Who offers the best appraisal service?

[ships]

Can I have some advice about paid appraisals please.
I want to get an appraisal done on a domain,but where is the question.How accurate are they?
I notice Sedo offer a 3 day in depth one.Has anyone used this service,how was it and how accurate?
Thanks in advance.

 

[njf]

I've yet to see an appraisal service output worth the money, other than Acorn's forum output.

I commissioned one 'pro' appraisal on a .co.uk an age ago - the service's script churned some banal output, including three germanword.de's for comparison. I doubt a human was involved in the process anywhere.

The flaw in the business model of appraisal services is that they give you one opinion on value - for which there is no right or wrong figure - there is only opinion (and whatever you can actually, in the real world, swing a deal for). Even upper-lower bound valuations are based on a single opinion.

Posting on the forum gives you access to multiple points of view from people who, between them must have sold ten+ thousands of domains. And its cheaper.

If you get no responses on a posting it maybe indicative of worth - i.e. not much. Its also worth reading through other appraisal threads - a similar .co.uk one may help you without wasting bandwidth.

Remember to include the DN in the subject - wise eyes are jaundiced by, and will always skip "Subj: CHECK-OUT AND VALUE MY GREAT DOMAIN!" crap - insults the reader.

Nick.

 

[tekz999]

estibot is not bad

 

[beeno]

Can I have some advice about paid appraisals please.
I want to get an appraisal done on a domain,but where is the question.How accurate are they?
I notice Sedo offer a 3 day in depth one.Has anyone used this service,how was it and how accurate?
Thanks in advance.

I did a three day appraisal through sedo and although it seemed to give a large well detailed responce I can't see the domain in question was worth the amount they estimated. Even if I had halfed it in price it seemed to high so you will get good detail and they tell you lots of things you might not know but I would be wary of the figure they put on the domains. :-D

 

[acceleratoraccelerator is verified member.]

Nothing can beat learning about the domain market yourself and working out how to value domains yourself. Ultimately the domain name marketplace is illiquid so a given domain is worth the offers you can obtain for it.

 

[dock]

forums

Post in the appraisal sections in the forums.

But ultimate appraisal will be from you. Compare the sales charts and end users.

 

[ships]

Thanks for all your advice,I appreciate it.