status-monitor Buy Requests

[Haroon Basha]

Hello,
This thread is related to Buy Requests posts.
How many of you are taking it easy for the Buyer's rigid conditions, arrogance in tone and a threat for not complying to his excessive demands? Some buyers wrote their buy requisite as if the sellers are beggars. My blood boils when I read their dictatorial attitude in their buy requests. How many of you take it lightly it is okay if the buyer says, I will not respond if I am not interested. Why do they think that the Sellers are so cheap and they are like aristocrats? How many of you agree that it is buyers prerogative to ask a 4 letter dot com name for $ 50?
Please share your views here and ultimately, NamePros should tone down Buy Request contents a tolerable one and not make the readers/sellers sick.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Hello,

There are some excellent ideas in this thread.

We had a few ideas ourselves, and along with your feedback, we should be able to make it a lot better.

The development team is very busy with a few other projects for the forums, but they know this is a priority as soon as they can get to it.

Thanks for all of the feedback!

 

[equity78]

I agree. It is not reasonable to ask a buyer to respond to every domain they are not interested in. When I created threads I got hundreds of DMs.

What value does it really add for me to go - "No Thanks. Not Interested." hundreds of times?

Also, last time I checked there was a wait time between DMs. So not only are you responding to hundreds, you have to wait for the time between each one. There is no fast way to do it.

When a seller sends a message it is one message. A buyer has to respond to potentially hundreds. That is not an equal time drain. No thanks.




I would have no problem using a different term, that is just the industry standard so people understand it.
Maybe "wholesale" would be more appropriate. That is a tense a lot of businesses use until the product finds an end user.

Brad

I agree Brad, and while I respect people who want a reply, you know this Brad because I have replied to one your posts a couple years ago, if not interested no need for a reply.

Why do I want someone to get back just to say no? It's a waste of my time. Then sometimes someone might be condescending in their reply back and then it's on. Plus some want a reply to continue the conversation, well you said no thanks how about this? Oh do you like .nets? It becomes a long conversation in private message.

I modded this section for years, where people wanted to hurt someone because of their reply to a domains wanted thread.

Plus Namepros is never going to enforce that, I mean this thread do what you like, it's a repeat of several threads that have already happened.

Here is what is not happening:

Namepros management/mods are not vetting buyers getting true insight into their bankroll.

Buyers are not going to be forced to reply, reply or what? You certainly are not banning someone, especially losing Namepros revenue if they are a blue or gold member.

I know some don't like to hear this, but this is not @RJ 's Namepros. This is a business as well as a community. It makes money through advertising and selling memberships. More page views better advertising rates.

The section generates a lot of views.

Now I think it has to be overhauled, years ago I thought this and that's why we got rid of XXX, I felt people using X was stupid, my budget is xxx to x,xxx so is that 100 to $9,999 or $1,000?

The thing that now has to be overhauled is tighter budgets, some realize I don't want to be considered a joke, so let me say my budget is $1 to $10,000 per name, (SEE I'M A PLAYER I GOT A $10,000 Budget for the right name) Yeah, you don't. Most don't have that budget, why are you here? There is plenty of quality trading in the $3,000 to $2,000 range on GoDaddy auctions get busy.

I want to buy a domain name for either $1 or $10,000 is like saying yeah , should my next car be a Hyundai or a Bentley? I can go either way. People who can afford the Bentley are never considering the Hyundai no matter how good the deal.

 

[Haroon Basha]

That is very encouraging news indeed. Thank you very much for listening to us @Mod Team Bravo

 

[equity78]

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[vincew]

Buyers receive a lot of DMs, I don't blame them for not responding to them all - particularly the ones with the lousy names which is the majority (and may include me at times).

And I don't mind the criteria they set, there's nothing wrong with spelling out what you're looking for.

The thing that bothers me the most is when they disappear after making their request. I've sent DMs that were never read and I've sent DMs that were read and then poof the buyer is gone.

It'd also be nice to know if the buyer bought anything. I wish buyers had to report a sale to NP, not the name just whether a sale took place.

 

[7363824]

I am one of those where I will not respond unless interested. It has nothing to do with bring arrogant, but quite simply there are just too many offers to reply to each one.

My biggest frustration with that section is that the names that are submitted in response to a buy request often times are either names that ignore requirements, such as when I ask for a name in once niche and get names submitted that have nothing to do with it. Or else they just simply IMO aren't worth the sellers asking price or the seller is asking too close to retail.

Case and point I recently put up a buy request offering $1,000 for the best name submitted in 72hrs, you would not believe the number of names submitted than IMO weren't even worth reg fee.

I've honestly had more luck looking at the domains for sale section, but its also a bit of work to search though those because being a forum there are no filtering options, no csv export.

Really what NP needs is a proper buy/sell section that's not just part of the forum, but is actually designed to support those requests with filtering, ect.