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Frasier, I too appreciate intelligent interaction with other members. As a seller I see Naughtyname's point of view but also understand yours. I just lost a potential higher bid from someone on one of my domains because he had the same reason as you which again I totally respect. Unfortunately for the person selling he has to take what he can get. If he gets a serious anonymous bid, he cannot take the chance of not accepting it.
I am selling a domain now GayPornAction and for the first time posted a bit of a disclaimer asking people to try and keep the bids on the thread due to the situation presented on this thread and also to what happened to me just an hour later.
The tactic of using anonymous bids is definitely used on here. I can tell just by some of the ridiculous stuff some of the sellers use. I see a guy selling a domain for $2,000 and then he claims there is a $1,500 bid (on a domain that is worth only $1,500 to him). Then he reduces the price to $1,200 and claims the anonymous bidder backed out and magically he is willing to take $700 less from the original 2K.
That type of stuff is ridiculous but if you look you will notice that it is usually the same people playing the same games and for some reason it's always with these domains that they want thousands of dollars for. I sold just yesterday BabesPosing.com on here, the winning bidder and I did most of the negotiating via email instead of using the thread. Anyways I am rambling, but it is truly a tough position for an honest seller on these boards.
(I am new to GFY but have been doing this for a long time on other forums so my experiences are based as a whole not just GFY)
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