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Fun haggling for Domain Names

         

zulufox

2:04 pm on Apr 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Anyone enjoy haggling for domain names?

I love to take a name I would like but do not need and dont care if I dont get it.... something that they say costs $4,000 and haggling them down to $100 or so...

Anyone else do that?

john_k

2:11 pm on Apr 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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By coincidence, I just happen to have a few domains valued at exactly $4,000!

ergophobe

11:47 pm on Apr 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm the opposite. I like it when someone tries to haggle and I get to say "did you read my first letter?"

Tom

digitalv

11:54 pm on Apr 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Heh, some domain sellers get pretty defensive over their domains.

Domains are over-priced ... they've always been over-priced. I've seen people trying to sell the dumbest domains for $1 Million - crap with numbers and hyphens in it. More common are the $20,000 range domains, and when you try to haggle with the seller he'll say "This domain appraised for $50,000 this is a deal!"

Bunch of freakin clowns. Doesn't anyone realize that the only places who appraise domains are the same places that LIST DOMAINS FOR SALE and take a PERCENTAGE of what it sells for? OF COURSE they're going to over-inflate the "value" of a domain - the more it sells for, the more THEY make.

Lame.

rcjordan

11:56 pm on Apr 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I like "I already have standing offers for much more than that. Thanks for your interest."

rogerd

12:17 am on Apr 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Good mouth-shutter, RC>. ;)

Webwork

12:34 am on Apr 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

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4 or 5 times people were haggling for different domains that I was also pursuing. I acquired the domains. Paid 1000s and still got a good deal. The haggler's mistake? Haggling by email. I picked up the phone and haggled in real time. After I closed the deal verbally I would send a letter from my law office confirming the terms.

More than once I heard the laments from the aggrieved hagglers. Some offered to pay me a lot more than their last "best and final offer". Some low brows and fools would even attempt to mug the deal by upping their ante after I verbally closed, but you know, most people will honor their word and those that might have been inclined otherwise pretty much were able to figure out what was coming next if I was played with. Never lost a deal once made.

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