As usual, I tried it (being the sucker that I am) and got a blank 'thank you' or 'error' page... I'm not sure which... no confirmation email either (but that is typical for them... their scripts suck.)
...so I guess I have to wait 3 days to see if my CrackerJacks came with a prize.
...like I said, I'm a sucker.
No kidding... my mom breeds standard poodles. In Oregon she's regularly getting $800 per puppy. She wants to move to California, where it seems her asking price could go up to the $1500 range (especially now that her male has his American & Canadian Ch.). She's repeatedly offered to give me puppies, thinking it would be a great way for me to supplement my income.
How much demand for really large poodles is there going to be in the middle of Alaska? Champion sire or not? LOL...
...and it was powered by Oingo, (although now they are 'Applied Semantics'.)
A few years ago, GreatDomains had an appraisal guidelines page that outlined a rough point system for determining price. It had some decent logic... .com, single word, 5-8 characters, etc. It was the best I'd found. That page probably went *poof* a long time ago.
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I found the remnants of it:
[GreatDomains.com...]
(edited by: rcjordan at 3:47 pm (gmt) on Aug. 19, 2001
Personally, I think they are idiots ...had nothing but bad experiences with their appraisers, website, and customer support over the last 2 years. {2 years? ...heheeh who exactly is the idiot?:)}
...my shorter non-hyphenated appraisals are overvalued, and the hyphenated names get slammed... I guess they have no idea how to rank anything and therefore their model doesn't account for engine traffic... funny isn't it? Search engines move the biggest traffic and yet they are concerned with how your name sounds over the radio....
I guess their strategy is to get you to....
1.) spend a ton of money on some one word name on their site
2.) throw branding money at it
3.) go broke
4.) sell the name through their site again
...anyway, I'm putting together a VC proposal and wanted to get some kind of handle on what the goofballs thought of some names... unfortunately the results only show that they can only predict the obvious
OK, so we all know you can't teach an old dog new tricks... are we to assume from this example that you can't break an old dog's bad habits either? ;)
... you can't get rid of those.... that's all I have left:)
