Are Some Domainers Rude To Potential Buyers?

There have been UDRP cases filed merely for responding that a domain was for sale. Regardless only a small percentage of inquiries result in a sale. So unless the inquiry leaves some indication they are serious I may not bother to respond.

4pm said:

no, it's not.

is it rude to not respond to "Do you need cheap site/app/hosting/design" letters?

is it rude to not respond to "I'm a student. I need this domain for my school project. Can pay $10"?

is it rude to not respond to "How much?" when the landing clearly states "Make offer"?

is it rude to not respond to unsolicited "Is it for sale?" when i'm not explicitly offering the thing for sale at all?

and how is this not rude:


* i'm not the guy

...you got too much ego is what i see. too much ego if you expect and demand that everyone must respond just because you asked..

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The best thing to do is tell them that the domain name is not for sale... and everybody walks away.

deez007 said:

I think if your email is sent from you an actual business email address along with full contact details in your signature. (Along with website url so the can go and see that you are a legit company) Then the person should at the very least have the courtesy to reply.

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This I agree with. But most of my one liners I received are from hotmail addresses with no names or addresses. With names and addresses, I do an internet search for the individual If the are real people, I reply. Otherwise, in my 14 years domaining, it's a waste of my time.

No it is not rude to not respond to messages ( even on NP ) that come out of the blue with 1 line that goes like

"how much? "

Sorry but if you think that me or my domain are not worth 2 min of your time to introduce yourself and use some manners your message is definitely not worth replying to in my book.

Do you want to be taken seriously? Be professional, serious and make commensurate offers...if you don't you have already labelled yourself as a time waster. Do not blame it on others

I have zero time for time wasters, sorry but not sorry.

I do believe you are sincere in your post and am responding accordingly.

If the person you are contacting has solicited inquiries / offers then perhaps not to reply to you is a bit rude.

If however, you are " cold " emailing a person who has not sought communications regarding their domain name there is no obligation nor reasonable expectation of any response.

Years ago I replied to some, though not all ," cold " unsolicited inquiries.

Today - never again; no more; no way; nada; etc.

To increase the possibility of a response to a " cold " email agree with preceding comments and suggest you send only a well articulated, cogent and identifiable inquiry.

The more experience you have the easier it will become to tell the difference between a genuine interested party and a tire-kicker, low-baller, time-waster! You must take your ego out of the equation. There are all kinds of buyers and sellers as their are all kinds of people. I try to answer any reasonable offer with at least a response, but if I deem the offer as unreasonable you most likely will not get a response. If I get an offer of "how much?" on a "make offer" listing, my canned response is, "Thank you for your interest in mydomain.whatever, we are currently only accepting offers for this premium domain at this time. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks again! The important thing to remember is many many closed transactions have started with simple emails, unsigned emails etc. Sometimes, buyers go away only to come back weeks or months later to grab the domain so why talk yourself out of a potential sale down the road because of unprofessionalism or lack of restraint, or ego? Just listen to @Ali about the Freedom.com deal and how the negotiations went "dark" or quiet for weeks at a time before a deal was done! Many successful domainers have similar stories about buyers who went away only to come back later and close a deal. Don't kill a deal before it has a chance!

Kate said:

There are mails that I won't reply too, like those for LLL.com domains that are not for sale anyway, unless we receive an offer that we absolutely cannot refuse. And they usually come from spa... I mean domainers and when you receive multiple copies of the same mail to different domains, you can tell you're dealing with a bargain hunter.
With experience it's usually not hard to figure out if you're dealing with a spammer or a real end users. In between there are many chancers and dreamers too.

That being said, you should also assume that your mail may have been trapped as spam and never reached the intended destination. Or it was trashed by the company secretary or whomever is in the first line. The whois record may be out of date too.
Sometimes it's good to pick up the phone.

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Thanks for your detailed replies as usual but I am talking about emails that went into inbox and were READ. He has read the one i sent with an offer twice though.

You might be wondering why this is the case but I have read a few post on here where it is suggested that people should ignore the first email to see how serious a buyer is. This could be one of such resultants!

jideofor said:

The funniest thing is that this Guy's portfolio is pigeon shiit... you can hardly find anything good worth buying and he has over 200 of such domains.

