Offered $25 for a LLL.com?

[fonzie_007]

You've heard it right folks, $25 for a LLL.com (and other domains) is the going rate these days--at least according to a BuyDomains representative. Here's my correspondence:

Their email to me:

We are prepared to offer you $25 for the following domains:
RUJ.com
Repel.net
bestbeerclub.com
BetterComps.com
deerseason.net

My reply:

You're joking, right?

Their reply:

No – I’m not sure I’m following your email though.

Assume you saw our offer?

Pete

My reply:

My snyde remark should be interpretted as me conveying my shocking disbelief. Your offer, a paultry sum, for a package of domains (containing a LLL.com) for $25! Your company appears to be reputable on the outside, but you are treating me like a complete idiot.

I've been around the domaining business for years... Please treat me like it. Just an FYI: RUJ.com went for upwards of $5600 at Snapnames in the last year. Ask your buddy SaggyDimes about it--he was probably bidding on it as well.

You can consider my long-winded answer as a rejection of your offer.

If you would like to reoffer on any of the domains, please feel free to do so.

So, if you have a LLL.com that you want to sell for $25, just contact BuyDomains and they may oblige.

 

[Sir Regalot]

Put them in touch with these people they are sending out emails like this:

Limited Time Offer...!!!
The domain name 142.com is for sale exclusively by webnamesolution.com. Hurry and take advantage of this limited time special offer $199.95 USD.
Domain Name: 142.com
Price: $199.95 USD
To purchase this domain and take advantage of this Special Offer click on the link below:
http://WWW.WEBNAMESOLUTION.COM/PURCHASE
Thank you for your interest.
[email protected]

Obviously it's a scam and they only want your card number.

 

[webdrafter]

I'm beginning to wonder if something else is going on here. I gave them several domains to look at, knowing each was different in value.

I gave them Funtrip.com and i had already requested a bid for funtrip.net,
which they own:
FunTrip.net is currently valued: $2,488.00 (was my response from them)

I get many more page views from punt.com and gamerules.com than
blessedis.com.

Yet, the email i received offered a straight $50 for each domain.

That tells me there was not a lot of thought put into that response.

But, maybe it is more like this... maybe they don't have any money. They
don't want to just tell people, "we can't afford your domain". So, they can
give some type of low ball offer.

Really, there is nothing wrong with them doing that legally, but it just shows
a lack of professionalism and respect that may hurt them worse than just
saying, "we are not currently acquiring domains" or something.

I would love to see a post from someone who actually sold them something.

 

[Broker]

Fonzie, please let me know if you ever put them on ebay. I bid $1.85 :hehe:

 

[Aggro]

I'm beginning to wonder if something else is going on here. I gave them several domains to look at, knowing each was different in value.

I gave them Funtrip.com and i had already requested a bid for funtrip.net,
which they own:
FunTrip.net is currently valued: $2,488.00 (was my response from them)

I get many more page views from punt.com and gamerules.com than
blessedis.com.

Yet, the email i received offered a straight $50 for each domain.

That tells me there was not a lot of thought put into that response.

But, maybe it is more like this... maybe they don't have any money. They
don't want to just tell people, "we can't afford your domain". So, they can
give some type of low ball offer.

Really, there is nothing wrong with them doing that legally, but it just shows
a lack of professionalism and respect that may hurt them worse than just
saying, "we are not currently acquiring domains" or something.

I would love to see a post from someone who actually sold them something.

Dont have any money?
They just spent $110,000 on Primerate,com - Afternic.

Anyway, who is this "Pete"...Is it the GM, Pete Lawson?

 

[webdrafter]

Good point... who knows then.

I don't know who 'pete' is, that's just the sig that was on the email i received.

 

[rome2ng]

alas, they are just trying to buy it at low price form unsuspecting user and then resell it for x1000 times the amount

you can try it somewhere else

 

[HBK216]

A few months ago, the owner of buydomains was interviewed and the interview appeared on dnjournal, i wonder why he did not mention that one of the reasons he is now rich is because they screw honest people by practically stealing their domains...

Its people like this that make domainers look bad, Shame on you buydomains! SHame on you!!

I think BD is idiotic for their offer to Fonz. However please use words wisely. They are not stealing domains from anyone. Their business model might seem very unethical to some but if they do legitimate transasctions for way below market cost, that is actually good business. I assume it is automatically their fault everytime someone sells a domain for less than they should right?

:td:

 

[rome2ng]

how about this ?

LET'S DO A TEST !

i have submitted these 3 domain for sales,
-buytickets.biz
-misterbean.net
-inyourarms.org

lets see how much they will give me

so anyone care to predict how much is this worth (market value) and how much they(BD) will buy from me

 

[DOMiNIC]

You sell names to buydomains.com?
LOL. They offer pennies and ask for a million. That's their slogan.

BuyDomains - Nothing but a bunch of liars and cheats.

