Multiple bidding threads may cause confusion.
It sure seemed that there was a glitch in Sedo’s system.
I started receiving offers for one of my domains listed at Sedo — TaxiScreen.com — last week. The offers were small, and I countered with a reasonable asking price.
But something was weird. After the potential buyer offered a few hundred dollars, I received an email informing me that a bid had been received. I logged in to check it — and it only showed $134.
How could it go down? I emailed Sedo telling them there must be a bug in their system. But there isn’t. The issue is actually that two different parties were making offers on the domain at about the same time, so I actually had two bid threads open.
This is, of course, a good thing, so I sent the domain name to auction.
If you ever receive offers in a thread that don’t make sense, check the “offers received” section of your Sedo account to see if you’re dealing with more than one buyer.
jp says
Of course this could be a clever way to game the system to get you to push it to auction. What if both people are the same person? The answer to this question should be obvious in the end by the bidding. Although that’s really cool, it seems unlikely to be a coincidence.
Andrew Allemann says
jp – I wondered the same thing. I checked the buyer details and both bidders joined at drastically different times, supposedly from different countries. Could still be a game, but worst case I end up selling the domain for $400.