Godaddy brokers (1.Viewing)

rlm · Oct 28, 2024

I'm getting kinda sick of buyers who pay godaddy $120 USD for broker services, who then simply just send a template email with no offer and just asking what my price is. The majority of the time these are a waste of time for both of us. You get paid for your time, but I don't. I think GoDaddy should start paying me half that fee if they want me to respond to these inquiries going forward.

@jamesiles Any thoughts on that?

DomainRecap · Oct 28, 2024

If the broker doesn't make an offer then the buyer has no money. It's as simple as that.

Just totally ignore them and you'll see their (cough) "top offer" eventually. One time I received at least 5 'blank template' inquiries before the GD broker unveiled the buyer's full offer price of $250, along with the boilerplate "cash offers are rare" bullcrap. And if you hit the rare buyer with some cash in their pocket, you'll see that offer too, and a lot quicker.

No offer = no response

rlm · Oct 29, 2024

DomainRecap said:
If the broker doesn't make an offer then the buyer has no money. It's as simple as that.

Just totally ignore them and you'll see their (cough) "top offer" eventually. One time I received at least 5 'blank template' inquiries before the GD broker unveiled the buyer's full offer price of $250, along with the boilerplate "cash offers are rare" bullcrap. And if you hit the rare buyer with some cash in their pocket, you'll see that offer too, and a lot quicker.

No offer = no response

The part I don't understand is, if they have no money, who the hell pays $160+ to just put a price request in via godaddy when the domain had a contact form landing page and my whois is public??

MapleDots · Oct 29, 2024

rlm said:
my whois is public??

The Rick Schwartz rule

Nothing like putting something up for sale but not letting the buyer know who owns it, chances are greater and trust is instantly built when WHOIS is public.

rlm · Oct 29, 2024

and yet they don’t use it…

DomainRecap · Oct 29, 2024

rlm said:
The part I don't understand is, if they have no money, who the hell pays $160+ to just put a price request in via godaddy when the domain had a contact form landing page and my whois is public??

No idea, as my WHOIS is private and I get a lot of these. I think some people believe that the fee gets them the domain, while others are just looking for a cheap deal. Others think they can use their "mad negotiating skillz" to get the price down to pennies on the dollar, but 98.3% of the time with a GD broker you're getting a delusional buyer.

Remember, since most for sale domains are on some form of lander or have open WHOIOS info, these people are almost-always playing an end-around game through a broker, because they want to anonymously lowball. Otherwise, they'd just put an offer through the lander, right?

mikeyboy · Oct 29, 2024