discuss Are your buyers really making offers ?

[Asfas1000]

I am wondering what is your experience with your domains with a Make-Offer option ? Either at Sedo, Afternic etc or your own lander.

Because, in my experience, very few people will actually make an offer and most will just inquire about the price.

So I am very interested to know if people are actually making offers or maybe they see this offer model as scam / unethical / whatever (products or items should have a price tag, right ?)

 

[Asfas1000]

Can't be 100% sure why they skip landing pages. But possibly they think will have to follow several steps in order to get in touch with domain owner so let's get the email ID from WHOIS and contact owner directly...

I'm using Uni landers too. Overall, number of inquiries have gone down significantly this year compare to last one even though I have been with Uni for several years and adding domains on regular basis. Either I'm having little tough period or there might be some glitch in Uni system.

This could be the reason for skipping the landers, the several steps to get a response back . This is more likely than my assumption that they want to hide their id.

Regarding Uni inquiries, I think at some point in 2017 they rolled out an update to filter out bad inquiries. Not sure how they did it, but 2 domains of mine that were receiving a lot of inquiries (bad ones) are now relatively quiet.

 

[kite26]

I have to say that ''make an offer'' option is giving you the feeling that you leave money on the table. Personally, i prefer bin option and i plan to apply it on my bodis landing pages. I wonder, if a buyer really needs your name, he can easily find your e-mail to send you an offer slightly lower (let's suppose) comparing to your bin price.Can't he?

 

[Asfas1000]

I wonder, if a buyer really needs your name, he can easily find your e-mail to send you an offer slightly lower (let's suppose) comparing to your bin price.Can't he?

Not sure how familiar the average buyer is with the WHOIS information. I would think that in this case a motivated buyer with a smaller budget would search online to find a way around the high BIN and eventually find about WHOIS and contact the owner.

For me, the biggest advantage of the "make offer" option is it will allow *any* interested party to inquire, even if their budget is very low... something that I want. Sure, if my domains were $xx,xxx I would not need to know how desirable they are

 

[kite26]

Bin option is giving you less action, but instant sales. Surely it depends of of the names quality. But, price needs to be already clarified. No more low ball offers again.

 

[Asfas1000]

I am considering splitting my domains, 50% Make Offer and 50% BIN

 

[kite26]

I hate the awful dilemma when i receive an offer, to counter or accept? Well, after all, fair pricing is the best solution. Then, you will know at least that you will not leave (much) money on the table. The key factor of course is the quality you have in your hands. This can change all the game and that's why good names are expensive. However, it's possible to find really valueable hand reg's.I had some sales on GD via make an offer option, but i have this bad feeling which i stated above.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

This could be the reason for skipping the landers, the several steps to get a response back . This is more likely than my assumption that they want to hide their id.

Regarding Uni inquiries, I think at some point in 2017 they rolled out an update to filter out bad inquiries. Not sure how they did it, but 2 domains of mine that were receiving a lot of inquiries (bad ones) are now relatively quiet.

If they have made some changes to filter out spam/bad inquiries, it's good. If I start recalling now, I think you're right as I have almost stopped receiving inquiries on couple of domains which were worthless all time. Good catch and thanks for sharing!