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Who offers the best appraisal service?

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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'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.
 
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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
 
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.
 
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Post in the appraisal sections in the forums.

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