Have you ever gotten a surprise offer for a domain?

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

Have you ever gotten an offer for a domain via email? I mean an offer including the amount?

I've gotten message like "Would you sell xxxxxxx domain", but never a $ offer like this. The offer is not great, but its almost acceptable. I'm dubious as to the chances there is real money behind the offer. Am I just getting jaded ?

I got an offer once to sell a domain and had pretty good cash behind it. I was stupid and didn't take the offer, and then never did anything with the domain. Wish now that I had taken the cash.

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dvduval

16 years ago

Yes, I get these pretty frequently (2 yesterday), but I have yet to get an offer I wanted to accept.

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Dan Grossman

16 years ago

I get offers occasionally, but usually not with an amount. Once I give them a price they always disappear.

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Gene Pimentel

16 years ago

Please be careful... There is a long-time scam that has affected many would-be domain sellers. The person making the offer comes across as professional, but once you reply, they will ask you to have your domain appraised at a particular website, because they "want to be sure they get a fair deal". You get the appraisal (at $xx.xx) and then you never hear from them again. They do this to as many domain owners as they can, to collect the appraisal money.

Not saying this is the case here, but beware

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Sheryl Polomka

16 years ago

There is a scam going on lately where people will send emails offering to sell you a domain similar to one you already have. So keep an eye out for that one too.

I really just don't trust anything I receive in an email anymore unless it is from someone I know

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Shlomi Khutoretsky

16 years ago

hey guys

here are some tips:

1. when you get an email asking you if you want to sell your xxxxx.com domain and you do want to sell it replay with an: "yes"

2. if the person offers you to buy your domain only if you will agree sending it to be appraised in a appraisal company that he want - beware it is a scam. a person who trade with domains- knows how much your domain worth already, he made a research if he is willing to buy and he will need only to pay and get that domain.

3. when you sure that he is for real and you accept is offer, tell him that willing to sell it only if payment will be made by a escrow company, never accept payments by paypal. you can be scammed

there are some companies that give an escrow service like: escrow.com, sedo.com and more...

and for emails that offer you to buy a domain, i have never heard of someone who get scammed this way, if processed payment through an escrow service, the only thing that must be checked is if the domain owner is really its owner - done by a whois lookup

for further info and if you have any question pm me.

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dvduval

16 years ago

Originally Posted by articlerelated

hey guys

here are some tips:

1. when you get an email asking you if you want to sell your xxxxx.com domain and you do want to sell it replay with an: "yes"

2. if the person offers you to buy your domain only if you will agree sending it to be appraised in a appraisal company that he want - beware it is a scam. a person who trade with domains- knows how much your domain worth already, he made a research if he is willing to buy and he will need only to pay and get that domain.

3. when you sure that he is for real and you accept is offer, tell him that willing to sell it only if payment will be made by a escrow company, never accept payments by paypal. you can be scammed

there are some companies that give an escrow service like: escrow.com, sedo.com and more...

and for emails that offer you to buy a domain, i have never heard of someone who get scammed this way, if processed payment through an escrow service, the only thing that must be checked is if the domain owner is really its owner - done by a whois lookup

for further info and if you have any question pm me.

Sounds like good advice. I always reply with "Make me an offer, but I don't usually sell unless it is an above average offer."

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GuruGazette

16 years ago

I've sold several domains this way too. Usually they were long time readers/subscribers of the site.

I don't think any of mine started out with a dollar amount offer though, I think they were inquiries. You do have to be careful and having really strong intuition helps.

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BeachCruzer

16 years ago

I've sold a few domains unexpectedly and yes, I've even had a few where they wanted me to get an appraisal but if they are offering you a dollar amount before requesting anything else, you have nothing to lose by exploring the possible sale.

Best of luck to you!

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Shlomi Khutoretsky

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

Have you ever gotten an offer for a domain via email? I mean an offer including the amount?

I've gotten message like "Would you sell xxxxxxx domain", but never a $ offer like this. The offer is not great, but its almost acceptable. I'm dubious as to the chances there is real money behind the offer. Am I just getting jaded ?

i must ask a question

i looked at your signature and suddenly it popped up to me that you are selling a domain guide WSO

how come you are an expert with domains and you don't know the answer for that question ?

just curiosity

shlomi

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Wakunahum 16 years ago

I got an offer for a domain for a couple hundred bucks that I had not really done anything with.

It turned out to be legitimate.

Edit: Because of this thread - I just bought back the domain for $7 that I sold for $400 a while back. Maybe I'll get another offer.
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- TimothyW 16 years ago
  
  I'm pretty sure it was John Reese who sold a name to someone for $900 -- and that buyer REsold it almost immediately for $One-million!!!
  
  That became the turning point in John's life. His, "as God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" moment.
  
  That's the possible downside.
  
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bobsstuff

16 years ago

I had someone want to buy a PR4 domain of mine. It was not for sale, they must emailed me. They wanted proof of income. HUH?
I asked how many thousands they wanted to pay, but never got an answer.
Nice little site pulls in about $600-$1000 a year without me ever bothering with it. I should develop it into an actually paying site.

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Tom Dean

16 years ago

I have had an "out of the blue" offer with a dollar amount. It was from a domain broker on behalf of his client.

He wanted me to list it on sedo and go through escrow which is what we did. It did take a bit longer to complete the transaction this way but it kept everyone comfortable with the sale.

Tom

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Sweeney

16 years ago

Take the money and run.

Unless the domain name is for a big project of yours that could make substantial money.. sell it and REINVEST the money in some of your current projects.

Even $1,000 could buy you 100 articles (at $10 an article).
Or a decent amount of clicks in a PPC campaign.
Spend your time pumping them out.. and you'd be making some nice cash..

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pjs

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

Have you ever gotten an offer for a domain via email? I mean an offer including the amount?

I've gotten message like "Would you sell xxxxxxx domain", but never a $ offer like this. The offer is not great, but its almost acceptable. I'm dubious as to the chances there is real money behind the offer. Am I just getting jaded ?

I just bought a domain last week by emailing the owner of one. It does happen but like you've already been warned, watch out for scams

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TheRichJerksNet

16 years ago

I was offered $5k for one of my domain names out of the blue (domain name that pretty much just sits there with no site). Course I turned it down because I "feel" the name alone is worth way more...

Just so happens it is a very good domain name that has a very wide range of possibilities.

James

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