@biggie Thanks. I posted the first post in order to see what people would say to convince an end user that they should still pay a price that they previously offered even after they realize that a few years earlier the domain cost much less. I didn't post it in order to discuss whether I did the right thing by countering or not. Later in the thread people asked for more details so I provided them. For the purpose of my initial question, "what to do, when the ball is in your court" isn't relevant to what I wanted to discuss. An end user can discover at any point in the negotiation that a domain was offered for less in the past, whether the ball is in the seller's court or not. Your question has merit and people may have different strategies, but that's simply not what I wanted to discuss so what I wrote in the initial post reflects that. As for assuming something could have happened VS playing out a parallel universe scenario and kick myself for countering because not countering may have not caused the buyer to check the archive a day later... there's a big difference between the two. The bottom line is that you can't know what a potential buyer may do and everything you say or do during negotiations can end up in a sale, a bigger sale or end up with nothing. And sometimes it doesn't even depend on what you do because the potential buyer can do anything at any point regardless of a seller's response. So like I said in the initial post- you win some, you lose some. I don't care about hype. I care about results and since countering usually ends up well, that's what I do. Anyway... thanks again for the input.
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i didn't want to excerpt anything you said.
the reason for this reply, is for those who like to read.
let's take this line:
Thanks. I posted the first post in order to see what people would say to convince an end user that they should still pay a price that they previously offered even after they realize that a few years earlier the domain cost much less.
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the title may reflect what you say above, but your initial post, did not say that.
also, i'd like to ask.... how do you know that it was an "end-user"
is this an assumption or known fact?
I didn't post it in order to discuss whether I did the right thing by countering or not. Later in the thread people asked for more details so I provided them. For the purpose of my initial question, "what to do, when the ball is in your court" isn't relevant to what I wanted to discuss.
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when you post for opinions and responders give theirs,
and you don't want to discuss anything that you feel isn't relevant, even if related, then is it really a discussion?
so, let's rephrase... who's court is the ball in now"?
is it in your court and you have leverage
or is it in potentials' court and you have none?
now, if you ponder that...then that would make "what to do when the ball is in your court" quite relevant.
it's also validated, by your question of "what people would say to convince an end user that they should still pay a price that they previously offered".
simply because, you realize that the ball is not in your court, so you seek answers to get back in that position.
is that logical or not?
i could delve deeper, but i didn't anyone reading, to proceed under the notion that my replies were irrelevant.
you mentioned quite a few assumptions and assumptions can always be questioned, for clarity, source, etc.
if, they can be dismissed, then different perspectives or even conclusions can be drawn.
(for instance, if the potential was a domainer and not an end-user, who many assume are not smart enough to check domain history.)
however, if they are overlooked and the assumption is adopted by the readers without question, then such patterns of thought will reflect in their decision making processes.
just saying......
imo...