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1. dadmin Says:
   November 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

   I find it admirable that DT/aftermarket.com would link so prominently to their direct competitor’s competing listings at the same event.

   We need more of this kind of “co-opetition” in this industry, don’t we?

2. wentzco Says:
   November 19th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

   Well….. I need to express my extreme disappontment in the Aftermarket auction. I did have have one of the names that was in the auction but wasn’t in the auction because it was one that was skipped over.

   Of course - there was many glitches/tech problems that no doubt affected the auction results.

   Skipping over names and changing the order of names definitely hurt the sellers - including names that sold. A bidder may have not expected a name to be auctioned for another 20 minutes and looked away , had a bathroom break, etc… and came back to see that the name was auctioned off ahead of the “lot line-up” schedule.

   I saw names that had higher internet bids that were sold to lower bidders.

   I had frequent brower freezes that I assume affected many others who may have been attempting to place bids on names and likely couldn’t. The auctioneer may be saying $1000 when the browser said next bid was $400. Did this affect the selling price and bidder action? I know I had to restart my browser several times and I don’t feel it was problems with my computer.

   How is aftermarket going to affectively market the leftover names that were in the live auction but weren’t?

3. NewAgeWeb Says:
   November 19th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

   #38 was my name and sold around the time many of the problems started. I really got to wonder if I lost out on other online bids though? It’s hard to please both seller and buyer here, but it might be fair to take any names that sold during the tech issues and let them go to the online auction for the next week… along with those that never got the chance to be sold.

   And I hope it is well publicized that those names are up for auction for that period. I feel really bad for the people that didn’t even get their names to the live selling block towards the end. It’s really sad how low many of the bids were, and the tech problems, whether beyond anyone’s control or not, sure didn’t help.

4. wentzco Says:
   November 20th, 2008 at 7:07 am

   UPDATED: Thank you. We are aware of the issues experienced by some participants.

5. wentzco Says:
   November 20th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

   UPDATED: Thank you. We are aware of the issues experienced by some participants.

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