Is Sedo trying to prevent sales?

topdom said:

Should I evaluate Epik as well. One thing I don't like, I place a description, I'm not allowed to type a long description, and my description doesn't appear on the landing page, so landing pages are almost pure duplicate content, and this is bad for seo. But I will experiment with Epik anyway soon.

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I won't comment about pros/cons of showing appraisals. Where possible, I do prefer to Shoot the moon:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/yall-wanna-shoot-the-moon.1162085/

As for your specific question to Epik, in the SSL lander designer you can write as long a text as you like:

https://epik.com/support/knowledgebase/enable-a-coming-soon-or-domain-parking-page/

Look under Content & Media for a full WYSIWYG editor.

Thanks, can I upload an image as well? I'm considering adding flags with domains on them. It is possible to create waving flag animated images for free and online.

And one more thing I don't like about Sedo, I can't remove domains I don't own anymore, if they have a bid on them (can't cancel old offers either). Whenever I login I see two offers minimum and not because I'm good at selling. (maybe some of such offers are made to make us do redemption renewal)

use your own landing page
then all that trouble disappears


dan is not giving you buyers
sedo rarely does

I highly doubt epik will

Rob Monster said:

I won't comment about pros/cons of showing appraisals. Where possible, I do prefer to Shoot the moon:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/yall-wanna-shoot-the-moon.1162085/

As for your specific question to Epik, in the SSL lander designer you can write as long a text as you like:

https://epik.com/support/knowledgebase/enable-a-coming-soon-or-domain-parking-page/

Look under Content & Media for a full WYSIWYG editor.
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a bad advice stays a bad advice
even when quoted twice

https://namebio.com/blog/dont-shoot-for-the-moon/

or many, many more times

( Shoot the moon )


but of course it will work every time to promote epik over and over


the moon has been shot so often
he might never recover

When I respond to an offer at Sedo, Sedo gives this nonsense error (false alarm):

• Sorry, we could not save your changes since the other party has changed the course of negotiation! Please note changes and repeat your request!

...........
Another Sedo bug: I can't start negotiation, when the offer is $50.
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Both of these bugs may be related to allowing offers below 90. Sedo may be assuming offers below 90 are equivalent to cancelling an existing negotiation (in some (but not every) sense).

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Why show sellers' location, and indirectly say DON'T BUY.

All the evidence suggests that Sedo doesn't want to waste its valuable time, by selling its users' domains.

@Sedo

I regularly get this error in Chromium 81:

This page isn’t working
sedo.com redirected you too many times.

• Try clearing your cookies.

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Recheck your webserver configuration...

title is bit misleding.. as we all know.. there is no such thing as any marketplzce which is knowingly preventing sales.. there could be just some markets which do better or worse job at making sales.. or helping thme happen etc.. so yeah this title came out bit funny lol
its all good though

either way, its now a very common topic and basically a well known fasct among many/most domainers on np that be it dan.com or epik or few others markets, it is basically imposible for buyers to find our names there... things get of course logically bit better if we redirect our landers to those places.. but even then.. at least for me, dan.com is not doing well... (have not tried epik landers yet).. i have nothing but praises about epik and dan.com for escrowing a prenegotiated deal (add lead function on dan.com)... and a solid completion ratio there! otherwise, i begin to doubt and question, as do most/many the usefulness and purpose of even asdding our names to such marketplaces, since nothing ever gets found there directly..
how to remedy it? not sure... more exposure.. more advetristing.. to attract more people to look for names there.. but seems both epik and dan.com refuse to do a simple thing like show their sales on namebio... its not everything.. wouldn't solve all problems.. but it'd be a start.

now all this being said... i have most my sales from gd auctions.. then a few on sedo... and all my gd sales come from people finding my names direct on gd market.. no lander redirects..

