Food for thought ...
I don't know the answer here ... but this is like the third or fourth time recently that I've either seen or heard about folks picking up, as hand reg's, domains that were previously viewed or reported as "sold" for $Xxx - $x,xxx+, IMHO.
My general sense tells me that we need to trace back to WHERE those "sales" occurred, how they were witnessed or reported, and then details of those transactions, in my view. Let's not forget, there is ample historical evidence - and discussed on many occassions here throughout the forums - of "sales" being reported that never actually exchange hands, fake sales/bidders, phantom buyers, market manipulation, and worst of all ... shill bidding (obviously, unsuccessfully, if the owner ends as the high "bidder" - this could be viewed by some as a "sale")!
Point is ... and I have no knowledge of any info of these specific two sales on Afternic ... stuff like this
does occur because we don't have one centralized, verifiable, third-party accounting firm with a searchable database of items that have been sold and successfully transferred (versus, simply, being reported as sold by the agencies that sell them, themselves) IMHO. :gl:
As a result, always conduct due diligence insofar as sales comps for
your domain purchases and acquisitions ... and if they turn out to be TRUE bargains, all the better! People do drop stuff, no doubt ... but typically not at $X,xxx+ acquisition cost less than one year earlier, in my judgement. :red:
Just my two sense.
-Jeff
