Discussion.. best email to use when looking to buy/sell?

[Chief7000]

I'm curious what peoples experiences have been when cold emailing either to buy/sell a domain.

Let me give a scenario...

Let's say you have two emails (these are just random examples) -

1. Personal email - Johnsmith@ gmail . com

2. Domain Business email - info@ smith . com

Now lets say you want to contact a domain owner to purchase a domain they aren't using. Which email do you use? The personal one, they could not take you seriously & not respond. However, if they do you might get a better deal than if you used a business email, since they'll think you have less money.

Now lets say you want to sell a domain to a big company and you email them. Which kind of email do you use? The business one would be more trustworthy, but it might feel less personal and they'll think they're getting ripped off.

So does anyone here have a general rule they follow when emailing potential buyers/sellers?

 

[Kuffy]

The danger with using your own domain name is that you may get reported as a spammer, and that could cause all of your future mails to be ignored. I'm starting to think that it may be better to install a support ticket service and use that for replies. That doesn't help with outbound messages though.

 

[Chief7000]

The danger with using your own domain name is that you may get reported as a spammer, and that could cause all of your future mails to be ignored. I'm starting to think that it may be better to install a support ticket service and use that for replies. That doesn't help with outbound messages though.

That is true. But, I guess my question was more directed of how we present ourselves in the buy/sell situation. Do you want to look like a successful domain business owner? Or just look more low key with a random gmail account. I'm just curious what people who do 100's out outbounds a day are doing.

 

[Kate]

Okay.

First of all, you want to sell a domain name, but why should the other party take you seriously when you are writing from a free address (gmail or otherwise), and not from a reasonably decent domain name ? Preferably a corporate domain name that is tied to a real identity and a whois record that anybody can check.

Now, if you are spamming, then spam is spam and the sender address doesn't change the fact.
If the other party doesn't need your domain name, especially when it's bad and not relevant to their business, then again it doesn't matter what the sender address is.

If you are trying to buy, then it's a completely different scenario. It makes sense that if you are a big company with comfortable budgets, you are not going to show your hand to the other party.

 

[Satyasai Ray]

There may be a catch:

If you are sending an email to lets say owner of (all a,b,c,d,e...) domains, I would not recommend it using personal email ID. Should rather be your business email account.

If you are sending to owner of (a), owner of (b), owner of (c) [All diff], you may send it from Yahoo/ Gmail etc.. Risk of being spammer is very low.

My experience, if you send it from corporate email address, you get a high $ counter offer ( A genuine feeling as guy is a corporate owned ).

Although, the feeling varies owner to owners... we need to take our chances.