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Originally Posted by SportsBook
How honest do you think they are?
We just scored a couple of premium domains.
We noticed with one of them the one that should have been least popular - there was someone that starting to bid against us and pushed up the bidding to over $2K - while the one that should have been most popular went to $300 then the other guy dropped out.
The question is this: Is there any verification on who the other betters could be? If snapnames wanted to play games - since the other bidders are secret - they could start pushing up bets just to put extra revenue in their pockets.
Same thing that happens with many bets within ebay - I guess its hard to control but I dont think that ebay is bidding things up - not as much reward for them todo verses the cost if they where caught.
What do you guys think? Am I off base?
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vaxis, bonkers, saggydimes, dagroup or benfranklin in that auction? What domain was it?
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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
No, you are not off base. I just won a domain from them. The domain was a obviously nice mainstream one. The "bidder" that started bidding against me was obviously fake. I thought I had time to finish bidding and I went out of town, forgot the bidding was ending and I lost... for just $61
Now, I don't know about you, but if I win a bid that costs $1 more than it cost me to backorder the domain I wouldn't let it go. But somehow, the bidder did just that. I was awarded the domain after all.
That leads me to believe the computer is setup to automatically start bidding to up the price. I can't say this isn't a smart tactic on their part. It's not illegal as far as I know. It is shady though.
At the end of the day I truly believe you can't trust anyone in the domain acquisition process 100%.
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Or he didnt have the funds to cover the payment. I often start my bids @ $61 if they're insignificant domains and don't want to pay anymore.