Ebay sellers with high reserve price?!

[Optinom]

I find many domain sale listings on eBay whose reserve prices are very high.. (for very ordinary domain).. Further I see the same domain being repeatedly listed for sale with same reserve price..

Isnt this a clear waste of money? What do sellers gain from this? coz, if you're gonna list a domain with 15k reserver, the listing fee itself is $50+..

Currently i saw this featured listed domain 0-cent.eu wid a starting price of 1k.. i dont tink any1 s gonna buy at that price.. But then why waste money>??

I simply dont understand. Any of you do?

 

[mike_d]

It's perplexing, isn't it? There are so many awful domains listed at ridiculously high prices. I suppose they look at some of the higher-end sales and get greedy.

Mike.

 

[mosilager]

I suppose you could say that these ebay sellers are pretty "wet" behind the ear i.e they are probably newbies and got greedy with their asking price after seeing some high domain sales.

I saw MZRY.com listed at asking price of $75,000!.

 

[Mrwonder]

Most of them guys are day dreamsers. Lets get rich quickly school of thought is very popular specially if someone is a newbie and just entered the ebay wonderland.
But some of the guys there are clever the money they spend on listing those domains, they get it back by ads on those domains and payper click ads.
I sold buyandsell.org.uk fot just about £12 there but the amount of traffic i got from listing domain there was quite good. I made about £ 15 in may be 7 days of listing.

Thanks

 

[Archangel]

I recently saw ComputersOnSteroids.com (if that's what it was) on eBay with a starting bid of like, $900,000 -- and the idiot seller wasted even more money having it homepage featured. Greed imprisons us all--or just makes us broke. I listed a domain with a $1k reserve and that auction cost me about $9


Look at this nonsense: http://search.ebay.com/domains_W0QQfromZR40QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQsbrsrtZd.

 

[mike_d]

Look at this nonsense: http://search.ebay.com/domains_W0QQfromZR40QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQsbrsrtZd.

The guy selling the domains for $25,000,000 is priceless (no pun intended). I like how he cunningly ensures he'll get sales by TYPING REALLY BIG!

What a f**kwit.

Mike.

 

[etraffic]

Ebay can be a strange place....You never know what will sell there and for what price....

 

[End User King]

They get clicks that way. Over 2 million users at EBay at any given time.
The amount of click that they get are huge. Placing a huge reserve price
ensures visitors out of speculation alone imho. Wouldn't you want to know what
was so special about a $900,000 domain?

 

[Snurf]

It also makes me chuckle when so many people put a picture of a female expressing herself as the auction image, even when the domain(s) have nothing to do with women or adult entertainment.

 

[End User King]

LOL...You must've seen my WestCoastHoneys.com...lol!
Guess what? I no longer own it..hehe!

 

[Snurf]

LOL...You must've seen my WestCoastHoneys.com...lol!
Guess what? I no longer own it..hehe!

Heh, i could see westcoasthoneys.com having a pic like that, the ones that get me confused are ones like, ZipPlanes.com, and ZipScooter.com

 

[Toker]

The guy selling the domains for $25,000,000 is priceless (no pun intended). I like how he cunningly ensures he'll get sales by TYPING REALLY BIG!

What a f**kwit.

Mike.

That's the problum with smoking crack and selling in Ebay.

Heh, i could see westcoasthoneys.com having a pic like that, the ones that get me confused are ones like, ZipPlanes.com, and ZipScooter.com

Well Zip does have over a Billion listings in Google alone (1,150,000,000) .
Do ya think he's give me a petty $100,000 for uszip.net or zipup.us ??

 

[DropLister]

I recently sold a domain on ebay, my first ever see my sig. I set a higher reserve than i actually had in mind (not much higher) because it gives me the chance to change my mind still and it prevents that last minute bid that just barely breaks a low reserve. I dont think you should be discouraged if you dont break a reserve, it doesnt mean the domain wont be sold to you. the seller could still sell it

 

[Archangel]

I recently sold a domain on ebay, my first ever see my sig. I set a higher reserve than i actually had in mind (not much higher) because it gives me the chance to change my mind still and it prevents that last minute bid that just barely breaks a low reserve. I dont think you should be discouraged if you dont break a reserve, it doesnt mean the domain wont be sold to you. the seller could still sell it

All the same, starting an auction at 10,000% more than it's worth still inspires a laugh. And the zip* domains -- what do sandy asses have to do with their domains? Or that racy pic of a semi nude chick playing with a football. lol

I do admire the seller for not being shy to show the world that he's retarded.

 

[Optinom]

It makes sense to have reasonable reserve price for a decent domain. However, a reserve of $900,000 for this-crappy-domain-name.biz is simply waste of hundreds of dollars. On top of that, ppl also go for featured listings!

 

[Archangel]

It makes sense to have reasonable reserve price for a decent domain. However, a reserve of $900,000 for this-crappy-domain-name.biz is simply waste of hundreds of dollars. On top of that, ppl also go for featured listings!

But remember that a lot have $1 million+ starting bids. I've never even heard of a person bidding a million for a domain on eBay (although it might have happened before).

 

[cjcjcj]

I love it when people go to great lengths to explain their payment terms and how people MUST pay within 3 days etc . . . . .

As if they're in any position to be bossy when they're asking $25,000,000 which they'll never get.

 

[DomainSage]

I like seeing the auctions that are way over the value ... Then they also tack on a couple of dollars for transfer fee

 

[DropLister]

i think some of us are talking reserve and others start price

 

[Mrwonder]

It really good thread.
i cannot stop laughing ...
Great posts.
Keep it up. :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: