How Often Does Afternic Price Request Result In A Sale?

[jideofor]

How often have you sold domains via Afternic price request inquiry and how can you make sure that you make a sale when such inquiry comes in?

I just felt I should ask more experienced folks here.

 

[Fancy.domains]

Off topic:

I have much better luck with BIN listings and I have sold about 2% of my portfolio via Afternic that way. About 5-8 domains per year.

 

[johnn]

4 requests - 3 sales

 

[SpareDomains]

More amount to nothing than sell. So I'd usually say respond quick, assume it won't sell and occasionally you'll get a surprise with a sale.

Due to this...

https://www.namepros.com/threads/some-afternic-partners-are-marking-up-your-domain-prices.1031130/

I'm considering a new strategy of leaving them in the distribution network and then ignoring all price requests until the buyer decides to type in my domain due to no response and sends their offer direct through my own sales page on each domain.

 

[SpareDomains]

For some reason after their changes I received zero requests and ended up having to pull my names off the marketplace. I think before that I was about 50/50 for requests turning into sales.

50/50 not bad, my inquiry/sales ratio there lower than that which may be due to me pricing them like I wipe my heiny with $100 bills though. End user or bust.

 

[Fancy.domains]

continuing on the sort of "off topic" @Fancy.domains , have you had BIN sales in mid to high 4 figures+ ? Always weary to put bin over 3500 myself..

No. Most of my sales are new gTLDs for mid $xxx. Just a few $xxxx. The most expensive one was $2400.

 

[Ali Azam]

price request: 0
BIN: 4

 

[anantj]

and u didn't follow up on it to know what the buyer might want to offer or you werent considering lesser than that.

There isn't any way to follow up on AF price requests...

 

[BuyBrandWeb.com]

more than 20 price requests for different domains, 0 sales
(For one domain, I had a price request from Afternic and quoted 2300 usd. I received direct offer from buyer after two weeks and sold it for $2000 usd )

 

[DnFolk]

My experience at afternic says BIN is the best option, as for price request, i had number of like tons of inquries but negligible sales just 2 or 3 that too where i had to bring the price down, only if you have huge premium names where high 4 or 5 fig is minimum to get then you can afford to keep that name in a request, otherwise usually always go for BIN with make offer option, works best for me.

 

[tonecas]

Hundreds of requests, 0 sales.

I advise listing domains in every platform so to put your domain in front of more eyes but make the deal of market. No BIN prices unless for lower quality domains.

Usually there is not much feedback about who the buyer is and most of the time they are tire kickers and a waste of time.

Always quote them with above market prices and add the middleman commission for average domains.

For top domains don't even waste time replying to automated quote requests. If the buyer is for real he will reach you directly or use a broker after getting no answer.

 

[creataweb]

For some reason after their changes I received zero requests and ended up having to pull my names off the marketplace. I think before that I was about 50/50 for requests turning into sales.

 

[JB Lions]

I had one recently, price what you want it at, remembering the fees. Just be careful of the floor price, make sure you would be happy with that amount since it seems to sell at that more often than not.

 

[frank-germany]

4 requests - 3 sales

what is your asking price stucture?

 

[frank-germany]

I had about 50 inquiries
before I made 2 sales by now

$1100

 

[pokainc]

continuing on the sort of "off topic" @Fancy.domains , have you had BIN sales in mid to high 4 figures+ ? Always weary to put bin over 3500 myself..

 

[pokainc]

for bins, that seems to be the hot spot... so for higher value names.. unfortunately have to deal with those price requests...

@jideofor , for names you value highly but get too many price requests from people who have small budgets or waste time.. just put a minimum offer on there that's high enough... it might deter some with a $250 budget

 

[jideofor]

for bins, that seems to be the hot spot... so for higher value names.. unfortunately have to deal with those price requests...

@jideofor , for names you value highly but get too many price requests from people who have small budgets or waste time.. just put a minimum offer on there that's high enough... it might deter some with a $250 budget

Thanks. I had a minimum price at $1000 but i was surprise that that didn't seem to have any function as they still requested for BIN and Floor Price. So what is the function of the minimum price?

 

[jideofor]

Probably you didn't have a minimum price of $1000, but instead a minimum offers from $1000.
Which is not a bin price, so that's fine.
The minimum offer is not exactly the floor price either; the floor price is a price at which you automatically accept to sell the domain at that price even it's not the bin.

Yeah, then they should get rid of other boxes. They are the ONLY company I see with too many boxes for pricing... BIN and Minimum is okay, IMO.

 

[anantj]

There is actually. I did follow up and found out that the buyer offered $22 lol @Joe Styler helped me out with it

You mean we have to go via Joe and/or Afternic support?
Did not know that. Thank you

 

[Banezer]

only one request on no sale.
i have listed all my domain with a bin, sold on domain this month at afternic

 

[Banezer]

how much did you sold the domain name?

just few bucks. i price most of my domains low to mid $$$ and why i keep few at low to mid four figure at afternic

 

[dancarlson]

HI

Similar experience here, I have had 20+ price requests, but nothing more... no other inquiries, offers, or peep. With other platforms, I can see the info on the request, including name/email etc and I am able to follow up with the interested party, or the broker is.

I'm always looking at ulterior motives, ie my domain at godaddy is getting close to renewal, like days away, and i get a " hey we have someone looking at your domain, please give update your buy now and price list" type email to encourage me to renew the name? Or just a bot going around messaging domain holders who have not updated their pricing ie buy now or min offer, to encourage them to log into their account and update pricing, this potentially could help with the traffic to afternic's domain, and time on site in google's eyes? ( probably not a big win but could help?)

any other opinions?

thanx Dan

 

[anantj]

3-4 price requests, 0 sales

 

[2Faisal]

0 inquiries. 0 Sale
Im not encouraged to use these platforms ..

wasting time ..