How much is LaptopRepairs.com worth?

[Ash]

Hi,
I am posting this for a friend.

My friend is the owner of laptoprepair.co.uk, and the owner of laptoprepairs.com contacted my friend and offered to sell the domain to him.

The owner of laptoprepairs.com is asking for £5,000/$10,000 for the domain name.

Do you think this price is reasonable or not?

 

[Travis]

You may want to put it in this forum http://www.namepros.com/domain-appraisals/

 

[kubativity]

Domian appriasals are only for domains that you own.

 

[Ash]

Yep, thats why i posted it here.

 

[sooty]

Low to mid $XXXX IMO.

 

[Jackie]

Although I'm not at all a trained eye on domain names, that seems to be a little steep price to me. Mid $XXXX to me.

 

[Mike]

what are the traffic stats on the .com? If the acquisition of the .com would yield in traffic that can be converted into sales, then you need to look at the % of closed sales based on leads to sales ratio. also, existing clients, PPC revenue, etc. it's difficult to say whether the domain itself is worth 10k. the name alone would be mid-high $xxx i would say. content, traffic, revenue and expectations are going to add the rest of the sum.

 

[RJ]

Price sounds very reasonable to me, maybe even a little on the low side for a domain like that to sell for.

But the only one who can really answer this is your friend. Is it worth it to his business to have that domain? I'm guessing the answer is probably yes.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Price might be reasonable, but only if your friend is looking to expand his current business.
And, if he uses his website to gain clients.
If he works out of the traditional phonebook and still has all he can handle, then anything over free is unreasonable based on his situation

-Allan

 

[Aggro]

Keep the money - if it's for £5000/US$10,000.

Your "friend's" business is based in the UK and from the looks of it unlikely to go global expanding to other countires.
Also remember, other massive/big UK businesses eg. pcworld,co.uk, laptopsdirect,co.uk do not own the .com - doubt they dwell on it too much - so your friend with his far smaller business should take this into consideration.

Other factors:

1/ your "friend" has laptoprepair,co,uk whereas he's offering the PLURAL in .com.
It's a different thing altogether.

2/ laptoprepair,co,uk already has 1st place in the google uk SE.

3/ doubt your frend is losing traffic or a lot of biz b/c he doesn't have the .com
laptoprepairs,com gets mostly US traffic anyway, being an active US site. Any "type-ins" would be close to zero based on OV stats.

4/ Margins on laptop repairs are low AND competitive, constrained by prices of brand new cheap laptops..

5/ to recoup the £5000, 'friend' would have to fix a lot of laptops.

6/ laptoprepairs,com is an active site...so they couldn't make it work/wants out of business?

7/ laptops are getting cheaper and more and more 'disposable'

8/ warranties are getting cheaper / some already include 2 yrs free

9/ Notebook is replacing the word "laptop" slowly but surely eg dell advertising.

10/ presumably they first offered it to laptoprepair,com for $10,000 and they refused it before asking your 'friend'.

 

[Ash]

Thanks for the replies and suggestions. Unfortunetely My friend just informed me it was laptoprepairs.co.uk not laptoprepairs.com

So do you think laptoprepairs.co.uk is worth the money? I personally don't think it is - but my friend still gave him a counter offer of £1,000 ($2,000). Do you think that is reasonable, too cheap or still too much money?

 

[domainer50]

If you or your friend can find a company to sell both names to then the name is fair. But i would think that to a reseller 10k is quite a bit.