DomainNameSales.com what a joke

[addz123]

Small rant here. DomainNameSales.com is a f*cking joke.

Every time you enquire for a domain some guy emails you and gives you bull shit response:

"I spoke to my client regarding this premium domain, and based on many criteria his expectations are $8,300.00.

I have worked with this particular seller in the past and he is willing to negotiate."

Every single domain has a valuation of "$8,300" out of no where.

I know brokers are just doing their job but the way they conduct their business is an absolute joke I can't even take seriously. What's the point in even starting negotiations when the other guy isn't even on this planet. I'm guessing they train a sales team to just read off a book and sell the domain at a certain % of the asking fee.

 

[Nova]

Do you think they own them all or do they have clients? I wish someone would pay me $8,300.00 for one of my domains.

 

[addz123]

No idea. The domains themselves are pretty shit - Most people wouldn't even register them. But the fact that you email them means they think they can charge the world.

 

[atlas]

Every time you enquire for a domain....

The domains themselves are pretty shit - Most people wouldn't even register them.

Why are you enquiring multiple times about purchasing "pretty shit" domains that are not worth registering?

 

[addz123]

Just keeping my options open. I wouldn't have paid more than $100 for either of those names but I'd like to have a Plan B, C and D in place.

They were also very random brand domains (e.g. TradeScoop.com)

 

[donton]

I've purchased a few from these guys and none have been valued at $8,300.

With one domain I bought there about six months ago, I managed to get it for less than 50% of the original asking price, but the guy made it seem like he was going back and to between me and the domain owner. I'm 99.9% sure the guy I was emailing actually owned the domain himself - so I don't get why they try to make out like they're brokers when they actually own the domains.

Either way, I've had a couple of good deals through there - I prefer it to SEDO.

 

[Edwin]

Ah, brand domains. Then DNS's strategy makes perfect sense. The only way to "win" with pure brandables - where sales are few and far between - is to ensure that each sale "carries" the renewals for all the hundreds of domains that don't sell. (Unlike generics, it's nigh-on impossible to proactively track down potential buyers for a made-up brand, even if you wanted to).

BTW, they work on the basis of quasi-automatic email templates and most people don't seem to bother to rewrite the default text, which is why you probably see the same messages so often.

 

[inbound]

Do you also get "someone else is interested" emails from them?

I asked about a pretty random domain and was quoted $8,300 - then a few days later I got that nudge email.

 

[murph]

Do you also get "someone else is interested" emails from them?

I asked about a pretty random domain and was quoted $8,300 - then a few days later I got that nudge email.

I've had them months later...

 

[Edwin]

You can set up a series of automated follow-up emails, and choose the intervals at which they get sent out. That's almost certainly what you're seeing...

 

[julian]

yeah it is a heap of retarded shite.. strangely a few here really rave about it, would like to know how many sales one really shifts through it.

Small rant here. DomainNameSales.com is a f*cking joke.

Every time you enquire for a domain some guy emails you and gives you bull shit response:

"I spoke to my client regarding this premium domain, and based on many criteria his expectations are $8,300.00.

I have worked with this particular seller in the past and he is willing to negotiate."

Every single domain has a valuation of "$8,300" out of no where.

I know brokers are just doing their job but the way they conduct their business is an absolute joke I can't even take seriously. What's the point in even starting negotiations when the other guy isn't even on this planet. I'm guessing they train a sales team to just read off a book and sell the domain at a certain % of the asking fee.

 

[inbound]

Seems they don't acceps offers of $830 for a name they value at $8300.

The name in question is a .com which I regged the .co.uk only a short while ago - it's not going to get any other offers soon/ever. If they are holding out for more then they are out of luck.

I can understand holding out for more if it was a good name but this name just isn't all that (I know I am interested but it's a pretty tenuous reason as to why and one that would need a fair bit of branding/marketing work on to be useful in any other way than by recommendation - I intend to use it so current clients can direct people they know to, it's a not-for-profit area where people trust recommendations).