Dallas Cowboys Return Cowboys.com After Thinking The Price Was $275 Instead Of $275,000
from the false-start.--10-yard-penalty dept
The domain name business is hot again, driving up the price of popular domains names, sometimes to ridiculous levels. However, it appears that no one briefed the Dallas Cowboys on what these types of things typically cost. The owner of the domain cowboys.com recently sold it in a domain auction, with the winning bid of $275,000 going to the Cowboys. Apparently, on receiving the invoice, the Dallas Cowboys are claiming that it was a mistake -- they thought the bid had been for $275, not $275,000 -- and therefore, they wish to cancel the sale. Of course, some people are suggesting that this is merely a cop out from a team that has a bit of buyer's remorse. It does seem a bit bizarre that anyone would think they could get such a domain for $275.
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by Krz on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 2:13pm
Cletus was even more surprised that the owner wouldn't take food-stamps.
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by Anonymous Coward on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 2:44pm
275k is nothing to a team that pays millions to its players.
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by Anonymous Coward on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 3:05pm
I can just hear it now...
"Uhh.. we thought the, uhh.. price was a typo and that the, uhh.. comma was supposed to be a period and the, uhh.. 3 zeros after it were actually supposed to be, uh.. 2 zeros."
Hahahahahahaha
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by Anonymous Coward on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 3:10pm
We are talking about management for the Dallas Cowboys Football Team. This seems like a perfectly legitimate mistake to me. They signed T.O. didn't they?
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Backfired! by Jonathan on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 3:17pm
Cowboys.com moved to silent auction and end up selling at $370,000
Now, Dallas Cowboy will never get Cowboys.com for anything less than that!
They may be able to get it for near cool $1,000,000 ;-)
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by lizard on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 3:19pm
actually $275K is not a bad price, considering what some domains have gone for. they should rethink their rethinking of the purchase, quick before the price goes way the hell up.
if i were to guess what cowboys.com would be worth, my first guess would be in the 7 figures, not 6.
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Football sucks! by Michael G on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 3:36pm
I'll give them my url www.footballsucks.com for free.
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Re: by Anonymous Coward on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 4:08pm
I have to disagree on this one- lets be honest, $275,000 is a lot of money that can be out towards a lot of other things. Any person (or business) that considered $275k to be nothing needs to reevaluate its priorities.
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Re: Football sucks! by Anonymous Coward on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 4:15pm
So does your cheapass link site.
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funny by Mike Mixer on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 5:18pm
275K isn't even booze money for Jerry Jones.
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by RandomThoughts on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 6:48pm
I ran into the same problem when I bet a nickel on the Cubs. My bookie could't understand when I handed over five pennies.
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Say What? by Max Powers at http://ConsumerFight.com on Oct 19th, 2007 @ 9:12pm
Jerry Jones has no money problems, just another case of "buyers remorse". Nobody makes that kind of mistake.
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They could never put cowboys info on it by brodle on Oct 22nd, 2007 @ 9:00am
The moment someone tries to put Dallas Cowboys or NFL copyrighted material on a site they would get sued. They probably make more then $275k off a person in licensing costs.
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