For Sale Welcome back to sanity Namewinner!

[Jack Gordon]

Dear NameWinner Customer,

As we e-mailed you several days ago, we updated the NameWinner auction
system and bidding interface with many new rules. Many of you told us that
these rules made the system more complicated and harder to understand.
Well, we're listening and went back to the drawing board to simplify the
process.

We have just put online the following new changes to the bid system:

- We have eliminated the private auction.
- All auctions end at 10 a.m. PST with one exception. If a customer is outbid on
a domain in the last 5 minutes of the auction, the auction for that name is
extended for 10 minutes until 10:10 a.m. PST. The auction is then over at
10:10 a.m.
- We have simplified the bid increments. There are no more tiered
increments. All bid increments are now $10.
- We have reduced the price on second bids from $35 to $30 and have
eliminated the $45 third bid requirement.
- You can now bid your grandfathered $8.75 base bid price on deleting
domains up until 20 hours before they delete. Within 20 hours we have
lowered the price to $20.

We hope that these changes make for a great NameWinner experience. If not,
we always want to hear your feedback so we can make the best possible online
expiring domain auction system. We have added several new partners for
grabbing domains over the past week and we have several more coming online
any day. We thank you for all the support that you've given us while we go
through these improvements. Please, if you have questions, don't hesitate
to ask.

Happy Bidding!
Your friends at NameWinner

 

[adoptabledomains]

Nice to see some common sense take hold.

 

[Togoodhlth]

Well they are at least tweaking it in the right direction!
Still don't undertand the 10:00-10:10 extension? Basically you have to snipe a name with 4 minutes 59 seconds left, go snipe elsewhere and then snipe at 10:09:59.
Since everyone knows about the 10:10 extension they will throw low bids until 10:10.

Just go back to the 10 deadline!

 

[adoptabledomains]

Has it always been 10am PST? I thought drops were done at 10am Eastern Time. Are they really going by Standard Time, or is it currently Daylight time?

Internet stuff would be a lot simpler if GMT were always used, and let everyone convert their own time.

 

[strongvis]

I think maybe they should add a freakin cookie to the popup too so we don't get hammered everytime we login ... TWICE for that matter . Once when you get to the site and another time when you login . ENOUGH we know you changed the site now quit poppin it over and over, I'm trying to lose at another overpriced domain auction here. geesh!

 

[DomainOgre]

Not crazy about the $10 bid increments though. That is way too high for anything under $100. They were just $5 yesterday when I won one for $80.

 

[Nexus]

Originally posted by Togoodhlth
Just go back to the 10 deadline!

Agh... make "snipers" work for it. Have 'em do it twice. If they fail the first time (unexpected proxy bid screws them), they're done, if they succeed the first time, the person with the name can see that someone is TRYING to snipe them (they've shown themselves), and at least adjust their proxy accordingly).

Originally posted by strongvis
Once when you get to the site and another time when you login . ENOUGH we know you changed the site now quit poppin it over and over--

Amen to that. Had had to Google toolbar them...

~ Nexus