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Owning over three hundred domains (I am not bragging, its actually a bit sad really).. every now and then I get an inquiry from someone wanting to buy one of my domains.
These generally fall into two or three categories:
A: Serious, for these I truly wish I could somehow pay a professional negotiator by the hour.
B: The one's from people who insist that a pre-purchase appraisal is required.
I guess the 1st time I fell for this I was like, wow, this guy seems perfectly okay about paying $190,000 for my domain! Then came the small matter of the appraisal, and of course for some reason it seemed as if only the one "he was recommending" was good enough.
What is the standard in such matters? If I am selling domains, as apparently I am really working on these days, it's because I need some money. :bingo: The other thing is, typically (the two times this happened) the guy sends me an e-mail asking about one of my (what I believe to be) hottest domains. %%- In other words, he is reaching out to me, on a domain that might not even be listed for sale, anywhere. [ I like to keep a few of my coolest domains -... under wraps.
Then I go ahead and spend some time trying to price it correctly (that was for the second one, which was less than a month ago) so I give him a price under $10k to see what happens, then he says okay, :sold: but I have to pay for a pre-sale appraisal, :bah: which of course he tells me is standard!
Is that so?
These generally fall into two or three categories:
A: Serious, for these I truly wish I could somehow pay a professional negotiator by the hour.
B: The one's from people who insist that a pre-purchase appraisal is required.
I guess the 1st time I fell for this I was like, wow, this guy seems perfectly okay about paying $190,000 for my domain! Then came the small matter of the appraisal, and of course for some reason it seemed as if only the one "he was recommending" was good enough.
What is the standard in such matters? If I am selling domains, as apparently I am really working on these days, it's because I need some money. :bingo: The other thing is, typically (the two times this happened) the guy sends me an e-mail asking about one of my (what I believe to be) hottest domains. %%- In other words, he is reaching out to me, on a domain that might not even be listed for sale, anywhere. [ I like to keep a few of my coolest domains -... under wraps.
Then I go ahead and spend some time trying to price it correctly (that was for the second one, which was less than a month ago) so I give him a price under $10k to see what happens, then he says okay, :sold: but I have to pay for a pre-sale appraisal, :bah: which of course he tells me is standard!
Is that so?
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