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suzi

Me too:

He was quite polite and promised to get back to me, but that was 3 weeks ago. Told me the domain wasn't worth more than £10 to him.

Have to say I value it more than that - so if he really doesn't think it's worth more to him - he can't be missing it much.

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suzi

Hey Skinner - why have you got so much white space under your posts?

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mojoco

I never delete enquiries no matter how lame they are. It is surprising how often the same person makes contact at a later date, and it can be useful to refer to their old emails.

Skinner

My post was too short to get a signature attached :P

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Edwin

I never delete sales offers for the reason you pointed out. Anyone begging to get "their" domain back gets a big DELETE though, since it doesn't matter if they email me once or twenty times, the result will be the same. Nominet's suspend-delete process is just too long and with too many checks and balances for the request to be "acceptable" to me, regardless of whether they might once upon a time have owned a given name or not. Prior ownership conveys NO rights.

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foz

I think this angle is taken by some buyers in an attempt to catch you off guard or pull at your sympathies (to get a reduced price).

I just ignore these and don't spend any of my time "researching".

invincible

I know of a Registrant who did exactly this. An enquiry came by email and a price was provided in response. The enquirer responded to that with "no thanks". Not much more than a year later the original enquirer contacted the Registrant again with regards to the same domain name. The Registrant replied by simply suggesting they referred to the email response that they had original received after their initial enquiry; and also kindly attached a copy of that correspondance.

I doubt that enquirer expected the Registrant to be so on the ball.

foz

I think some buyers have the thought that domain owners are desperate or need to sell and that they are the only ones that will ever be interested in the domain.

I have encountered many such drawn out tactics, they never seem to understand that I'm in no hurry.

Edwin

Oh, absolutely!

A lot of buyers have the cause-and-effect the wrong way around. For instance, I've had several people make very low offers on the grounds that "I can see you have a lot of renewal fees to cover" (paraphrased from various more convoluted "logical" pitches to try and get domains on the super-cheap).

But it's precisely BECAUSE I've got a lot of renewal fees to cover (= I have a lot of domains, diversified across hundreds of industries) that I DON'T need to grasp at desperation-level low offers. With thousands of hooks in the river, I know that I'm bound to hook end user fish on a regular basis - even if I can't predict in advance which particular hook will land a catch...

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SecNam

im also finding this on sedo aswell. you counter offer with a price and they come back with i cant afford to pay much. I got stung with this just after xmas and once all payment came through is was a big company so lesson learnt on that one aswell now