Still no luck on sedo

[hnh]

So, over the course of the past year and a half, I've made quite a bit of money from domaining, having sold both to domainers and (mostly) to end users. I consider my portfolio fairly robust, as I've had end users reach out to me consistently throughout the year.

However, I've still yet to have any inquiries via sedo, which is kind of strange, since I had expected it to be the main selling venue for my domains when I first started (yet, I've gotten more offers through GoDaddy premium listings). I've tried setting fixed prices, categorizing, and doing every other suggestions that would supposedly raise my portfolio's visibility, but I still have no luck. Most of the times, my fixed prices on sedo are lower than the prices I end up selling the domain at, either because the buyer don't know about Sedo or never bothers to check it. The only thing that I haven't tried (and probably won't start doing) is setting Sedo as my parked page, because I hate having end-users low ball me and I refuse to pay middlemen when it's not necessary at all.

Anyone have insights as to why Sedo is just so damn useless for me?

[katherine]

How are your unused domains set up ?

Most of the offers I receive are through sedo, that must be because the names are parked there. Usually end users will first visit the domain they are interested in, the fact that it's listed for sale may encourage them to sign up and make an offer via sedo.

[domainscreated]

I too am asking myself that same question.

Hope these questions aren't too intrusive, but I'm interested in learning if your "fairly robust" portfolio is under 500 or over 1,000+ domain names?
How do the end users that contact you directly usually find you?
What % of offers come from using GoDaddy's premium listings?
What's the average selling price?

I'm trying to determine what changes I should make which have been
unsuccessful thus far with sedo, after over a year and only receiving one low ball offer.

I own (mostly .com) names in industries such as solar, health care, mobile currency, forex, real estate, politics, grants, wedding, theatre, adoption and eco. Some of these are websites.

Here's to a more lucrative 2010!

Happy New Year!

[axeman]

I get most offers from my parked sites at WhyPark, that would explain why you don't get them at sedo, you don't park them there, either do I.

To be frank, sedo are under performing in most areas these days, this is another category to add to the list of lengthy sales times, no customer service, seller invoices, etc etc.

[biggedon]

How are your unused domains set up ?

Most of the offers I receive are through sedo, that must be because the names are parked there. Usually end users will first visit the domain they are interested in, the fact that it's listed for sale may encourage them to sign up and make an offer via sedo.

I too am asking myself that same question.

Hope these questions aren't too intrusive, but I'm interested in learning if your "fairly robust" portfolio is under 500 or over 1,000+ domain names?
How do the end users that contact you directly usually find you?
What % of offers come from using GoDaddy's premium listings?
What's the average selling price?

I'm trying to determine what changes I should make which have been
unsuccessful thus far with Sedo, after over a year and only receiving one low ball offer.

I own (mostly .com) names in industries such as solar, health care, mobile currency, forex, real estate, politics, grants, wedding, theatre, adoption and eco. Some of these are websites.

Here's to a more lucrative 2010!

Happy New Year!

Hi

member "sdsinc" provided a reason which most likely has the biggest effect on your lack of offers at sedo.

i too believe that parking there, increases the chances of getting sales.

out of the notable sales i've had this year, all of the domains were parked at sedo except one.

imo...

[hnh]

Hi

member "sdsinc" provided a reason which most likely has the biggest effect on your lack of offers at sedo.

i too believe that parking there, increases the chances of getting sales.

out of the notable sales i've had this year, all of the domains were parked at sedo except one.

imo...

I never really understood the logic behind this view. It could backfire for me in so many ways:

1. you complete the transaction, but could have saved 10% in brokerage fees since it was your domain that attracted buyer in the first place.
2. you can't tell who the buyer is, and end up losing out because you sold it for too low.
3. end-user buyer sees that you're a professional, and doesn't want to deal with your type.
4. it's much easier for a buyer to just send out inquiry emails or fill out a form than have to sign up and verify credit card info.

I just don't really buy the argument that Sedo will do me wonders if I just parked it there. If Sedo actually brings any sort of value to my domains by adding visibility, wouldn't you think that I would've gotten offers by now?

