{"id":2730,"date":"2012-09-19T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2012-09-19T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:14:45","slug":"the-poor-student-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/the-poor-student-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;poor student&#8217; strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Receiving lowball offers via email isn&#8217;t something new; the stories I could share are numerous, but for today I&#8217;ll be focusing on the &#8216;poor student&#8217; type.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, those poor students have moved on from making lowball offers from behind a disposable email address, to actually registering an account on <strong>Sedo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s good to ignore those idiots instead of responding with a scathing email about their idiocy, by using Sedo one is more or less obligated to respond.<\/p>\n<p>My counter-offer to their $60 offer was met with the following comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Come on man, 3k for a domain. 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