Those guys who request domains in the "request domains" section

[Raghav Nehra]

never reply to any of the messages..has this been te case with you too?

 

[Satyajit Adhikary]

Not to offend anyone, but most of them Requests for Gold and expect it to be in the price range of Iron.

 

[offthehandle]

There is no excuse for not responding, one could simply say "No Thx". thats it. 5 seconds.

 

[Kate]

There are threads that read almost like this (between the lines)
Will pay up to $50 per name.
Total budget: $20,000 (allegedly)
LOL.

 

[Sinfully Wicked]

Fire and forget.

If they reply, great, if not, no big deal.

 

[Sanwal]

Not to offend anyone, but most of them Requests for Gold and expect it to be in the price range of Iron.

Basic human nature, no clue why we are wasting our time on this thread (even me), If someone really wants the domain they will pay up for it, if they think otherwise just ignore. If someone requests something and they insult you with their counter offer. Best thing to do is not reply and move on, if it's the right domain, you are better off holding onto it.

 

[offthehandle]

The other thing is, there are a few "Fishing expeditions" anyway just trying to see what is out there to attempt to steal from somebody desperate. I don't respond very often to those threads, as the spec's are usually vague- like "I am look for 2 words less than 10 char"- but no idea what words. dumb.

 

[.NJ]

I barely bother anymore with sending names.

It seems its mostly new members requesting and Im thinking its bullshit.

I have sent stellar one word and two word .coms matching exactly with what they requested.

I only get a reply 10% of the time, and Im not including prices, so thats not the issue.

All fluff, nothing more....

 

[Sanwal]

There is no excuse for not responding, one could simply say "No Thx". thats it. 5 seconds.

Disagree with you on that.

Yes, it's courteous however it's not a "there's no excuse situation."
Not all people have the time to reply to all 100+ messages (But they might read it).

 

[dhyane]

The budget is great but the offer is very little. Two days ago I asked one buyer what is your real budget.He said he has a $700 offer on a domain. Then i sent my domain. He asked "asking price?" . I replied "provide a good offer". He replied $xx offer. I said "thanks. i don't deal with low-ball offers" . He never replied again. It has happened several times (including inbound).

Most of the domain requesters reply like this. Even if their budget is great, the domain is great and relevant they don't want to provide a good offer.

These kind of experiences always strikes me to build website on the domain. But the laziness occupies me.

 

[Casey L]

There is no excuse for not responding, one could simply say "No Thx". thats it. 5 seconds.

The excuse is that the folks requesting domains get dozens of replies, with about 75% (in my experiences) not matching the requirements. If people aren’t going to do the courtesy of making sure their names match the requirement, why would the requestor be expected to do the same?

The request forum might not be beautiful but I have both bought and sold domains through it, just ignore its lack of professionalism and move on. It is for desparate buyers hoping to get a steal of a deal and for desperate sellers who are too lazy to find actual end users

 

[donnied79]

Reply is not mandatory, although if you don't have the intention to reply you'd better write "Assume no interest if I don't reply in 48hrs" in the thread.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

It could be the quality too. One mans junk is not neccesarily another mans gold in this business.

 

[pinkdragon]

@Raghav Nehra - you can make a little experiment if you want. Just post in the Req section, write what kind of names are you looking for and what budget do you have. And then come back here, and tell us how much garbage / spam you got, and if you had the time to reply to all. Not to mention that some messages do not deserve an answer.

 

[sbweb]

Disagree with you on that.

Yes, it's courteous however it's not a "there's no excuse situation."
Not all people have the time to reply to all 100+ messages (But they might read it).

It is the buyers who initiate the contact, but they won't spend a few seconds to respond to the sellers? The sellers take time to put together a list and message, but the one who has requested the domains can't reply?? It's something else if someone sends you an unsolicited email trying to sell you a domain, but this is different. It takes 5 seconds or less to type: No thanks

Buying and selling is a two-way street, but buyers seem to think that only their time is important. If you don't want to weed through hundreds of submissions, then don't post a request. You might have some sellers who ignore criteria, but what about the ones that do follow directions? You're going to ignore them too?

There are a lot of those here. Big supposed budgets never gets a trade review.

Yeah, they all seem to be waiting for a premium domain, but they want to pay 1/10 of the value.

