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Originally Posted by robwod
As someone who also sells domains, full sites, etc. I'd like to suggest that not all sales are posted to just one board, or one resource. And more often than not I know I deal with people with in private as they simply do not want anyone to know their business. I can see their point. In fact I am the same way -- when I want something, I contact someone directly and negotiate beyond the public side of things.
My reg date might say 2005 ( In fact, I've been in this business since 1996), but I've been on ths board since it was first started. I just don't spend a lot of time posting.
Having said that, I do agree that For Sale threads that accept offers beyond the current medium, are indeed ripe for shill bids. It's unfortunate that some people choose to conduct their business with such deceptiveness, but it's a reality that it does indeed exist.
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I will share my personal approach to this, since i also was in the business before my join date and also have been buying/selling not only domains for some years already.
I also prefer sometimes to negociate with the seller directly, but in this case, i don't go for a bid, i go for the BIN.
As a seller, i always have in mind the potential buyer and bidders, and i try to put myself in their shoes, and since i don't like to bid against mail bids i was always reticent to accept mail bids, in the few ones i did here i allowed the mail bids since i saw it looks like a common practice in this forum. But in the future i think i will write some text to specify how i will accept mail bids or contacts if they want to do it partially anonymous.
About multiboard auctions, etc, i dont like them and i don't do them, if i am not happy with the offers i have somewhere i stop it before starting the real auction and i try in another forum. I think in the case that you want to do a multiforum auction, you can better create the auction in some site and just post the direct link to it wherever you want.
