Apologies to the OP if this had been a distraction but this may be a learning board for someone out there.
@listser, thanks for the reply.
It was a little bit detailed. I am still learning the ropes when it comes to domain selling psychology.
In his words, He introduced himself, gave his name and what his work entails--a brand manager for small and medium size business.
He then went on to give the reason why he was contacting me after looking up the ownership.
The last paragraph was that he is interested for the obvious reason that he think the name would make a great brand and that if there is possibility of me selling it to him, he would love to discuss this further.
Like you pointed out, you said you wouldn't have used "if his offer was very good" and I am sensing that line could have been the reason for his silence which he may have interpreted wrongly/differently from what I had in mind, possibly thinking I mean thousands of dollars. However, I would like let you in on the reason why used those words. I deliberately injected it to gauge/ascertain his level of seriousness as I didn't want anyone to fool with me. Above all, and after that, I did ask him how much he is willing to pay for the domain.
There was a case of a friend whom had an offer but after some back and forth talk, the supposed end user wanted an exchange of his domain. Imagine the whole time wasted beating around the bush.
I will contact him and create a more comfortable environment so that he would feel free to open up cos it seems that line you highlighted seem to be glitch in the whole system of things; he is probably thinking: "very good offer? Oh, I can't afford this"
a butterfly in his stomach I guess.
I will wait till Tuesday before I contact him again.