$25,000 bid on netfleet for safebanking.com.au

[snoopy]

Still believe this is shill bidding, businessbanker.com.au has a very similar course of bidding as well,

In one instance each name has been bid on within 2 minutes,

safebanking.com.au

Tue 22 Mar 2011 13:47:37 $1000.00 AUD

businessbanker.com.au

3 Tue 22 Mar 2011 13:49:33 $17000.00 AUD

http://www.netfleet.com.au/index.php?a=d&id=55408

There is nearly half a dozen other bank names with doubtful bids as well all with bids around the same timeframe (March 2011) and all very hard to believe bids given the names..

 

[DomainNames]

Woukd be nice to see them sell to a bank. Would be good for domain values and might make it another positive media story for domain values

 

[neddy]

Wonder what's happening here? I have to say I find it strange that a deal hasn't been done at these levels.
If they were my domains, I'd be long gone and on holidays by now!

Safebanking.com.au is up to $42,000, but the offer has expired.

http://www.netfleet.com.au/index.php?a=d&id=56502

Businessbanker.com.au is up to $30,000, but the offer has also expired.

http://www.netfleet.com.au/index.php?a=d&id=55408

What do you think? What would you do if they were yours? Would you have sold?

Just looking back at some old posts and saw this. Nearly a year has passed - and the domains are still sitting there unchanged.

If they were genuine bidders, then it is a real case of "missed the boat" imho.

 

[Shane]

Something definitely smells funny.

Without looking at the search stats, I would pay no more than $500 for safebanking.com.au (I just don't see how you could monetise it) and I'd probably pay no more than $2,000 for businessbanker.com.au. Businessbanking.com.au would be a different story though...

 

[Oz.]

Bump. Just came across this domain today on NetFleet (with a $42,000 bid on it) and thought it looked too good to be true.

 

[Ashman]

Just looking back at some old posts and saw this. Nearly a year has passed - and the domains are still sitting there unchanged.

If they were genuine bidders, then it is a real case of "missed the boat" imho.

I think all offers on Netfleet's domain catalogue that are not accepted within the offer and acceptance time period should be removed.

I think it also is justified legally by contract law that when an offer is not accepted or no counter-offer is made and accepted then the original offer is no longer valid.

Looks to me as though "shill bids" are placed as a way of setting a reserve price.

FYI - there are about 41,500 domains in Netfleet's Domain Catalogue with 3,500 offers.