Some good sharing here lately. I decided to post the email chain of an outbound sale I made this weekend. I'll hide the domain name here, but you can see it in the reported sales thread.
Comments welcome!
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From: "
Joe Nichols" <
[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:08 AM -0500
Subject: XxxxxXxxxx
.com
Hi Xxxx,
We're selling a domain name that might be of interest to you:
XxxxxXxxxx
.com
Let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Joe Nichols
Owner / Operator
Brand Sail
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w:
BrandSail.com e:
[email protected]
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Sent: January 26, 2020 8:00 AM
To: Joe Nichols <
[email protected]>
Subject: Re:
XxxxxXxxxx.com
Hi Joe—
Thanks for your email.
How much are you asking for XxxxxXxxxx
.com? We may be interested.
Best regards—
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Subject: Re: XxxxxXxxxx
.com
From: Joe Nichols <
[email protected]>
Date: Sun, January 26, 2020 8:43 am
Hi Xxxx,
We have it listed for $1,988 at
Dan.com, which has a great escrow service for handling secure payments and domain transfers.
Also open to other payment options, such as PayPal, or purchase from the Afternic marketplace, depending on what you're comfortable with.
I'm happy to set up a quick call as well if you have any other questions. Just let me know.
Joe
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Sent: January 27, 2020 4:01 PM
To: Joe Nichols <
[email protected]>;
Subject: RE: XxxxxXxxxx
.com
Hi Joe--
Thanks for the offer.
We've been doing a brisk business in this space since 2012, so we already have very good search rankings for Xxxxx Xxxxx on Google.
That said, your domain would no doubt be valuable and we're prepared to off you $1000.
Best regards--
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On Jan 27, 2020, at 8:29 PM, Joe Nichols <
[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Xxxx,
Thanks for getting back to me.
Your site definitely does rank well for those keywords. While the domain could still provide a nice SEO boost, I actually see it as a great addition from a branding authority perspective as well. Owning the exact match .com of your core business carries a certain clout.
I appreciate your offer to buy, and we'd be willing to knock the price down to $1600. Does that work?
Joe
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Sent: January 29, 2020 1:47 PM
To: Joe Nichols <
[email protected]>
Subject: Re: XxxxxXxxxx
.com
Hi Joe—
We could go to $1250.
Thanks, and best regards—
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Hi Xxxx,
Okay, $1250 will work. Thanks for working with me a bit.
If you don't mind, given the discounted price, PayPal would be our preferred payment method in order to avoid the service fees charged by the domain marketplaces. The process would be as follows:
- I'll send you an emailed invoice via PayPal.
- I will transfer the domain name to you.
- Once you confirm receipt of the name, you can send payment via PayPal to this email address.
Transfer of the domain name:
- The domain is registered with GoDaddy. If you have an account there, I'll need the email associated with your account to complete the transfer. The domain would arrive in your account right after I send it.
- If you use a domain registrar other than GoDaddy, you'll have to request the transfer yourself (usually costs about $10), and will need to enter an authorization code that I provide. It could take several days for the domain to arrive in your account by this method.
Let me know how you'd like to proceed and we'll go from there.
Joe