Sedo sales

[Admin]

So I bid on a domain on Sedo listed with a Seller's Listing Price: 200 EUR

I bid the full amount, no response.

On chasing they come back and say sorry, we want £xx,xxx for it.

Sedo should ban people like that for wasting peoples time. It's still listed now.

Grrrr

Admin

 

[Edwin]

You mean a fixed price listing, or one with a minimum offer price?

 

[scooter]

Why do they do this? If they show a price of 200 no-one is going to reply and say that's fine, here's 10,000

I agree, they should be banned. The only reason I think they do it is so they get a few bids in as it makes it look more popular and then they maybe display the price what they really want for it? dunno

 

[Admin]

I clicked on the domain in the for sale list search results, it said Seller's Listing Price: 200 EUR

That's what I bid.

Admin

 

[dlone]

There's a difference between minimum offer price and the asking/listing price.

It defeats the object when people set the asking price artificially low just so they appear at the top of listings or to get a few bids before upping the price to make it stand out for anyone else looking at that name in the future. Sedo should really do something about.

 

[GreyWing]

I wouldn't always blame the seller.

When you bulk add, sedo lets you put a default price in. That is what's probably happened. The seller probably had no idea it was listed at 200 euro's.

Crap system and should have been sorted ages ago..

 

[Edwin]

Was there an input box? And does the text next to the box say "Your offer"? Because if it does, that's the clue that the price represents the start of a negotiation, not a BIN. Domains sold with a genuinely fixed BIN don't have a box, just a button marked "Buy Now".

It's very subtle - too subtle - and frankly I agree with you that it's annoying, but at least that's a cast-iron way to tell the difference, once you get used to the system.

BTW, if you want to skip all the offer/counteroffer nonsense, set the "listing type" pulldown for "fixed price only" and bingo, it's all gone!