How Often Does Afternic Price Request Result In A Sale?

[jideofor]

How often have you sold domains via Afternic price request inquiry and how can you make sure that you make a sale when such inquiry comes in?

I just felt I should ask more experienced folks here.

 

[anantj]

3-4 price requests, 0 sales

 

[SpareDomains]

More amount to nothing than sell. So I'd usually say respond quick, assume it won't sell and occasionally you'll get a surprise with a sale.

Due to this...

https://www.namepros.com/threads/some-afternic-partners-are-marking-up-your-domain-prices.1031130/

I'm considering a new strategy of leaving them in the distribution network and then ignoring all price requests until the buyer decides to type in my domain due to no response and sends their offer direct through my own sales page on each domain.

 

[creataweb]

For some reason after their changes I received zero requests and ended up having to pull my names off the marketplace. I think before that I was about 50/50 for requests turning into sales.

 

[2Faisal]

0 inquiries. 0 Sale
Im not encouraged to use these platforms ..

wasting time ..

 

[johnn]

4 requests - 3 sales

 

[JB Lions]

I had one recently, price what you want it at, remembering the fees. Just be careful of the floor price, make sure you would be happy with that amount since it seems to sell at that more often than not.

 

[SpareDomains]

For some reason after their changes I received zero requests and ended up having to pull my names off the marketplace. I think before that I was about 50/50 for requests turning into sales.

50/50 not bad, my inquiry/sales ratio there lower than that which may be due to me pricing them like I wipe my heiny with $100 bills though. End user or bust.

 

[frank-germany]

4 requests - 3 sales

what is your asking price stucture?

 

[pokainc]

several requests, 0 sales through price requests on the make offer names... the request can often just be a randomly curious person... but if you get lucky once in a while it could be a big company... 99% of the time it's a waste of time

 

[frank-germany]

I had about 50 inquiries
before I made 2 sales by now

$1100

 

[Fancy.domains]

Off topic:

I have much better luck with BIN listings and I have sold about 2% of my portfolio via Afternic that way. About 5-8 domains per year.

 

[pokainc]

continuing on the sort of "off topic" @Fancy.domains , have you had BIN sales in mid to high 4 figures+ ? Always weary to put bin over 3500 myself..

 

[Fancy.domains]

continuing on the sort of "off topic" @Fancy.domains , have you had BIN sales in mid to high 4 figures+ ? Always weary to put bin over 3500 myself..

No. Most of my sales are new gTLDs for mid $xxx. Just a few $xxxx. The most expensive one was $2400.

 

[pokainc]

for bins, that seems to be the hot spot... so for higher value names.. unfortunately have to deal with those price requests...

@jideofor , for names you value highly but get too many price requests from people who have small budgets or waste time.. just put a minimum offer on there that's high enough... it might deter some with a $250 budget

 

[jideofor]

for bins, that seems to be the hot spot... so for higher value names.. unfortunately have to deal with those price requests...

@jideofor , for names you value highly but get too many price requests from people who have small budgets or waste time.. just put a minimum offer on there that's high enough... it might deter some with a $250 budget

Thanks. I had a minimum price at $1000 but i was surprise that that didn't seem to have any function as they still requested for BIN and Floor Price. So what is the function of the minimum price?

 

[pokainc]

Probably you didn't have a minimum price of $1000, but instead a minimum offers from $1000.
Which is not a bin price, so that's fine.
The minimum offer is not exactly the floor price either; the floor price is a price at which you automatically accept to sell the domain at that price even it's not the bin.

 

[jideofor]

Probably you didn't have a minimum price of $1000, but instead a minimum offers from $1000.
Which is not a bin price, so that's fine.
The minimum offer is not exactly the floor price either; the floor price is a price at which you automatically accept to sell the domain at that price even it's not the bin.

Yeah, then they should get rid of other boxes. They are the ONLY company I see with too many boxes for pricing... BIN and Minimum is okay, IMO.

 

[Haykay2005]

I had one request recently. No luck

 

[jideofor]

I had one request recently. No luck

oh, price request?

 

[Haykay2005]

Yes

oh, price request?

 

[jideofor]

Yes

what price did you give lol

 

[Abiashue lucky]

I had one price request , I taught I have hit a sale, but never got a reply.

 

[Ali Azam]

price request: 0
BIN: 4

 

[Haykay2005]

what price did you give lol

$3k