Your experiences selling domains on Ebay...

[IIIIIIIIII]

Whats been your experiences? Are there good potential end-users there or just jerk-offs looking for a golden find?

I just got notified of a watcher on one of my listings that has a buy it now of 10k...should i be excited? or is this most likely some guy who is curious to see if ill get it...

any thoughts and experiences would be great!

 

[onewordonly]

Ebay just sent me an email which some of you might be interested to know that is FREE Listings for the the 29th & 30th of August...

update: after reading the fine print it looks you need to use a gallery pic & list for $9.99 starting price

 

[DnPresident]

How much does it cost to sell a name on Ebay? Can you list all or just one at a time?

I'm not sure what I've done wrong in the past but I've listed a couple names and it cost me over $100 each time. I must have been listing them wrong for it to be that much.

 

[thebooksearcher]

Fees are detailed here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

You must have home page featured them to cost over $100 each. Ebay fees are cheaper than sedo or afternic.

 

[WORDSWORTH]

Ebay just sent me an email which some of you might be interested to know that is FREE Listings for the the 29th & 30th of August...

update: after reading the fine print it looks you need to use a gallery pic & list for $9.99 starting price

Thanks for the info. Rep added. I usually only use eBay on free or reduced fee listing days.

I flipped a three character .com for $xxx and have had a few $xx sales too. I have been disappointed with some sales though that I feel could have made more money elsewhere.

Matt.

 

[onewordonly]

Thanks for the info. Rep added. I usually only use eBay on free or reduced fee listing days.

I flipped a three character .com for $xxx and have had a few $xx sales too. I have been disappointed with some sales though that I feel could have made more money elsewhere.

Matt.

your welcome & thanks... too bad that it is a starting price of $9.99 or less though otherwise I would list some myself but I want a lot more than that and I wouldn't want to risk them been sold too low. Good luck to your sales!

 

[DnPresident]

Fees are detailed here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

You must have home page featured them to cost over $100 each. Ebay fees are cheaper than sedo or afternic.

Thanks for the fee details. I'm not sure what I did, It's been about a year but after probably $350 and only 3 or 4 names listed I gave up.

 

[wikes82]

Ebay just sent me an email which some of you might be interested to know that is FREE Listings for the the 29th & 30th of August...

update: after reading the fine print it looks you need to use a gallery pic & list for $9.99 starting price

FYI, the link is here
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/nofees/

that promo ending on sunday, 30th Sept.. not 30th of August

 

[onewordonly]

FYI, the link is here
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/nofees/

that promo ending on sunday, 30th Sept.. not 30th of August

thanks for correcting that, well that is even better - 1 month!

 

[owntype]

My biggest bulk sale came from ebay, which were 100+ LLL.mobis. But the buyer and I completed the deal off ebay

 

[jacal1]

When I last used ebay, I did find more success listing in areas other than the domains category. For example, list antiquesomething.com in the antiques classification as well or instead of the domains category. It's more likely to be seen by and end user than a domain reseller and bring closer to retail than reseller price.

So simple, but I hadn't thought of that...rep added.

 

[hullswingerscom]

am selling 16x coms now take a look
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....m=120154994518&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=002

 

[aoaz]

well

my recent sale on ebay was computish.com that some one buy for £5000.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....m=220144675240&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT&ih=012

buyer is 0 rated and neva contact me after sale even i write in listing i need 50% payment within 24 hours of sale.

thats the problem with ebay theres no security/guarantee untill you got the payment and other side ebay charge you listing+final value fee straight away.

i sell the same name last month for same price and result was bidder neva come back to me.

lets see whats happen this time.

wish me gud luk.

 

[accent]

Most of the time watchers are your competition.

my recent sale on ebay was computish.com that some one buy for £5000.
buyer is 0 rated and neva contact me after sale even i write in listing i need 50% payment within 24 hours of sale......

Be sure that you report this so you get a refund of the final value fee - They will take $$$ from your credit card if they think the deal went through.

Were there other bidders? You can offer the domain to the second highest bidder for what they bid. Although they are not committed to buy it they might. That is called a "second chance offer".


Paying $100 for a listing - you either added a lot of extras - not needed in most cases - or the domain had a very high opening price.

 

[aoaz]

Thanks for advise mate
yeh thats wat exactly m gona do to get fvf
i cant get ma listing fee back but yeh can get final value fee back and thats another mission (as u know we cant apply for final value fee untill after a week of sale + wait another week incase buyer comeback and then ebay give u fvf)
even i mention in ma listing i need 50% within 24 hours so its mean ebay suppose to look at my listing terms and conditions and if buyer neva come back for initial payment its mean there something wrong.

you know its 2nd time happen to me , i try to sell this name last month and its goes for same price and no one come back.
so i get my fvf but abviously cant get listing fee.

no mate cant do second chance offer because its was buy it now / make an offer listing and he buy the name 2nd day of listing.

anywayz lets see wats happend.

but ebay need to make some rules for domain sales including some sort of security for sellers.