Learning from Mistakes (sellers view)

[zangief]

I had a domain similar to keywordtokeywordtwo.com , it was parked at namedrive , on monday I got a nice offer.
Since I did not cared much about the domain and it was making 1-2 usd /month , I accepted the offer.And nearly finished the sale process.
Just at the end of the process the buyer changed his replying mail and it was
keyword2keywordtwo.com .

conclusion
- If you get an offer research the name of the person that made the offer and see if they are related to a site or company that may effect your asking price. (In my case the owner of the firm contacted to me).
-If you have such domains check the possibilities like this and try to contact them for a good sale.

conclusion 2 (conclusionto
- I could have taken x times the sale amount but I am still happy I made a good sale and had some more experience.

 

[Rockefeller]

Has happened to me as a buyer

 

[Nacho]

Don't kick yourself. As a seller, your price should be the same regardless of who is the buyer, in my opinion. You also can't assume that your buyer would have paid a lot more for the name, simply because he owned a similar name.

 

[Theo]

I never base my sales or acquisitions on traffic and revenue alone.
Surprisingly, Sedo's appraisal system seems to be doing just that, on top of relying on historical sales. End result: they offer appraisals that take little consideration of the intrinsic value of brandable domains. Conclusion: negotiate your sale based on experience and gut feeling. Do your research. Ask, and you shall receive.

 

[zangief]

In my opinion who the buyer is very very important if you are selling a domain.If a big company is wanting your mumbajumbagumba.com then you should be alarmed, they are possibly making a new product and prepared everything and will be willing to pay you a little bit more bucks.

Back to my case if your are owning wordtoanotherword.com and if you are contacted by the owner of word2anotherword.com you can expect a better price.

Don't kick yourself. As a seller, your price should be the same regardless of who is the buyer, in my opinion. You also can't assume that your buyer would have paid a lot more for the name, simply because he owned a similar name.

 

[Theo]

Zangief, since you're from Turkey you might be familiar with the fine art of "haggling" at a bazaar Apply the same principle in domaining and you should be fine.

 

[zangief]

Yes I got the point.
I also found a video of "haggling" at the animal bazaar this has taught me some tactics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6051RZ75Mg

Zangief, since you're from Turkey you might be familiar with the fine art of "haggling" at a bazaar Apply the same principle in domaining and you should be fine.

 

[HarveyJ]

If you're getting a KWtoKW.com, you should always get the KW2KW.com as well... and the .nets and .orgs
Tie up the market, it doesn't cost all that much extra

But dude... $1-$2 a month?
Get some CPA/PPS stuff on there instead of just parking it.
Even if you're only making one or two conversions a year, you'll probably still be doing better than on something that's just parked.

Seriously, if you wanna have a chat about it, feel free to PM me sometime