Atom / Atom.com - Marketplace (formerly Squadhelp)

[JudgeMind]

Hey Folks,

I've just started using squadhelp.com to list some of my brandable. So far I have 76 domains listed, there is no fee to list. I've had some decent action so far in the way of interested buyers but no sales as of yet. I've only been with them for 1 week now.

A bit of a summary review of SquadHelp:

PROS

• No Listing fee
• No Logo design fee
• Ability to submit your names to end users holding naming contests
• Ability to chat directly or send a message directly to end users.
• Stats of your marketplace domains are shown in the marketplace dashboard.
• Their customer service and support has been great, 24hr a day chat.
• Ability to increase or decrease the list price of your domains or to show a discount. You can decrease or increase the price yourself by $200. If you want to lower more, you can contact support.
• End users can shortlist your domains before they make a decision on which they want to purchase. The number of shortlists is shown in you marketplace dashboard.
• When you submit your names you get to set the price you wish to get. Because their commissions are high I recommend listing at a higher price to offset the commission costs.
• Their landing pages are fairly basic but they work. Because the marketplace is fairly new, I'm sure we will see style improvements in the future.
• One thing I really like is they accept multiple extensions. I have listed .co and .io along with .com
• Each seller gets a direct link to their marketplace portfolio, HERES MY PORTFOLIO. It is handy if your trying to p[promote your portfolio through social media.
• I like that their marketplace doesn't have tens of thousands domain listings like BB. They are fairly strict on the domains they accept to list and so this helps keep the number of domains in the marketplace down and gets your listings more exposure.

CONS

• Their commissions are very high, depending on the domain name they are usually between 30% and 35%. However, there are no listing fees, no logo design fees, so in the end their commission is very similar to brand buckets.
• Their logos are not top quality, in fact I requested to have some of my logos remade.
• I think they have a big backlog of logos to design, the wait time for logo design has been around 1 week, but your names are still listed while the logos are being designed.
• After your names are accepted you need to agree to their commission rate, at this point you also need to apply your own keywords, descriptions etc. I found this was very time consuming.

 

[Atom.com]

Really? Are you certain about this? @GrantP what's the true visibility of basic/basic plus in the marketplace, because it makes no sense having them compete with premium (curated) listings.

Basic and Basic Plus listings are not searchable in the Premium Domain Marketplace. There is one exception to this rule:

If a Basic Plus listing is submitted to contests and receives high number of likes in a reasonable period, it is automatically "upgraded" to be visible in the Premium Domain Marketplace. This represents about 3-5% of our total Basic Plus listings.


All Basic and Basic Plus listings are searchable in a separate section of our site:

https://www.squadhelp.com/premium-domains-for-sale/all?bl=1

This link is visible in the footer of most of our pages.

So the short answer is that they do not "compete" with the premium listings (for the most part).

 

[Wali Dahot]

hi, I am trying to add a payout method. using the payoneer option. the problem is the link to sign is not clickable...


why is it so? or must I have a sell before I can carryout this task?
thanks

same problem with me too. Payoneer login doesnt show up in PC or desktop mode in mobile while in mobile payoneer login isnt clickable. Thats why havent listed any domains there despite signing up a couple of months ago.

 

[bojan1]

is there someone else having the same problem which i am suffering .
one of my domain is sold in wholesale market place on 14 may .
i have transferred the domain. 8 days gone still Squadhelp is not releasing my payment. i talk to buyer he said he already transfer money to SH . even squadhelp customer care is not giving me satisfying answer.

Have you resolved this issue?

 

[WiseWebby]

Have you resolved this issue?

yes after a long time they solve the problem yesterday.

 

[sadiq3051]

same problem with me too. Payoneer login doesnt show up in PC or desktop mode in mobile while in mobile payoneer login isnt clickable. Thats why havent listed any domains there despite signing up a couple of months ago.

I was having the same issues on mobile, before @Haykay2005 suggested I use PC. So I will advise you to use your PC it will go through..

 

[karmaco]

Basic and Basic Plus listings are not searchable in the Premium Domain Marketplace. There is one exception to this rule:

If a Basic Plus listing is submitted to contests and receives high number of likes in a reasonable period, it is automatically "upgraded" to be visible in the Premium Domain Marketplace. This represents about 3-5% of our total Basic Plus listings.


All Basic and Basic Plus listings are searchable in a separate section of our site:

https://www.squadhelp.com/premium-domains-for-sale/all?bl=1

This link is visible in the footer of most of our pages.

So the short answer is that they do not "compete" with the premium listings (for the most part).

