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But twitter.com/avtr is basically worthless for most people. Clearly noone deserves to earn millions just for registering /avtr. If they think it's worth less t
by philh 17y ago
But twitter.com/avtr is basically worthless for most people. Clearly noone deserves to earn millions just for registering /avtr. If they think it's worth less than promotional items, they're getting a good deal. There's no reason they couldn't hold out for more if they wanted, but they'd have to run the risk that at some point it wouldn't be worth buying.
Further, /avtr is probably not much better than /avatar, /avatarfilm, or a number of others. When the demand is for precisely one unit, and more than one unit of supply exists, it seems natural that the price is going to be low.
- Tichy 17y agoDon't know about the avtr case, but they also were offering junk to Mr Harman. So clearly they think somebody giving up their name is nothing.
- philh 17y agoIf that's giving up his name, then all the other Harmans on facebook had their name stolen by this particular Harman. A more accurate statement would be "clearly they think somebody not using one particular variant of their name as a facebook vanity URL is not a big deal". I would tend to agree.
- Tichy 17y agoThe other Harmans didn't have their name stolen - they were simply too late. If somebody not using a particular vanity URL is not a big deal, then why does Harman Inc need the URL anyway? Why don't they just go for /harmanInc or something like that? I am also not saying that it is that much of a big deal - not like they are supposed to odder millions. But to just offer worthless junk is offensive. Also I think "he needs it more than you, so it should belong to him" is not a good basis for conducting business.