Funny video about the typical domain purchase inquiry.
Ah, the domain purchase inquiry. You have to listen to them, but there’s the all-to-familiar pain of uneducated buyers that try to tell you how you should value your domain name.
Bill Sweetman created this fun video that will seem very familiar to you. It includes just about everything you’ve ever heard, from “there must be a law against you owning this domain name” to “I got it appraised for less than you’re charging” to “you’re a cybersquatter” to “no one else will ever be interested in buying this domain from you.”
What other purchase inquiry approaches drive you nuts?
Adam says
HARASSMENT and DEATH THREATS!!
Louise says
Thanx for that! It is a good point that brick-and-mortar businesses pay high rent for a premium space on Main street, and the one-time fee of the domain enables a premium space on the web forever, as long as renewals are paid!
todaro says
sometimes weasels don’t even look like weasels.
Mike Curving says
genius.
chris says
This is all too funny! Great video!
David J Castello says
Love it. We get this nonsense all the time. My favorite was the person who offered us “a thousand years worth of registration fees” (less than 10K).
Rob Sequin says
Great job Bill! Very entertaining.
I think the owner was much too kind to the interested party.
Surely Rick Schwartz did not write this script! 🙂
Leonard Britt says
The video does a good job of presenting the different viewpoints between the average person who wants a domain name for their blog and the domainer who holds the perfect name for that blog. Thus, many developers, small business people, college students, etc despise domainers and call them all kinds of nasty names. Well, I guess that comes with the territory…
tricolorro says
That was great!
The Original Domainer says
Deja vu
Landon White says
The Best Ever !!!
I have been using the GOOGLE , Hilarious
Notice AFTER offering $50 Dollars he told on himself and admitted that he paid $19.95 for a dumb ass appraisal and the value give was $1000 … So was the good citizen the liar and the disreputable con artist weasel, was he not?
Guaranteed with out fail, all OFFERS and INQUIRIES come with a “BS STORY attached” designed to CON YOU from getting the DOMAIN value price.
I think the reason he wanted, Weasles.com
was because that was his true name. LOL
Brad says
This is very funny. Everything in this video is very familiar.
Brad
M. Menius says
Hilarious. Love it! The buyer’s pathetic logic & offers simply met with “No thanks”.
Landon White says
I just watched it again …
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! (Creative Genius Work)
I guess i must be one of those
CYBER-SQAWKERs at heart! ,lol
WhyPark Kelly says
Ha! Great work Bill, I like the part where he says he “uses the Google” 🙂 Great way to start my morning, thanks for sharing!
Steve says
This is really on point with what a typical sale can be like. I thought I was having DeJaVu watching this – great video!
Memphis Domain Broker says
I think I need to add a link in my sig to this for all of my far out customers.
Good Job.
Victor Pitts says
Sounded too familiar. 🙂 Well done.
Bruce Tedeschi says
Story of my life…
Steve Cheatham says
lmao
Scott Ross says
Freakin’ BRILLIANT!! The video speaks perfectly to persistent simpletons, annoying bottom-feeders and the legitimately clueless, who may need a 101-level orientation. With Bill’s consent, it will hereafter be embedded into my default responses to all inane domain offers.
@DAVID CASTELLO > Ok then, TWO THOUSAND years worth of registration fees! Final offer!!
Giveupblue says
One word for this video Terrrrrrific!
Thank You!
Michael Marcovici says
Brilliant, Estibot gives it 21.000 USD…
Adam says
I think the script needs to be rewritten if it’s a tucows domain : “a customer of ours registered it for $10 and then we took it over when they let it expire.”
Robert Evans says
LOL “you must be one of those damned cyber-squatters”
I’m thinking about contacting the owner of weasels.com and seeing if they would sell the domain for $50 bucks. I bet they have their inbox full of people doing that by now.
Stephen Douglas says
Somebody a few weeks ago actually wrote to me when I told them my domain’s price if he wanted to buy it, which was simply mid 3 figures:
He wrote: “What are you going to do with it? You will have to keep renewing it each year and never make the money I will make with it. Why don’t you save yourself those renewal fees and just sell the domain to me for $10?”
Best lowball pitch I ever heard.
And that video clip is hilarious. You could use that cartoon system for about 100 different idiot situations in our world today.