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Downside of Price Inconsistency

I try to keep my prices consistent across sales platforms. When I change prices on one venue, I typically try to change it everywhere. This doesn’t always happen though.

While at the ICA meeting, I sold an inventory-quality domain name. I went to check where the domain name resolved, and I saw it was resolving to a different platform. It also had a lower price by about $1,000. I was out for dinner, so I didn’t have a chance to either remove the listing or change the nameservers.

I thought if the buyer opted to visit the domain name before I had a chance to do something about the less expensive listing, he would might buy the domain name at the other platform for a lower price and try to get a refund for the first purchase.

Within an hour of receiving the sale email from the platform where it sold, I received a sale cancelation email. A short while later, I received a sale email from the other platform. The price inconsistency cost me more than $1,000. It was also a good lesson that I need to do a better job of managing my pricing.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

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