Your favorite response to a lowballer

[Theo]

It was a work of art; I hope you got my response

 

[Alexander]

It was a work of art; I hope you got my response

I did. Well played, Mr. Tenacious D.

 

[sashas]

I just mailed a LLL.com owner (not too good letters...a q and an x in the name) a $3000 offer. This was, of course, just an opener and I was prepared to go upto 5-8k. The guy thought I was some lowballer ($3k for a lowballer? seriously..) and replied:

nice try dude. The price for this is 500,000


The response turned me off big time. The name wouldn't have fetched more than 6k here at DNF and I was prepared to go higher than that. But such a bad reply with a gung-ho attitude is just a put off.

So if somebody lowballs you, it would be better to keep the response polite. Many times they're serious buyers just testing the waters...

 

[Togoodhlth]

Like Focus I usually ask for contact information and if I get no response I know it was a low baller.
I received a $100 offer on a very good name which had received mid/high 5 figure offers in the past and I responded:

"I will be in Tahiti for 2 weeks and then in Hawaii surfing for a few weeks. I will have my personal assistant Newman contact you while I am traveling. Of course Newman is very busy so he may not be contacting you for several days...."

and another I have used in different variations....

"My waitress at dinner last night received a tip 4 times the amount of your offer." (This was actually true the first time I used this response).

If it seems like a legit offer I will send back something like, "Thanks for your offer however it is much lower than I am willing to consider. Please let me know if you are able to increase your budget for asdfghjk.com. If not thanks again for the offer and have a great week!"

 

[DomainMagnate]

Puranjay, that's what happens because many other domainers send these emails hoping to get a bargain. So the domain owners are starting to think that if they get a few inquires per week their domain must be really special and worth at least a few millions..

~MG

 

[Theo]

I just mailed a LLL.com owner (not too good letters...a q and an x in the name) a $3000 offer. This was, of course, just an opener and I was prepared to go upto 5-8k. The guy thought I was some lowballer ($3k for a lowballer? seriously..) and replied:

nice try dude. The price for this is 500,000


The response turned me off big time. The name wouldn't have fetched more than 6k here at DNF and I was prepared to go higher than that. But such a bad reply with a gung-ho attitude is just a put off.

So if somebody lowballs you, it would be better to keep the response polite. Many times they're serious buyers just testing the waters...

$6k seems to be the bare minimum these days regardless of letters.

 

[Focus]

At least 6k...minimum

 

[DomainMagnate]

Even for qzj.com?

~MG

 

[jasdon11]

Your favorite response to a lowballer

Here's mine:

Thanks for your interest. Selling domains isn't my main business, so I don't know if that's a fair price. However, if you would get an apppraisal from my, sorry, I mean this appraisal company (Jasdons Great Domain Appraisal Racket Inc), we can take it from there.

And then sign off as President of some company or other.

 

[sashas]

Puranjay, that's what happens because many other domainers send these emails hoping to get a bargain. So the domain owners are starting to think that if they get a few inquires per week their domain must be really special and worth at least a few millions..

~MG

Agreed. In fact this is the reason for the huge escalation in LLL.com values: too many inquiries. Many owners are not domainers and don't know better.

And regarding this name, I was prepared to give out 8k and I really really doubt he would've been able to get above 6k on any forum. But the bad response just killed it for me.


btw, does anybody think that the 3character.com price guide is now redundant? The minimum sales price given there is rarely observed. Some time back, it was pretty up to date with the sales price, but now it seems to be lagging behind...

 

[MikeK]

Damn, i'm usually the 'lowballer'

*runs and hides*