Check this out. http://tipsurf.seeq.com/seeq/index.jsp?portal_id=1&domain=tipsurf.com&keyword=tip&referrer=

TipSurf.com is on Sedos high traffic list apparently receiving 17,423 hits a day with no page rank or search engine position.

I regged Tip-Surf.com just to proove that their traffic was B.S. It stands to reason that if a site receives 522,716 hits a month the hyphenated version would receive at least a little traffic. Not one hit.

 

[HBK216]

BuyDomains - Nothing but a bunch of liars and cheats.

Check this out. http://tipsurf.seeq.com/seeq/index.jsp?portal_id=1&domain=tipsurf.com&keyword=tip&referrer=

TipSurf.com is on Sedos high traffic list apparently receiving 17,423 hits a day with no page rank or search engine position.

I regged Tip-Surf.com just to proove that their traffic was B.S. It stands to reason that if a site receives 522,716 hits a month the hyphenated version would receive at least a little traffic. Not one hit.

Out of curiosity what makes you think that the hyphenated version would? I don't get how that is possible?

 

[DOMiNIC]

Out of curiosity what makes you think that the hyphenated version would? I don't get how that is possible?

Just common sense really, with numbers on that scale, 500,000 + a month some would surely add the hyphen. I have other domains both with and without the hyphen, and the hyphen version always receives a small percentage of traffic.

BuyDomains - Nothing but a bunch of liars and cheats.

Check this out. http://tipsurf.seeq.com/seeq/index.jsp?portal_id=1&domain=tipsurf.com&keyword=tip&referrer=

TipSurf.com is on Sedos high traffic list apparently receiving 17,423 hits a day with no page rank or search engine position.

I regged Tip-Surf.com just to proove that their traffic was B.S. It stands to reason that if a site receives 522,716 hits a month the hyphenated version would receive at least a little traffic. Not one hit.

It also appears to me there is an unhealthy cosy relationship between Buy Domains and Sedo, maybe that is why Sedo lets them get away with with such false traffic stats.

http://whois.domaintools.com/pornograficas.com

 

[Matrix1976]

I think BD is idiotic for their offer to Fonz. However please use words wisely. They are not stealing domains from anyone. Their business model might seem very unethical to some but if they do legitimate transasctions for way below market cost, that is actually good business. I assume it is automatically their fault everytime someone sells a domain for less than they should right?

:td:

i didnt say they were stealing domains, i said ''practically stealing''.

 

[MCDomains]

If they offer $25, I bet they've bought at least one before at that price... poor guy.
I'll top all of your offers and offer 4 figures! $1,000 Paypal ready to go. Hehe. I love the $60 offers on sedo I get for a lll.com when I just list a name before going back to change it's minimum offer.

Why change the min. offer? The more bids the better... haha. (people like to sort by bids)

 

[EbookLover]

You sell names to buydomains.com?
LOL. They offer pennies and ask for a million. That's their slogan.

LOL. that's hilarious.

Oh well. Fonzie, you contacted them so I would have expected no less to be honest (or should I say "no more" - depends on how you look at it, i guess).

 

[DOMiNIC]

Why change the min. offer? The more bids the better... haha. (people like to sort by bids)

I always sort by bids or traffic, The default 'Quality' is awful.

 

[-db-]

I'm also sure that they have people reading these forums to keep a track on the industry so I'd like to see them justify themselves on here please.

At this point, I don't expect anyone from BD to reply in this thread. I know a couple different people have contacted them by phone and email, even leaving the information and forum link with their General Manager, so if they had anything to say on the topic, I'm sure they would have spoken up by now.

It would seem their $25 offer was not a mistake or typo.

 

[Don]

My snyde remark should be interpretted as me conveying my shocking disbelief. Your offer, a paultry sum, for a package of domains (containing a LLL.com) for $25! Your company appears to be reputable on the outside, but you are treating me like a complete idiot.

Have they responded to this yet?

 

[fonzie_007]

My snyde remark should be interpretted as me conveying my shocking disbelief. Your offer, a paultry sum, for a package of domains (containing a LLL.com) for $25! Your company appears to be reputable on the outside, but you are treating me like a complete idiot.

Have they responded to this yet?

Yes. Here's Pete Lamson's response:

Many thanks for your note Jon, all the best to you.

Pete

 

[Matrix1976]

At this point, I don't expect anyone from BD to reply in this thread. I know a couple different people have contacted them by phone and email, even leaving the information and forum link with their General Manager, so if they had anything to say on the topic, I'm sure they would have spoken up by now.

It would seem their $25 offer was not a mistake or typo.

I dont think they give a $%*T what we think...we are nothing to them, thats just how they are...

 

[fonzie_007]

FYI: Pete has sent me an email and is offering to chat about the offer. I'll pass along how the conversation goes. We'll see if BuyDomains is a professional company or just a bunch of amatuers...