Well, personally, I see NamePros as more of a wholesale platform, but with end-users and retailers lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce on a great bargain they feel they can flip in the aftermarket for a profit. There's already a lot of buyers that frequent and monitor NamePros for good wholesale deals and some even pay retail on NamePros.
I mean, you have seen sales happen daily in the NamePros marketplace (Mostly wholesale, but a few retail). For closer to retail/aftermarket sales, check out some of the reported sales from NamePros landers:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/re...-name-sale-from-namepros-lander-here.1366151/
I don't think the problem is buyers eyeballs (NamePros is the largest and most active domain related community in the world). It's more about the quality of the domains, which results in those buying eyeballs pulling the trigger to acquire them.
I've always been a big believer that regardless where one lists their domain for sale, if it's of good quality and in a niche with trending demand, serious buyers will find it and it will receive offers/inquiries.
Large portfolio holders always have great examples of that, with domains that sit for years and then, all of a sudden, BAM! a serious buyer reaches out with little to no negotiating and buys one of their domains, that was on an inhouse lander in their portfolio and not even syndicated on aftermarket networks.
You wanted my personal opinion and the above is it.
As for the domain buyer requests... A quick search shows several threads about it. I'll list them below for reference, but the top 3 appear to have moderator engagement in them, so they may contain the best answers to domain buyer request questions that have already been addressed by moderators.
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/stop-fake-buyer-requests.1329140/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/buy-requests.1203018/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/its-called-domains-wanted-not-i-can-broker-that-for-you.1324609/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...o-domains-wanted-section.1316597/page-2#posts
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...yers-on-domain-buyer-request-threads.1184024/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/su...trademarked-on-domain-buyers-request.1324058/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...-started-by-newly-registered-members.1323419/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...r-domains-noone-replied-to-my-offers.1326920/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/domain-buyer-request-section.1329724/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/new-accounts-looking-to-buy-com-1-word-com.1323034/
- https://www.namepros.com/threads/disallow-buyer-demands-to-post-in-request-threads.1251792/