Sedo RU Serious???

[Vito]

I am a little frustrated with Sedo
I will try to make a long story short here...
I'm a member for 2 years.
Over 1000 domains for a long part of my stay there.
I've had lots of Views/Clicks, etc.
Very little money.
In the past year, 4 sales/auctions.
Only 1 was paid for out of the first 3...

So this last auction ended on Mar.14th.
The domain was SO HOT. It had a hyphen in between the So and the HOT. It was also a .com

Well, Sedo has about the last 10 domains that are coming to close on auction featured on the home page. Its a great feature for maximum exposure.
Everytime I have had an auction, I always watch the auction from the homepage for the last remaining hours. They show .com's and .net's in that Featured Auctions section.

Well my domain never ended up in that Featured Listing area on the homepage, which lost some major exposure. Of course, that means less people viewed the auction which resulted in a low priced sale.

Auction ends, I'm pissed.
I talk to them the next day, and said Why did my domain NOT show up on the homepage during the final hours/minutes etc. like usual?

Well they viewed it as an adult domain.
OK, so what?
Little did I know that an Adult domain wouldnt be featured on the homepage. Of course it makes sense if it was something like...well you know...but it was So Hot...C'mon, clearly that could be a car, dvd, website, anything at all!

Well, I lost out on that sale.
Luckily I found an adult affilliate network program recently that I redirected to that domain.

So, as I just redirected my new adult affilliate program to that domain, of course guess what just happened about 30 minutes ago...I got a letter from Sedo, that this domain was just paid for, and now I have to give it up.

Funny thing is, about 6 hours ago, I just redirected every one of my domains to existing sites, so none of them are parked at Sedo anymore.

I'm not giving it up.
and I am done with Sedo.

 

[zoogo]

Power to the people!

When good ole' fashioned services get corporized, each person becomes a number.. That are only good for making $$

 

[gopher]

now wait for the money...

I just posted a rant the other day about a domain I auctioned off through Sedo -> http://www.namepros.com/408817-sedo-com-official-thread-35.html#post3465230

Their communication with customers/clients is lacking.
don't hold yor breath on communicating with your "Sedo Transfer Agent/Specialist", whatever they call themselves.

hope you get your money soon

 

[Vito]

hope you get your money soon

Maybe I didnt write this clearly in my O.P.

The buyer did just pay Sedo, as of an hour or 2 ago.
I just got the email saying the buyer just paid and for me to push the domain.
The auction ended May 14th.
It is now June 4th.
20 days, and finally paid..
BUT
since my domain was classified as "adult" ??? LOL
I never got that home page "Featured Auctions" listing as ALL .com's and .net's do as the last 10 or so domains are coming to close...

Previous non payments, this not being max exposure, no $ on clicks, just leads me to say I am better off without them. I have had better luck by people finding me and buying my domains, rather than use Sedo.

 

[hollywood]

Your experience does not sound positive. Their payments to me for parking were insulting to say the least, so I am not surprised about what happened to you there.

Perhaps you had previously targeted the domain to adult keywords or an adult theme and that's why it was thus categorized? That could explain alot about this situation.

Otherwise, if there was no connection to adult, then in my opinion either at best they were apathetic and just don't care about smaller transactions or, at worst, they intentionally bought it themselves from you at the best price they could get.

I don't recall anything in the sedo contract that prevents they themselves from bidding on a domain in one of their auctions...hopefully a fellow NPer can correct me if I'm wrong.

As much as I want to, I can't put the real possibility of self-dealing behavior past sedo (or any other parking or domain name company/registrar for that matter) in this topsy turvy business space and especially in these topsy turvy times for domains and parking.

Good luck

 

[SiberForum]

Their communication with customers/clients is lacking.

Because of what? I'm just curios and I would like to have more infor for myself about that.
So if you have some information to share about that - please do

 

[finehost.in]

You got a raw deal out there, I am not sure if everyone has had similar experience as yours, or are there any - who have had better response from Sedo. I have parked a few domains with them and don't feel they do justice with parked domains at all.

Has anyone explored Google's parking as yet and seen any change in hits / traffic?

 

[DnEbook]

i have some names now with sedo for parking and about the same as any other parking i guess ...... i have not heard anything good about google adsense for domains ?

 

[tricolorro]

The buyer did just pay Sedo, as of an hour or 2 ago.
I just got the email saying the buyer just paid and for me to push the domain.
The auction ended May 14th.
It is now June 4th.
20 days, and finally paid.

