thanks

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I accidentally deleted it when I was removing the spammy part about your Ebay auctions. I just added the story back since that wasn’t intentional.

Great topic. Having been a domain buyer broker and seller broker on many deals, I’d like to offer some general comments to your readers on the offer side.

I have never sent an anonymous email and I don’t recommend it. That would start off the negotiation with a lie and that is not a good strategy.

So, I agree that interested parties should have their name in the offer or at least give the ability to the owner to find out more about the person making the offer in google if he chooses.

Do I make the first contact by saying “Hi. I’m a domain buyer broker for X corp and they’ve hired me to buy this name for them.”? Of course not. IF I am asked I will say that I am a broker but I cannot reveal my client then we get to talking about the price.

Most people want to sell the domains and most people have a price range in mind so getting to a price is usually not too difficult. If the owner of the domain is too hard headed, I may be chasing a couple other options for my client and other opportunities present themselves so then the owner is out of the deal.

You made a comment last week about the fact that you can’t get $1,000,000 for a domain unless you turn down $500,000 and that is very true but regretting the loss of a $500k offer is something that the owner will have to live with forever.

Every domain is different. Every buyer is different. Every seller is different so every deal is different.

So, advice to owners coming from a domain buyer broker, reply to all inquiries after you research the interested party as much as possible. Try to get them to make an offer unless you already have it listed for a price at afternic, sedo etc (yes I check before I contact the owner). If you have it listed for sale somewhere don’t jack up the price just because someone asks.

I guess I’m not saying much here other than to be respectful to all interested parties until they disrespect you. Also, I wouldn’t worry too much about the interested party trying to make a URDP case since that must be extremely rare.

How should we approach you to sell names? Is there an account we can send lists to?

Dn.

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I will send you an email if I am interested in any of your names.

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

Question — If you have a premium domain and are approached by a F500 company, I would think they would want to intentionally hide their identity to avoid the seller increasing the sale price significantly.

Obviously if you know the buyer has a massive budget as opposed to a mom & pop buyer, I can see why they would use a Gmail or AOL address.

So, how do you proceed without losing the F500 company’s interest or insulting them, but getting the best deal possible?

-Shawn

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IMO, if a F500 needs/wants a domain name, they aren’t going to let a “no” stop them. They will call and/or make a significant offer.