Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up, if you have a little time, need some comedy in your life, I invite you to go check out this thread on Flippa.
We get some wild pitches and stories in the domain business, this one is at the top of the list for 2015.
The seller is saying he already rejected a $25,000 offer on 3 day old domain in cash or 10,000 Bitcoins (BTC) which would equate to over $2.5 million.
The seller says he would prefer $25,000 in cash than the 10,000 Bitcoins however as BTC seems to confuse him.
Interestingly although the starting bid is $25,000 the Buy it Now price is only $30,000 or about 125 Bitcoins.
You need to read the comments, as well as the listing, to get the full effect.
Shout out to Shane Bellone for pointing this one out.
Is crazy as fuck.com registered ?
Why would someone turn down 2,500,000 USD ? surely bitcoin not that difficult to understand.
How does flippa allow its members to be subjected to such utter nonsense ? Where is the great Kevin Fink on this one ?
Hello, Kevin can you hear me ?
Another reason why flippa I don’t take flippa users seriously.
Flippa is ebay for domains and websites, so it’s no wonder (although admittedly i bought some domains there)
Sorry my phone’s keyboard is bad.
I had to leave a comment on it as I found it a hilarious read for the day… Thanks for the post!
I thought for amusement he should throw in one for FREE as a added bonus as its a free hand reg… Buy one and get a solidF#@k.com for FREE lol
This is a newbie domainer that tops the charts for the week of one of the most amusing listings…
The listing, itself, is beyond amusing. The term, “contractor as fuck,” is not what I would call widely used. With 524,000 search results for that phrase, there are about half as many as for my own name, “Daniel Pryor.” Of course, the NZ personality is the reason for that, but you get my point.
Meanwhile, this is for you, Raymond. I would suggest at least putting the domain name in question into the body of your own story, rather than making people click to see the listing, after a vague reference. If you’re writing about something, on a domain and blog that have become, essentially, a part of industry record, making posts that resemble a Facebook wall diminishes your efforts, even when the story is purely human interest or a sidebar or humor.
Just a suggestion.
Yeah that was done purposely Danny, as no one checks stats and click throughs more than I do. Many times we have a story where there is only a 20% CTR. The whole purpose of this post was the listing so I wanted to make sure people read it.
Thanks for the input.
I strongly agree with Danny, even if you want us to click your link, you should have provided enough background for us.
Enough background was given like the name would’ve made any difference ? the whole purpose was to read the listing I think that’s quite clear from what he said.
CrazyasFuck.com is quite strangely registered to the
Children’s Health, Education and Leadership Project
maybe another story there Raymond
Wow, what a great deal. Would hate to lose that deal and instead demand real money.
Very easily could he have sold enough of the Bitcoins to equate to the $30,000 he wanted. Tough loss.
I love this sentence from the listing:
‘Ask anyone what contractor as fuck means and they will tell you, “its a bad ass, in shape, tattooed, full beard, geared up, not afraid of shit, backwards baseball cap wearing motherfucker about to go fuck a terrorist’s day up.”‘
Nothing is more terrifying than a “backwards baseball cap”!
And this:
“The world highly respect and glorifies our Private Military Contractors for the work they do.”
I’ve known my fair share of military contractors. Even rented out my spare room in Charleston to 1 of them for awhile. Don’t recollect the neighbors glorifying him. But, then again, he was gentle if a bit shy, out of shape, un-tattooed, beardless, very sanely afraid of IEDs, and forgot his baseball cap.
I love Joseph’s definition of contractor as fuck, it got me tweeting.