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HeHe

Little trivia here....

Who can tell me where we heard the words "Pigeon Shiit" when referring to domains recently?

I have a standard response to ALL inquiries....

MapleDots is a domain property developer. Some domains may be for sale but all names in our portfolio have a 5k minimum price. If interested please respond with Full Name, Business Name, and Contact Number and we will promptly respond to you inquiry.

I don't like to waste time on small talk and if I get a response back for 2k I respond politely as below...

Thank you for your interest but we are looking for a bit more for this domain.

MapleDots said:

I have a standard response to ALL inquiries....

MapleDots is a domain property developer. Some domains may be for sale but all names in our portfolio have a 5k minimum price. If interested please respond with Full Name, Business Name, and Contact Number and we will promptly respond to you inquiry.

I don't like to waste time on small talk and if I get a response back for 2k I respond politely as below...

Thank you for your interest but we are looking for a bit more for this domain.

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I would prefer any kind of response... but not the cold "ignore him" attitude.

jideofor said:

I have made attempts a few times to inquire about some domains and what I get is a cold "no response" after they read the email.

I feel this is rude and does not speak good of these people. I can say this has happened more than I can ever imagine. They do not respond to simple "how much" or "is xyz domain name for sale"?

A while back a domain name that I forgot to buy on closeout had just hit the account of this guy when I emailed him to inquire for a possible sale. He read it and refused to reply.

Courtesy demand that a simple "no" or "yes" should follow an inquiry but never in the case of these people. They would prefer to not to respond to that email.

Their reason for this is not even know. Maybe they already too rich or feel too proud but the issue I have with attitude like this is that it disgust me.

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I get many emails everyday from other domainers trying to sell me their sh*t domains or offering me 10 or 20 dollars for my domains.

Many of us are tired of dealing with this BS every day.

Just because you're offended, it does not mean you're right...

I got 3 emails this morning from India asking to develop my website, app, whatever else.

Trashed them all.

Most, if not all Registrars have a button where a broker would attempt to buy any domain. That would get a response from anyone.

M

In the car business there are ten or so tire kickers to every sale. The problem is some people look like tire kickers and end up being the real deal. The only way to know for sure is to treat each tire kicker as a potential client.

I have canned responses in my email program and it takes seconds to respond. Everyone does what works for them but I prefer to respond to everyone.

I don't respond to most enquires via whois email id. Those are by resellers, and are mostly sent via bulk emailing programs. Typically these come for liquid names.. like 3L, CVCV etc.

These guys are expecting you to sell them for pennies, and they won't respond even if you make a courtesy reply. I take only serious enquiries, seriously.

Cdomains said:

I get many emails everyday from other domainers trying to sell me their sh*t domains or offering me 10 or 20 dollars for my domains.

Many of us are tired of dealing with this BS every day.

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Marc Riccio said:

Just because you're offended, it does not mean you're right...

I got 3 emails this morning from India asking to develop my website, app, whatever else.

Trashed them all.

Most, if not all Registrars have a button where a broker would attempt to buy any domain. That would get a response from anyone.

M

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We are not talking about app here or website. We are talking about someone asking about a domain name for possible sale. They are not the same scenario.

Smooth said:

I don't respond to most enquires via whois email id. Those are by resellers, and are mostly sent via bulk emailing programs. Typically these come for liquid names.. like 3L, CVCV etc.

These guys are expecting you to sell them for pennies, and they won't respond even if you make a courtesy reply. I take only serious enquiries, seriously.

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Make case is different from yours. As a matter of fact, this is combination of letters and keyword.

He has read the email and has refused to respond. I will wait and then give it up!

I have a one word .com domain name in a popular niche. There is this guy who always contacts me, asking me for a price. I gave him a price many times but he never replies to my email. Then few weeks later he asks a price. Such people are what makes some domainers not to respond.

jideofor said:

I have made attempts a few times to inquire about some domains and what I get is a cold "no response" after they read the email.

