For Sale houses.co.uk £2,999

[bensd]

https://sedo.com/search/details.php...ngRequestId=97318587&language=e&origin=search

Not my domain. Read about it here and thought someone might be interested:

http://www.sellingup.com/houses-co-...me-on-the-market-with-a-major-price-reduction

 

[martin-s]

Also posted here by me:
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-name-auctions/136382-houses-co-uk.html#post532396

 

[Lovekraft]

Just spoken to the owner of the domain and apparently it is not for sale for anywhere near as low as £2999. The sedo listing is a make an offer, if someone matches the asking price would he have to honour the sale or does he still have to accept the offer before a sale is committed?

He did mention he has a number of offers around the £500 to £1500 mark.. why do people bother?!

 

[Lovekraft]

PS - he did mention that he is selling both together, just that sedo wouldn't let him mention that. I think it's a great domain, but not perfect, it plays second fiddle to the likes of "property" or "homes".

 

[PoshTiger]

Sedo sucks for this..

I recently made an offer of £500 on a domain that was listed for £500 - the owner got back to me with £10,000.

It's a scam IMO to get interest.

 

[Lovekraft]

Sedo sucks for this..

I recently made an offer of £500 on a domain that was listed for £500 - the owner got back to me with £10,000.

It's a scam IMO to get interest.

To be honest i think you are about right, i did mention to him that he's going to end up with a bunch of other folk getting in touch and ultimately wasting both parties time. By the end of the conversation i pretty much reached the same conclusion as you.

 

[ian]

To me, it appears to be for sale for £2,999. I wonder if anyone will attempt to buy and then take action.

In any case, I think house or homes is a much better domain, but obviously not at that price!

 

[bluerock]

Its not set as a "buy now" option. They are just inviting offers of not less than the £2999. If it was a buy now then they are committed to sell.

 

[ian]

Its not set as a "buy now" option. They are just inviting offers of not less than the £2999. If it was a buy now then they are committed to sell.

Indeed, but Sedo do a great job of causing confusion "2,999 GBP or best offer".

 

[PoshTiger]

I think the seller knew exactly what he was doing - why is the price of 2995 there at all?

The price should be the BIN, and offers accepted for close lower offers.

It's dodgy because a lot of people will waste time making offers that'll never be accepted.

Which is why I think the seller is a tw@t..

 

[quickhousesale]

So how much do you think is the domain worth?

 

[Skinner]

I've had this issue with some of my names on sedo (I as a rule don't use sedo), I assumed this price would be "minimum offer" price but its a "guide" price... only its rarely a guide price.

In my EXTREMELY limited experience, people always assume this is your asking price so you never get offers higher. I suspect if you get a £3 offer, you could think you don't have a tyre kicker, but when you return 2-5-10x that as your counter, everyones going to say feck it.

 

[Lovekraft]

So how much do you think is the domain worth?

Seller believes it is worth about £50k... which i very much do not agree with. The plural just doesn't sound so good for a great brand name, or certainly not enough to spend 50k on, regardless of what he has (over) paid for it in the past.

I would have been very happy at the misleading offer price though

 

[martin-s]

The problem is how you could use the name.

As an estate agency for instance, do you rule out selling any flats?

 

[ian]

Not sure I'd even value it at £3k! Houses, such a horrible alternative.

 

[DaveP]

Yes even £3,000 is overpriced for this name, it's not a great brand name or even exact match (you'd never rank anywhere near page 1 of Google), and as others have said it rules out selling any other type of property.

 

[foz]

To a construction firm that builds them?

 

[TallBloke]

The singular house co uk is owned by British Gas though doubt they'd be interested as house redirects to their homepage.

I'm not fussed on the name myself.

The way the sedo landing page presents the domain is really misleading ...it looks like you offer the price and you've bought it.

 

[martin-s]

To a construction firm that builds them?

That's probably the best suggestion, but most of the big players run on brands - and smaller players don't really need to care much about websites.

 

[freddy]

I think I was in that auction in 2009 while it was sold. Well he bougth definately the better name, I bougth PDA.co.uk