Afternic Price Requests

[DomainBFF]

I've tried searching around for information on Afternic price requests multiple times, but can't seem to find any valuable info.

For those of you that have received them, has it ever resulted in a sale or anything more? How are these people even requesting a price?

I have my portfolio listed with them as well as GD, but 0 domains parked at Afternic.

The email always reads the same:

*******************************************
ATTENTION My Name,
ACTION NEEDED: Set a price for mydomain.com
*******************************************
Dear My Name,

You have received a sales lead on mydomain.com through one of Afternic's Expanded Promotion partner sites.

A lead indicates that someone is interested in the domain, but is not prepared to buy it yet.
In order to proceed with this buyer, please take the following steps now:

1. Set a Floor Price and Buy Now price in the next 48 hours.
To remain a robust marketplace of premium domain names for both buyers and sellers, we require
that every domain have a Floor Price and Buy Now Price within 48 hours of receiving a sales lead.
The Buy Now Price is the price you want for your domain and at which it is promoted.
Your domain sells immediately when a buyer meets the buy now price.
The Floor Price is the absolute minimum price at which you are willing to sell your domain.
It is a binding price.

To set your Floor and Buy Now prices please log into My Afternic at:
https://www.afternic.com/dashboard

2. Contact your Afternic Sales Executive: Afternic Sales Team at 781-839-7902 or [email protected]
If you need assistance, your Afternic Sales Executive is available to help you develop
a winning pricing strategy and to negotiate with buyers to maximize your likelihood of a
quick, profitable sale.

3. Not sure how to price your domain? Get a domain appraisal. Studies show that domain
listings with appraisals sell 10 TIMES faster than those without an appraisal.
Show your potential buyers that your domain is appraised. Request an appraisal.

http://www.afternic.com/domain-name-appraisal
If you have any questions, our customer service team is available to help you develop a winning pricing strategy. You can reach our service team
at 866-351-9586 (Toll Free) or +1 781-839-7990 (Worldwide).

Best wishes for a successful sale,

Todd Cantwell
Sales Manager
www.afternic.com

I always follow up immediately and never hear anything back. I've even set the buy now price and floor at the minimum amount on a domain that I wasn't too crazy about, and nothing. Last time I tried contacting the email in step 2 asking them to clarify a few things, and no reply after 3 different emails.

I'm beginning to think it's just a BS tactic to get people to either add BIN prices to the rest of their listed domains or dupe them into buying an appraisal.

 

[gilescoley]

Yes, I had a price request on afternic and I set a price of $8.5k and it sold the next day for that price

 

[Nattydomain]

90% of my domains listed at afternic have a BIN and a floor price. All my sales from afternic except 2 came from the BIN the other 2 hit the floor price.

 

[GravityEleven]

I get these almost once in a week, would say about a quarter of them did lead to a sale in the end

 

[DomainBFF]

Interesting.

I'm still not sure where the requests could be coming from. The domains are parked with sedo, so if anything I would assume a buyer would contact me through there.

 

[kemjika11]

I've gotten several of these requests and i generally dont like them. why cant the prospective buyer place a bid via afternic? Out of 4-6 requests in total, i sold 1 name.

 

[Name Trader]

I've sold 1 domain about 6 weeks after providing the buy now price. Actually, I agree with kemjika11. I don't understand why Afternic don't respect our wishes to list our domains at make offer prices. If you don't respond to their emails, after the third one, they remove your domain from their listings. So you have to respond with a buy now price, which completely negates your wishes to list your domain as make offer. So about every 3 months I have to email asking them to change all my buy now listings back into make offer listings. Like kemjika11, I don't know why the interested party can't just make an offer for the domain. Of course the one who goes first sets the price parameters. So I understand the why. So I usually respond with a buy now price about twice my expected price expectation. Which probably explains why I've only sold one domain out of approx 50 price requests per year

 

[Doron Vermaat]

I've gotten one which led to a sale.

 

[kemjika11]

and now afternic doesnt accept .in or .co.in domains....i dunno how useful they are to me tbh.

 

[SpareDomains]

I sold one of my own names through my own site on friday for 1k. Got a lead on another brokered domain from my own site a day later, shot the sellers price, then next day get a price request from afternic, either didn't like the price or trying to play the anonymous card but I already tied things together and know they are a very large company, went in and deleted it from afternic, take that as I knew who it was and can't see having them take a cut when the lead already came direct to me to begin with, see how this one plays out as their back coming direct now. Not a fan of those price requests as well. I usually tell them "negotiations begin with an offer" I've made some modifications to my own site where I'm actually debating eliminating using other markets as the last 2 weeks since I've made a few changes and eliminated parking pages in favor of sales pages on quite a few has led to no shortage of offers and not really a fan of anonymous offers.

 

[NamePrime]

Sold a couple of domains via afternic price request. Just set a price that will put a smile on your face once the interested party accepts it