It’s common sense: When I go to a store to buy a product, I don’t turn around at the checkout to sell my services instead of paying for the item.
This exact, unprofessional behavior applies to domain name inquiries as well.
A person who introduced himself as a domain investor from India, placed an offer and received a quote for one of the aged domains in my portfolio.
After I explained that his offer was well below my selling price, he went ahead and attempted to sell me a variant with an “S” appended, registered a day ago.
The fun part is that the new word isn’t even valid in its pseudo-pluralized format.
Such silly attempts to pitch one’s own domain while appearing to be inquiring about another, do not belong in the domain industry – definitely not a smart move among peers.
The same spammers send daily emails with variations of my own domains – they think adding an “s” will get my interest. In every case the domain does not make sense in the English language!
James – In this case, the pseudo-inquiry and subsequent offer was made through Domain Name Sales. I too receive the daily onslaught of garbage emails but filter that type of spam out. This was a pitch masqueraded as an inquiry.
There is one large company out of India that continues to spam, and is now teaching others to spam thinking it will lead to big profits from the developed countries who are thirsty for reg fee domains.
I have about 400 leads from India, I have yet to close a single deal. Even made some mid to high xxx deals, in good faith, but they always dash when it comes time to pay.
I have had a few inquires from such tactics even out of the US, where they have a singular, or plural, and look for a 4 figure quote, and say well I own this name, I will sell it for such an amount etc…
These people are simply wasting their own time.