You Had Me at Scumbag

George Kirikos posted a thread on Namepros about what not to say in a domain inquiry.

Here are some words and phrases I see all too often, that folks should avoid putting into their domain name inquiries:

1. student
2. non-profit
3. reasonable
4. I’m a broker
5. we have a client
6. starting a blog
7. we don’t have a large budget
8. I’m a serious buyer
9. if you have a list of other domains
10. this email is not spam

Which other words and phrases are a turn-off, if you’re a domain name owner receiving an inquiry?

And I agree with George that domain investors start to get either suspicious or dismissive when getting those kinds of replies.

I got one last week that was just classic,

“I know all you so called investors are just scumbags so just give me a reasonable price.”

My reply was you had me at scumbags.

He replied back with ???

Usually the conversation is over when one side calls the other side a scumbag.