The Price of Greed

This post doesn’t reflect well on me. I present it as a salutary tale about greed.

When I started working on the “Connected Little Boxes” I invested in the domain name “cleverlittleboxes.com” as I thought that might work for the name of the product. Then I found out that there actually is a company called Clever Little Boxes which rather scuppered my plans. So I switched to the name “Connected Little Boxes” which is just as meaningful and ties in rather well with our “Connected Humber” project. I spent another six pounds or so on “connectedlittleboxes.com” and went on my merry way.

Last week, via a domain sharing thingy, I got word of an offer for the “cleverlittleboxes.com” domain. The mysterious purchaser was offering 199 dollars for the domain name. Visions of riches swam in front of my eyes. Or at least, enough riches to get a new iPad. So, having done some research on the domain selling site I sent back a counter proposal of around half the price of what I saw as comparable names. This is a long-winded way of saying that I got greedy.

Anyhoo, today I got a rather sniffy response from my mysterious buyer, complaining about my profiteering actions and dropping the offer to a very iPad unfriendly 50 dollars or so. Oh well. I’m going to hang on for the domain for now and see what happens.