On my landers I have the following message for offers...
I used to have it set where $1000 was the minimum bid and if you offered lower I would ignore the inquiry. I have recently changed that to "Enter your best offer" and when someone responds with an offer below 1k I simply respond with two words... HARD NO
Surprisingly engagement has increased dramatically, firstly because I engaged and secondly because potential clients now tries to engage in conversation. They know they reached my inbox, but I ignore any secondary contact that comes in unless it's a valid offer.
Funny how many emails I get until they figure it out, and yesterday I got a secondary offer from a client for $2,400 and he emailed me again in a huff asking me why I did not respond.
HeHe, I was about to respond but because of his question I answered...
The form says MAKE YOUR BEST OFFER, if your best offer was $2,400 and I want $15,000 why would I engage and waste my time. If you want to negotiate simply make your BEST OFFER without low balling me and wasting my time.
The interesting part of the experiment is the two words "HARD NO" are engaging more clients than my full paragraph responses informing them the value of a good domain in business etc.
The emails keep coming and the most interesting thing about it is the longer I ignore them after the initial HARD NO the more they reveal who they are in subsequent emails trying to justify why they should own the domain name.
An interesting experiment, with interesting results.
