.mobi Sedo charging $150 commission on .mobi

[DomainBuyerBroker]

I got an offer of 300EU which is $377 on Vehicles.mobi at sedo.

I noticed in the offer that the sedo commission is $150 which would net me $227.

A Sedo repo confirmed that the commision on .mobi is $150 or 10%, whichever is more!

So, I countered with $650 and a note to the buyer that my net has to be $500.

If they buyer types in the domain he can contact me directly and I would sell it to him for $500.



Anybody know the commission on .mobi at Afternic?

 

[MCDomains]

How wild is that? Sedo knows how to drive business elsewhere...

 

[nmr86]

oh my god.. thats nasty from sedo

 

[Jammer]

scandalous

 

[cityforums.com]

Freaken OUTRAGEOUS ! ! !

Listen, today I went to escrow.com to check it out

for a pending $10,000.00 sale and I noticed how

ripped off people are getting on sedo.com I can NOT

believe how they got huge sales when people could have

saved a fortune at escrow.com

:yell:

 

[AWest]

Hello rsequin,

Afternic's commission is still $60 or 10% (whichever is greater).

If you have further questions, please let me know!

Best regards,


Amber West
Afternic.com
[email protected]

 

[Silhouette]

why is sedo's fee for mobi higher than usual .TLDs??

:td: :td:

 

[qO_Op]

Very disappointing from Sedo. $150 is far too much!

 

[MinionDH]

Very disappointing from Sedo. $150 is far too much!

100% ripoff. I saw this earlier and decided not to list my 70+ mobi's with them. In the past two weeks I've averaged 2-3 offers a day via email so I certainly don't need them

 

[DomainBuyerBroker]

Sedo says that they have set this "initial" fee because they have to deal with smaller registrars and are not sure of the hassle. That's why they set such a high fee.

AWest from Afternic,

Thanks for posting the Afternic fee. Afternic is on a roll. I recently added my names back into sedo but am thinking again about taking all them off again. I hate their buyer/seller contact system, too prohibitive.

Funny how things work out.

I started this thread to inform the domain community about the cost of selling a .mobi domain. Turns out I end up selling vehicles.mobi to jeremyp, an active domainer right here on namepros.

Thanks jeremyp and thanks namepros....thanks to sedo too I guess. If it wasn't for their high commission, I wouldn't have started this thread and may not have sold the domain.