Thanks, Biggedon ! I'll try that, funny... I don't recall ever seeing that option and trust me, I've looked. As to people getting more offers if the names are listed w/Sedo MLS (and not with GD directly), that's true, I did get a few more offers after Sedo started bringing me MLS offers made on Go Daddy but delivered to your Sedo account, courtesy of.... well, Sedo LMFAO.... (this is sooo convoluted, I mean, try to picture deleting names from Sedo.... just so that GD can list them --and they're all in MY own GD acct-- only to give them to Sedo again in just days...) .....but I guess my names aren't of high quality so those are all lowballers, $60 typically, which nullifies any trans unless I want Sedo to be left with $50 and I just get 10 bucks. I did it once for a name I was about to drop and even then I resented it ! Some are $70-80 sometimes but it's that preposterous minimum commission of $50 that kills most deals, it takes a name sold for $250 or over for me to look at the commission not as $50 but as 20% (MLS) which is TOO HIGH in any case....
And just how big a benefit does having a live transfer agent bring ? GD is all automated unless there's a dispute, I get that, but Sedo used to have a 10% fee not long ago, which then went to 15% and they used the transfer agent thing as one of the reasons. But with GD you can still stop a shady deal or dispute it, so other than research if a name is stolen I don't think Sedo does much more, they may triple-ck the funds before sellers are paid, but others like GD will eat the loss if the seller gets paid and then the money is found to be dirty, so....? (if you're a buyer then I give Sedo credit for searching the domain history thoroughly, whereas GD and others will just take the domain away from the buyer and give back the money after if a deal is found to be fraudulent) Biggedon, most of your names must be valuable since that 20% or $50 doesn't seem to bother you that much, but since you park there and you're SedoPro, and one of the top three mods on DNF, you clearly have their ear, so you may wanna tell them closing a bunch of deals for $60 with a $25 fee (all they need to do it cut the $50 fee in half) is MUCH better than closing one or two deals where the seller is left with just $10. And they're losing so much biz to the Escrow.com folks who have exactly that, a $25 min trans fee. When I first went to Sedo I got used to the $60 minimum trans amt, I never liked it but they'll never change it. And going from 10% to 15% fees (for str8 Sedo offers) I had to swallow too. But their terms for MLS are simply nuts, that 20%/$50, whoever came up w/those requirements needs a course in Business 101
The offers from the real GD Auctions may not be high but I find rotating where names are listed (and we shouldn't have to....) gives them more or alternative exposure, you don't use GD as your main registrar obviously but it won't hurt to list your names on GD at least temporarily and see what happens, you might be surprised, GD also has the option of sending the domain to auction WITH ANY OFFER, even $10, Sedo could learn from that. All here need Sedo to bring them offers, I just need to find out for myself that allowing Sedo's MLS to be the chosen vehicle is right for me. Many people don't even know that when someone lists domains on Sedo first GD will NOT take them later for their own auctions, that sucks, GD should think of some other way around this. I've had a couple of run-ins with Sedo people but since they're not a registrar those haven't affected or angered me as much as those when YoDaddy has screwed me real bad. And I'm told by pros Afternic and SnapNames deliver equally good or higher offers than Sedo, so it appears GD targets a lower end of the market....