I know gd does not compare to others.. exposure wise etc.. but maybe other markets should try their best to have people find our names on their markets... its clearly doable.. and gd auctions is living proof of it no?

ty

Jurgen Wolf said:

@Sedo

I regularly get this error in Chromium 81:

This page isn’t working
sedo.com redirected you too many times.

• Try clearing your cookies.

ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Recheck your webserver configuration...

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It usually happens when I go to sedo.com after I visited any of my domains on your new sales landers...
Something really wrong with your cookies and internal redirects...

Regarding sales...
My last sale on Sedo was 10 months ago...
Looks that only .com and few popular ccTLDs are selling there...
Total waste of time with all other TLDs.

Jurgen Wolf said:

Regarding sales...
My last sale on Sedo was 10 months ago...
Looks that only .com and few popular ccTLDs are selling there...
Total waste of time with all other TLDs.

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In my eperience all types of tlds can sell at Sedo.

But most bids don't get second bids, even if counteroffers are totally reasonable.
and half of sales don't get paid.
This makes me think, we are not selling to endusers.
I think some flippers with insider info tries to buy domains in 20-500 range,
and simultaneously sell for 4-5 figures elsewhere.

No enduser would visit Sedo to buy domains, they do their search at their own registrar.
And that registrar would say: domain not available but we can get it for you.
Then we get lowballs at Sedo.

This explains why buy now works better. Also when the sale type is buy now only,
then the buyer doesn't have time to discriminate or give a second thought to their purchase.

But if we add buy now prices, it would
be very time consuming to erase them. And we may have to sell domains in pending delete periood or
pay penalty.

..
update: one small sale at dan.

I'm talking about BIN domains which are parked there... I don't use MakeOffer mode on Sedo.
No sales for me since June'2019.

@Sedo

Why don't you show .XYZ domains in search? If someone types in a keyword you are just showing some random extensions although there was a .xyz listing in the sedo account. Don't you think you are potentially losing some sales? Or you people are meant for cctld's.

Ex: Avalanche.xyz Keyword Avalanche

Watch.xyz Keyword Watch

Jurgen Wolf said:

It usually happens when I go to sedo.com after I visited any of my domains on your new sales landers...
Something really wrong with your cookies and internal redirects...

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@Sedo
When you will fix this OLD bug?
I get it a few times daily... It happens at least for authorized users...
See screenshot...

@Sedo
Are you alive?!
See previous post...

Jurgen Wolf said:

@Sedo
Are you alive?!
See previous post...

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Alive and ignoring this thread?

Not just thread...
No any reaction even on my DMs.

Jurgen Wolf said:

Not just thread...
No any reaction even on my DMs.

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Hi Jurgen,

I have sent you a DM, please respond there with the requested info.

All the best
Chris

Jurgen Wolf said:

@Sedo
When you will fix this OLD bug?
I get it a few times daily... It happens at least for authorized users...
See screenshot...
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For guests as well.
Still not fixed... Almost whole 2020 year this issue...

Jurgen Wolf said:

For guests as well.
Still not fixed... Almost whole 2020 year this issue...

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You can fix this issue in two ways.
1. Access sedo through a incognito window on chrome.
2. Open devtools of chrome using right click => inspect element on the page. Now click on clear storage => clear site data. Also right click on https:/sedo.com under Cookies menu and click clear.
Now you can load sedo.com in the browser.

I clear cookies each time ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS appears... whole this year due to @Sedo inactivity...

Jurgen Wolf said:

I clear cookies each time ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS appears... whole this year due to @Sedo inactivity...

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Jurgen, do you experience this visting own domains if logged-in? Or any sedo-parked domains?

Jurgen Wolf said:

I clear cookies each time ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS appears... whole this year due to @Sedo inactivity...

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Clearing cookies alone doesn't work.

tonyk2000 said:

Jurgen, do you experience this visting own domains if logged-in? Or any sedo-parked domains?

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It usually happens when I go to main @Sedo after I visited some of my domains on their new sales landers...
And even without authorization.

Cookies clearance works as temporary solution until next ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS...