However, he generally doesn't bid above the initial bid and has never outbid me.
... At times I have wondered whether HAlaverez is Snapnames way of trying to determine how much I am willing to bid on the name.
I believe halvarez is SnapNames, regardless of the fact that he/she bids on domains, or even wins auctions. A year ago, I could spot which domains in my drop list would not have competitive bidders, I would obviously delete these names from my account, and pick them up at reg fee once they dropped. However, for a solid 8 months now I cannot do this, as halvarez bids on every single domain that I enter into my SnapNames drop list. I could enter the shittiest name possible up for drops, and there is a 100% chance halvarez will be there. The kicker is however, if I don't enter the name into my SnapNames auction list, you guessed it, it drops with no bids and I pick it up at reg fee. Anyone from SnapNames care to explain this phenomenon?
Just about every domain that drops is immediately grabbed. Unless, it is really, really terrible.
It goes thru the tasting process.
Some of the name above point to IREIT. Strange.
Ok. I have had enough.
Halvarez, that is of course a real person, is just exploiting a weakness in snapnames backorder system. I will not say what it is because it is very simple and anyone that has used snapnames for more than a couple of months should have discovered.
Halvarez must be laughing with this thread.
Must be the reason why halvarez is always the last to backorder the domain. He is able to choose wether he wants to win the domain, as he is never the first bidder which would win the auction by default.
halvarez only bid after you did. That's the secret. You won't find him interested in domains that are not already backordered & snapped.
He has bid up to 200$ in an auction where there were only two of us, interesting as i had a VERY high max bid set. How on earth did he know? In 95% of other auctions where i havent set such a high max bid or none at all he was not bidding up... I hope that Halvarez != Snapnames.