Very rarely – if ever – do I post twice on the same day. But a “domains wanted” thread over at DNForum made me scramble enough material for yet another domain-related rant.
What the heck, it’s also Friday.
So when a buyer posts about their budget being in the “$xx – low $xxx” range, one would hope their expectations about domain quality aren’t that high.
Otherwise, either they have a small budget and high expectations, or a small brain. Or both.
However, when a fellow domainer jumps in to defend the lowball poster’s demands, that’s when I take offense.
And I quote my initial response from that thread:
Short domains: $x,xxx
Aged domains: $x,xxx
Short & aged domains: $x,xxx – $xx,xxx
There are some so-called “industry standards” that once broken will further allow a bunch of clowns to demand something for nothing.
Short domains, aged domains, short *and* aged domains – all are worthy of a domainer’s respect. When you violate this rough guide, you’re disrespecting an entire industry.
Sure, I could have walked away from the thread – then again, I’m known for voicing my opinion when I strongly feel I’m in the right.
A seller is in the wrong when they declare their domains are “premium” when they are not. A buyer is in the wrong when they demand unreasonably low prices for domains that are worth much more by definition.
TGIF!
ACRO,
The Dow is on track for its worst week in almost three years.
Consequently, the vultures are flying out of their collective nests to prey on the bloodied, financially vunerable victims — luring them with their toxic crumbs — the “Low Balls”
-Anthony
Acro thanks for the price guide line. I will try to commit this to memory.
Anthony – It’s more like lack of gray matter than a fluctuating Dow Jones 🙂
Poor Uncle – that’s bare minimums!
It has nothing to do with the Dow or anything else, this has been going on forever. Domains Wanted section should be renamed or sponsored by Comedy Central.
There are so many threads on Namepros.
Looking for LLL.com budget $1000 and that’s firm.
Looking for aged domains, must be at least 14 years old. budget x to xx
Looking for .coms with 50,000 exact match on Google Keyword tool. Budget xx.
Good post Theo.
forums suck. Rarely do you find an end user on their and if you do they still won’t come close to $500 even.
Forums are for selling your sucky domains.
Send them a list of domains you are about to drop or have no interest at all..
Let them dig through and see if they like some.
and this is why i had a hissy fit a couple weeks ago. To add insult to injury, 9 times out of 10 they don’t respond to your answer to their post either.
All to true, it’s probably a measure of ones success in this industry if one needs to resort to ‘low ball’ offerings in order to make a quid.
These type of investors seldom if ever manage to acquire a decent domain given the simple fact they don’t finance anything greater and $x\$xx.
Most of these types are domain ‘tire kickers’ too that is to say they post nothing more than “PM me the reserve please” with no intention of purchasing/bidding.
On the flip side though as the old adage goes “if you put your hand in the fire expect to get burned!”
That is to say if you place your quality digital assets in to an arena like domain forums or auction platforms your most certainly going to end up with 99% resellers wanting wholesale and low balls offering low ball offers! ;)~
For me (as I rarely sell domains in forums)is to find end users and/or employ a good domain broker who can find them for you, A tactic that earned me just under 14k quite recently for a domain that would of sold in forums for less than 4k.