Hi,

Since you don't want to go through with the sale I think you
have a way out.

I couldn't find the terms on SEDO but I believe the Buyer has
10 days to make payment.

Perhaps someone here can verify if this is true.

If it is true you can claim the Buyer failed to follow
the Terms of the Sale and after 10 days you considered the
Sale void.

Good luck.

 

[Domagon]

When you listed the domain, did you verify the category it was in?

Often the default category selected is way off for newly added domains.

As far as not following through on the sale ... you may be within Sedo's guidelines for doing so, if the buyer paid "late".

Regardless, Sedo doesn't enforce sales anyways, so if you choose to keep the domain, just keep it - likely the most Sedo will do is send a bunch of emails, maybe call, and perhaps, at most, suspend your Sedo account.

Ron

 

[Vito]

Hi,

Since you don't want to go through with the sale I think you
have a way out.

I couldn't find the terms on SEDO but I believe the Buyer has
10 days to make payment.

Perhaps someone here can verify if this is true.

If it is true you can claim the Buyer failed to follow
the Terms of the Sale and after 10 days you considered the
Sale void.

Good luck.

Thanx for your input.
I hope you are right, but seriously...
I am pretty fed up with them so at this point I dont really care.
I was making more $ in GoDaddy Cash parking and in Parked then I ever did in Sedo...lol

When you listed the domain, did you verify the category it was in?

Often the default category selected is way off for newly added domains.

As far as not following through on the sale ... you may be within Sedo's guidelines for doing so, if the buyer paid "late".

Regardless, Sedo doesn't enforce sales anyways, so if you choose to keep the domain, just keep it - likely the most Sedo will do is send a bunch of emails, maybe call, and perhaps, at most, suspend your Sedo account.

Ron

I never picked the category for that domain.
I was never sure so I just let it be...

It would be nice to just walk away since the buyer was late, especially as I JUST made it my main domain for a new Adult Online Affilliate program, lol

As for the enforcement over there...hah, lol

Thx for your comments, I'm glad I am not the only one frustrated with Sedo.

 

[edzachary]

I'm glad I am not the only one frustrated with Sedo.

I've been nothing but dissatisfied with Sedo for the past four years. Here are some details why:

1. Sold a LLLL.com domain for $1400, took five weeks to get the money and two more weeks to get the transaction completed. I was bound by outrageous "terms".

2. They refused to list a domain, obamacritic.net, because they considered it "inappropriate". WTF?!!!

3. Every time I offer on a domain I get ridiculous counter offers ($2.3 million for one domain!) and discussion gets ended without any kind of support from Sedo.

I do find it a good market for International clients but for myself I find it absolutely useless to do any buying there.

 

[Vito]

I've been nothing but dissatisfied with Sedo for the past four years. Here are some details why:

1. Sold a LLLL.com domain for $1400, took five weeks to get the money and two more weeks to get the transaction completed. I was bound by outrageous "terms".

2. They refused to list a domain, obamacritic.net, because they considered it "inappropriate". WTF?!!!

3. Every time I offer on a domain I get ridiculous counter offers ($2.3 million for one domain!) and discussion gets ended without any kind of support from Sedo.

I do find it a good market for International clients but for myself I find it absolutely useless to do any buying there.

Hey edzachary,

Sorry to hear about the 7 weeks to complete your LLLL sale. Hopefully you made some $ on that domain.
The terms, Geez, who could actually read that? I have never in my life seen sooo many words and pages in ANY TOS! lol

Oh and your Obama name...
I completely forgot about that BS!
I had about 20-30 Presidential domains that they wouldnt let me list! Absolutely insane! I have seen TM domains sell there, but yet not Obamaanything.com's...wtf???

The offers...$2.3 million???
Let me tell you something if its $2300. or 2.3 mill
those knuckleheads should be jumping out of their chairs to close the deal!

How does their system work???
How do you just not give a shi! about $...???
Are they doing SO well, that they just dont care?
Who knows, all I know is I'm done over there.

 

[garptrader]

Yes it seems odd how most of the offers I get are for $100-$200 (for two-word .COMs) but when if I offer $200 for a domain I'll get responses between $3000 and $50,000.

Separately, a couple of months I won a Namejet auction for a one-word .tv domain and had the domain in my account for a few weeks. I would have been willing to sell if for $1000-$1500. Namejet took the domain back as the previous registrant still had the right to reclaim it. He now has it listed for a minimum offer of $5 million. What are these guys thinking?