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.

 

[Olney]

Wow guy, that's just embarassing....
I'd love to see what the response is...

"Well we just thought your aunt died & gave some idiot nephew control of her domains... We thought giving you bus fare might be ok, but obviously this wasn't the case.... Sorry.....

How about $200? & we send you the new Playstation 3 straight from Japan the week it comes out.. We got connections you know...
"

 

[AmD950]

Fonzie, you really have the patience to talk with them huh.
I was offered a $18 for my NLL.com and I turned down on him immediately.

 

[fonzie_007]

Fonzie, you really have the patience to talk with them huh.

I'm going to give the gentleman a chance to explain himself. He gave me his office #, so I'll give him a ring when I have a few spare minutes in the next few days--he didn't seem to want to talk over email anymore.

 

[SKG]

I can't wait to hear his logic on this one in a verbal conversation. Please keep us posted Fonzie.

 

[Scott]

They just offered me $25 for html.info, wyoming.info, etc...

Understood.

Not knowing traffic for a .info name increase resale risk.

We are prepared to offer you $25 apiece for each name list below.

Pete

 

[Domainate.com]

The people they would be able to fleece names from at those prices would have to be so clueless as to not know what a domain name is. Hell, if they could make RESPECTABLE lowball offers, I'm sure they'd probably have a lot more success at getting names they could make a profit on. I can't imagine how few of names they would be buying sending offers like those. Having emailed owners of great quality names myself, it seems as most if not all of them know more or less what their name is worth and quote end-user pricing even.

 

[jetbrains]

is RUJ.com still available?

 

[fonzie_007]

is RUJ.com still available?

All LLL.com domains are taken. I am the registrant of RUJ.com and it is for sale. pm me if you are interested.

 

[-db-]

They just offered me $25 for html.info, wyoming.info, etc...

Ok, that's insane.

But wait.... it's TOO insane. There must be a method to their madness.

These $25 offers on RUJ.com, HTML.info, Wyoming.info (btw, *state* .info domains are among the hardest categories of .info to get)... these offers can't be serious. They are silly, and seemingly, insults... but there must be something else here.

Either it's their idea of starting-low negotiation, taken to the extreme...

Or, somebody is just having fun at our expense.

Or, maybe they don't like domainers. Maybe they consider themselves.. above that.

I don't know. But it's got to be something odd. These offers are beyond silly.

 

[Matrix1976]

Or, maybe they don't like domainers. Maybe they consider themselves.. above that.

Perhaps...indeed it would explain why they havnt even bothered to reply here in any way.

 

[DOMiNIC]

I guess it is just a game of numbers. send out enoughlowball email offers and one should be the jackpot.

 

[matt_bodis]

I guess it is just a game of numbers. send out enoughlowball email offers and one should be the jackpot.

I've done that before. But not with a starting price of $25.

 

[fonzie_007]

They were the first bidders on my ebay auction for Hi.net ( currently running through to August 5th ) at $24.99 :lol:

If it were a snap drop they were willing to pay $120,000 but seeing as it wasn't :yell:

JP-I thought I opened up with a $1k bid for it. Did you have a previous listing that you took down?

 

[fonzie_007]

Pardon my slowness... :lol:

 

[theSun]

man, reply and say, yes how do you want to proceed with payment? then ignore all his emails. stupid buydomains!

 

[Archangel]

Perhaps...indeed it would explain why they havnt even bothered to reply here in any way.

They won'y reply in this thread because they have nothing good to say. I think it'd be one cold day in hell before they'd come on here and admit their cheap practices. Yeah -- the majority of domain investors are screwed-up 13 year olds who think they can get rich regging a domain and reselling it for seven-figures but that's not ALL of us. We're not ALL stupid little kids. Guess they are assumning that we are. "$25 for sex.com! We'll pay immediately!" Stupid jokes...

 

[RogueWriter]

$217, and my cat, Paws.

Disclaimer: Paws only has 3 lives left, out of 9.

 

[fonzie_007]

$217, and my cat, Paws.

I have a cat named Paws as well. He has 7 toes on one of his front feet, 6 on the other. Does your cat have extra toes too? If so, $217 and your cat may be a good deal!

 

[scrsteven]

I finally figured it out! BuyDomains and Godaddy are in on this together!

I just renewed 11 lll.us at GD and so I got some free appraisals on LLL.com's of mine.
Every single one, including jso.com (which has ovt w ext 121) was appraised for the same $ amount:

Domain Name Appraisal for: JSO.COM
Estimated Value: $126.00 - $328.00

 

[fonzie_007]

I finally figured it out! BuyDomains and Godaddy are in on this together!

I just renewed 11 lll.us at GD and so I got some free appraisals on LLL.com's of mine.
Every single one, including jso.com (which has ovt w ext 121) was appraised for the same $ amount:

Domain Name Appraisal for: JSO.COM
Estimated Value: $126.00 - $328.00

I'll give you the high end of that for JSO.com. $328, I can pay asap!