begcoin.com

[begcoin]

Selling begcoin.com, I havent touched it in months.
 
atm not many people are begging on there but the news section is seeing traffic from twitter.
 
Also for sale is the twitter account with about 4,400 followers and regular retweets from reddit bitcoin aswell as others.  One post last week was retweeted by reddit Australia and 3 others to over 100,000 people, all being linked back to the article on begcoin.com
 
The site itself is hosted with bluehost, I did all the work on it so it might feel like a real mess to a pro lol

I've no idea how any of this works, anyone want to start the bidding with 0.00000001 BTC?

Auction ends Monday @18.00 GMT

[1713876641]

1713876641

[1713876641]

1713876641

[begcoin]

Month   Unique visitors   Number of visits   Pages   Hits
Jan 2014   1,077   4,000   9,648   12,148
Feb 2014   1,089   3,881   9,949   11,216
Mar 2014   1,198   4,360   10,167   11,576
Apr 2014   1,086   4,111   11,975   15,473
May 2014   901   4,063   12,316   15,703
Jun 2014   293   1,175   3,014   3,575
 
im sure somebody with a bit of imagination (or at least remembers the site exists) can get those numbers up.

[AcoinL.L.C]

Il bid 0.00000001 BTC 

[spartan82]

Eh what the hell, ill give ya 2 satoshis for it if noone else wants it

[Mountaingoat]

3 satoshis if you pay the fees.

[begcoin]

The price has trebled 

[spartan82]

The price has trebled 

I'm sure you'll get a much higher offer towards the end, but in the meantime I'm upping the ante to 4 satoshis!

[jonsi]

I'll bid 5 satoshis! (sorry if i bumped the price too much)

[ahmedjadoon]

I will bid 50 Satoshi.Taking things more seriously.

[begcoin]

I only started this site as a joke, with all the begging and scamming going on in the bitcoin community.  I really wanted to start a charity fundraising site where people could post up their own good causes but only came round to doing something about it after the crash before Christmas, so gave up on that idea quickly, nobody was feeling generous.
 
Surely the intention alone is worth 100 Sat's?
 

 

Quite seriously though, who among you knows whats involved with transferring ownership of a website + related accounts?
 
Twitters easy, I just need to give you a password, but what about hosting and domain registrations? 

[begcoin]

Received a private offer 10,000 times larger than 50 sat's.
 
I didn't accept it, it has to be posted here.
 
We must restore honour to the bitcointalk.org auction forum.

[MrWDunne]

1 mbtc

[begcoin]

24.5 hours to go and 1mbtc wins it so far...

[ahmedjadoon]

24.5 hours to go and 1mbtc wins it so far...

2 mBTC.
When is domain expiring and registrar?

[begcoin]

I wont be able to confirm until later but its either late December 2014 or 2015.
 
With Bluehost.

[AcoinL.L.C]

2.5 mBTC

[marketgarden]

0.25BTC

[begcoin]

You do realise what a bitcoin is worth dont you?

[begcoin]

PM'd you.
 
Auction continues...

[begcoin]

Domain Expires:   Dec 28, 2014 GMT (renew - 202 days left)

[AirC]

Thats crazy, this actually sold!? 

[acs267]

0.25BTC

That's weird you'd pay that much.
That's at least more than $100 as of now, when the bid is at less than a dollar, or a little higher?

[begcoin]

ive not had a reply yet, could be bs.
 
if i dont get a reply ill ignore it and start again

[begcoin]

Thats crazy, this actually sold!? 

19 hours left 

[begcoin]

still no reply from the high bidder... just under 6 hours left.
 
if i dont get a reply ill take a few micro-bitcoins next weekend.

[spartan82]

Back in the game with 3mbtc

[begcoin]

yep.  the race is on.

[begcoin]

It was a pain this morning trying to find my wordpress password, I actually did something to the website for the first time in 6 months in changing the image at the top.
 
So I've tracked down all my passwords for the @begcoin.com emails, wordpress, bluehost, reddit and twitter.  Done a bit of reading as well about transferring things from one person to another, seems easy enough.
 
Think I'm about ready to let the mbtc's roll in.

[spartan82]

Any transfer fees associated with this sale?

[AcoinL.L.C]

4mbtc

[begcoin]

at the moment the high bid is 0.25BTC 
 
got to give the guy a chance to reply to me.
 
if not then next weekend ill go again.

[begcoin]

The winning bidder still hasn't replied to me.
 
We'll give it a go by the weekend if they don't.

[spartan82]

The winning bidder still hasn't replied to me.
 
