Bidding Threads at Sedo — Understanding Simultaneous

Multiple bidding threads may cause confusion.

It sure seemed that there was a glitch in Sedo’s system.

I started receiving offers for one of my domains listed at Sedo — TaxiScreen.com — the prior week. The offers were modest, and I countered with a reasonable asking price.

But something was weird. Following the potential buyer offered a few hundred dollars, I received an email informing me that a bid had been received. I logged in to check it — and it only showed $134.

How could it go down? I emailed Sedo telling them there must be a bug in their system. But there isn’t. The issue is actually that two different parties were making offers on the domain at regarding the same time, so I actually had two bid threads open.

This is, of course, a good thing, so I sent the domain name to auction.

If you ever receive offers in a thread that don’t make sense, check the “offers received” section of your Sedo account to see if you’re dealing with more than one buyer.