In recent days, First Place® Internet has been selling its domains directly or via Sedo; Pandas.com went for $12,000 dollars while Crossfire.com commanded $18,000 dollars. Their largest reported sale this week was Jewellery.com for $33,000 dollars.
I read another blog post that said the Crossfire.com 18k sale in April was part of a bulk domain buy by the latest seller, which explains it a little. It's a pretty well known term that screams gaming and action to me. First Place Internet must have needed to raise cash by selling good .com's.
I think the $18k was the cheap sale. The $125k was in range, only so many possible premium end users, and considering his roi over a few months of holding.
Come on. no one with a brain would state that Crossfire is not brandable and that $18K was "too high" a price to pay. I see junk going higher than that on the GD expired auctions.
He's cherry picking comments, as a couple of penniless hobos probably thought that was a lot of money to pay, while serious domain investors were likely angry they missed it.
right time and place, it happens that way with domains.
if that particular buyer didnt come along and wanted the name, it could have been several more decades before some other person wanted it and was willing to pay $xxx,xxx