{"id":1647,"date":"2011-05-04T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2011-05-03T23:01:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T03:01:21","slug":"playing-the-final-offer-card-on-sedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/playing-the-final-offer-card-on-sedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the &#8216;Final Offer&#8217; card on Sedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a domain seller, I&#8217;m always looking to maximize my ROI; Sedo&#8217;s platform offers some room for negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>However, the use of the pre-selected options is rather minimal and some are rather useless. For example, &#8220;Please justify your asking price&#8221; sounds like a time-wasting response.<\/p>\n<p>There is one option that is quite ominous and that&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>This is my final offer<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>When placed by the offer-maker, it&#8217;s an indication that he&#8217;s ready to pull out of further acting upon the domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A week ago I was in the middle of one such negotiation, when the deal stalled. My asking price and the placed offer were quite apart.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the potential buyer played the &#8220;This is my final offer&#8221; card.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big mistake.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the gap is large, making such a statement won&#8217;t push me into &#8220;surrendering&#8221; the domain. Domain buyers beware: if you use Sedo to attempt to buy domains anonymously, you immediately indicate that you don&#8217;t want to negotiate directly; after all, my contact info is in the WHOIS.<\/p>\n<p>So I typed up a nice response to the buyer, explaining why his offer was laughable; for a domain registered before 2000 he was instantly gaining Google juice for the exact terms. I didn&#8217;t forget to send him a couple of other potential buyers, <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/30\/zfbot-leaps-forward-with-127-million-searchable-domains\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>using ZFBot as my search tool.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I waited. 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