Dallas Sucks...with numbers
The Cowboys just gave me another reason to consider them the most asinine franchise in the entire NFL.
Apparently the Cowboys didn't realize the price online convenience costs. While on the phone, submitting absentee bids for the domain name "www.cowboys.com", the Dallas Cowboys bid $275,000. Then the fun began.
The Cowboys won the auction but had something akin to sticker shock when they saw that they had bid $275,000 for the name rather than the $275 they thought they had bid.
"We didn't realize what the price was. Our representatives misunderstood what the pricing system was, and it was a simple mistake," Cowboys spokesman Dalrymple said. "So we just said we didn't understand the structure of the auction and we basically withdrew our bid and decided we weren't going to pay that amount."
Oh, so maybe it was a mixup. Could co-founder and CEO of the auction service used, Monte Cahn, clear this up?
"They submitted an absentee bid form; the price range of the domain name was posted on our Web site in the $100,000 to the $500,000 category and the opening bid started off at $225,000."
No mix-up. The Cowboys are stupid. They thought they could buy "cowboys.com" for $275!!??! What kind of businessmen do they have researching this type of thing?
Take a second and go visit flyers.com. Go ahead. I'll wait until you come back.
OK, that site isn't the official Flyers site. Some dude owns it. Don't you think that if they Flyers could buy it for $275, they'd have it by now? That kid/guy holding it probably wants WAY more than that, hence why he still owns it and it still looks like a 4th grader went back to 1997 and programmed it.
How on earth did anyone on the Cowboys marketing or research team NOT know the prices of domain names like that? When it comes to sports teams and famous people, someone's on it already, and you gotta pay.
Do the Cowboys think they were dealing with GoDaddy.com or something? Anyone who knows anything about the internet knows how much porn there is out there. But anyone who knows a little more than that, knows that the convenience of typing in a word and ending it in ".com" is supreme simplicity. You can get much more site traffic that way, thus more money to be made.
In today's fast-paced, online world, domain names come at a cost. Sure, we'd prefer to just use "poorsports.blogspot.com" but some fellow blogger (who hasn't blogged in years) has already registered that domain name. You gotta pay if you want that convenience. If you don't know that, you don't deserve to do business on the web.
So now, not only do I hate them for their players, owner, fans, stadium, history, home town and general smell, I hate them for their ignorance.
3 comments:
hahahaha absolutely hilarious. great work- take pride in knowing you beat everyone to what will surely be an endless stream of media ridicule.
that is pretty ridiculous. i am surprised though, that they didn't see that as a worthwhile investment. doesnt jerry jones want to spend over a billion dollars on a stadium? i mean, hes spent at least 225,000 on facelifts alone, this should be pocket money
exactly.
the DALLAS COWBOYS don't want to spend $275k on cowboys.com? the internet is the future, and they don't want their team name, what EVERYONE calls them, as a domain name for $275k?
they spend more on a punter than on the domain name, and that domain name will outearn any punter by a HUGE margin in the long run.
also....how haven't they paid for that name yet? the internet has been pretty popular, and tons of names have been bought just to sell for a profit. why not just jump on that earlier?
again, what businessmen do they employee there? would someone please tell jerry jones about this internet phenomenon. wait, on second thought–don't.
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