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Business Rubbish

Fun, other written by Doug Scott

Some crap I found lying round that was sent to me:)

Truth and Lies of Online Business – people lie????????

Online businesses can be a tricky business.

At first, way back when people were still using primitive inventions like the fax machine, there was a group of people who thought it would be cool to exchange information and advertise their wares on this new thing called the Internet. Surprisingly, people paid attention – a lot of attention. The Internet has evolved enormously in the past 10-15 years, bringing us consumers the opportunity to buy everything from socks to pharmaceuticals to electronic toilets seats. Seriously, if you want it you can almost certainly get it through an online business.

Now here’s the thing. More isn’t always better. Along the way many have realized that:

1. People will buy almost anything if it’s packaged and presented correctly….or it looks like something rude

2. People in general really aren’t very bright (or at least terribly Internet savvy).

3. Most customers won’t complain about bad service or an inferior product.

I could write a book about the gullibility of the general public but I might have to include some of my own exploits and I’d rather not.

Doug finding junk:):)

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Help me give £50,000 away

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Daft affiliate:)

Just become a fan of the page

Cheers

Doug

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Uswitch the real price they paid – £7 million:)

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Scripps who sold Uswitch to Mr Hutchinsons Forward3d ( previously Traffic Broker) have disclosed that Forward3d paid US$10.3  million for it or roughly £7 million.

That’s some haggle Neil when Scripps paid £210 million for it in 2006.

Mind you Uswitch figures for 2009 were not very good with a turnover of US$22 million and losses of US$4.1.

But still seems like a bargain to me:) Get rid of loads of the staff, automate the stuff and then run it efficiently. But then I am teaching you how to suck eggs.

Doug

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mobilephones.co.uk not sold

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Looks like some funnies have happened and the sale is not happening.

Angie Barrows has made it public that she was the winning bidder and that the sale is now in dispute, here is her statement:

Dear all

I am the mystery buyer of MobilePhones.co.uk which has caused such a stir in a recent Sedo auction – Angie Barrow of ANY-Web Ltd.
My portfolio of over 15000 .co.uk village domain names for my www.ANY-Village.co.uk project has been the subject of previous threads on Acorn, and many here know me.

I originally wanted to lift the veil on my identity with a fanfare – joyously announcing how delighted I was with my purchase of MobilePhones.co.uk and what a bargain I had got. In a few days – just before everybody would have found out anyway (I am dreadful at keeping secrets).

Now circumstances have arisen which are forcing me to reveal myself a bit earlier.

I am an unlikely buyer of big ticket domain names.
MobilePhones.co.uk is my first such purchase – what a gem, and what an amazing name to have in my portfolio.
It took a lot of courage and thinking through the long-term investment potential of this name for me to take this step.
Both a no-brainer and yet a big deal for me. Definitely out of my comfort zone.
You should have heard the yelps of delight in my house when I got the name! I was delirious.

So I want to share with you the news that I have just been informed by Sedo that the seller is disputing the auction and claims the name had not been authorised to be sold. I don’t know the precise circumstances yet but will find out.

Naturally I am distraught and will dispute this. I am not the only one thinking that I got the name at a bargain price – even the seller thinks so too!

There will be lots of ramifications about this transaction and I am sure that Sedo will be doing their best to sort out all the legal issues.

Sedo are a great marketplace for our domains and are doing so much to help all of us domainers sell our names. So please no Sedo-bashing.
But this is about the integrity of our marketplace and the confidence with which we make purchases and sales.

I was wondering what your views are regarding aborted auctions on Sedo and other auction sites and on non-performance of domain transfers.
Are there any legal precedents out there?

I will keep you posted about developments with MobilePhones.co.uk

Yours from a stunned and gutted
Angie

The ongoing story is ongoing at acorn domains – here

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mobilephones.co.uk sells for £91,500

Stupid Domain Things written by Doug Scott

Sold tonight for £91,500 at sedo

sold details

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Digital Window buys Buy.at

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http://blog.affiliatewindow.com/?p=1054

Wow

Wow

Doug

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