Mr Webname said:
The following post was also made not long after:-
Also please note that auctions cannot be held in this forum, even if the seller originally claims the sale is an auction - auctions may only be held in the dedicated auction forum.
Thanks for the clarification Mr Webname. For the members wondering, I'm well aware of the rules here at DNF and this was a sale looking for the best offers over a set minimum per name. There was NO auction deadline time posted. It was also stated that I could close the sale upon receiving an acceptable offer for 1 name or for the group. That is exactly what happened. Several motivated buyers asked that I accept their bulk offer and close the sale. I accepted one and closed the sale.
It was placed in the correct forum. The reason for the rule on no multi-forum auctions at DNF was the problems created with the differing timestamps and determining which was the correct deadline time and last bidder at whichever main forum.
Sales using an independent auction such as ebay or equivalent are often posted in this forum. Unless I'm mistaken, the Auction forum here is for exclusively DNF auctions.
We have a number of sales of landrush pickups coming up and we will sometimes use the accept best offer format as these 3 letter biz or we will use an independent auction such as ebay or our own script such as the 3 letter us names sale. We're working on a script to automate that soon so it will record the bidder and the offer and allow immediate updates. Until then we're stuck with using emails and pms which on block sales makes it difficult at best to handle all the responses.
The reason for the deletions at the sales end is to protect the privacy of the buyer whos interest is in NOT publishing his purchase price. I keep a copy of the original post and can always address questions if required. We've been doing it a long time here, are one of the largest volume sellers averaging several hundred names per month, and we try our hardest to do it right.
Doc
