BrandBucket Experience

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hello

I am new to BrandBucket. Before getting my hands on this

I wish to experience about brandbucket from my fellow members


Thanks

 

[Keith DeBoer]

Hey everybody!

We had a great time at NamesCon. The BB staff and I met with dozens of BB sellers at our booth and Margot also had private meetings with quite a few sellers as well.

While I'm here a couple of mundane points:

• I have been friends with Michael Krell since his early days as a domainer. He is a kind hearted, soft spoken, young man who has helped many domainers AND has spent considerable time helping the underprivileged population in his home community. He made a personal decision to leave BB so he could spend more time with his growing family and his evolving business interests. Michael is a lifelong entrepreneur who has worked on a wide variety of business projects. Leaving BB is a continuation of that self-driven career path. The rumors, speculation and conspiracy theories being offered around NPs have no basis in reality.
• BB has been accepting dictionary words in a few new gTLDs for a few years. Currently dot LY, dot IO and dot ME are listed on the site. If you have some you want to list then please submit them for review and pricing. Let me know if I can help.
• Domains purchased by end users often lay fallow for months sometimes years. This is pervasive throughout the industry whether they are sold on BrandBucket, BrandRoot or SEDO. A significant portion of the brandable domains that I've sold via Afternic etc, for example, are not developed.

If anyone has anyone questions, problems or suggestions please send me a direct message. I'll help anyway I can. You can also message BB directly at any time and get prompt assistance: [email protected]

Good to luck to everyone in the new year!

May all your sales be to end users!

Keith

Pictured below left to right are: Keith (brand ambassador), Margot (founder-CEO), Christine (sales), Zeena (marketing)

 

[karmaco]

My experience with BB is short and unpleasant.

When you ask for your names to be removed and are given a date keep all correspondence and replies. They like to play games later and send threatening emails after said date and name server changes.

Be aware there are lackeys on this forum who will not hesitate to pretend to be buyers and complain and lie to BB that your names are for sale on this forum if you don’t sell them for dirt cheap via PM.

Everytime I come to this thread I see something more disturbing than the last time. So glad I didn’t go full in with this operation.

 

[Embrand]

It seems like the free submission period is over? I just submitted a domain and it cost me a credit. Anyone else noticed?

 

[Michael M]

It seems like the free submission period is over? I just submitted a domain and it cost me a credit. Anyone else noticed?

I believe the submission was always 1 credit, but they were waiving the publishing fee...

Though I was not a member of the GP, so I could be wrong.

 

[Embrand]

I believe the submission was always 1 credit, but they were waiving the publishing fee...

Though I was not a member of the GP, so I could be wrong.

Oh, yes, sorry - I mixed those two things up

 

[domainer111]

@Keith DeBoer how are you!

Could you tell me .. what is the situation with the BB affiliate program? I need to join this very quickly myself.

 

[Keith DeBoer]

Hi Domainer 111,
There is no BB affiliate program
It was discontinued a few years ago

 

[BrandCougar]

>> Yes and No. An affiliate but not in the affiliate programme.

This is nuts!

Sounds like a J. Geils song -

You love her,
But she loves him,
And he loves somebody else,
You just can't win!

All this double talk leads me to one conclusion - if you roll with dogs, you're gonna get fleas!!

Either you like BrandBucket or you don't. It's all a matter of preference and choice.

Along the way you will run into some interesting characters. Some interesting, some not.

Along the way you will you will build an inventory. Some will sell, some not.

This whole debate is like pissing in the wind, then complaining your feet are wet.

 

[equity78]

It looks like all the names I removed in the past have been reinstated at BrandBucket, making them indexable in Google so that BrandBucket can use them to potentially grab my leads for their own inventory.

As you noted we paid a $10 fee to list domains with BrandBucket, and then removed names as per their own terms and conditions. I did not agree to BrandBucket retaining a landing page with an inquiry contact form for those names (so I'd say BB and DNBolt are equally trying to illegitimately take contact info and capture leads for domains they have no right to sell). Because BrandBucket is a paid service, for them to create such a "removal penalty" where they use your removed domains to generate leads for themselves, possibly at the expense of your lead going with a BB name instead of your removed name, is not appropriate.

I have also sold many of the domains I removed from BB to end users (after they were removed from BB). I don't think those end users will appreciate seeing their new business names appear on BrandBucket landing pages, and have to compete with BB landing pages when people search for their business. BB do not retain landing pages for domains they sold themselves as they know this would irritate buyers, but they have no issue annoying our buyers that bought BB removed names from us outside of BB. I think this is an unprofessional move by BrandBucket.

Thanks for that post had no idea, they were doing that. The battle between the Pro BB camp and Anti BB camp is not going away anytime soon.

 

[equity78]

This:



As someone else pointed out, this isn't for sold names specifically. I came across it while doing a Google search for one of my names, which coincidentally had been previously listed on BB. I think some digging in their T&Cs might be needed here, as they are using my inventory to promote their site. My guess is this was never mentioned in their T&Cs, and it will be interesting to see if they remove this pages on request (as they should do IMO).

Good points

 

[Brandworthy]

Sent an email requesting they remove references to my previously listed domains. Will update thread when I hear back from Brandbucket.

 

[Embrand]

Well, it seems I have to apologize to Margot. She did in fact send me a Christmas card. It just arived today.

Apparently, the postal service had difficulty distinguishing between Denmark and Myanmar

 

[hookbox]

Well, it seems I have to apologize to Margot. She did in fact send me a Christmas card. It just arived today.

Apparently, the postal service had difficulty distinguishing between Denmark and Myanmar Show attachment 80458

So this is what $100,000 worth of commissions gets? That 30% adds up fast. I hope they at least added a starbucks gift card.

 

[Embrand]

So this is what $100,000 worth of commissions gets? That 30% adds up fast. I hope they at least added a starbucks gift card.

Maybe the envelope will become a collector's item and worth a lot

 

[hookbox]

Maybe the envelope will become a collector's item and worth a lot

 

[Arca]

Sent an email requesting they remove references to my previously listed domains. Will update thread when I hear back from Brandbucket.

What was their response regarding this?

 

[Brandworthy]

What was their response regarding this?

7 days later and, apart from Julia (who was always exceptional) acknowledging the request on the same day, I've just had silence. Sent a follow-up request 2 days ago. Still waiting.

 

[Embrand]

It seems like their publishing times are long once again. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[Andish]

Sure, I have several names in pending editorial since Feb 9th.

 

[Keith DeBoer]

Hey @Embrand and @Andish!
I asked BB about this and it seems there have been some personal emergencies with two BB staff members who are integral to the publishing process. Hence the delay. Thanking you in advance for your patience till things get back on track