do you have EUR290000?

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  1. kwun

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    I just got this email today:



     
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    I think we don't need to feed the troll..
    those trolls who bought a bunch of domain name and then try to sell it at high price (look at coca cola and how much they pay for their domain website)
    badminton central is already really great. we don't need badminton.com..

    plus 290,000 Euro is huge (I can buy around 3-4 good houses in Jakarta for that amount)
     
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    It's a good try but "badminton" is not the name of a company. So, the value would be very, very low.

    29 euros is more like the value, and that's for more novelty value than anything.
     
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    Let me check under my bed and I shall get back to you kwun. :)
     
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    that email is awesome lol
     
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    dont think it will be a good deal.
     
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    Ask him if he accepts Dong. I can pay in cash and triple that amount..
     
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    Well, not on me...
     
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    lol i don't think even BWF would consider this offer in a million years.
     
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    Maybe this does mean badmintoncentral.com domain-name is worth like 292,000 Euro? :-D
     
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    There lived a rowdy chap named Minton
    who sought eagerly to meet Bill Clinton
    "I've been naughty with the ladies
    and I'm dying to tell all my buddies.
    So, would you please buy me the domain bad-Minton?"
     
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    i've got to cut my mattress to check;)
     
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    badmintoncentral is bigger than badminton.com, so who cares?! tell them they need to pay you six figure to give up badmintoncentral!!!
     
  14. kwun

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    yeah. the name is just a empty shell. but the potential is there.

    i don't think he is getting much offer though.

    honestly, the up side when it comes to money on running badminton site is very low. there just isn't enough marketing interests for it to justify the investment.
     
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    I recall some part of Europe use comma as decimal point. Are you sure it isn't €290? :D
     
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    Quite right!
    I'm getting the same feeling, kwun.

    PS: But, the phrase "low six figures" in his email argues against this feeling :D
     
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    Perhaps he's referring to yen. :p
     
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    haha. u need to understand these are salesmen, so don't believe everything/anything they say!
     
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    if you are a great businessman, know what you are doing, then maybe having a nice sounding domain like this will help. but if u are a good businessman, you can make any domain work, and the cost and return of paying so much for this is questionable.
     
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    why don't you offer sell the badmintoncentral.com to him at half the cash and continue with some other domain? with the cash perhaps start a bc badminton equipment line and sell to us at cost? kwun900p eh?:D
     

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