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I get emails daily asking if certain domains are for sale. Most leads will turn out to be useless. However, some will start a conversation which will eventually lead to a sale. There are various wording that turns me off in email inquiries. Some of these are:
1 – I am a student doing a project and need your domain for it,
2 – I see that you are not “using” the domain name,
3 – I am looking at 5 domains and yours is one that I may be interested in,
4 – Your alexa number is over x million so I know you dont get traffic,
5 – How much is your domain?
In addition, emails that come from free email addresses are also a turnoff.
Please lmk if you have encountered these or if there are others that you feel should be added to the list.
Very surprised by 5.
Francois, in my experience, someone that sends that quick 5 word email is usually a domain spammer trying to pick up a domain cheaply. In addition, I do not like someone assuming that every name is for sale, because quite frankly, some are not.
#5 is surprising to me as well because I have closed successful deals with similar message in initial buyer’s message. However, I have faced all the above 4 types several times.
I see you agree with Francois on that one. If the domainers business was mostly selling domains, then #5 would come off the list
Sorry, I understood these sentences were only snipets, not the full message.
It looks natural that annyone who want to buy a domain start asking for the price.
Buyers don’t like to explain why they want a domain to avoid to give interesting use ideas, reveal who is behind, … or simply give too much importance to their request and this way risk a higher sale price suggestion.
This is why I think initial purchase request messages are short (do you confirm?).
Without say people have sometimes many candidates for a project and after contact several owners and rarely get a response they may tend to be lazy and make fast mails.
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6 – Your domain only appraise $xxxx according…
yes I agree on number 6. That should be added to the list.