To “Good luck with that” — Don’t respond

It’s just a waste of your time.

Have you ever received this response when you quote a price for one of your domain names?

“Good luck with that.”

It’s a bit of an insult. Like someone is calling you crazy.

It could be tempting to respond to the person and tell them why you aren’t crazy but I don’t think it’s worth it 99% of the time.

For example, this weekend I received an inquiry on CandyCorn.com. I looked up the inquirer and saw that it was a really modest business in a really modest town. I almost didn’t respond since it didn’t seem qualified. But you never know, so I quoted $35,000.

I got the “good luck with that” response.

I could huff and puff and tell them why I’m not crazy and educate them on the value of domain names…but why? It would be a waste of my time and their time. It’s better to just move on.

The exception would be if someone comes out with a decent starting point offer. For example, if someone who seemed qualified offered $10k for the name but stated “good luck with that” to $35k, it might be worth discussing domain value to see if we can close the gap.