It’s been almost three years since I started using Domain Name Sales, and after hundreds of domain inquiries, this one wins a special prize.
I can’t disclose the exact details of it, as there’s still hope that the buyer will fork out five figures made via a payment plan.
After quoting the price, the potential buyer stated their company is still in its infancy, and offered in exchange some premium alcohol and chocolates.
Both items are of premium quality in their country of origin, and as I have sampled them before I don’t dispute that.
As a chocoholic and social drinker I would not mind receiving such a gift, but not as a trade for a $25,000 dollar domain.
I relayed to the DNS broker that the buyer needs to provide $25k worth of booze and chocolates, plus the associated import taxes.
Maybe in the future we should open a domain supermarket, trading domains for groceries or luxury items.
For now, I’ll take cash in exchange for premium domains – thank you very much.
Once, I was offered face cream for a nice pronounceable 5L .com.
Jen – This is too funny. Thanks for sharing. 😀
I hope you didn’t go for it.
Easy to turn down Jacob’s email description of drinks and chocolates.
But if Esau were a few drinks deep and all the chocolates within reach? There goes the birthright?
No, I didn’t.
It was a name that the potential buyer had allowed to expire; after verifying her claims, I had offered to sell it for what I paid (it wasn’t much), but she somehow felt entitled to get it for a jar of face cream.
Somehow, I was just being “mean.”
Jen – A jar of face cream, based on the domain’s details? Or as a woman to woman gesture? If the latter, why not a Chanel 5 perfume? 😀
It was her invention.
🙂
Joseph – That is one Bible story I had never heard before. Thanks 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esau
I sold a coffee related domain this year to a coffee company and asked for money and coffee as well. They declined but offered a higher price which I accepted. Looking back, I should have pushed for the coffee harder. I like good coffee 🙂
There’s a moral in it for domain sellers in a hurry:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25%3A29-34&version=ERV
Joe – Now perhaps you can buy Joe.Coffee 😛
Joseph – I agree. Always sign an NDA first.
I bought a bunch of State+GunStore dropped domains. I’m into firearms and used to have a firearm related social site. I have considered on a couple of occasions trading those domains for guns I wanted, but ended up just selling for cash due to the complication of shipping to FFL dealers and transfers.
Thats the only time I have entertained the idea of bartering for domains.
I think I’ve sold all of my gun store domains now.
I was offered persian calligraphy for a domain. Very elegant too – from an artist whose work I admire. Would have accepted, but I got rid of nearly all physical possessions years ago. Indeed, I got involved with domaining primarily to rid myself of material attachments and be a nomad. He proposed a tattoo design, but for various reasons I demurred.
Alcohol NO
Swiss chocolate YES
So far we have: chocolates, alcohol, guns, calligraphy/tattoo, facial cream, coffee.
Awesome!
When asked if I do trades my answer is: “I do trades all the time! I trade domain names for money.”
When asked if I will trade ‘X’ for a specific domain I tell them: “Sorry, but I am open to trading the domain name for money.”