Best Place to Sell??

[ManicMe]

Hi, this is my first post here and I'm sure this question has been asked a thousand times before but I'm unable to find it in this thread.

I sold a few domains on eBay for nothing great. Is eBay a good place to sell domains. ebay is kind of annoying because you have a lot of ridiculous sellers asking insane prices for less than premium domains.

So is it better to ALWAYS use a site like Sedo, Afternic, or Fabulous???

Where is the best places to sell to get the best prices?

Thank You,

 

[goodkarmaco]

Selling domains

Manic me,

Nice to have you here and you make a good point. The thing is I used to think selling names was easy and years went by with hundreds of names in Afternic and Sedo and no sales. So it is not a automatic that domains sell.

Its just that the odds are against you and me for getting any action out of the auction houses. They have a pretty poor sales rate when you take into account the millions of names they have and the few that sell daily.

So there is nothing wrong with trying to fish on Ebay too. Just go cautously. I look for special discounted listing days that Ebay emails you about. Sometimes those discount days are for listing items for about .50 cents, even if the domain is worth $5,000.

But to just sell and pay their normal fees, you might not jump in to fast as those fees add up.

Did you know you can list your domains for sale at severaly different places all at the same time? You can have them for sale at auction houses, plus at Ebay all at the same time.

 

[briguy]

Great question ManicMe and a great answer goodkarmaco....personally I found that the way that I promote my sale (listing it in my blog,) and the more the attention grabbing headlines that I use..the better the chance of the sale! I know a few of the big domain sellers use this forum (and others that they belong...called multi-forum posting) rather than Ebay to sell their domain..A tip would be to check the domain selling section(s) of this forum and research the thing that they do..to get attention to the thread, ( "bumping"their threads to keep on page one) etc
sidebar..maybe you would like to introduce yourself!
http://www.namepros.com/welcome-center/

 

[nicholas]

My suggestions...

I'd advice the following to start with:

• Aucton / Domain Marketplaces (Sedo, etc.)
• eBay and other general auction sites
• Forums and related communities
• Blogs
• Offline (paper classifieds, etc.)
• Contacting owners of related domains (and I don't mean spamming them)
• AdWords, Overture, etc. based on related keywords, etc.

 

[networkmsia]

I have been using Namepros forum all these while.

Later I shall try ebay :wave:

 

[ManicMe]

Thank you all for your responses

 

[briguy]

Thank you ManicMe..I like trying to answer questions that make you think. And judging from the other answerers this is a good posting!

.maybe you would like to introduce yourself!
http://www.namepros.com/welcome-center/

If you have'nt already

 

[YesBrilliant]

I have been having the most success selling/buying domains in forums!

The problem here is that buyers tend to be resellers and thus prices tend to be lower.

However, not a problem when all you want is to sell, not necessarily sell well.

Complementing from Nicholas:

Places to sell Domains

• Domain Marketplaces - Sedo, Afternic, Fabulous;
• Auction Sites - eBay;
• Forums and related communities - NamePros, DNF, Digital Point, iWebTools, DomainState;
• Blogs - Suggestions?
• Offline - Paper classifieds, school boards;
• Contacting Potential Buyers - Owners of related domains, companies in related field (by direct, personalized email, phone, mail, fax or Fedex);
• Keyword Based Ads - AdWords, Overture, Chitika, AdBrite, MSN.

Any other suggestions or corrections?

 

[WeBuyThe.Com]

You could always sell to us and avoid paying 10% broker fee

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

You might want to edit your original post with an EDIT: followed by the list.

 

[smashfactory]

i have actually sold a few names on craigslist-
and its free- not a huge buyers market, but for free, i will plop a listing in there a few times a month