.info Received Purchase Inquiry on .info: Input appreciated

[Brad|E]

Hello everyone,

I just received an email inquiry on a .info domain that receives moderate traffic. The email asks for a purchase price. After some investigating, I discovered that the interested party owns the hyphenated version of this domain on which the party operates a business. In other words, the inquiry is legitimate and the inquirer can be presumed to have relatively high interest in the domain. As a parked domain, it makes little money. On the other hand, I've had a few bids on the Sedo listing. So, given the above and that the domain would be valuable to the potential buyer, I would be interested to hear how you might respond.

Thanks in advance,
be9999

 

[domainer50]

Is the price appealing to you? If so i say sell, if not i say counter with a better offer. Negotiate to a price you can both agree on. Once a price point has been reached, sell the domain. That is how i would approach it. Pretty straightforward.

 

[Brad|E]

I haven't received an initial offer. The email requests I make the initial offer.

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the input.

 

[domainer50]

I haven't received an initial offer. The email requests I make the initial offer.

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the input.

I would usually write back saying the domain is for sale at the best offer that I receive. Please state your best possible offer which in most cases is WELL below what they will really pay. Take that number and do some negotiation.

 

[sf2010]

Hello everyone,

I just received an email inquiry on a .info domain that receives moderate traffic. The email asks for a purchase price. After some investigating, I discovered that the interested party owns the hyphenated version of this domain on which the party operates a business. In other words, the inquiry is legitimate and the inquirer can be presumed to have relatively high interest in the domain. As a parked domain, it makes little money. On the other hand, I've had a few bids on the Sedo listing. So, given the above and that the domain would be valuable to the potential buyer, I would be interested to hear how you might respond.

Thanks in advance,
be9999

be999-

In my opinion, the one who FIRST throws out a number during negotiation is almost always at a disadvantage.

If I were you, I would:

1. Wait few days to cool off the excitement;
2. Conduct more research into this "business" to see if you think he is making a decent profit running it;
3. Check their current domain name traffic and try to guess if having the un-hyphenated version would increase the natrual type-in traffic (review your sedo traffic origins)
4. Try to come up with a guesstimate of your price that you are willing to accept than tack on 30-40% as your negotiation starting point.

After few days, write to him/her that you appreciate his inquiry and ask him to provide you with an offer and then start negotiating.

Remember, there is no firm "engagement" rule so gauage the the interested party by carefully reading emails; and always try to be professional and fair and let the chips fall where they may.

Good luck!

 

[HeavyDuty]

If you own a domain, and you have it publicly listed 'For Sale', it's up to you to price it. IMHO

I'm convinced the thousands of 'make offer' price tags on domains kill more sales than they ever produce. From the buyers POV, if you don't know what your domain is worth, I'm sure I don't either.

Maybe your insurance agent, or grocery store, or realtor, or hardware, should use the 'make offer' approach. They'd be out of business in 30 days.

Again, that's just my opinion.

 

[htmlindex]

Hello everyone,

I just received an email inquiry on a .info domain that receives moderate traffic. The email asks for a purchase price. After some investigating, I discovered that the interested party owns the hyphenated version of this domain on which the party operates a business. In other words, the inquiry is legitimate and the inquirer can be presumed to have relatively high interest in the domain. As a parked domain, it makes little money. On the other hand, I've had a few bids on the Sedo listing. So, given the above and that the domain would be valuable to the potential buyer, I would be interested to hear how you might respond.

Thanks in advance,
be9999

Just thought I might ask you to take caution just incase it is a scam. See thread below & my post on that thread. If it's the same guy that contacted me & Rudy, it's probably a scam. He might say he owns the hyphenated domain but does he really & if so, is that really him or is he pretending to be that person. Hopefully it's legit, but just to be sure.

Check out this post http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/287681-i-need-advice-email-i-received.html

Let us know if it's the same guy or not.

 

[cache]

does he own the hyphen .info name or the hyphen .com name?

 

[Brad|E]

To html: This person didn't tell me they owned the hyphenated version, I discovered that independently. I'm fairly certain (read 99.9999%) this is not a scam.

To Larry: This is a great point and I often wonder how many more domains would be sold if people were willing to attach fixed prices.

To cache: They own the hyphenated .info. Thanks for letting me clarify.

Thanks for everyone's input. I'll keep you posted on the progress of this transaction.

Reps added.