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Originally Posted by -Fox-
It's not my business how you run your auctions but i must agree with Frasier. And by the way, i think you can not compare this kind of forum auctions with others done through an auction system.
Just to put it to a real example, if Frasier would have said "$150", after the auction ends even if nobody else bid anything between $70 and $150 you would have charged him the whole $150. While the systems you are talking about if the bid start at $20 and you offer $150 they take your bid at $20 and if nobody offer anything else, they charge you just $20.
Here people bid what they will finally pay, and mail bids can discourage potential buyers.
Good luck  and don't take it wrong, it's just my opinion and my two cents. |
Thanks Fox for the input and I agree with Frasier and wasn't directing my comment at him it was a general point.
If I don't accept bids by email I am cutting off pretty much 50% of bids I receive because has someone else mentioned in this thread many prefer to make their bids in private.
What I meant was that quite a few people have contacted me after an auction has finished to say they would have paid more for a domain. Most of the time the people who contacted me have been previous bidders, they know the auction format and have the chance to bid before the auction end time.
If an auction end time is scheduled at 10pm for a domain I am interested in I make sure that for that period I am watching the progress to make any last minute adjustments I need to make. As long as the domain is still within my bidding limit in the closing stages I continue to bid.
As for Frasier's point, what I meant was if there is a domain I wanted for $100 I would bid up to $100 for that domain. If I got the domain for my target price I would be happy, I would not even think about who else might have been bidding on the domain as long as I got the domain at my target price.
I totally respect why Frasier did not make any more bids, I just commented that it was a shame because if he did really want the domain and would have paid more all it would have took was a quick email to me to clarify is concerns and I would have reassured him! He could have then bid in confidence and owned a domain that by the sounds of it he wanted to own
I appreciate your comment as well and agree with almost everyting you said. I would make my auctions thread only bids but as with your point about email bidders potentially putting off other bidders the same applies if email bidders were not allowed. The people who like to bid discreatly by email may then also be put off of making bids!