status-duplicate xx,xxx sale held up due to NP thread !

Tell him that you bought BitCoin when they were worthed 80$ and if this means that you should sell them for 80$ in these days.

I dont see any problem.
He know ou bought it for mid XXX, so what?
Now YOU sell it and if he doesnt want to pay mid XX,XXX just dont sell it.
Stop negotiations and say him bye-bye.
If he needs it, he will come again, if not...
All end user knows the domain some day was reg for just 10$, so what?

My condolences. I sympathize and feel OP's pain

This said, it's unlikely this latest case study and lively discourse here will impact NP's policy in any way. This is an old topic, here's a thread started a year ago:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/be...-sales-thread-index-by-search-engines.970956/

this is not a problem with NamePros in itself. sure they can try to get things more difficult to be indexed but there are a lot of spot lights showing the value of domains.

think on sales aggregation sites like namebio or dnjournal. or valuation sites like estibot. they hurt the industry when you are the buyer. i have been countless hit by "smart" owners that quote me the "market value" of a domain according sites like estibot, only to have the market go down for months but the owners get fixed on those high values.

but if you are a seller then having all the hype and pump on prices it is extremely good and rewarding.

maybe next time you could not disclose the domain in its complete form like "domain.com" but instead listed it like "domain dot com" or "domain,com", etc.

also, the buyer being aware of the price you bought but also having been willing to offer top dollar is in itself somewhat stupid because you can politely inform the buyer that you got a great deal and you can ask the price you want. the price you bought it is not really relevant to the deal, only the real interest of the buyer. so if the buyer is stubborn on the issue after this then he probably was not going to be really a paying buyer...

Prices are very public no matter where you buy from.

If you win a GoDaddy auction today, the chances are high that the final sale price will be indexed by some service (NameBio, Shortnames, etc...)

The blame can be spread around, but the buck stops with you.

When I sell a domain I want the end user to desire it so badly that their palms get sweaty waiting for the domain to come into their possession.

Hit YouTube for some sales strategies and get your sale back under control.

Go silent, and when your buyer sends you a message, add 15%. Don't yap away, just send a price that is 15% higher.

Good luck.

Hemanttilotia said:

hi
Its quite frustrating.
I bought a .com name from another NP user for mid xxx.
Now, got an end user who is willing to pay low to mid xx, xxx but he kind of saw the domain in Google search being bought by me on NP.
Now, he knows I paid low and is kind of trying to come down to a very low offer.

So, NP threads are readily searched by Google and despite the seller removing names after the sale, it is indexed by the search engines.
NP says business members and their exclusive forum deals only are being blocked by them from search engines . Bit, I find plenty of good names being sold in regular NP auctions and want to buy from there.
Just like namebio.com , NP auctions thread indexing is a deal breaker if you reach the end users.
I hope NP does something , for we the regular guys.
I don't know if anyone experienced the same with an end user, but NP threads indexing are killing the deals.
And since I just lost a xx, xxx sale, it ain't funny.

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Hello,

The original topic for this is here:

• https://www.namepros.com/threads/be...-sales-thread-index-by-search-engines.970956/

You can read my responses on that page.

Thanks,

It's not uncommon for buyers of domains (End users) to try to find/use any leverage they can to try to get a better deal. Sometimes that's in the form of a story ("Broke college student") or rationalization ("You registered the domain in 2010 for only $10!"). Regardless of the reason, as a seller, you shouldn't let those comments have any affect on the sale. The price is what you will sell it at. If they don't want to buy it at that price and you don't want to sell it at a lower price, then they will not get the domain. The price it was purchased at in the past isn't important in any serious deal. If the buyer backs out of a deal because someone else was able to get it for a better price in the past (Same deals happen in real estate), then they likely wouldn't have been happy with the purchase anyway. If someone is ready to pay $XX,XXX for a domain, then they should understand a lot more about the value of that domain to know that it's worth it, and how much it was purchased for in the past shouldn't matter to them.

Example: If you bought books.com for $10 yesterday thanks to some excellent expiration fluke, then a large publishing company wouldn't care about what you paid and they'd still happily pay you a lot more money to buy that domain name, because it's worth it. They might even acknowledge that they wish they had found a domain that undervalued/underpriced themselves.

It's possible this buyer was looking for an out and they found one.

I wouldn't look for someone to blame when these things happen. It just wasn't meant to be.

Tomorrow is a new day.

Hemanttilotia said:

NP should do something here. They are ruining end user sales here.

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We believe that everything is outlined clearly on NamePros regarding how things work. Everyone should know which forums are private from search engines and which are public. If you choose to use a public forum and it causes issues, then that is not us ruining anything. We have both options available. We don't intervene beyond that. Everyone gets to make their own decisions about how they use this website (Within the rules).

Do whois records of domains ruin domain sales because they show the registration date and someone purchased the domain for very little on that date? No, they do not. Same here.

creataweb said:

Yeah I noticed this too before. It shows the cached version even if the thread was updated.

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Hemanttilotia said:

despite the seller removing names after the sale, it is indexed by the search engines.

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stub said:

You can edit your posts, but the original post has 50/50 change of still showing up in the Search Engine results. I wonder why that is?

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Search results and caches are always temporary if content is changed/removed. No one knows when a search engine will update its search results or cached pages, but it is certain that it will happen eventually. Sometimes it could update within the same day and sometimes it could take weeks. Please be patient until the search engine's algorithms decide to update their index.

Thanks for understanding,

@Eric Lyon - But none of that doesn't preclude us from trying our best to reduce those buyers arguments by preventing this information being freely available by simply doing a google search for the domain. When all it takes is flicking a switch on/off in the software. And I haven't heard ANY good arguments for continuing with what appears to me, to be a negative status quo.

My bad. It seems I should just get a business member badge and hang out with similarly badged dudes in their marketplace !
Sort of is it my time to move from the economy to the business class ?
Was I in the economy class in the first place ?

Hemanttilotia said:

My bad. It seems I should just get a business member badge and hang out with similarly badged dudes in their marketplace !
Sort of is it my time to move from the economy to the business class ?
Was I in the economy class in the first place ?

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You should always be in economy class because it's cheaper with no frills or whistles - joke

stub said:

When all it takes is flicking a switch on/off in the software. And I haven't heard ANY good arguments for continuing with what appears to me, to be a negative status quo.

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Answer: https://www.namepros.com/posts/6420735/

Hope that helps,

Just did a test and I checked a bunch of names I bought here and even months later they still show up in Google search even though the threads were edited / scrubbed months ago.

I wonder if there is an easy way to have the cache pages deleted by request on Google or other search engines?

creataweb said:

I wonder if there is an easy way to have the cache pages deleted by request on Google or other search engines?

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That could potentially harm NamePros if lots of members were doing that at the same time, so we recommend just waiting for the search engines to do it naturally. I explained more here: https://www.namepros.com/posts/6420735/ and here: https://www.namepros.com/posts/6420643/

Thanks,