We'll give it a go by the weekend if they don't.

Where was the reserve price stated? Wouldn't 4mbtc be the next winning bid? Or are you creating another auction?

[AcoinL.L.C]

The winning bidder still hasn't replied to me.
 
We'll give it a go by the weekend if they don't.

Where was the reserve price stated? Wouldn't 4mbtc be the next winning bid? Or are you creating another auction?

I think the OP is going to try and relist this weekend. Normally auctions take the 2nd highest bid but in bitcoinland auctions tend to work differently 


I for one am neg trusting user for fake bidding

[spartan82]

The winning bidder still hasn't replied to me.
 
We'll give it a go by the weekend if they don't.

Where was the reserve price stated? Wouldn't 4mbtc be the next winning bid? Or are you creating another auction?

I think the OP is going to try and relist this weekend. Normally auctions take the 2nd highest bid but in bitcoinland auctions tend to work differently 


I for one am neg trusting user for fake bidding

I'd do the same but unless he's active in other threads there's no reason to actually suggest he is avoiding the auction.. Who knows what has happened

[AcoinL.L.C]

User has 17 posts. Il delete my trust if he ends up paying .25, however I have a gut feeling he won't 

[troy112]

Oh! he won't pay its $160 worth bitcoin he is bidding.
BTW @begcoin.com, what are the new rules, you gonna give it to 2nd highest bidder or start again?

[spartan82]

I'd like to know what's happening with this too..

[mnporter2001]

If this is still running I will join with:

0.002 BTC

Cheers
Mark

[spartan82]

If this is still running I will join with:

0.002 BTC

Cheers
Mark

Bit late to join in I think the auction is over so the only fair thing to do now is to either award the highest bidder that is willing to pay or start a new auction altogether

[mnporter2001]

If this is still running I will join with:

0.002 BTC

Cheers
Mark

Bit late to join in I think the auction is over so the only fair thing to do now is to either award the highest bidder that is willing to pay or start a new auction altogether

~Ok thanks for the info

[AcoinL.L.C]

If this is still running I will join with:

0.002 BTC

Cheers
Mark

My bid was higher than that anyways

1 mBTC = 0.001
I bid .004 lol

Auction isn't running anyways since the fake bid was placed :S

People need to start neg repping people who post fake bids  /  fake auctions

[troy112]

Yea these people are just abusing the forum and its rules

[begcoin]

I apologise for having a job and not replying earlier.
 
Nothing in PM so will restart the auction RIGHT NOW.
 
No need to get stressed out over a pointless auction folks, nobody is getting killed or scammed.


 
Starting the bidding at 4mbtc?
 

Auction to end Thursday 12th of June @ 18:00 GMT

[AcoinL.L.C]

I apologise for having a job and not replying earlier.
 
Nothing in PM so will restart the auction RIGHT NOW.
 
No need to get stressed out over a pointless auction folks, nobody is getting killed or scammed.


 
Starting the bidding at 4mbtc?
 

Auction to end Thursday 12th of June @ 18:00 GMT

Issue is not with you, the issue is that people have been abusing the auction section for a while and its getting a bit irritating.

Il bid 4mBTC

[spartan82]

Well glad to see you're back up n running, 5mbtc here!

[jaberwock]

How did get so many twitter followers? It is natural or you buy this followers?

[AcoinL.L.C]

5.5mBTC

[begcoin]

most of them came from a totally different movie website i ran for a couple of years but was getting copyright problems with non stop.
 
since i started the begging thing its gone up by a good few hundred, its just one of these things on twitter where followers attract followers.  the retweets help, i nevef post anything on there myaelf and im getting a few dozen notifications of retweet/favs a week, all the spammy news articles are posted automatically.

[begcoin]

sorry, phone typing, currently up a hill

[begcoin]

27 hours to go and 5.5mbtc has it so far.

[spartan82]

6mbtc!

[begcoin]

final stretch now...
 
3 and a half hours to go.

[AcoinL.L.C]

6.1mBTC 

[begcoin]

SNIPED 


2 minutes left

[AcoinL.L.C]

#winning

[begcoin]

#won

[begcoin]

I don't care about the BTC, how the hell do we start this?

[begcoin]

OK.
 
Message sent.
 
Are you online just now?  If not I'm going to be busy until much later tonight.

[begcoin]

Looks like you have gone offline.
 
I'll be back on here in about 7-8 hours, if not we can do it tomorrow night.
 
Thanks

[AcoinL.L.C]

Im here now, just went out for lunch earlier

[spartan82]

Lol well played sir! Congrats on the new site hope you do a great job with it