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?

 

[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.

 

[Sanwal]

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?


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

The point i was trying to make is that more than 70% of the submission (Atleast that were in my case) were out of the criteria, however the ones that met it were replied back to by me.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

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

Yes, but I can imagine that they're bombarded with responses.

Personally, I'd make it a point to say thank you - but that is me. I do what I would appreciate others doing however I dont expect a reply back. I got used to this when I would send out resumes some 10-12 years ago and companies just stopped replying back like they used to "in the old'n days". I remember the days when you'd send a resume in and get a nice typed letter back that they received it (confirmation) and that they'd be in touch. And then another letter either rejecting you or asking you to call to set up an interview.

Bottom line - dont expect a reply.

 

[dhyane]

Do the buyers think because they offer $75, the domain is just worth $75?

 

[.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....

 

[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

 

[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.

 

[Kuffy]

I posted a name that had an Estibot value of over $50,000, and I would have accepted $150 for it. Estibot sometimes gets its NIC'ers in a twist. Trouble is, I can remember the domain name in question.

 

[BML]

I sent 63 offers and got only 11 replies. I don't expect to get any response any more and I am positively surprised when someone puts an effort in replying.

 

[sbweb]

I sent 63 offers and got only 11 replies. I don't expect to get any response any more and I am positively surprised when someone puts an effort in replying.

That's a lot more than I get. I guess I have pigeon doo-doo for domains.

To be fair, I have gotten a couple of replies from people who respectfully replied with: "Sorry that's above my budget" or "Sorry not interested".

 

[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

 

[eurorealtor]

1 out of 10 advertisers bothers to reply.
I don't bother to read requests of certain members, who advertise over and over and over.

 

[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.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

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

Could be..... never considered that.

 

[BrandZen]

I always reply to names that fit my criteria even if I'm not interested. Granted sometimes its busy and don't get to it for a little while. I never reply to random messages where the sender obviously didn't read the requirements.

I'm always looking to purchased quality CVCV.com domains. I get people sending me random 4L.coms all the time and it gets really annoying. Sometimes I'll get people asking what a CVCV.com is... Google it!

 

[Jackie]

The Domain Name Requests section should perhaps be limited to members who have 5+ positive trader ratings to cut down on the amount of people who are just "fishing" to discover other people's niches or waste the respondents' time. It would also reduce the likelihood of transaction problems given the buyer would have had some semblance of experience receiving a push.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

The Domain Name Requests section should perhaps be limited to members who have 5+ positive trader ratings to cut down on the amount of people who are just "fishing" to discover other people's niches or waste the respondents' time. It would also reduce the likelihood of transaction problems given the buyer would have had some semblance of experience receiving a push.

Gotta love the "Budget: Above $0" entries...