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snoopy
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I've got to say I am disappointing with Netfleet going up and down. I was under-bidder and page 404 immediately after bidding. When it finally worked, its $1 up from my bid. Amazing. Very annoyed with Netfleet in that regard.
As usual drop (where I did win) catch nothing worth catching.
Anyway Im a little ticked.
As usual drop (where I did win) catch nothing worth catching.
Anyway Im a little ticked.
snoopy
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Don't really follow, how much do you expect to be out by when you are the underbidder?
I wasn't, so far as I could tell. Problem is they went down in the very last seconds, again. It only came up again for me just after the end to find I'm outbid by $1
Edit: it was really odd and playing up when it was up and down. Hard to gauge what happened, except that I ended up being outbid by $1 which I didn't get to see as the site 404'd immediately after bidding.
Edit: it was really odd and playing up when it was up and down. Hard to gauge what happened, except that I ended up being outbid by $1 which I didn't get to see as the site 404'd immediately after bidding.
snoopy
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When did you bid then? The bid that you actually did get in?
About 10 seconds out. It flashed green (as in, my win) then it all froze. I refresh, page is 404. When it comes back about 30 seconds to a min after auction end, I had been outbid by $1. Needless to say, if they didn't go down over and over, especially in the last seconds, I'd have happily laid out more money to beat that $1 or more.
edit: Drop had no problems but like I said, never win anything useful, it seems.
edit: Drop had no problems but like I said, never win anything useful, it seems.
snoopy
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The bid that actually got recorded though, when did you make that bid?
Regarding being beaten by $1, that is what underbidder means, being beaten by $1. But the winner bidders proxy could have been 30k, it is extremely unlikely bidding $1 more would have won it.
Blue Wren
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Yep; cheers.
I reckon the site going down was a PR stunt tbh.. 
Congrats to Tim - great name!
When snoopy says that, you know you've bagged a goodie!
The thing is, if you were really prepared to pay more you should have put more on your proxy in the first place. That's how a proixy is best used - put your absolute highest possible price in and then turn your computer off.
Console yourself that Findtim's bid could have been $50K - so don't feel that you necessarily missed out by $1
Congrats to Tim - great name!
When snoopy says that, you know you've bagged a goodie!
The thing is, if you were really prepared to pay more you should have put more on your proxy in the first place. That's how a proixy is best used - put your absolute highest possible price in and then turn your computer off.
Console yourself that Findtim's bid could have been $50K - so don't feel that you necessarily missed out by $1
I was going to throw another 2k on top. I bid 17k at 10 seconds out, went green for me but right on my bid. Went to bid again, to add a little more, it froze / 404. I don't know what the other bidder put on top, but I did outbid him, it seems, before it went 404 again in the last 10 seconds.
Don't get me wrong, it's how it is so bad luck - but i'd certainly like to been given the oppertunity to throw that extra $2k on and see if I had won. But Netfleet went down, again.
Don't get me wrong, it's how it is so bad luck - but i'd certainly like to been given the oppertunity to throw that extra $2k on and see if I had won. But Netfleet went down, again.
Chris.C
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Really... what makes you say that?I reckon the site going down was a PR stunt tbh..
+1
Actually LOLed.
Only one way to know for sure? Tim, care to illuminate us on what you would have paid for it? Or did you just sneak across the line and want to keep it on the down low?
Chris.C
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Sounds like a high risk strategy, why not just bid the whole lot with 10 seconds to go...
It's not like NF is ever operating at peak performance with <10 seconds to go... I'd never "trust" their system to give me a second bit at the cherry with that little time left.
Yeah... well, live and learn. I know it's as much my own fault. Still, can't help but feel slightly ticked that they both went down, disallowing me my bid, and also somehow catching the domain.
Amazing competence, in a way, I guess.
Data Glasses
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It's a ripper of a name .......hand reg ?
