cheeky responses to lowballs. (1.Viewing)

rlm · Jan 23, 2022

Anybody have a great go-to response to lowballs? Usually I'll just ignore them but sometimes I can't help myself, especially when the offer comes from an identifiable business person.

Got one today, $5 USD on the domain o2.ca. My response was:

Thanks for your offer of $5, but I'll have to pass. I'd hate to see you spend your entire allowance on a domain name.

Too cheeky or too douchy?

And on the flip side, I also got a $100K USD offer on a true ultra premium CA. Haven't responded yet, presuming its just a 12 y/o, but they did leave a phone number so I'll attempt a follow up phone call tomorrow. Rarely do you get that kind of starting offer, but then again, that was the minimum offer required to submit the form.

MapleDots · Jan 23, 2022

I sometimes like to respond with humour when I get a really lowball offer on an ulta premium, your response made me laugh.

On the flipside.... I often get a high opening offer on my ultra premiums only to find out it was someone wanting to open up dialogue because they had no other way to contact me.

I mostly get it on my private listings where there is no other contact other than a minimum offer. So very similar to your situation.

In fact I recently made a 250k usd offer on a domain that is advertised at 1 million. I put in one million but in the comment section wrote that my real offer was 250k and if they ever decide to sell for less than 1 million my offer stands.

DomainRecap · Jan 23, 2022

Here's one a actually used a few times when the lowballs were obviously abusive.

"Thank you for the generous offer, but I think you'll need to search a lot more couches for spare change."

lotsofcoffee · Jan 24, 2022

I normally say something like: With that sort of budget, you are best off hand registering a domain.

Hopefully not too mean, and puts things in perspective.

Nafti · Jan 24, 2022

Oh the flip side, had a very low ball offer last November, and countered something much higher than the value. Which is what I like to do on extremely low offers.

Their response did give me a nice chuckle.

DomainRecap · Jan 24, 2022

lotsofcoffee said:
I normally say something like: With that sort of budget, you are best off hand registering a domain.

Hopefully not too mean, and puts things in perspective.

That's what I usually say the first time too, but if a nitwit starts harassing me with multiple lowballs, then he gets the back of my hand.

Asselin · Jan 24, 2022