Paying to contribute

Fearless · Feb 17, 2003

Originally posted by AMERICAR
Hey is that .. GREGR .. or .. GREG .. huh ..

Is there a difference ???

whats this 2 greg's or somthing !!!

Confused ...

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=164290#post164290

DomainGoon · Feb 17, 2003

Originally posted by gregr

I don't mind chasing away a buyer that thinks $15/year is too much money.

With that attitude, you prove that you're missing the big picture.

As I said before, everyone needs to make their own mistakes.

Duke · Feb 17, 2003

Originally posted by DomainGoon

With that attitude, you prove that you're missing the big picture.

It may not be politically correct for GregR to come right out and say it DG, but I have to admit I was thinking the same thing. How serious could a buyer be when he is not willing to spend a little over $1 a month to access what is shaping up to be the best sales market on the net?

DomainGoon · Feb 18, 2003

Originally posted by Duke

It may not be politically correct for GregR to come right out and say it DG, but I have to admit I was thinking the same thing. How serious could a buyer be when he is not willing to spend a little over $1 a month to access what is shaping up to be the best sales market on the net?

I have bought items from huge auction houses, Christy's, Sothebys, etc., and none of them has every charged me to go look at the items or to visit their websites. These are people selling items worth tens of millions of dollars. You know why they don't charge people? Because they realize the value of a buyer is not in how much they will pay you or not pay you per month.

But let's not limit it to the high end. Tell me, how much does Ebay charge their buyers? I know they're just a little operation who doesn't know what they're doing and who doesn't make much money, but how much to they charge their buyers?

The potential exists to make this site into a hub of domain interests on the web. The fact that someone would throw that away for, as you put it, $1 a month, is a very bad business decision.

Anthony Ng · Feb 18, 2003

Originally posted by Duke
How serious could a buyer be when he is not willing to spend a little over $1 a month to access what is shaping up to be the best sales market on the net?

Unlike sellers, many buyers are one-off, serious spenders who are NOT willing to pay even two cents per month JUST to access the market; AND we need them.

Duke · Feb 18, 2003

Originally posted by DomainGoon
how much to they charge their buyers?

Ebay is not the same thing. It is not a live auction - in fact this is the only live domain auction on the internet. Paying a nominal amount to access a key auction venue in a highly specialized field is hardly unreasonable. I bought a Ford Explorer at an auto auction but I had to have a dealer friend who paid a fee to buy there get it for me. In this case also, I think the small charge is more about verifying and qualifying buyers to try to eliminate bogus bidders than anything else. I do think Slave has a point about one-time buyers. A browser could see a single name on the auction list they want but might be hesitant to spend the $15 just to bid in one auction. So, there are some tradeoffs involved.