Perhaps I have high expectations from people; I engage in communications with a polite, friendly tone. When someone makes several attempts to get in touch, I assume they are looking for dialogue, not mud-wrestling.<\/p>\n
Alas, this is often quite far from the truth.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I received a call from the owner of a .us domain – he runs a business in the Midwest and I happen to own the .com. It’s a two word compound that is also a generic term for the industry it represents. Like saying “blue chip”.<\/p>\n
The first sign of a buyer with no manners: he called, my answering machine picked up and he left no message.<\/p>\n
I called back, spoke to his secretary, left my name and phone number and the reason I called as he was in a meeting.<\/p>\n
Today, he called back while I was out for errands. Again, he left no message on the answering machine, he simply hang up.<\/p>\n
So I called back and he sounds flabbergasted that the domain is owned by me and not some other company by that name (that company went bankrupt 7 years ago and let the domain expire).<\/p>\n
Now, when I communicate directly I am giving the other party the opportunity to place an offer, after it’s made clear to them that the domain in question is lawfully my asset. This time, it was obvious I am dealing with a person that has no idea about domain pricing; to keep it short I gave him a low $x,xxx number.<\/p>\n
Not interested!<\/strong> came the answer, and before I could thank him for his time and wish him best of luck with his business, the guy hang up on me!<\/strong><\/p>\n What a shame this same individual worked for a large bank in the past and is also praised among his peers as an excellent business man and golfer.<\/p>\n Out of spite, I decided to give the .net owners that compete in the same business a chance to own the domain – at a price lower than what I offered to this domain redneck – if they talk nice to me on the phone.<\/p>\n As for our domain redneck, he’s clearly not in touch with his line of business at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perhaps I have high expectations from people; I engage in communications with a polite, friendly tone. When someone makes several attempts to get in touch, I assume they are looking for dialogue, not mud-wrestling. Alas, this is often quite far from the truth. Yesterday, I received a call from the owner of a .us domain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[557,559,558,385,1189],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-domains","tag-bad-manners","tag-domain-redneck","tag-domainer","tag-domaining","tag-domains","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n