https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net
Update: it’s now US$1921.00
Update? Seems hexbear is online again.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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I find it strange that they are out-bidding each other like this when there are over 8 days left. I am not too experienced with bidding, but I thought that the normal strategy was to maybe place a placeholder bid if there is no activity, but more generally one waits until the last second to set a reasonably high bid. Going on a 1v1 with fast out-bidding over a week early seems bad for everyone except the seller. Perhaps someone can explain.
I noticed the same - it is strange. And a lot of times they're raising the prices much more than necessary to outbid each other.
In special, half of the bids come from a single person, j_s_0e6b87. They're bidding since the beginning, and seem to follow no strategy - sometimes bidding $10 more than the top bid, sometimes way more. Either they're stinking rich to the point they don't care about the money, or they don't really care about the address, and want to inflate its price for whoever actually buys it.
The bidding gets extra time when people place a bid near the end, so you can't just snipe it.
Ah, bidding technology has advanced since I sniped Tony Hawk Pro-Skater for the Nintendo 64 on ebay. Why start bidding over a week early, though?
Dude I remember the hype around the last 5 mins of a GBA game auction on eBay, only to taste the disappointment when the price like doubled in the last 10 seconds
Nah eBay is still the same (sorry if I accidentally double posted)
Relevant to note that every other bid comes from the same bidder, j_s_0e6b87. Here's what I'm guessing about them:
- They likely know about Hexbear, since they were bidding on the address right off the bat.
- They aren't a domain squatter. A domain squatter would try to minimise the amount of money spent on a domain; and yet they're bidding too early, too frequently, and values considerably higher than the necessary to be the top bidder.
- They aren't using automated tools, since the the times and values between the others' bids and theirs are too erratic.
- Either they don't plan to actually win the bid, OR they have lots of money (to the point that US$710 is pocket change for them) and really, really bad blood against Hexbear.
really, really bad blood against Hexbear.
It narrows it down to people from instances that still federated with Hexbear and have money to spend on this stupid shit.
Nah, there are plenty of people on unfederated instances who still obsess endlessly about hexbear.
Hard to forget an instance that openly threatens to kill you. Hexbear is hateful garbage.
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It's 2025, $710 is pocket change for anyone who can still afford to eat.
I bet j_s_0e6b87 has eggs at every meal
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Could be some crypto bros. Apparently they share name with some crypto currency
I gave it a check, and apparently it's a dead cryptocoin. CoinGecko doesn't even list it, Etherscan gives it a market cap of $0.00, and the last transaction was 886d ago. Plus they already have a domain.
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Update: it's now US$1921.00. Some PP (p_p_822628) is trying to outbid JS (j_s_0e6b87), who has been competing since the start.
there's no way these aren't troll bids.
I'm guessing one of them is a hexbear admin and the other is a troll.
The admins have stated that they don't care about the domain, so it's probably either a troll or the crypto coin people trying to gain the domain.
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Hexbear admins decided pretty much right away not to engage in the auction. The bidding war is probably between someone with too much money and hate for hexbear, and an agent of the auctioneer driving up the price.
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Someone is claiming to be the one of the bidders on hexbear right now
Probably a hexbear trolling other hexbears but w/e 🍿🍿🍿
Someone is going to be left holding the bag with a useless .net domain
Guys, they already switched to chapo.chat, all you're doing is emptying your pockets to give to some criminals.
Didn’t their post say that domain name is also in the same situation?
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JavaScript and PeePee are really going at it, huh.
To the moon!
This is a stable investment, right guys?...
I have the feeling the first thing the new owner of this domain does is to get it the hell away from a domain stealing registrar.
They literally all do this if you lapse on paying your registration fees. It's not like they seized it for other reasons and then auctioned it. Unlike whichever one we saw a while back seizing a fediverse domain for "CSAM" which literally amounted to a drawing of two high-school age girls kissing.
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