Unless the domain owner is desperate for cash (i.e. a motivated seller) it will be hard to knock the price down. Firstly by expressing an interest the current domain owner now knows that the domain has some value. And then there's nothing to stop the domain owner from raising the price since you're interested. This isn't like buying a used car since the domain is unique so the idea that you can value a domain and use that to bargain doesn't hold up.
In that case, how would you go about negotiating the purchase of a domain -- in other words, how do you not show interest to keep the domain owner from raising the price? I'm not the OP, but am just curious what a better method would be.
But how can they justify such a high price? Besides them saying that they believe it's worth that much. There's no Alexa data on the domain and it doesn't have any history of back links or pagerank.
The stats don't matter when you're dealing with a commodity of one.
I find that when I get a ridiculous quote, believe me I've had some, the best thing to do is look for an alternative name and spend the savings elsewhere.
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Unless the domain owner is desperate for cash (i.e. a motivated seller) it will be hard to knock the price down. Firstly by expressing an interest the current domain owner now knows that the domain has some value. And then there's nothing to stop the domain owner from raising the price since you're interested. This isn't like buying a used car since the domain is unique so the idea that you can value a domain and use that to bargain doesn't hold up.
In that case, how would you go about negotiating the purchase of a domain -- in other words, how do you not show interest to keep the domain owner from raising the price? I'm not the OP, but am just curious what a better method would be.
But how can they justify such a high price? Besides them saying that they believe it's worth that much. There's no Alexa data on the domain and it doesn't have any history of back links or pagerank.
The stats don't matter when you're dealing with a commodity of one.
I find that when I get a ridiculous quote, believe me I've had some, the best thing to do is look for an alternative name and spend the savings elsewhere.