robho - 8:54 pm on Mar 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

I offer widgets.com a multiple of 3 times the average of the previous 6 months profit. The owner is outraged...

Have you tried this? What proportion of these types of offers are accepted?

Unless it's a highly labor-intensive site or there's some serious bad news hidden somewhere, I can't see any reason why anybody would even reply to offers like that.

From a buyer's point of view it might make sense, but unless there are sellers at that level it doesn't matter what the buyer thinks.

If there really are sellers like that, I'll be buying!