Would You Post Prices on Your Own Domain Sales Site or Not?

[artstar]

Curious if you would post domain prices or not on your own domain sales site?

Yes or No & explain why?

thx

 

[RaiderGirl]

Let's say you had the domain cheapestautoinsurance.whatever listed on your site for $5,000 and a representative from Geico found it on your site and offered to buy it for your list price, how much money do you think you left on the table?

That's why you don't list prices.

 

[Sukhvir Singh]

Yes its Good to post prices as most of the buyers dont know the range of your domain sale if you just mention "make offer".

Suppose you purchase a domain for $xxx and you put just make offer the buyer may offer you low $xx offer or leave that to fill it out because he may think how much you want.

Hope it helps you out.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Unless the price was a secret, yes.

The first thing a buyer wants to know is the price. You can make it easy for them to know the price, or you can make it difficult.

 

[SpareDomains]

Lower end names okay to price as you're looking to move them. Gems there is no reason to price as offers should be frequent on those so no need to lock yourself into a price and possibly leave dough on the table. So a combo of both depending on quality.

 

[artstar]

appreciate the limited input so far but see out of 73 views theres little interest to share on this topic.

whats the issue folks? no other opinions if would post domain name prices or not on your own website?

sure would be helpful to hear more especially by the seasoned sellers

:P

 

[Mobiller]

I am just watching and learning

 

[AEProgram]

HugeDomains always lists a price

Buydomains - on the page itself you rarely will see a price, but if you search the name on afternic in most cases you will see the price (im talking about their portfolio)
DNS - I never saw them list a price so if they do its rare
DomainMarket - some names have prices
MWD - they dont list a price but they will list a min. offer
Marchex - never a price

On any good names I have (.com, less than 14char, mo. exact match searches 1.5k+, no digits or hyphens) I would never list a price.

 

[GravityEleven]

For brandable (& non EMD) domains -> no price listing
For EMD domains with similar EMD domains as a reference (dnpric.es & namebio.com) -> BIN price

simple as that for me..

 

[matrigaldo]

I tend to not list a price on my domain listings.
However i might list a price on those domains i consider with low value, or ones i would like to sell to monetize.

 

[gene438]

I price mine and if I get list price I say "great" and never think twice about leaving money on the table..... I prefer that instead of all the $25 offers for names I know will eventually bring $xxxx

 

[matrigaldo]

I price mine and if I get list price I say "great" and never think twice about leaving money on the table..... I prefer that instead of all the $25 offers for names I know will eventually bring $xxxx

Sometimes low offers hide interested buyer. And if your negotiations skills are good enough you can sell the domain at a price you feel comfortable with, even starting from $25.

 

[artstar]

i think posting prices makes more sense as its done on all the big reseller sites, sedo, gd, afternic, etc

if prices arent posted it makes the buyers decision to follow through with the sales alot tougher, plus I wish my domains were so valuable I didnt have to post a price! lol

also posting prices reveals the much more serious buyers if they inquire imo

thx for the input

 

[RaiderGirl]

Interesting how the ones in favor all have late join dates and a lot of crappy names to boot.

Why would anyone want to disclose the sale price without knowing who the buyer is? this isn't merchandise were selling here, it's a one of kind piece of Internet real estate that nobody else has...

I remember when I was starting out, I picked up a snapback for $60, a two word generic, I thought I could sell it for around $5000 to an end user, maybe more..after only 3 months of owning the name I was contacted by a Medical group who has offices all over Canada, the domain was a short version to their company name, I figured they must really want it so I threw out a high figure of $40,000 to see what kind of reaction I'd get, surprisingly they expressed interest but were reluctant on the price, after weeks of back and forth negotiation, we agreed on $30,000 and he picked up the escrow fee... Bottom line to this story is, If I advertised the price as most of you noobs suggest, I would have left $25,000 on the table.

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[jideofor]

Wow.... Raider girl. Just wow!

 

[Mobiller]

@RaiderGirl, I like your style. So should I take all my BUY NOW domains from SEDO and change it for Make an Offer ?

 

[4better]

I think it all depends on the quality of the domain whether or not to list the price.

But, somehow, I would agree with RaiderGirl because it happened to me also what she had experienced before. The final sale that came was around high $x,xxx. And the funny thing was, I offered it for sale here in Namepros (via private messages) for low $xxx but was only snobbed. So I decided just to put a make offer on Sedo and after a few months, I was lucky...

 

[Name Trader]

@RaiderGirl - Would you like to share your process for finding out who is making the offer? I find this very frustrating, negotiating with somebody I don't know. I'm sure there are times that I've left money on the table.

I list my domains everywhere at Make Offer pricing. I discourage low-ball offers with a relatively high Min Offer price. Sure, I'm probably missing out on some low-end sales, but my workload is now manageable, whereas without a Min Offer, dealing with all the low-ball offers was a real pain. My philosophy was/is to reply to every offer. Because you never know where your next sale might materialize from. All my low-ball offers now are at my Min Price, at least.

 

[AEProgram]

@RaiderGirl - Would you like to share your process for finding out who is making the offer? I find this very frustrating, negotiating with somebody I don't know. I'm sure there are times that I've left money on the table.

I list my domains everywhere at Make Offer pricing. I discourage low-ball offers with a relatively high Min Offer price. Sure, I'm probably missing out on some low-end sales, but my workload is now manageable, whereas without a Min Offer, dealing with all the low-ball offers was a real pain. My philosophy was/is to reply to every offer. Because you never know where your next sale might materialize from. All my low-ball offers now are at my Min Price, at least.

google their email address in quotes "[email protected]"

if the start of their email is unique such as RogerPMinkolof google just that in quotes and also break the words down

Whoisology their email address

if their @xxxxx.com leads to a company name check that site or info

If you got the IP with the email run it through arin.net as sometimes a corporation will be listed for it (most cases will be some internet provider only but you never know)

If it included a phone number or any other info search it, if no results call it and see if you get any voicemail with info etc

The above sounds like a lot but within 4 minutes you can do all of the above, you really never know who is on the other end

IF you discover the person is doing everything possible to hide who he is or hes using a broker, counter him big, real big.

Last but not least check out the domain you are selling to see if there is something trending in the news about that word or words etc. Years ago I hand reged some domain that had the word cycle in it. It was a brandable style name I intended to use to create a forum related to recycling and the environment (I had the traffic for it, im not a tree hugger) etc . Anyway I get hit up by some guy with an offer of mid XXX, I was thinking of countering maybe $1500 even thou the name was maybe worth 15 bucks and the plan was if he doesnt reply within 2 days ill agree to sell it to him for his offer price if he closes in 24 hours. So I checked online and I noticed there is a huge cycle craze as in exercise, and my name was a nice name for a studio that does this cycling program, I countered 3k and got 3k, he didnt even bother countering. It was one of those sales where you walk around wondering why you didnt counter a billion bucks or something.

Anyway, since we dont get offers often its important to maximize each and every one of them. I am not lecturing you Stub as much of what I said is obvious, but rather felt people new to domaining should know this.

 

[Name Trader]

@AEProgram - It's ok. I know you aren't lecturing me. I partly asked the question to elicit an answer like this, so that everyone can share in the knowledge. RaiderGirl appears to be overly confident that she can find info on the person, I'm sure she does more than just this. Everytime I do as you have suggested, 8 times out of 10, I still have no idea who I'm making an offer too