singlefile said:As a nation, we are too laissez-faire to do anything about such corporate misbehaviour. I'd like to see a national "Stop taking the piss" march in 2006
LeeOwen said:But £100 does seem a bit much but then if you break that down to £2 on postage and £35 on transfer forms (unless they get a deal?) and £5 for an hour's labour, fair enough I think - that's a profit of £58 on domain sales that go for small amounts.
LeeOwen said:But £100 does seem a bit much but then if you break that down to £2 on postage and £35 on transfer forms (unless they get a deal?) and £5 for an hour's labour, fair enough I think - that's a profit of £58 on domain sales that go for small amounts.
LeeOwen said:If it takes ten minutes to check over forms, that's 6 jobs an hour, £60.00 max
Edwin said:(so far, all my dealings with Sedo have been with relatively clued-in professional folks)
Sedo said:Not one single .uk transfer from last year took “one hour” or less – the average length of time for a .uk transfer in 2005 was 22 days.
That’s 22 days. Reason for delay: see aforementioned paperwork
The average length of time for a .com transfer is 4 days
But WHAT ABOUT THE CONVERSION RATE?sedo said:We have no immediate plans to reduce the cost of .uk transfers any further.
Nominet is not the problem.sedo said:Once the Nominet transfer system is simplified, we will. That's all I can promise you.
Though universally negative.sedo said:There seems to be very varied responses to the current fee.
See above.sedo said:Do many of you go to the Nominet meetings?
Not really your business, but since you asked - A LOT more than through Sedo.sedo said:How many of you have sold a .uk domain for 50 GBP-100 GBP at/outside of Sedo?
sedo said:Hi there,
Thanks for all the feedback.
We have no immediate plans to reduce the cost of .uk transfers any further. Once the Nominet transfer system is simplified, we will. That's all I can promise you. There seems to be very varied responses to the current fee.
Do many of you go to the Nominet meetings?
How many of you have sold a .uk domain for 50 GBP-100 GBP at/outside of Sedo?
Regards,
Nora
Nigel said:My question to sedo is this - why can you do .co.uk domain transfers for a minimum of $100 if the domain is priced in dollars yet if the domain is priced in pounds it costs a minimum of £100? I think it proves that uk domains can be handled profitably by sedo for a little over £50. I'm one who's tried pricing our domains in dollars and it doesn't work - you just end up with silly starting bids and prices never reach the same levels. So if sedo were able to offer us a price of £50 for .co.uk sales that would be good enough for me![]()
Jarrod said:Now now guys - I think some of you are being a little over critical here.
I agree that Sedo's minimum commission can be extremely frustrating when it comes to sub £500 offers, but they are a business at the end of the day.
For that £100 you get a buyer, a secure escrow service and a well managed transfer. All of my dealings with the Sedo transfers team have been very smooth.
Nominet will be launching their electronic transfer system at some point this year which should speed up the turnaround time of transfers (especially international deals). Once this goes live I'm sure we'll see Sedo lower their commission to 10% across the board.
Second, You grossly overestimate the quality of Sedo's transfer process - they don't look over the forms. They just respond to your chase email by sending the buyer an email. Very difficult, time consuming stuff - not.
We are currently looking into the issue of minimum commission in Euros vs. GBP. Hopefully, we'll have some progress on this in the near future. I can't promise anything, but I'm optimistic.
We have no immediate plans to reduce charges
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