what is the answer to write to them?
thanks in advance
Keep your answer simple, quick, honest. Since you are emailing them, rather than them approaching you, it's incumbent on you to give them at least some idea of price. Personally, when I email potential end users I always include the price in my first email when it is a
lower value domain (domains in the $150 - 500 range), and when I'm emailing about a more expensive domain I don't include the price with the first email but always have a ready price in mind in case they respond with 'how much?'.
FYI most people who respond with 'how much' are rarely buyers, they are simply interested/curious about how much you're asking. My first email is always very short and I never try 'sell' the name to them with explanations, I simply say that I'm selling it. If they respond and ask how much, my template is always:
Hello (them);
Looking for (price) for this domain.
Thanks very much for inquiring.
(me)
I don't even ask if they're interested, I don't try to tell them why it's a great domain, etc. I don't need to tell them anything, I know that the moment they see the domain, they're either a buyer or they're not. I know that sometimes, if you write and write and write and explain and market to a non-buyer, sometimes one of them might eventually be swayed into becoming a buyer... but life's too short for me to waste my time with that game, I prefer simply dealing with buyers who make it clear they're interested up front.
Then we negotiate and if we reach a deal I give them the options/process on how a domain transaction is gone through (escrow, sedo, etc).
It's a little different if the end user emails me first, rather than the other way around. Then I almost go by 'gut feel', whether I give them a price right away to answer their 'how much', or whether I ask them to make an offer. Depends on a lot of factors that I try look into when I receive their first email. But when I email end users about a domain, I always have a price in mind, whether or not I include it with the first email.
*Funny about buyers, you never know how secure of a transaction they'll need so be sure to always be willing to go a secure route. I sold a name for $2K so someone who'd 'heard of paypal but didn't have an account' when I told him about how to do a quick deal (he wanted the domain immediately, not after days of escrow). So he signed up to PP and uploaded funds from credit card and payed me right away by Paypal, literally 2 hours after contact the deal was done, without any escrow, and he wasn't worried at all.
But just a week ago I sold another domain, for $600, to a college student in Norway. She didn't have much cash but really wanted the domain for her personal project (I checked out everything she said, to make sure it wasn't a domainer trying to talk me down to a rock bottom price). Anyway, 600 was a large amount for her (though less than the domain was worth) and she was so worried about it that she needed to go the escrow route, even though she'd never done a domain trade before and didn't know how to do an escrow for it. I guided her through Sedo and it went through seamlessly.
So to sum, when you are sending emails to possible buyers:
Keep all initial emails very short and honest;
When they need more information - like requesting a price - give it to them clear and honest;
When they need more detailed info, give it to them as ordered, clear, and completely as you can;
When they decide to buy, help them make the transaction as securely and quickly as they seem to want.
Just my .02 bitcoins
