E-Bay

DomainSage · Jan 16, 2006

Hi folks,

Just got back into domain name trading so have a question about e-bay. Last time I used them was around 2 years ago, have just listed my first domain on there since then.

My question is how do you find e-bay for sales ? It seems to have cooled off a bit from what I remember, si there any particular type of domains that do well there ?

Any advice would be great.

Wishing you all the best.

Richard

deconstruction · Jan 16, 2006

one the whole i have been disapointed with 90% of my sales on ebay.

i have made one or two good sales, but i tend to aviod it now unless they have a free listing day for buy it now.

DomainSage · Jan 16, 2006

Thanks deconstruction .. Just trying to catch up again

All the best.

Richard

deconstruction · Jan 16, 2006

no problems, welcome back

if ebay have a free listing day on ebay then chuck up as many names as you can at the price you really want

if you sell none then it dont matter. if you have lots of names then keep all your names with top prices in a bulk listing tool

It can however be somewhere to pick up a bargain if you can be bothered to keep going over all the rubbish on there

charlie · Jan 17, 2006

if anyone notices these freebie days - i know it might mean a bit of competition but it would be nice if you could post here to let us all know about it..

Personally i never knew they did this :S

thanks

DomainSage · Jan 18, 2006

Hi Charlie,
Will defintely post here if I hear anything.

In my opinion competition is good, that is why I really like forums like this. The more good information that is out there can only help domain name traders, we still suffer the stigma of being 'money grabbers' within a lot of the community. This is compounded by people that set themselves up as professional and yet still do not practice realistic business practices.

The more professional traders can get noticed then the better for us all ... Hopefully we can get rid of the ' hege7f67wewg.com for £10,000' brigade

... I know, not much chance :razz:

I have worked exclusively on the net since early 2000 ( always with my own fully registered company in England ) and still get negative comments from various people. You have to remember that most peoples experience with marketing on the net extends to the Spam that clogs their inbox everyday

Sorry went on a bit of a rant there

Wishing you all the best.

Richard Souter
Director Domain Sage Limited ( Registered in England No. 5629435 )
Director Cascade iCOM ( Australian Company Number 103 893 410 )

deconstruction · Jan 18, 2006

Hi Charlie,

I have not seen any since using acorn.. but will deff post when they do them.

The free listing days were more frequent when they first introduced the buy it now option. But you never know might start doing more.

Its handy for selling domains becuase you dont need to pay to list, and you dont have to worry about them selling for less than you really want for it.

And if you have all your domains in their list manager program then you dont have to spend ages listing them when the offers on.. just one click (although you have to spend time putting them in to start with...

olebean · Jan 18, 2006

Over the last 6 months ebay have not had free listing days only 5plisting days (nearly free)

DomainSage · Jan 24, 2006

Hi Folks,

Just found out something I did not previously know about e-bay, if the person wants to bid over $15,000 they have to become verified :
http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bidding-ov.html#bigtix

Found this out the hard way with a domain going along nicely, until the $15,000 limit .... Because only one of the interested parties had been verified it sold for $15,100. The others, as normal, were leaving it till the end to bid ... As they were un verified they did not have time to go through the process .... Oh well live and learn

All the best.

Richard

domaingenius · Jan 24, 2006

DomainSage said:
Hi Folks,

Just found out something I did not previously know about e-bay, if the person wants to bid over $15,000 they have to become verified :
http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bidding-ov.html#bigtix

Found this out the hard way with a domain going along nicely, until the $15,000 limit .... Because only one of the interested parties had been verified it sold for $15,100. The others, as normal, were leaving it till the end to bid ... As they were un verified they did not have time to go through the process .... Oh well live and learn

All the best.

Richard