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[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.

 

[Votumejero]

Good day, fellow domainers. please I will like to know the exact number of domains one need on squadhelp (portfolio) to make his / her first sale. I know there's no specific number, but just want to hear you guys opinion.
thanks...

Indeed no specific, I have 9 premium, started listing July, just got my first sale today.

 

[sadiq3051]

Indeed no specific, I have 9 premium, started listing July, just got my first sale today.

Wao that's cool, I will keep my fingers crossed then. I have 29 premium names presently

 

[YairDD]

Currently Live (Premium)
16
Total Sold
0
Total Views
12,427
Total Shortlists
369

When will I get a sale =/ :D

 

[Bogdan]

28 Premiums
Shortlists: 543
Views: 35,515
3 Offers
0 Sales

 

[YairDD]

28 Premiums
Shortlists: 543
Views: 35,515
3 Offers
0 Sales

Were the offers any good?

 

[farouk20]

Hopefully sales will flow round to y’all, just keep the faith folks. Squadhelp is a great marketplace ,

Cheers folks
Brandforte

 

[NamePrime]

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[Bogdan]

Were the offers any good?

2 buyers went cold, asking my best offer and one I countered by $200, the buyer never responded.

 

[bojan1]

Does anyone have noticed any significant changes in acceptance rate since introducing coins?

 

[KDN]

Does anyone have noticed any significant changes in acceptance rate since introducing coins?

Looks like there's been a significant increase in marketplace average. It's more than 10.30% now.

 

[boker]

Looks like there's been a significant increase in marketplace average. It's more than 10.30% now.

Probably for the one's using coins, for me it dropped big time from the first day after I choosed not to use coins. Is their choice if they prefer to go for quantity, not quality for a few coins.

 

[bojan1]

Probably for the one's using coins, for me it dropped big time from the first day after I choosed not to use coins. Is their choice if they prefer to go for quantity, not quality for a few coins.

So you can choose not to use coins and submit registered or unregistered domains? How? Thanks.

 

[boker]

So you can choose not to use coins and submit registered or unregistered domains? How? Thanks.

If you have over 25 premium listed and you didn't dropped a lot of premiums, you can choose not to use coins, from the dashboard, seller preferences, but they will make sure to push you to use coins.

 

[Wise_007]

Please i have names submitted as unregistered that were rejected by SH. they are currently unregistered. I never delisted them.

Therefore, why are the names on my delisted names?

Why are they having premuim prices with commission rates?

 

[NameWell]

Please i have names submitted as unregistered that were rejected by SH. they are currently unregistered. I never delisted them.

Therefore, why are the names on my delisted names?

Why are they having premuim prices with commission rates?

I have the same issue. I've reported it through blue button.

 

[NameWell]

If you have over 25 premium listed and you didn't dropped a lot of premiums, you can choose not to use coins, from the dashboard, seller preferences, but they will make sure to push you to use coins.

But this doesn't work if you want to submit unregistered names and choose an option to register them yourself if they are approved. In this case, you still have to use coins.

 

[manpreet]

SH is charging $1 per domain submission now, it’s not much but it would have been suitable if their approval rate is also better. Either one way should be considered.

 

[KDN]

Have you guys tried getting lifestyle images? I requested more than 2 weeks ago and they're still not showing on the names.

 

[myfavorite]

I think SH should equally work their system to automatically detect when premium domains delisted as a result of nameserver issues is corrected instead of asking for it to be a fresh submission.

They have rejected the premium domain that was delisted because of nameserver change as a result of entering expiry period which I rectified and also an unregistered name they earlier approved for listing which I later discovered I have registered before their review was equally rejected.

Very sad @GrantP I think this calls for your consideration, if your still with us here on NP.

Thanks

 

[bojan1]

They have rejected the premium domain that was delisted because of nameserver change as a result of entering expiry period which I rectified and also an unregistered name they earlier approved for listing which I later discovered I have registered before their review was equally rejected.

Very sad @GrantP I think this calls for your consideration, if your still with us here on NP.

Thanks

I don't understand this. Please can you explain more clearly... they have approved unregistered domain and then rejected it!?