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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.

 

[Charybdis]

I don't mean to gripe, I just started listing on SH (98% are on BB) I noticed quite a few names have 1k random keywords stuffed in. I understand why, but for those of us who keep it short, it's easy to see why it's harder to be found in the search results. Also, I have a name with a specific keyword, and nada, nothing, zilch. Just random words with no association. Only when I add a 'Y' to the word, does it pop up? On BB, whatever you type in, Ly, frog, zo, there are results. I get having 50/100/100k names there are benefits, but I hesitate to list more names.

I read on the SH forum that they know about this problem and they are fixing this keyword stuffing issue.

The SH search is not always working properly, try to select the "Sort by: Most popular" option when searching for names, voila your names will appear (it depends on the keyword).

On BB you still cannot list your names on Afternic? If so, then you should try SH. Because if you have a certain number of domains listed, then you can list them on Afternic, which is a huge extra exposure. You need to authorize the domains first to list them on Afternic, and then you can list them, read the help article about this feature.

 

[Charybdis]

"The sales database is currently not available. We may add this information again in future"

 

[Seyikp]

"The sales database is currently not available. We may add this information again in future"

Same here too, maybe it's their new policy.

 

[NYJimbo]

I'm out. Sold all my SH domains at wholesale.

Dwindling sales just didn't make it worth it to me to keep trying to get them to sell over there.

I might get back into brandables, but somewhere else that has a higher acceptance rate

 

[NYJimbo]

"The sales database is currently not available. We may add this information again in future"

"may". Yeah, that does not look good.

 

[BrandingGo]

My experience around 2 weeks with SH..

I was thinking finally we have a good solution for WLM in industry but..

First I was notified that sometimes domains, WLM and dashboard was not resolved.

My listings on Google search results: in title not showing my WLM name its bad for a brand recognition bad for seo.

My custom favicon not showing for listings on search results instead showing Squadhelp favicon. Google will thinking your WLM is an affiliated website - bad for serp.

So a White label marketplace is not really white - label.

You can't get top results for some relevant keywords because Google thinks that your WLM is a mirror of Squadhelp.

Regarding" Premium" listings I have submitted a few valuable domains (with appraisal value $xx,xxx) as Premium listing for free. and they was not accepted. interestingly much worse domains offering on Squadhelp as " Premiums " and i believed my domains should be accepted.

so what does it mean it means that if you pay 1 coin and submit your domain as Premium it becomes a "Premium ".

and if your listing as a "standard" your domain not showing on they main marketplace you just drive free traffic to their Squadhelp.com domain and make they DA higher and higher and drive customers for naming contests.

So now I am understand how does a such business model works. and why so many fake thread requests with buy "premium" SH domains.. it force domainers to pay coins for "Premium" submissions.

I am regret that I wasted my time and energy for creating Squadhelp WLM.

 

[freety85]

Any thoughts on the new policy? Premium Domains listed on Afternic must have a BIN price which is at least 8-10% above the SH BIN price, if you don't do nothing and leave prices as it is your domains won't enjoy the benefits of retargeting. What will you guys choose?

 

[JudgeMind]

I haven’t reported sales in a couple months here due to my time being spent with a new born baby girl. My wife and I are truly blessed with this beautiful miracle.

sales at sh for may and June included:

Trak (co) $3794
CoinBee (io) $3388
Holy (vc) $5922
Muvero (com) $2299
EstateArena (com) $1699
AudioInfluencer (com) $1299 WLM
Zenabia (com) $2199

I purchased many wholesale listings and a close to 100 name portfolio of sh listed names.

my total listings at sh now is just under 800 premium names with 7 pending commission approval.

regards ~ judge

 

[wwwulff]

I haven’t reported sales in a couple months here due to my time being spent with a new born baby girl. My wife and I are truly blessed with this beautiful miracle.

Congratulations!

 

[Charybdis]

I haven’t reported sales in a couple months here due to my time being spent with a new born baby girl. My wife and I are truly blessed with this beautiful miracle.

sales at sh for may and June included:

Trak (co) $3794
CoinBee (io) $3388
Holy (vc) $5922
Muvero (com) $2299
EstateArena (com) $1699
AudioInfluencer (com) $1299 WLM
Zenabia (com) $2199

I purchased many wholesale listings and a close to 100 name portfolio of sh listed names.

my total listings at sh now is just under 800 premium names with 7 pending commission approval.

regards ~ judge

Where do you buy your Squadhelp domains for wholesale rates?

I buy my Squadhelp domains on the following venues:
- Squadhelp wholesale marketplace
- Namepros
- Backordering pending delete domains
- hand registering names (some of them will become SH-owned domains)
- buy it now listings on dofo.com, if the price is reasonable

 

[L3af]

Does anyone use standard listings or just premium?

 

[Seyikp]

I haven’t reported sales in a couple months here due to my time being spent with a new born baby girl. My wife and I are truly blessed with this beautiful miracle.
Congrat.
sales at sh for may and June included:

Trak (co) $3794
CoinBee (io) $3388
Holy (vc) $5922
Muvero (com) $2299
EstateArena (com) $1699
AudioInfluencer (com) $1299 WLM
Zenabia (com) $2199

I purchased many wholesale listings and a close to 100 name portfolio of sh listed names.

my total listings at sh now is just under 800 premium names with 7 pending commission approval.

regards ~ judge

congratulations

 

[Seyikp]

Why is this place so dry.

 

[JudgeMind]

Any thoughts on the new policy? Premium Domains listed on Afternic must have a BIN price which is at least 8-10% above the SH BIN price, if you don't do nothing and leave prices as it is your domains won't enjoy the benefits of retargeting. What will you guys choose?

I’ve opted to increase my Afternic prices

 

[br1ll1on]

Why is this place so dry.

SH falling back on sales ,I guess

 

[Nametree]

Has anyone had discrepancies between the calculated net proceeds and what they actually deposit in your account when a sale is complete?

I just had my second one today. Domain sells for $1899, net proceeds listed as $1329, but they actually deposit $1294. The first time this happened it was a $49 discrepancy and they adjusted it, saying it was a manual error and “won’t happen going forward.”

Lo and behold…

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Edit: It appears that this particular name had been submitted without a coin, which makes the commission 35% instead of 30. It didn’t explain the discrepancy between the listed net proceeds and the actual payout, but it’s resolved. Either way, transparency and accuracy matter, especially when you charge 30+% commissions…

 

[br1ll1on]

Has anyone had discrepancies between the calculated net proceeds and what they actually deposit in your account when a sale is complete?

I just had my second one today. Domain sells for $1899, net proceeds listed as $1329, but they actually deposit $1294. The first time this happened it was a $49 discrepancy and they adjusted it, saying it was a manual error and “won’t happen going forward.”

Lo and behold…

—-
Edit: It appears that this particular name had been submitted without a coin, which makes the commission 35% instead of 30. It didn’t explain the discrepancy between the listed net proceeds and the actual payout, but it’s resolved. Either way, transparency and accuracy matter, especially when you charge 30+% commissions…

maybe you have "Incentives for Contest Submissions" on

 

[JudgeMind]

Seems things have been overly slow the last few weeks at sh. It could be due to the recent holiday. Anyone else seeing crickets at sh?

 

[Votumejero]

Seems things have been overly slow the last few weeks at sh. It could be due to the recent holiday. Anyone else seeing crickets at sh?

Affirmative

 

[mzakaib]

Very slow at SH. Really has me concerned & rethinking a couple things.