GoDaddy Broker - Respond or Not? (1.Viewing)

I've had a couple of theses myself so I'll give my two cents.


First, none of my domains are on the godaddy network so anything brokered is bonus to me because the commission is paid by the buyer.

Second, it's a crazy low offer but the person spent almost $100 after taxes (if currency conversion is involved) so they have to be at least interested in establishing a dialogue.

Third, since GoDaddy is doing all the work just quote a price and let them handle it. It's not like it's costing you any time or effort to simply quote a number.

Fourth, if you get 10 of these and one turns out to be real you're laughing all the way to the bank (assuming you get asking or near asking price).



@DataCube - thank you for tweeting

I did respond to the broker out of courtesy, but not with an asking price.

I am not all that interested in pricing a domain in response to a lowball anchor point.

I basically just said I am not interested, and if the buyer is willing to make a serious offer I will consider it.

Serious buyers tend to come back with serious offers.

I have dealt with GoDaddy brokers countless times. They know I am not going to entertain a $50 offer.

I just sold a similar, but probably worse, domain today for close to $6K.

Just for reference, this domain sold for $500+ at GoDaddy expired auction and I was willing to go much higher to win it.

I have sold comparable domains for numbers well into (5) figures.

Brad

Min bid offers are coming in like mad and it seems that researching and pricing domains is all I do every night - unfortunately none of them have turned into sales.

I have come to understand that these are just hobos running around with spare change in their pockets, looking to steal domains. Due to this, I plan on ignoring any offer less than 4-figures for a period 30 days.

Serious buyers will up their bids, while the low-balling crumb bums will just fade away.