Michael has 2,000 names and usually sells on average 17 per month. You would assume that if you took 4 or 5 sellers and add up their portfolios to an equal amount that you would have similar amount of sales. Not the case.
Andrew Rice (BB brand ambassador) 658 names
BrandPluck 363 names
BrandWorthy 332 names
PolkaInc 153 names
These above add up to 1,506 names. Not quite the 2,000 names that Michael has but pretty close. You would think with 1,506 names you would at least have close to the same amount of sales. Correct? These sellers above have had very few sales if any. I think Andrew had a couple but the ratio in volume from these sellers is similar but the sales are not. This group of sellers should at least have 10-15 sales every single month. What makes Michael's portfolio sell so much better? Doesn't that make you wonder? The names are the same in quality but these sellers have very few sales if any.
The only logical answer is that Michael is able to push his own inventory over yours and get on the front page with every single name. BB says it doesn't matter if you're on the front page but that is pure B S. When someone types in your name and follows it to Brand Bucket what other names are being sold on that page? Why should your traffic sell someone else's name? Why is the attention that my name is supposed to be getting from my traffic being diverted to the house inventory? There are so many questions you should ask yourself.
There is a tons of names being added to BB lately that are under privacy. I mentioned the NameSilo privacy already and who those names are but there are also many from Uniregistry and 1 & 1 being added at a rapid pace. No domainer puts their names under privacy if they expect to sell names. I repeat, no domainer puts their names under privacy if they want to sell names. This is rule #1 in domain sales. If no domainer puts their names under privacy then why are so many names being added to BB under privacy. The obvious answer is pretty easy to figure out.
Having the director of the company (Michael) and the owner of the company (Boxador-Margot) being in direct competition with you is s real conflict of interest. It's not only a real conflict of interest it's a huge conflict of interest. The transparency that BB has talked about since 2013 has not come.
I believe that companies like this exist because of domainers and on behalf of the domainer community I hope that BB starts answering these questions and becoming more transparent to their sellers.
We all want to see some real sales. For many years BB listed sales and the buyers obviously didn't care so what's with all the secrecy now. Out of the blue the buyers started giving a shit? BS!! If it didn't matter then why should it matter now. Show us some real sales besides the directors sales! If buyers gave a shit then why does the director show his sales? Hmmm? Interesting.
There is a whole community here that is placing their bets on the brandable market and giving you tons of money to list their names hoping that the brandable market is actually real.
15,000 names listed I think it's about time to SHOW SOME SALES ALREADY!
