That's a good attempt to give your listings a "bump".
Was definitely part of the motivation, but the other part was really trying to get a gauge on how the NF AMA ends.
I often don't watch the end of the AMA's if I'm not actively pursuing any of the domains listed, so I'm a bit nervous about how the bidding goes towards the end, ie is it like the expiry auctions where it's jut a mad flurry of bids because they know all domains up for auction are going to sell and this is their one chance to get it, or is it more like people are over bidding because they have been bidding for a week and it just cruises to the end?
That said, I was honestly surprised by how many domains had met reserve, often I go the NF AMA look at the domains that don't meet reserve and am like it's pretty time consuming and expensive to have your domain pass in (NF listing and reserve price costs in addition to time and advertising expenses).
So I often think that people are better off lowering their reserve a bit just to increase the chance of a sale not to mention that you don't want to scare of prospective buyers.
I know I think it's always annoying to spend time working out what you think a domain is worth only to find that the domain owner is in lala land about what it's worth on the NF AMA, this is probably the biggest reason why I have bought very few domains via the NF AMA compared to the expiry auctions.
Part of me actually wishes that there was an "orange flag" or something that indicated the domain was "near reserve" or maybe even better, that the owner had the right to remove the reserve and push it to market at any point during the auction. So if they saw with 5 minutes to go that they weren't likely to get reserve but they might be 70% of the way there they might say, it's better to do the deal today at 70% of what we thought it was worth than hope we can get 100% in the future and having to reinvest all the time energy and money into selling the domain again and maybe still not get 100%.
Thoughts?
