Flippa Watchers!!

[DotCom9]

How many watchers on an average leads to a good sale at Flippa? Can you guys share your experiences with it?

Thanks

 

[Templr]

Mmm I usually get 400-600 on 20-30 days. $9 Listings. But not all good domains are marketable on Flippa.

 

[SJM211]

I only managed 15 on my last auction after paying for 2 homepage features, highlight and bold title, it seems very difficult (without paying for a super expensive listing) to stand out from the crowd. The domain didn't sell but got to $3900, frustratingly one more bid would have made the reserve. One thing I noticed is that when I relisted yesterday all of the previous watchers are kept so hopefully this time with a lower reserve and another 14 days to build up views it will sell..

 

[DomainVP]

frustratingly one more bid would have made the reserve

Did you let the watchers know this via comments?

You could have dropped the reserve to $1 over the highest bid and told them that the next bid will be the winner.

 

[SJM211]

You could have dropped the reserve to $1 over the highest bid and told them that the next bid will be the winner.

Yes this is what I did with about 40 minutes to go. It was $100 from the reserve and then I dropped it to $1 above the reserve and didn't get another bid. Think I was just unlucky so thought I'd try one more time.

 

[DomainVP]

Yes this is what I did with about 40 minutes to go. It was $100 from the reserve and then I dropped it to $1 above the reserve and didn't get another bid. Think I was just unlucky so thought I'd try one more time.

Sorry to hear that, that's a tough one. Hopefully you can reach terms with the highest bidder to buy @ the price of his last bid.

 

[NameAgency]

I usually get 400-600 on 20-30 days

you mean Watchers or Listing views?

 

[Templr]

HAHa Doh! so sorry, that would be pretty good. The later. Highest I've had is around 29. But do all bidders watch? Guess it only takes two active buyers that are watching your auction to set a reasonable price.

Bear in mind that all watchers are not likely to be active buyers. They might have a similar name and want to find a 'flippa' market value, or just are curious. Cheers.

 

[-EM-]

I only managed 15 on my last auction after paying for 2 homepage features, highlight and bold title, it seems very difficult (without paying for a super expensive listing) to stand out from the crowd. The domain didn't sell but got to $3900, frustratingly one more bid would have made the reserve. One thing I noticed is that when I relisted yesterday all of the previous watchers are kept so hopefully this time with a lower reserve and another 14 days to build up views it will sell..

So you had an almost $4k sale and you didn't spent $300-400 (or whatever is the fee for full promotion at flippa.com)?

 

[Paully]

HAHa Doh! so sorry, that would be pretty good. The later. Highest I've had is around 29. But do all bidders watch? Guess it only takes two active buyers that are watching your auction to set a reasonable price.

Bear in mind that all watchers are not likely to be active buyers. They might have a similar name and want to find a 'flippa' market value, or just are curious. Cheers.

Thanks for correcting that. I also was wondering how many watchers was normal and your first figure almost made me fall off my chair !

Your comment about watchers is very likely true. I have only sold one domain on flippa and that had 22 watchers and 7 bidders which means that in my case 2 out of every 3 watchers were probably just after a benchmark for a similar domain they planned to sell. (it was a LLLL.com)

Flippa's popularity is clearly on the increase. Even in the short period I have been looking at the site the number of domains on offer at any one time has increased significantly. Right now including classifieds, there are over 1.3 million domains. That is a lot of domains to wade through if you are a buyer so standing out from the crowd without paying for the premium add ons will be difficult for the lower quality domains.

 

[pdevananth]

I only managed 15 on my last auction after paying for 2 homepage features, highlight and bold title, it seems very difficult (without paying for a super expensive listing) to stand out from the crowd. The domain didn't sell but got to $3900, frustratingly one more bid would have made the reserve. One thing I noticed is that when I relisted yesterday all of the previous watchers are kept so hopefully this time with a lower reserve and another 14 days to build up views it will sell..

Nowadays flippa brokers are occupying the Home Page listing and Top 20 places of premium listings...If you order Homepage today, your domain will be displayed in homepage only for today...Next day you cant see it...

Even if you sell a domain for $1000, $250 goes for flippa premium listing, another 10% post sale, another 3-5% paypal fee...

Should try a new market place....

 

[DotCom9]

Thanks for all ur comments guys.. so far, I hear 15, 22 and 29 watchers..I currently have some watchers for one of my names.. will let you know how that goes..

 

[silentg]

Watchers are just watchers. Majority of them don't bid, they just want to follow the auction.

 

[yogiDomain]

Well in my case i just has 1 watcher on my auction. The auction ended unsold. During after auction negotiation i quoted reasonable price and that 1 watcher was interested in buying the domain.
So it really doesnt matter about how many watchers, the only thing matters is whether the watchers are buyers.
60% domainers who watch the auction are really watchers. they just want to know how the domain performs.

 

[SJM211]

So you had an almost $4k sale and you didn't spent $300-400 (or whatever is the fee for full promotion at flippa.com)?

No, I really don't like the model of paying for a premium listing and then paying commission on top if it sells. If they had an option where you paid a higher commission or only paid for the promotion on a successful sale then I'd probably go with it.

 

[Goncalo]

No, I really don't like the model of paying for a premium listing and then paying commission on top if it sells.

Yeah.
You committed in the beginning by purchasing the premium listing.
One should be rewarded at the end of a successful listing by subtracting that value to the commission fees.
I'm sure Flippa would get a lot more premium listings if this was the case.

 

[-EM-]

No, I really don't like the model of paying for a premium listing and then paying commission on top if it sells. If they had an option where you paid a higher commission or only paid for the promotion on a successful sale then I'd probably go with it.

I'm sure that auction would reach easily $5k if you had promoted it.
I don't know the domain, I'm assuming this based on the not promoted auction which reached $3.9k.

 

[Paully]

I'm sure that auction would reach easily $5k if you had promoted it.
I don't know the domain, I'm assuming this based on the not promoted auction which reached $3.9k.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

 

[DANEYAL]

Well, sometimes with very few watchers you get an offer. It also happened that I listed a domain in my catalog and an offer came for that even without no watchers. So Luck can be a factor.
Currently all my no reserve auctions @ $1 have fetched around 10-20 persons watching them. Lets see how this grows, will update if anything interesting happens regarding the number of watchers for my currently no reserve auctions.

 

[S-B]

The number of watchers is merely a vanity metric. Most do not convert to active bidders.