[dominator]

i think people are lazy to sign up
therefore you would receive more offers via a contact form
(or a parking that offers it, e.g. trafficz)

[hugegrowth]

I have had a few sales at Afternic (not through parking there), but none through sedo. Not sure why since sedo seems to have a more active marketplace. I had one inquiry about a domain through Sedo a few years ago, and that's it. But because they are so big it's still worth it to list your names with them. Who knows, next month you could sell two or three domains there, you just never know.

[britishbulldog]

I never really understood the logic behind this view. It could backfire for me in so many ways:

1. you complete the transaction, but could have saved 10% in brokerage fees since it was your domain that attracted buyer in the first place.
2. you can't tell who the buyer is, and end up losing out because you sold it for too low.
3. end-user buyer sees that you're a professional, and doesn't want to deal with your type.
4. it's much easier for a buyer to just send out inquiry emails or fill out a form than have to sign up and verify credit card info.

I just don't really buy the argument that sedo will do me wonders if I just parked it there. If sedo actually brings any sort of value to my domains by adding visibility, wouldn't you think that I would've gotten offers by now?

I think thats a great point in knowing who your buyers are,it could greatly determine what price you would sell for,the only adavantage i like with sedo is that you can send it to auction where it could fetch even more !

[PokerPie]

Fabulous has a pretty solid contact form you can put on your parked pages - it has resulted in lots of offers for me and my only end user sale ever. Though I also get a fairly regular stream of sedo offers and I have never used sedo to park any names - I just have them listed there. Though so far all of these offers have been extreme low-balls so that might say something about the types of people who browse the Sedo marketplace and make offers...

[transcom]

exactly the same here, we have around 300 domains dating back to 1993, put them all on sedo and let them run for 4 years, pretty pathetic really, not one single offer at all, and the parking revenue was absolutely useless.

So back and forth, routed them all to the parent site, certainly gained some orders, tried routing them to google, ppc was about $70 a day which wasnt too bad, so agree with you, nothing at all with sedo.

On the other hand, put one domain up for sale on here (that was with Sedo for 4 years) and sold it for $xxxx within two days... went direct to a company with another (which was also on Sedo) and sold it for £40k within a week.

just goes to show, seems the only thing Sedo are making is from PPC themselves..

Cheers
Bill

[iamjimmorrison]

Same here with sedo. All my domains parked here, but have been shopping for best alternative..what is the best alternative? I have sold one through sedo, good price, but there has been no activity since, and their parking revenues seem painfully low, although I understand this is like this seemingly across the board.

[hnh]

Though I also get a fairly regular stream of sedo offers and I have never used sedo to park any names - I just have them listed there. Though so far all of these offers have been extreme low-balls so that might say something about the types of people who browse the Sedo marketplace and make offers...

By the looks of your portfolio though, it seems like your domains (LLL, shortkeyword.net) are mostly targeted towards domainers, for which the margins of profit are pretty low. What I've never encountered are the obvious $xx,xxx end-user Sedo sales that appear on dnjournal every week.

[britishbulldog]

"What I've never encountered are the obvious $xx,xxx end-user sedo sales that appear on dnjournal every week".

Same here,i see so many shit domains in that range,i reckon there is some kind of money laundering scam going on between a certain amount of buyers and sellers on there ?

[Dave S]

"i reckon there is some kind of money laundering scam going on between a certain amount of buyers and sellers on there ?"

I think you hit the nail on the head

[PokerPie]

Interesting. Took me about thirty seconds to figure it out but it's a pretty clever and fool proof method:

Take money earned from a business in a country that taxes business profits - buy domains with a large portion of those profits - domains owned by an offshore company you own or somebody in a foreign country that you trust etc - then have a much lower tax liability and tax-free money sitting in another country. The only 'tax' you pay is the sedo fee.

As a bonus your business also gets to own airtraveldeals.mobi for $32,500

Disclaimer: This is not advice, what I just described is illegal and if you do it you could wind up in prison. I was just hypothesizing about how people might be using sedo to launder money - thus explaining some of the weird large $ domain sales.

[Th0mAs_]

I have many domains and many offers but not 1 from sedo :( ... I payed for a featured domain listing and still no offers and the domain is one word ... what do you think about the sedo brockers