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many factors go into the pricing of a domain, PR is very low down the list.
also is the domain relevant, will all the backlinks dissapear after the people linking to the domain realise the site owner/content has changed?
is the domain actually relevant to your site/business?
and finally what if during transfer Google does not crawl the site, and you end up being missed in Google serps!
The main thing you should be looking for is:
type-in traffic numbers
relevancy of domain to your project
past history of domain
I hope that slightly answers your question
Shak
If you are looking at the domain purely for PR value, then it is worth absolutely nothing, zero, nadda, as they say.
If you were looking at it for all the things Shakil stated above, then you need to take a very close look at everything and see if there is value. You could take a new site to PR7 within 90-120 days and you would then know for sure how that PR7 was obtained! ;)
fyi, I buy a lot of valuable domains for projects and investment purposes.
I have only ONCE looked at the PR, backlinks of that domain, and that was only because something did not look right, in the end I discovered it had PR0 because of dirty tricks, and as this domain was Keyword-Keyword and very relevant to the industry which we wanted to use it for, well we did NOT buy it.
the rest are based on:
type in traffic
memorability
impression a domain leaves (example: keyword.com looks a lot better than buy-my-dodgy-keywords.com for branding and Public relations purposes).
Shak
teeceo.
p.s. and about having to wait 60 to 90 days for your new pages to show, that is only half true, the site has pages on it already and when you buy the domain, you buy the domains links too.