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Yesterday I upgraded about 15 or so domains I had listed at Flippa to auctions, for $9 a whack. In the past I've gotten more views, watchers, and sales from Flippa auctions than from classifieds. But today when I went to check the stats for the domains I listed I had straight 0s. Leaving me to wonder, why pay $9 when I can get the same thing for free?
Most of my domains would sell for low hundreds, maybe even less than that. They're not ones people would actively seek out, but rather see and think, "I might pay a little for that one, in the hopes it will be worth more in the future" (at least, I assume that's what's going on their brains).
In the past I've gotten the most views when a domain auction was new or nearing its end time. I'm assuming those views came from "new" or "ending soon" search criteria. But for some reason that didn't happen this time, at least not on the "new" end.
I've read comments by members here who believe that Flippa's offering of free credit a while back might have flooded their domain auctions with a bunch of crap. I wonder if that could be the cause for this?
Also, you might have noticed that Flippa overhauled their website a little while ago. I actually think it was a huge improvement, but it might have had some effect on the way domain auctions are coming up in lists.
I've also considered the possibility that some of the recorded "views" were made by bots, and that this was rectified in the overhaul...meaning I wasn't getting as many human views before as was being reported. But that still doesn't explain the handful watchers I would acquire.
I'm curious if any of you have had a similar experience or have any theories as to why this might be happening? It's definitely made me reluctant to pay for auction listings when there doesn't appear to be any benefits for doing so.
And finally, I want to bring up an annoying problem at Flippa's website I've mentioned here quite a number of times before. That's the one where you go to list a new domain, go through the email verification process to prove that you're the owner of the domain, and then have it removed from your catalog because Flippa's records show it still belongs to its previous owner.
And then when you email Flippa's customer service about the problem, you never hear back from them.
Let's go over this again. Flippa goes through a process where it determines, with the use of sound scientific methodology, that you're the owner of a domain name. Evidently Flippa's right hand does that. Then its left hand looks in its database and sees that it used to belong to someone else, so its left hand removes your listing from its catalog, unaware of the fact that the right hand has proven that you're the current owner. So apparently Flippa's left hand and right hand aren't wired to the same brain. Either that, or Flippa is schizophrenic.
This is either laziness or incompetence (or some combination of the two) on the part of Flippa's coders. And it's something that could probably be fixed in a matter of minutes. As it stands, it's another reason I'm not planning on spending any more money at Flippa.
I recently sold a website at Flippa and was impressed beyond words by how well Flippa's staff took care of me. So Flippa is doing a lot of things right, IMO. Hopefully someone from Flippa will read this and light a fire under someone's ass to address some of these issues, because I'm sure I'm not alone in my feelings.
Most of my domains would sell for low hundreds, maybe even less than that. They're not ones people would actively seek out, but rather see and think, "I might pay a little for that one, in the hopes it will be worth more in the future" (at least, I assume that's what's going on their brains).
In the past I've gotten the most views when a domain auction was new or nearing its end time. I'm assuming those views came from "new" or "ending soon" search criteria. But for some reason that didn't happen this time, at least not on the "new" end.
I've read comments by members here who believe that Flippa's offering of free credit a while back might have flooded their domain auctions with a bunch of crap. I wonder if that could be the cause for this?
Also, you might have noticed that Flippa overhauled their website a little while ago. I actually think it was a huge improvement, but it might have had some effect on the way domain auctions are coming up in lists.
I've also considered the possibility that some of the recorded "views" were made by bots, and that this was rectified in the overhaul...meaning I wasn't getting as many human views before as was being reported. But that still doesn't explain the handful watchers I would acquire.
I'm curious if any of you have had a similar experience or have any theories as to why this might be happening? It's definitely made me reluctant to pay for auction listings when there doesn't appear to be any benefits for doing so.
And finally, I want to bring up an annoying problem at Flippa's website I've mentioned here quite a number of times before. That's the one where you go to list a new domain, go through the email verification process to prove that you're the owner of the domain, and then have it removed from your catalog because Flippa's records show it still belongs to its previous owner.
And then when you email Flippa's customer service about the problem, you never hear back from them.
Let's go over this again. Flippa goes through a process where it determines, with the use of sound scientific methodology, that you're the owner of a domain name. Evidently Flippa's right hand does that. Then its left hand looks in its database and sees that it used to belong to someone else, so its left hand removes your listing from its catalog, unaware of the fact that the right hand has proven that you're the current owner. So apparently Flippa's left hand and right hand aren't wired to the same brain. Either that, or Flippa is schizophrenic.
This is either laziness or incompetence (or some combination of the two) on the part of Flippa's coders. And it's something that could probably be fixed in a matter of minutes. As it stands, it's another reason I'm not planning on spending any more money at Flippa.
I recently sold a website at Flippa and was impressed beyond words by how well Flippa's staff took care of me. So Flippa is doing a lot of things right, IMO. Hopefully someone from Flippa will read this and light a fire under someone's ass to address some of these issues, because I'm sure I'm not alone in my feelings.
