So I do not agree with you that it is a poor practice. I think it is a quite logical practice that ultimately leads them to double or triple their marketplace revenue.

People that set fixed prices tend to set unrealistic prices for their domain names. Domain names that are worth $1000, are set with a 50k fixed price. When a buyer sees this he/she automatically does not even bother submitting an offer that is way below the seller’s expectation.

And buying many domain names in the domain industry, I know how sellers sometimes even started out with 6 figure numbers, and ended up at 4 figure sales.

Right, that is because this leads to double or even triple the sales if you were to set a fixed price. They posted this somewhere on their site, I’ve read it a year or two ago.

They claim that domains that are open for all offers lead to more sales than those with fixed prices. Quite logical if you ask me, so I am not sure if I am to believe that they want to start making their sellers put prices on domain names. I mean, I think as a company like Sedo, they already learned that it is a bad idea just by looking at what eBay has become.

Have not been on their site in a long time. May stop by to see if they’ve implemented improvements.

Sedo Launches SedoMLS – http://tinyurl.com/csukk5