI domain name (and what was the Reserve price)? :gl:

Thanks for the assist.
-Jeff

The domain is aces.mobi. The reserve price amount is not important, but the fact that they decided to remove the reserve price in the middle of the auction is completely unethical. Current bids were not even to 50% of the reserve.

 

[namewaiter]

What was the .MOBI domain name (and what was the Reserve price)? :gl:

cutting right to the chase?

 

[Jeff]

cutting right to the chase?

Or, giving him an opportunity to post his .MOBI's for sale?

See you p.m.
-Jeff

 

[scandiman]

Or, giving him an opportunity to post his .MOBI's for sale?

See you p.m.
-Jeff

This was done in the marketplace as it should be.

 

[newton]

That's extremely unprofessional of them and good catch.

 

[scandiman]

That's extremely unprofessional of them and good catch.

Thanks. My advice to everyone is to monitor your auctions closely!

 

[dag]

I don't really understand...was this auction started without an offer? Because obviously, for most Sedo auctions, the "reserve" has already been met by an offer, so they couldn't remove the reserve.

Just trying to clarify what was going on with this...

 

[scandiman]

I don't really understand...was this auction started without an offer? Because obviously, for most Sedo auctions, the "reserve" has already been met by an offer, so they couldn't remove the reserve.

Just trying to clarify what was going on with this...

Sedo offers a brokered auction feature. If you look in their auction list there are many names with no bids and ones with bids that have not yet met reserve. All of these have been placed into the auction marketplace by a Sedo broker. Go to the bottom of "Sell Domains" > "Domain Auctions" on their site to learn more.

 

[dag]

Sedo offers a brokered auction feature. If you look in their auction list there are many names with no bids and ones with bids that have not yet met reserve. All of these have been placed into the auction marketplace by a Sedo broker. Go to the bottom of "Sell Domains" > "Domain Auctions" on their site to learn more.

Thanks, that's what I was wondering. I knew about those, but had assumed initially that this was one started with an offer.

Any response from them about why the reserve was removed?

 

[labrocca]

Ugh...I remember seeing aces.mobi listed by you days ago and there was no reserve then. Are you sure you simply didn't make a mistake?

 

[scandiman]

Ugh...I remember seeing aces.mobi listed by you days ago and there was no reserve then. Are you sure you simply didn't make a mistake?

Absolutely positive. I have the e-mail trail with the Sedo rep to prove it. It is not a mistake I am able to make since it is put into the auction by the broker.

 

[gou]

I saw it with a reserve and it was not met at the time.

 

[scandiman]

I saw it with a reserve and it was not met at the time.

Thanks for the eyewitness testimony!

 

[Jeff]

This was done in the marketplace as it should be.

Righto, thank you ... and Good Luck if you re-list it, as well! :talk:

cutting right to the chase?

I do like to be thorough ... :red:

See you soon.
-Jeff

 

[Jo]

Righto, thank you ... and Good Luck if you re-list it, as well! :talk:



I do like to be thorough ... :red:

See you soon.
-Jeff

"Just the facts Ma'am, just the facts." :hehe:


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Sorry to hear that they removed your reserve scandiman and good luck for future sales.

 

[Jeff]

:hehe:

:notme:

<<< runs to get his bucket of popcorn ready for later this evening! :music: :p

 

[scandiman]

:hehe:

:notme:

<<< runs to get his bucket of popcorn ready for later this evening! :music: :p

Hey, no inside jokes in my thread unless you share the popcorn

 

[Jeff]

Popcorn aplenty in the Namepros LiveChat™ ... see you there! :yell:

:lala: