Chef Patrick said:
ahhh ok non-profit org, it is all making sense to me now. plus it always get hairy when you go back asking for more. hopefully they will use their energy for good instead of useless backlashes against a domainer. i mean geez, they are non-profit, lol.
People aren't necessarily good people just because they work at a nonprofit. There are plenty of nonprofits out there out for their own good mostly. I say this as someone who is close friends with an analyst at the Better Business Bureau's charity watchdog division, she tells me stories about crooked nonprofits all the time. I'm not necessarily saying this is the case here, but I think people are well served to be skeptical about charities too, in case you ever decide to give.
Josh, sorry to hear you're going through this. Hopefully it'll be cleared up soon and you can stop wasting your energy on this sort of thing.
I wanted to post a quick request for this thread, as much for myself as anyone else reading. I think lately this thread has turned into more of a "report domain sales" rather than a "how-to" on enduser sales and I'd like to try to turn the focus back to real information we can all use to help each other build our businesses. What I'm going to do, and what I'd like to request others consider doing, is when you post here to report an enduser success (which we should be doing!), consider posting a case study along with it. By this I mean, soup to nuts, how it happened. Where'd you get the domain, what'd you pay for it (generally -- $XX is fine here), how'd you go about prospecting, what was the response and how did you finally settle on a price, etc.
I'm going to start the ball rolling with the last one I reported: Fxxx/ Magazine /com.
I purchased the domain at TDNAM for low $XX, knowing exactly who I would be marketing the name to, after having searched through Google. There were two companies with magazines with the exact same name that had worse domain names (both were hyphenated, and one was hyphenated AND in the .DE extension).
I sent emails to both places. One responded. The other never did. The one that responded said they were a small outfit that put their magazine out as a hobby, basically, and that they didn't have much money. I answered back with a $200 asking price but made it clear that I was open to negotiations. They countered with $150. I accepted their deal. A week later the domain was pushed and money was in my account.
This was a fairly risky buy since there were only two potential endusers and one was obviously a hobbyist affair, even though they were both extremely targeted as likely buyers. But I viewed the purchase price as the chance to try to make a sale, rather than money down the drain in the event that I didn't. I would recommend you have more than two real prospects, though.
ripley.
