Maintaining the dual roles of domain buyer and domain seller, is not an easy task.<\/p>\n
One has to juggle between these two roles – rolled together into the joint function of “domain investor”<\/em> – and keep an objective approach to business.<\/p>\n As a domain seller, whenever I offer domains for sale on various venues, if I use a public reserve price it is the actual minimum price<\/strong> I’d consider selling at.<\/p>\n This approach helps indicate what range of offers one expects, and allows serious buyers to surpass it if they are so inclined. In fact, this approach leads to a sale quicker, than with a “make an offer” statement.<\/p>\n At the antipodes of this, is the use of a pseudo-reserve price<\/strong>, often utilized by domain selling venues. Personally, I’ve seen it on Sedo<\/strong>, and it works like this:<\/p>\n The domain is parked with a “Make an offer” option that carries a price, that in no way reflects the selling point of the owner. In fact, the minimum acceptable price is set considerably low, in order to act as a bait<\/strong>; the seller can then accept (unlikely<\/em>) or counter-offer much higher.<\/p>\n As a domain buyer, I find this method to be frustrating and borderline dishonest, particularly as it engages buyer and seller over a domain that would have been sold otherwise. I’m not sure if this method is used solely by Sedo to generate traffic to domains for sale, or by other venues as well.<\/p>\n The bottom line is, that for me, it acted as a deterrent and I ended up purchasing a different domain name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maintaining the dual roles of domain buyer and domain seller, is not an easy task. One has to juggle between these two roles – rolled together into the joint function of “domain investor” – and keep an objective approach to business. As a domain seller, whenever I offer domains for sale on various venues, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n