When It Comes To Predicting Auction Results, This Week, You Guys Suck

2010 May 13
by Michael H. Berkens

We ran two polls over the past couple weeks, one for the auction of Slots.com and one for the Domainfest Live auction.

You guys suck.

Out of 196 votes on the Slots.com auction only 13 of you correctly predicted that the domain would sell between $5M-$7.5M and only 22 predicted the domain would sell for over $5M at all.

Yikes.

For Domainfest over 25% of you didn’t think any of the $100K+ reserve domains would sell.

2 did.

To your credit, of those of who voted for any domain to sell at DomainFest, the majority, 37, voted for dating.com and in second place came boardgames.com selected by 15 of you.

Now there was a bunch of you who got both the slots.com and Domainfest auction wrong.

Here are the names and e-mail address of all those who got it wrong:

Ok just kidding, voting as always remains anonymous (but I know who you are).

Thanks for playing and look for a new poll soon.

11 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 May 13
    No surprise permalink

    My quote in another thread -
    “As a general rule, I ignore valuations by domainers. Most have there own agenda and a lowballing mindset.”

    I’m happy to see this successful auction.
    I was surprised how many domains did not sell but received bids.

  2. 2010 May 13

    OK, here is my next prediction: “Lakers will win the NBA championship:)

  3. 2010 May 14
    fghfgh permalink

    Actually everyone who voted “none will sell” was 84.6% right.

  4. 2010 May 14

    HA!

    I got it.
    I was one of the 2.

    Ok, I’m really not that cocky.

    I did comment in that Post and said Dating absolutely will be #1…
    But I shoulda stopped while I was ahead because…

    I then said Safety.com would definitely be #2…Doh!

    Another Killer Domain Sale in the worst Economy ever.
    Awesome!

    Vito.

  5. 2010 May 14

    Hey! I KNEW that with the recent buzz on ‘game’ names that BoardGames.com was a no-brainer! Not surprised at all that it sold! I was way more surprised that Dating went to 1.75M! Curious to see who bought that puppy, and what their plan is….

  6. 2010 May 14

    must admit i called dating.com selling, although think was low. worth much more imho

    slots.com i feel overpriced tbh
    but a good sale and well done Monte and team

  7. 2010 May 14

    was the Slots.com sale a “domain sale “?
    or an ” established webiste sale “?

  8. 2010 May 14

    when it is completed, it will be a domain sale.

  9. 2010 May 14

    great.
    Thanks
    Domo

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