 

[Kingslayer]

Find most are just a waste of time, most are either loons or doing it for a laugh to see how many pm's they get.

Saw a post in that section yesterday saying he’ll pay ‘upto’ 2% of the Estibot valuation above $50,000’.

Whilst i think Estibot valuations are a waste of time for the most part, anyone who owns domain Estibot values above $50k+ is usually something good and worth more, funny thing is he’s making out he’s getting loads of private messages and even been buying names Estibot values above $50k for $150, must think we are all daft.

 

[bmugford]

I have posted several wanted threads in the past and bought several domains. However, what usually happens though is no matter how specific you are at least 75% of the responses are unrelated.

Also, no matter what your budget is or how marginal a domain might be, the price is almost always at the top end of the budget.

I have threads with hundreds of responses. In theory it might be nice to respond to all of them, but in practicality it is just a waste of time. Last time I did it there was I think a 45 second wait between responses.

It is not feasible to spend hours just saying "No Thanks" or "Not interested".

Brad

 

[Sanwal]

Hi Raghav,

Welcome to Namepros,
I've been on the other end of this and requests really can go upto the 100s. It's hard to reply to all of them, usually you will get a reply if they are interested in your domain. They just skip replying back, if the domains don't meet the criteria, the price is too high or they are not simply looking for that type of domain.

San

 

[Sanwal]

There is no excuse for not responding, one could simply say "No Thx". thats it. 5 seconds.

I've also been on the other end of the bargain, but if i don't get a response in a 48hours time period i forget about it. If someone contacts me later then that's great. Got to stop thinking about every small thing.

 

[1Darko]

If I have a name that's a match I send a pm.
Mostly no reply. Some thank you but not interested. One name sold.

I agree that it's rude not to answer, but probably they get spammed a lot.
It's ok with me if that's the part of the game.

On the other hand I always stick to my asking price and I limit my offer to 24 hours. That's the part of the game too!

 

[Kpett]

Someone was recently looking for .io names in a particular market - and I have a good name that matches what they were looking for. The response I got was an offer for $10. Now .io names are $35 and up to register - why would I sell for $10? I made a reasonable counter for a modest profit and was told no way, too much.

 

[karmaco]

Fishing Expedition. You decide.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/looking-for-one-two-word-coms-between-500-and-25-000.1048223/

There are a lot of those here. Big supposed budgets never gets a trade review.

 

[DN_Hunter]

I get a response about 20% of the time. But that doesn't really matter to me.

The main thing is more "eyes" on me being able to provide that specific type of domain name in the Wanted Thread (example - if the user asked for "Crypto" or "LLLL"). I send a PM to the poster with names that fit their requirements and budget, and post "PM SENT" in the thread.

The benefit of that is other users get to see
a) I have names that fit that type of request (Crypto or LLLL, etc...)
b) I have several domain market places (in my signature)

I think I had ONE sale (out of hundreds of submissions) that originated from me replying to a "Wanted" post. But I think I had many more sales that were generated by what I think were people asking about the domains I submitted in the specific Wanted Thread and/or looking at my signature and visiting my domain stores.


NOTE: there's always a negative -- and the downside is there are HACKERS and Thieves here (imho). I get more and more emails in an attempt to hack my email account. Such as "FedEx" cannot deliver your package, your package info is in the attachment. Or "Your email Account is being suspended, you must log into your email account and verify your information or it will be permanently disabled..."
Sometimes I think the original poster (new users) are just hackers getting you to submit names, and then they try to hack the accounts for the users with names they are interested in (I could be wrong). Or maybe they are just trying to get a mailing list to provide their special "SEO and LOGO" Packages to help me make better sales...

Regards,
DN

 

[sbweb]

I barely bother anymore with sending names.

It seems its mostly new members requesting and Im thinking its bullsh*t.

I have sent stellar one word and two word .coms matching exactly with what they requested.

I only get a reply 10% of the time, and Im not including prices, so thats not the issue.

All fluff, nothing more....

I wonder if some of these "buyers" are actually brokers looking for clients.

 

[karmaco]

If you don’t send exactly what they asked for you won’t get replies. Some people do not actually read the request.

On the other hand, some only reply if interested. I have gotten many thanks but not exactly what I’m looking for. It’s nice to get some kind of feedback or reply but you should not expect it unless it states all will receive replies.