Offered $25 for a LLL.com?

[fonzie_007]

You've heard it right folks, $25 for a LLL.com (and other domains) is the going rate these days--at least according to a BuyDomains representative. Here's my correspondence:

Their email to me:

We are prepared to offer you $25 for the following domains:
RUJ.com
Repel.net
bestbeerclub.com
BetterComps.com
deerseason.net

My reply:

You're joking, right?

Their reply:

No – I’m not sure I’m following your email though.

Assume you saw our offer?

Pete

My reply:

My snyde remark should be interpretted as me conveying my shocking disbelief. Your offer, a paultry sum, for a package of domains (containing a LLL.com) for $25! Your company appears to be reputable on the outside, but you are treating me like a complete idiot.

I've been around the domaining business for years... Please treat me like it. Just an FYI: RUJ.com went for upwards of $5600 at Snapnames in the last year. Ask your buddy SaggyDimes about it--he was probably bidding on it as well.

You can consider my long-winded answer as a rejection of your offer.

If you would like to reoffer on any of the domains, please feel free to do so.

So, if you have a LLL.com that you want to sell for $25, just contact BuyDomains and they may oblige.

 

[Aggro]

They have'nt had many sales listed on DnJournal in the last couple of years considering they have about 800,000 names ! - "unless" they put them under the Private Sale catagory ?.

2004
ShoeWarehouse.com $12,500 BuyDomains
Goosebumps.com $11,000 BuyDomains
IndianSongs.com $10,000 BuyDomains

2005
RodeoDrive.com $30,000 2/1/2005 BuyDomains......Did'nt this just sell recently again for shedloads ??

Screen.com $25,000 4/12/2005 BuyDomains

2006 January to June
Homelist.com $13,500 5/9/2006 BuyDomains
Loanlist.com $13,000 5/9/2006 BuyDomains

Thats all of their over $10,000 sales listed on DnJournal.


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These were only made public because they were reported by domainers on the other side of the transaction or sold on Afternic etc...

BD have only voluntarily started to report prices of sold domains to DNJournal.com - because it suits their purposes..

 

[fonzie_007]

We all can sleep better knowing that Afternic has now been acquired by Namemedia/BuyDomains. Maybe we can all expect to buy LLL.coms for $25/ piece now...

 

[kubativity]

always keep cool. if they are prepared to offer you $25 for a 3L.com counter-offer and ask if they could send you a list of 3L domains of their own for which you will be happy to pay them $500 for each name and thus make them a handsome profit of $475 on each one they have previously purchased. I am sure they will appreciate this message.

lol why not just offer to buy their 3 letter .coms for $50. Thats double what they seem to be paying.

 

[Mike]

It may just be that the "Fonz" introduced his domains as being sold by "the Fonz", which would automatically lead them to believe that he's stuck in the late 70's, thus has no idea what a domain even is. Little did they know!

I'd chalk that up as "joke of the day" in the category of "truly cheap entertainment"

BTW, i liked your response email to them, Fonz.