I feel this is rude and does not speak good of these people. I can say this has happened more than I can ever imagine. They do not respond to simple "how much" or "is xyz domain name for sale"?

A while back a domain name that I forgot to buy on closeout had just hit the account of this guy when I emailed him to inquire for a possible sale. He read it and refused to reply.

Courtesy demand that a simple "no" or "yes" should follow an inquiry but never in the case of these people. They would prefer to not to respond to that email.

Their reason for this is not even know. Maybe they already too rich or feel too proud but the issue I have with attitude like this is that it disgust me.

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Money Talks and BullShit walks. Your offers must of being insulting to them, otherwise you would get response. Next time make serious offer if u want response.

no, it's not.

is it rude to not respond to "Do you need cheap site/app/hosting/design" letters?

is it rude to not respond to "I'm a student. I need this domain for my school project. Can pay $10"?

is it rude to not respond to "How much?" when the landing clearly states "Make offer"?

is it rude to not respond to unsolicited "Is it for sale?" when i'm not explicitly offering the thing for sale at all?

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This is not really the same thing imo, I will reply to all domain inquiries because I am in the domaining business. I wont reply to webhosting/app inquiries because its not what I do, the same as I wont reply to people trying to sell me viagra or telling me Im a distant relative of a Nigerian price and I have inherited $500 million.

Names are sometimes not advertised as "For sale" but if the name is not developed or being used in any way, a lot of owners are willing to sell if an offer comes along. A lot of people, especially new domainers make this mistake and think because it doesn't have a "Make Offer" or "Buy this domain" on the landing page, its not for sale, its doesn't hurt to ask. I have bought names from people who have owned the name for 10 or 15 years and its the only name they ever owned and they purchased it for a project and then did nothing with it and its just been sitting on autorenew for 10 years. If there is a name you want and it doesn't look like its for sale, send them and email and ask, they will either ignore, give you a price or tell you to make an offer. No harm done

is it rude to not respond to "I'm a student. I need this domain for my school project. Can pay $10"?

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Now this email really pisses me off

Just my opinion, we all have different techniques.

Abdullah Abdullah said:

I have a one word .com domain name in a popular niche. There is this guy who always contacts me, asking me for a price. I gave him a price many times but he never replies to my email. Then few weeks later he asks a price. Such people are what makes some domainers not to respond.

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Is it Scott Gray?

Until I own portfolio of only premium names and can afford to flip the bird at any buyer I deem unworthy of my attention - I think I'll stick to responding to every inquiry. Why give them time to find a different domain.

I don't get 100s of emails a day so I have no problem "wasting my time".
Even if only 1% of those turns into sale it's still better than 0%

I generally google the name, email, phone, peep the ip address along with analyze the wording of the email and initial offer and go from there. As @TheDot.shop said the longer you've been doing this the easier it is to determine what has a good possibility of ending up in a sale or wasting time and I've been staring at domain offers for 14 years. If the ultimate end user gives ya an initial $50 offer and you ignore it believe me they'll be back as had one of those I ignored that ended at $6500 so only a $6450 increase from their initial offer.

Received a $50 offer today on a domain that I wouldn't sell for less than 10k, after research no signs point to end user so yes I will probably ignore as not a flipper. So yes some of us may be rude but sometimes it's easier to let them think it ended up in a spam trap then going round for round arguing with someone that believes the max it should be priced is $100.

Serious offers get responses. Low offers generally ignored unless my analysis points to an end user on the line as that's the only person I wanna sell to as I have zero interest in selling to another domainer at reseller pricing as I've always been in for the long haul at maximum ROI.

Sure way to get ignored or told to go away.
I am John Smith how much is your domain or my friend wants to buy your 2k name for $70 [email protected] lucky if i answer those. If i cannot find a way to pinpoint who i am dealing with i am not dealing with anyone. I cannot sell to an anon person.

anantj said:

Is it Scott Gray?

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Who is that? Does he send a lot of price requests? :D

Abdullah Abdullah said:

Who is that? Does he send a lot of price requests? :D

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Yes.. And never responds back.. Exactly the same message everytime except for the domain name, asks for a price but never responds or anything. His e-mail also does not show up anything on googling