Comments on: More Than One Possible End User Try an eBay Auction

By: 12am

12am — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:05:11 +0000

Good luck but be aware of some bidder. Some of them buy but never pay. I had this twice.

Good luck again

By: PPC Ian

PPC Ian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:29:59 +0000

Brian,
Best of luck to you! It will be really interesting to hear about the success of your auctions.
Best,
Ian

By: Belmassio

Belmassio — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:19:38 +0000

I think your title makes no sense in relation to your post and in just reading it, it’s poorly worded English, but good luck selling on eBay.

By: DomainTweeter

DomainTweeter — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:30:34 +0000

Best of luck with the auction. Even though ebay isn’t ideal for domain sales (lack of integrated escrow / payment concerns), it’s probably the only auction site most end users have heard of. And having a great ebay feedback rating always helps

One suggestion. You might want to set the auction to the max possible duration and consider contacting your most targeted end users before the auction goes live to give them some advance notice.

Sometimes even a 10 day period isn’t enough for some end users to make a decision and it’s no fun getting a $x,xxx offer a few weeks after selling a name at reserve after a one bidder auction – don’t ask me how I learned that one

You might also want to set a high buy now price and attach lots of screen shots – e.g. Google results, PPC advertisers and keyword stats or Google shopping screens if relevant.

If the domains are currently parked, I’d move them to Whypark – since their ‘sites’ tend to have more credibility (in an end users eyes).

By: Bollywood

Bollywood — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:23:31 +0000

Very compelling argument. Just one question, what kind of users buy domain names on eBay? Are they domainers or just wannbe domainers?

By: Mojito

Mojito — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:06:36 +0000

Good luck, and I hope you provide the results.

By: webworker

webworker — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:50:55 +0000

Good idea, good luck with your listings. I think that a large portion of end users with small businesses or ideas for projects are still in the dark about domain names. Then when they go to register one and it’s not available, they give up.

I think eBay is a good way to help legitimize the process.