discuss Have you sold any domain here?

[BrandCollectors.com]

.namepros.com/forums/domain-buyer-requests.10/
???
is it just waste our time? what do you think?!

 

[karmaco]

Unless you are just trying to get rid of it you will do better elsewhere. I have sold some here but its hardly worth the effort as many post a huge fake budget and buy nothing or want to pay XX. I am sure the buyers are more earnest when presented with top tier names and that there are people willing to pay for a good name but that seems to be the exception not the rule.

I know of one five figure sale that happened here in the time I have been here. I am sure there are some good private sales on occasion.

 

[EmpireNames.com]

i sold alot of names through request..
majority i sold in range of mid-high xxx
few in low xxxx
it depends what you are offering to buyer..
if you will offer them toruuarydtts.xyz
they will not buy for sure

 

[7363824]

I have bought a couple of names that way. But honestly not as successful as I would like. Just as some buyers there have unreasonable expectations, so do some sellers. I've gotten some good laughs at what I get sent in response to an ad there. Such ad hey I just hand reg this 3 domain with 3 random words that makes no sense but one of the words matches what you are looking for I'll take $500 for it...honestly I think as a seller it would be much easier to shift out the fluff.

 

[BrandCollectors.com]

if you will offer them toruuarydtts.xyz
they will not buy for sure

i do not have such names. i am a .com.org investor. have only two newgs and will drop them.

 

[BrandCollectors.com]

i think this section has bad pricing impact on end users.
namepros.com/forums/domain-buyer-requests.10/

end user with xx,xxx budget thinks why i should pay xx,xxx if ppl buy and sell great domains for $xx?

 

[EmpireNames.com]

i think this section has bad pricing impact on end users.
namepros.com/forums/domain-buyer-requests.10/

end user with xx,xxx budget thinks why i should pay xx,xxx if ppl buy and sell great domains for $xx?

endusers dont go that much deep.
if they want name they will buy

 

[nothere]

i think this section has bad pricing impact on end users.
namepros.com/forums/domain-buyer-requests.10/

end user with xx,xxx budget thinks why i should pay xx,xxx if ppl buy and sell great domains for $xx?

No two names are the same. The end user knows what name he wants and doesn't care that OtherzzzNames.co cost 100 times less.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Never had any sales in the mentioned section.
In 99% of cases those "buyers" even don't reply.

 

[J Sokol]

Never had any sales in the mentioned section.
In 99% of cases those "buyers" even don't reply.

Same here. I've sent a fair number of offers and only when they are a good match ... but no luck so far.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I have had a number in the past year, although never for more than low $$$. True, I have responded to many more than I have sold (maybe 20 queries for every one sale, possibly even less often than that).

I actually find that the response rate better than some indicate - I would say 40% of time I get some response, although normally just a thanks but not what I am looking for.

I went a long while at first with no sales from Request responses and almost gave up, but glad I did not. To me I find sending a few lines not much work for a possible sale.

I think that it is important to be reasonable on wholesale pricing. What you are getting is a sure sale vs waiting many years for a possible future sale at a retail price. If I would retail price a name at $1000, after commission giving me say $850, then I feel the wholesale price for a sure sale to a domainer who will try to resell it needs to be something like 1/10 of that, $85. It may not seem much, but it does pay renewals.

Bob

 

[novasyd]

If I don't replay to this thread means I'm not interested.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And I'm not interested to waste my time.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

@Bob Hawkes
For low $xxx - you can sell absolutely passively...
Park and set BINs on Uniregistry landers - and forget about those domains...

 

[Bob Hawkes]

@Bob Hawkes
For low $xxx - you can sell absolutely passively...
Park and set BINs on Uniregistry landers - and forget about those domains...

This is perhaps getting off topic somewhat, but my answer would be yes, at about a 3.6% sell through rate (as of today 1.36 million .com listed for $250 or less, over last year 49,517 NameBio listed sales of $250 or less, clearly there are more than that by some degree). I prefer to have a sure sale at 1/10 of price, on some of my domain names - clearly I don't offer all names in requests , to 4% per year chance of a name selling with me carrying costs each year.

It is just how I view it with my own portfolio. I am not saying anyone else should do it, just explaining my reasoning. About 30% of my portfolio I plan to only sell retail. Those I don't put in requests unless the person is offering what I view as retail pricing. I have not yet been successful selling at $$$$ level to requests.

But many more, if I get a sure offer from another domainer at about 1/10 what I think it will likely sell for, the odds seem right to me. If I was not late 60's I might think differently, but I like to not wait years for sales

Just my thinking. I agree other viewpoints are totally supportable. I like to think different. The ones I sold in requests are at prices that I feel are more than, or equal to, what I would get in an auction here, and it seems to me that requests are in some ways more efficient. A couple were names I had more or less decided not to renew, so getting some dollars I viewed as a bonus.

I also, to some degree, like the idea of selling a name to another domainer who really wants that name and will use or promote it far better than I would. All of my transactions have been smooth. Just saying Requests work for me, but others will have different viewpoints, and that is 100% fine.

Bob

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I don't even look on those requests with $xx or low $xxx budget...
My experience in this section is with requests no less than mid $xxx... and they were not from domainers definitely.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

p.s. Another domainers never ignore me... or almost never.

 

[Brands.International]

.namepros.com/forums/domain-buyer-requests.10/
???
is it just waste our time? what do you think?!

Yes, I sold few domains here. And I purchased half of my portfolio here during the years

 

[Haroon Basha]

I sold a few names here but I have bought a lot of names by placing a buy request. I have told many times here in NamePros columns that most of the buy requests are fake, time wasters and with no courtesy to even acknowledge our submission of names.

 

[biggie]

my last sale from that section, was on this date in 2018

imo...

 

[BrandCollectors.com]

fake request thread https://www.namepros.com/posts/7621878/
do not send your domains.