Wanted: Domain Appraisal Quit.co.uk

[retired_member32]

What nonsense. Are you sure you only joined here in June of this year? Not to put too fine a point on it, but I've seen you dropping pearls of wisdom in nearly every thread that's started on this forum, like a new dog on the block urinating everywhere to mark its territory. You portray an aura of experience and knowledge but I'm not buying into it.

Love you Dale :lol: i was thinking the same thing weeks ago !!!

whats the saying..."it's worth what people are willing to pay" personally i congratulate the OP and hope you become very, very rich on it, one thing we should all do is not trash the reputation of the co.uk extension, Google and the people that represent the uk domain industry namely Nominet are systematically trashing the old guard for a quick buck.

 

[aZooZa]

 

[namealot]

4 bidders, how many thousands of people knew that it was for sale? It was mentioned in a Sedo promotional email, you posted it on at least one other forum outside of Acorn, etc.

The number of bidders is irrelevant - anyone else could have bid if they felt it was worth more than £2500. Looks like nobody did.

I realise a Sedo auction likely won't get you a perfect end user price. But it was a good indication of what resellers/domainers valued it at - which was significantly less than some were predicting here.

If anyone saying mid 4 or low 5 figures legitimately believed that... why didn't they bid £2550?

Auctions do very little real promotion, research etc you just have to look at the names that are flipped to end users to know that,

Outside of domainers, few other online types very few businesses would buy a name on an online auction, you probably have a car and a house but did you buy them from an auction? I’ve been to plenty and there not full of end users buying? Most know its cheapest way to do so but that doesn’t mean they will likely its fear of the unknown?

Another crucial point you’ll need the right bidders and enough of them? It goes to whatever second place bidder pushes it too? You may well be prepaid to go to 10 k but if no one else pushes it never reaches it?


e.g. rock.co.uk (2005) $16,950 (2011) $1770 do you think the word has less meaning in 2011 or became less commercially attractive

2005

http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2005/domainsales05_17_05.htm
Rock.co.uk £9,000 = $16,950 Sedo


2011

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2011/20110330.htm
Moniker/SnapNames Rock.co.uk for $1,770

 

[Retired_Member38]

The auctions do very little promotional work for cheap domains, but there is nothing stopping the seller reaching out to potential end users and making them aware of it.

If auctions are such a bad way of selling... why are any sellers using it in the first place?

 

[websaway]

I'm not going to get into a gainsaying match with you. You were way off the mark in the first place anyway, so hardly an expert in the field - in fact; at £500, you showed your naïveté.

Or was he talking it down for other reasons.
You just never really know.

 

[Retired_Member38]

No personal interest here - I never bid on it, and don't want to buy it as its worthless to me.

Maybe I was naive at £500.... but I was closer than the 5 figure guesses

 

[aZooZa]

Or was he talking it down for other reasons.
You just never really know.

Maybe just simple impecunity.

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[websaway]

Did you not read the thread before replying

Clearly it wasn't worth mid xxxx easy - it was worth £2500.

I can't see where you are coming from on this.
The person didn't pick the best place or time to sell the name, under different yet to be defined circumstances it would fetch more. Once a domain gets a bid of £2500 then it could be worth anything upwards of that figure but, vision, imagination in marketing play a big part in selling even top quality domains.

Some domains are not difficult to value and this is one of them.

 

[websaway]

No personal interest here - I never bid on it, and don't want to buy it as its worthless to me.

Maybe I was naive at £500.... but I was closer than the 5 figure guesses

would you have bought it at £500?

 

[websaway]

letting.co.uk is an interesting one on DL
Who sold it in February .

 

[aZooZa]

would you have bought it at £500?

Prolly might have had a stab if not potless. Maybe preoccupied or impoverished paying charity money from meagre insurance leads. A hard and constrictive space. He's one that places some store in the Nominet pre-dated priority cobblers. He's seen fit to reference this domain in other delusional threads in this vein.

Anyway, enough of the vitriol. Let's all keep an open mind.

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[rawkinrich]

Can't be bothered to read the entire thread, but this domain should be pitched to companies like Nicorette. There's a lot of money in this domain.

 

[aZooZa]

Can't be bothered to read the entire thread, but this domain should be pitched to companies like Nicorette. There's a lot of money in this domain.

In the interest of transparency, there are TM class issues with the smoking angle. Drugs, alcohol and other non-smoking subjects are candidates though.

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[Bailey]

on the front of it. Seems Monkey had some fair observations (you wouldn't want him on your side though)

All-in-all, I think the £2.5K was a 'good for now' sale price - (even if it wasn't)

 

[rottensoundz]

Quit.co.uk is now on DomainLore with no reserve

Thanks again to all that have posted here.

 

[figleaf007]

My bad, ignore me

 

[DaveP]

and sold for a £750 profit, not a bad flip.....

No flip as it never reached reserve at Sedo.

 

[Tricky1]

No flip as it never reached reserve at Sedo.

Sold here http://domainlore.co.uk/quit.co.uk

 

[DaveP]

Sold here http://domainlore.co.uk/quit.co.uk

I know but I meant it wasn't a £750 flip.

 

[Tricky1]

I know but I meant it wasn't a £750 flip.

Understand, see what your saying now Dave..