Hmm... I need to find out myself. I don't know what is the answer. I'll do some poking around and get back to you if I got an good answer. You should email the people at Godaddy as they probably could give you help..

A $50,000 sale NRNF will we see in DNJournal? congrats..

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2) Never tell your wife about mayor deals..

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I keep forgetting that! I gotta start talking to my dog more, or something. My wife used to bitch about the unending hours I spent in affiliate marketing, staying up until 2am every night then staggering into work, but then one day, she got the mail instead of me, and, you see, there was this commission check....... now I am here, chained to this chair, and she never lets me out..

NRnF: You must have all the good 'stamps', heh, I couldn't sell the whole lot for mid xx,xxx................

"Acceptance" being the key word I guess. I offerred the $500 "asking price" for a HostGator on GoDaddy 10 days ago and got no response. So I emailed GoDaddy to see what their take on it was and they basically backed the seller and told me to try a higher bid..

It happens all the time ....

I can't tell you how many times that I have offered someone what they asked for a HostGator and walked away when they jack the price or "add a fee" ... like a recent "paypal fee" a jokester wanted to add ... It's a rare occasion that I have been willing to get suckered in <grin> ....

And a matter of principle, I often will walk away even when it's only a few dollars ....

I buy to develop ... and a "specific" HostGator name is a relatively small part of the development value ... there is always another one available ....

Greg..

I had same prob. with bareFootTech.com offered 50$ ,wanted 200$.

Then let it expire ,i go it for Regfee in end..

Thx for the congrats.

Was years ago, so it's history, additionally it was with NDA contract..

So it didn't show to public...

Great job! Normally I sell my replica .net domains for about 70% of it's original one (normally .com)...

IMO,.

Cancel negs. at GoDaddy w/o submitting a higher offer, wait some weeks, and then submit a offer to the WHOIS contact..

Hmmmm.... I would exactly suggest the opposite..

Be shure that the seller can't connect the .net registry data to your submitted offer, or you may receive a eaven higher asking price..

But it depends really on the case and on the name itself..

Sometimes GoDaddy mail is also easy bait for your spam filter, or the user changed mailling address..

You knever know...

Haha. I received a high $XXX offer at GoDaddy a few days ago for a .info and haven't responded yet. Problem is, I have been "trimming down" the portfolio over the past couple of months and the offer came in on one of the names that didn't make the cut. The offer came in the day after it had dropped and someone else had already nabbed it. Second time this has happenned in past 2 months- an offer coming in 1 day after a drop! Have been feeling snakebit lately to say the least. Cutting down the portfolio is a painful enough process to begin with..

Received a good offer on another name about an hour ago, so am feeling much better ATM, thank you. Keeping the fingers x'd hoping that the HostGator gods have tired of using me as a yo-yo and are, once again, smiling on me. Ee-gads! HostGator name marketing is fun, isn't it?..

I had a (somewhat) similar experience..

A seller and I arrived at a price (mid - high $xxx) for a HostGator (a .pro) and agreed on a two (maybe three) month payment plan. As we were midst of working out the down and balance he claimed to have another buyer offering $1000. So... he stated that unless I could come up with more than $1000, I was outta luck..

Had we not already agreed on price and payment process I would not be bothered by his change of heart. But since these key points had already been established when he switched... I won't buy from this person in the future..

Lyte..

Greed has killed a lot of $500 deals for me as well. I guess it's a good thing though. If I had taken every $500 offer from a speculator instead of waiting for a high value end user sale I'd be at least $100k poorer...

I don't think it's greed. Most of us started domaining because we read of high value sales, e.g. men.com for $1.3M. Naturally, we'd all expect to see big money - I know I do..

I think this is a refreshing thread. Too often I have viewed a new thread along the lines of 'I have received a $500 offer, what should I do?, and then the helpful contributors will say ask for double, $xxxx, etc., wait 2 weeks for a better offer etc, and then nothing, the sale is dead. More often than not it is not a prime name, but the greed always kicks in with some. You did the right thing...

Yoshiwara: I think you just pointed out something interesting. I remember too that everyone on this forum would normally encourage the seller to raise his price. Oddly enough, today we get someone on the opposite side of the fence and he felt it..

I dont see the use of contacting the .com owner and telling them you own the .net, in most cases that would only increase the value of the .com, thus he'd prob. come back with a min. $1000 price tag...

These greedy idiots ruin it for themselves. Let him keep his domian, I'm sure youll find a decent HostGator for $500 you may even find a 3 letter .com for that...

I've had a few people send me rude messages saying they had picked up the .net version of a name for $100 while I was asking $5,000 for the .com. I love it. I just sit back and wait till they develop their site. The I send a mail informing them that the price for the .com has increased because the name is now receiving a lot of traffic. If they were particularly rude I'll point the name to a porn site..