Some excellent tips, tidbits amongst many of your replies - also good to see that The Hamster has several of the names that I myself have been searching for, so I must be doing something right.
My interest in this field is leading me to only buy select domain names, good generic terms, two words max, shorter the better and very easy to remember.
Churning out lots of availabilities at present across the range, which I then as a newbie need to this put these into my own ranking system, based on possible desirability values.
I'm amazed at the rubbish that some people, well, many people seem to go for in choosing and acquiring their names, I don't know, maybe they've just got oodles of spare cash floating around and need something to spend it on, this however is a route I for one, do not want to go down.
Sure, in my first couple of days, I bought one or two crap names, I realise that now, and it was only through making a post on another forum, where someone in rather brutal plain english tore my bought names apart, and told me exactly what he thought of them and their possible values, (not much), in fact, he said a waste of money.
But that's ok, I did engineer the question in the thread title to elicit the best possible answer, that although I might not have wanted to hear it, got me the advice that was most certainly needed. Advice that looking back, was worth it's weight in gold and got me to thinking, what are the best questions that I need to be asking myself, concerning my own buying strategy. I learn quick, and for a good reason, I want good profits.
It's all a game of probabilities as far as I am concerned.
Everyday, hopefully, as my knowledge is increasing, I also increase the probability that my risk taking strategy will pay good to excellent dividends.
Once more, thank you every one for your replies and answers given, learn't shed loads from that little lot - excellent.
Enjoy the week ahead and all the very best to all of you.
Regards.
Mark
