I read a Letter to the Editor in Ecommerce Bytes concerning eBay’s apparent refusal to raise a seller’s limits on an auction for a domain name. The letter was written by Scott Newman, who is the broker of record for the Forms.com domain name, according to a press release in February.
Here’s what Scott had to say about eBay in the letter:
“I sell fairly expensive items on eBay, both for myself and as a consignment dealer. eBay declined my request to raise my limit from 2 million to 7 million. I need the 7 million limit to sell the premium domain name, ‘Forms.com’.”
It’s interesting that Mr. Newman wasn’t able to have the limit lifted by eBay. If you have a look at domain name auctions on eBay right now, there are more than 50