Good to know. I never realized there were Premium listings priced under $1999. I just assumed people with lower price domains would go the route of more affordable commission. So do the non premium not get logos then?

 

[YairDD]

My domain just got shortlisted twice.
Is it a good thing? did anyone sell a domain with only 2 shortlists? new to the marketplace.

thanks

 

[Kachi]

My domain just got shortlisted twice.
Is it a good thing? did anyone sell a domain with only 2 shortlists? new to the marketplace.

thanks

Some domains in the marketplace have over 100 shortlists and still unsold.
Some names have sold with less than 10 shortlists.

Don't lay your hopes too much on that metric.

 

[Adamsola]

Basic and Basic Plus listings are not searchable in the Premium Domain Marketplace. There is one exception to this rule:

If a Basic Plus listing is submitted to contests and receives high number of likes in a reasonable period, it is automatically "upgraded" to be visible in the Premium Domain Marketplace. This represents about 3-5% of our total Basic Plus listings.


All Basic and Basic Plus listings are searchable in a separate section of our site:

https://www.squadhelp.com/premium-domains-for-sale/all?bl=1

This link is visible in the footer of most of our pages.

So the short answer is that they do not "compete" with the premium listings (for the most part).

 

[Adamsola]

@GrantP May I know what SH meant by " Since you are a contest holder, you will be able to purchase this premium name at discounted price"?

This qoute shows in one of my premium names submitted to a contest.


Initially,I taught if a premium name is purchased through contents, CH has to pay for the marketplace price and seller/creative will receive normal comission attached to the name if it sells.

Kindly clarify this pls

 

[Yusupbabay]

this is our advantage to become a member of the SH, .co extension is accepted in the premium market

 

[Atom.com]

May I know what SH meant by " Since you are a contest holder, you will be able to purchase this premium name at discounted price"?

This qoute shows in one of my premium names submitted to a contest.


Initially,I taught if a premium name is purchased through contents, CH has to pay for the marketplace price and seller/creative will receive normal comission attached to the name if it sells.

Kindly clarify this pls

@Adamsola If a CH wants to buy a premium domain from their contest, we apply the contest award towards the purchase of the domain. This way, the CH receives a discount on the purchase of the domain, but the seller receives the proceeds based upon the full selling price. For example, if the award amount is $300 and the domain is priced at $1999, the CH would only need to pay $1699 to buy the domain but as a seller, your sale is based upon $1999 (unless you agree to offer any additional discount).

In other words, SH is funding this discount by applying the contest award amount - it doesn't effect your final commission.

 

[YairDD]

Anyone have insights about the number of sales of .CO domains on Squadhelp?

@GrantP ?

 

[bowskie]

Anyone noticed a slow down in reviews of submitted names?

They were being done every day (except weekends) up until Wednesday.

 

[NYJimbo]

Is there a way to tell why one of your names is suddenly getting lots of daily views. Most of my names get viewed a few times a day, sometimes 50-100 a week. One of my names is getting at least 100 a day. No, I dont want to mention the name. But I can't figure out why its gone from 300 in the first month to 4000 in just the following two weeks or so.

 

[BrandCougar]

@NYJimbo -

Suggestion - you might want to x-check Afternic/Sedo to see if some jackal has listed your name (fraudulently) on one of those sites without your knowledge or approval.

Likely not the issue, but might be worth x-checking.

I wish we could click on the view count and see "source" of the views. It would be interesting to see how many were direct (type in) traffic and how many were multiple clicks by a single source, site, or IP address (someone running a tracking tool).

Like with BB/NR/BR/BP/etc... there's always some techie person writing scripts to check a sites inventory daily... using that as a method to track sales for their lame blog and in the process distorting traffic results for the site members

-Cougar

 

[YairDD]

My domain was listed on 28 May but when I go to Explore marketplace and search for the domain name, I can't find it.
When will it appear on squadhelp?

 

[bojan1]

My domain was listed on 28 May but when I go to Explore marketplace and search for the domain name, I can't find it.
When will it appear on squadhelp?

Same happened to me recently.

 

[bowskie]

My domain was listed on 28 May but when I go to Explore marketplace and search for the domain name, I can't find it.
When will it appear on squadhelp?

I think that the person/team that deals with this sort of thing as well as pending domain submissions is currently away.

The automatic listing in the marketplace is not actually automatic it seems and still needs someone to approve it before it is visible.

 

[Domain_savvy]

My domain was listed on 28 May but when I go to Explore marketplace and search for the domain name, I can't find it.
When will it appear on squadhelp?

Same here...hope they resolve it.Because of this issue i have not approved one domain and its still pending seller commission approval.Its a good name,i might move it somewhere else.