WickedFire, I Need Your Help!



hey, almost 20 grand in bids so early in the auction.. you should have went with higher reserves like I told you because some of those domains have been priced way too low (which is why people are probably bidding so early)
 
with your reserves.. this is a killer.. but you wait till the last minute.. i was fucked over in an auction in sedo.. within the last 30 minutes of the auction. Pretty shady people waiting for till the last minute then going bonkers in the last couple of seconds.
Your six figure goal will be met for sure, a shame you didn't choose higher reserve prices though. Once you sell a domain, it's gone. Remember that.

Cant wait to see wickedfire again make dnjournal sales list a couple of times this year.
 
I let the Namepros live chat know about it, I used to be in there quite a bit. Not sure if you already let them know or not, but I know a few of them went and checked it out.
 
Charlie, I've warned you about this. Some of the noobs who are reading this might think that it's cool that you got $50k in bids so far but look at those domains. Why are you selling necklace.net for less than $10k? Or armchair.net, or offended.com? Are you crazy?

You're selling a million dollar portfolio for pocket change, you'll be sorry you did this in a few years. You should have kept most of the domains and waited for a serious offer for each. You could have gotten more money from one sale than you will from 4-5 sales or more through this auction.
 
Thanks a lot WF and in a totally non-gay way (... I think), I love you guys!

Lord B said:
Charlie, I've warned you about this. Some of the noobs who are reading this might think that it's cool that you got $50k in bids so far but look at those domains. Why are you selling necklace.net for less than $10k? Or armchair.net, or offended.com? Are you crazy?

You're selling a million dollar portfolio for pocket change, you'll be sorry you did this in a few years. You should have kept most of the domains and waited for a serious offer for each. You could have gotten more money from one sale than you will from 4-5 sales or more through this auction.
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You're right man, I'm taking a big risk but there's nothing I can do about it now: the domains are on the table and if I'll end up practically giving 'em away, so be it. Necklace.net (368,000 EXACT match monthly US searches last month) has been auctioned at Moniker's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in December with a reserve of $50,000+ and Armchair.net has been auctioned by Rick Latona at the same event with a starting bid of $45,000.

Now take a look at the main auction page and you'll see that I'm offering them again (this time, the reserves are ridiculously low). The reserves have been met for both domains: the current bid for necklace.net is $9,645 and the current bid for armchair.net is $7,240. Compare $50k+ to $9,645 for necklace.net, then compare $45k to $7,240 for armchair.net and you'll see that I'm not just talking out of my ass when I say that I went with ridiculously low reserves.
 
If necklace.net doesn't get at least 30k and armchair.net 25k, I'd be very surprised. 400k exact match monthly searches for necklace in the US is fucking awesome, fucking A-W-E-S-O-M-E.
I hope you have gone after some ecommerce stores for the genre.. or shit fedex a package consisting of the keyword review on each domain (rick latona does this) to respective marketing managers.
Also send out a press release.. you may have low bids now but you wait until the final minute.. the fact that you have domains with bids will bring some hawks circling and swooping in for the kill.

@lord Ill quote ricklatona "having money in the bank is more important that having an asset anyday". heheheh

i am sure the projects charlie is going to push will be more lucrative in the end run
 
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nmwando said:
i am sure the projects charlie is going to push will be more lucrative in the end run
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That's actually exactly why I've decided to sell my best domains on the cheap. I could have tried to sell them one by one for some serious cash but that would have taken a lot of time. I've decided that it would be more profitable for me in the long run NOT to delay the project because if I keep coming up with all sorts of excuses, it might eventually end up going down the shitter. I basically had two options:

1) Sell my best domains on the cheap -> Launch the project in a month or two

2) Sell domains one by one for considerably more money -> Launch the project in like 8-9 months or whenever

I chose #1 and whatever happens happens.
 
Nice work so far buddy. I had thought you would be killing it this far along, but those reserves seem to be set pretty damn low..

Wouldn't SnapNames have accepted the domains with 2 times the reserves you submitted? Maybe even 3x the reserves on a few of those exact match domains, would still have been reasonable!
 
Korrupt said:
Wouldn't SnapNames have accepted the domains with 2 times the reserves you submitted? Maybe even 3x the reserves on a few of those exact match domains, would still have been reasonable!
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They probably would have but we decided to go with ridiculously low reserves in order to encourage bidding wars, I know it's risky but since I need to sell as many domains as possible, I had to offer them at prices people can't say no to. I might end up practically giving away domains but as I've mentioned previously, they're on the table at this point.
 
jlknauff said:
The last hour or so should be interesting!
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Yeah, everyone wants a bargain and lots of buyers wait 'till the last hour because they want to snag a certain domain and hope that the person/people who placed a bid before them won't notice (and, of course, they hope that nobody else will notice that they have placed a bid either).
 
Still all totally undervalued.

Epic stuff. Best of luck Charlie, I hope you get what you deserve from this.
 
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