Why sell catches immediately?

[Edwin]

I'm just curious... I see lots of people catch domains and turn around and resell them instantly for (often) a low-xxx price or less. Is there any particular reason for doing so?

For instance, have you found that people pay a lot more attention to names for sale that were on their own drop lists for that day?

Is it the desire to avoid having to carry a lot of inventory?

Is it something else?

Of course, a steady stream of xxx amounts eventually adds up to a nice sum, I'm not criticising the approach - but a lot of the names are the kind of thing that would probably fetch a solid x,xxx amount when sold to an end-user...

[rob]

Originally Posted by Edwin

have you found that people pay a lot more attention to names for sale that were on their own drop lists for that day?

People seem to get excited about tat that drops due to it being a drop.

Therefore the ideal time to flog that name is in the day or so after catch.

[websaway]

My guess is that this mostly applies to mediocre domains and the fact that they are now newly registered i.e 2010 this detracts from the domains attraction.

[davedevelopment]

If catchers are in it to flip, better to do it quickly I think. If I saw a catcher trying to sell a name they caught a month ago, part of me would think they'd have been trying to sell to end users for the last month without success.

[Caz]

I think all of the above are right.

I was given strict instruction on what to buy, and ended up ignoring it, and just bought names for the sake of it.

I'm quite happy to get a tenner on top of what i paid, only downside is, if i bought 5 that cant sell, im still way down, as I use public catchers

Just about to go with a new service that costs £50 a month and is less than a ms from nom, well established perl script from top domainer, so hopefully this will bring me some luck.

This is not a sales pitch, as its already posted on forum, but I cant beleive lexie.co.uk isnt worth £79, I was well off with that one, which is where most like me go wrong.

Edwin makes a great point about carrying stock, nightmare, especially when you cant shift it for anyprice lol

[Rob_F]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

- Rob

[pred]

Originally Posted by Rob_F

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

- Rob

what's a birds' bush in your hand worth?

[JamesUK]

Originally Posted by pred

what's a birds' bush in your hand worth?

Wheeeey! Lad.

[boxerdog]

a bird and a bush

[turnic]

Originally Posted by Edwin

I'm just curious... I see lots of people catch domains and turn around and resell them instantly for (often) a low-xxx price or less. Is there any particular reason for doing so?

Yes, that is called lazy and lousy cat behaviour in psychology. A cat catches a mouse once in a while and shows his owner it to get attraction

TurNIC