Wow thanks for the insightful commentary. It sounds very personal. Why are you so angry?
Received a mid 5 fig offer so I thought I would ask the intelligent domaining community. First time I've read such a destructive response.
If you have a current 40K or more offer for this name, then it is mind-boggling that you are spending time on a forum asking strangers what they think about it. You are either mad at money, or totally lost in this world. The domain name is not a great name. Of course, it is the type of name that many people can get trapped into believing it is great. So, maybe you, and the so-called potential buyer who is willing to overpay for this name that cannot possibly be worth it, are each living in an alternate reality where names that don't increase a businesses value all of the sudden are worth large sums.
I know one thing that is true. If you took the top 100 most knowledgeable domainers in all of the world, and you asked them to help you get started in domaining, and you wanted them to buy you a good name for 5K. Not a single one of them would buy Pizzerias.com if it was available. If you didn't already own Pizzerias.com, and you were entrusted with protecting your children's college fund, you would never in a million years pay 5K for this name. Now, you want to ask strangers what they think about the name? If you are pissing around with a legit 40K or 50K offer with the hopes of extracting maximum payment from the buyer, then it seems strange that you would risk everything by putting it in a thread here.
Now, I asked if I had seen this name before. I think that you asked about this name. It sucked back then and it sucks now. That is my opinion. I would rather have $200 in cash. I'm not calling you a liar, but I think you have a better chance of seeing God the next time you open the fridge than you do of selling this name for 40K or 50K. So make sure that when you close this deal that you come back here and rub it in. You will need to provide proof of a closed deal or I won't believe it happened.
Either that or you can continue in your fantasyland world and come back again for at least the third time in a few years and ask everyone again what they think of this name. I didn't like the name then, and I don't like it now. If you are turning down anywhere near 50K for this name then we are not operating in the same universe. It is such an outrageous price that I won't believe it until I see a completed deal. You know, kinda like Sportsbook.mobi for 150K or so that was paraded around a few years ago. The only problem is that deal never happened. It was close to a zero value name. They faked a transaction and got it reported. How about Flowers.mobi. That name "allegedly" sold for over 200K at auction (hahaha). Then a few years later the so-called buyer sold it for 6K. Weeeeeee.
Pizzerias.com is at least a real name, and it is dotcom. But I'm not buying the story. When I know for a fact that every domainer in the world except you would take 40K or so immediately and laugh at the buyer, it just seems strange that the only domainer on earth, and possibly the only human out of 7 billion who would rather have Pizzerias.com than 40-50K, happens to appear before me. Find me one other human being who is alive today who would rather have Pizzerias.com than 40K in cash if both were sitting right in front of them. This is a legit question. Name one other person alive today who, if given the choice, would rather have Pizzerias.com than 40K. I guess it is just you....and the mystery buyer.
See ya in three years. The name won't be any better the next time I appraise it. It may be worth a little more than what I value it, if only that it is the type of name that can easily fool people who don't know what makes a name valuable. But I would rather have $200, and I am serious about that. At some point, someone is going to have to start a business with the name. Well, I just typed in the name. It seems clear as day that the name is not worth much. You have already started a business on it. So, someone offering money for it is not offering to buy the domain only, I would assume. And it is almost certain that the business didn't turn out to be such a great business.
So, are you selling the business or the domain name? How much money did you spend on the name when you acquired it? How many hundreds, or thousands of hours have you spent on the business that you created at Pizzerias.com? Add them all up and my guess is that it is not such a good business. How much total profit have you made, if you properly factor in the time, effort, and money you spent developing the site? I would bet that it isn't such a great business. If I am wrong, and it is a great business, then how much more money do you think the business made because it used Pizzerias.com instead of another name? I mean, Pizzerias.com by itself is NEVER going to get any type of type in traffic, so for the name to have big value the term has to bring something to the table that another name doesn't. If it were truly a valuable name/business, then Papa Johns, Dominos, or Pizza Hut would pay you millions for the site you created. That is, if you actually can create a huge database of valuable people for them. When Facebook pays 18 Billion for WhatsApp, why can't Pizza Hut pay 100K for Pizzerias.com, database included?
So you start a thread asking about a domain name, and you don't tell anyone that you are running a business on it. You also don't tell anyone if the "buyer" is getting just the name, or the business, which would presumably includes hundreds, if not thousands of man hours, that have already been put into developing the business. If you have put in 2,000 hours into the business over the years, which is only 10 hours per week for four years, then you better be raking in the profits to justify that commitment. If it is something that took little effort to get started, yet shoots off a few thousand per year in free cash flow (with no additional effort), then you should start a business teaching others how to build online businesses.
I think you pulled this stunt a few years ago, so I am going to have to let you go now. Yet another person who confuses a business with a domain name. Hey guys, did you see that Google.com is worth 400 billion? I believe that the name doesn't bring much extra value to the business. Certainly not enough to justify someone paying 40K for the domain name only, and then starting from zero and doing something similar to what you did. Nobody looking for pizza is typing in one word when they do. If there is one person on earth who was hungry for pizza, and then went to Google and typed in one word only, and that word was Pizzerias, then we would all agree that this person was an idiot. Nobody on the planet who is about to order a pizza is going to type in Pizzerias only, and very few are going to type in the word Pizzerias with another word. They type in things like Manhattan Pizza Delivery. They will type in anything buy the one word Pizzerias. That's just how the world works, and that's why the name doesn't get any organic traffic, which means that it really isn't worth much as a stand alone name. A similar business can be created without paying you 40K first.
Just checked the site a bit. Guaranteed loser. Business was started in 2011. No Facebook posts since 2012. Under 900 likes. Twitter is more active, it seems. Not a real business. In the about us, it talks about how two guys started the business. Doesn't mention their names. No name on the whois. Can't possibly be a real/good business worth growing, or else you would brand it and have a bit of a personal touch. If this business/domain name was actually accumulating valuable leads, which it looks like isn't the case, then you are still left with the question of how much more valuable is the business because it is using Pizzerias.com. If you look at Pizzerias.net, .org, .info, and .biz, you will see that all of them are parked pages, so it looks like you can add a few more people to the list of suckers who think the term is valuable. Those people renew those names each year, wasting their money, getting zero PPC, and it goes on and on and on. You went the extra mile and likely wasted a few years of your life on this. Time to cut your losses and get out.
Not buying what you are selling.