Well I have been sat on this one for a while, should amuse us now, last year on 14/5/09 we had the following fun.
We received the following from an email tagged Chris Hughes
Originally Posted by Chris Hughes
So we know straight away this is the owner of BITE (although he didn't declare it), beyond that though no real assumptions other than he is unlikely to be buying for top dollar given he claims to have purchased BITE for £30k (I feel that was and still is undervalued).
So our reply:
Originally Posted by Conrad
Response:
Originally Posted by Chris Hughes
At this point I was already not particularly interested, so:
Originally Posted by Conrad
Response:
So, at this point I decided he was just going for a quick grab rather than actually genuinely wanting to develop our site (and in this way I consider it a fishing expedition rather than a planned purchase).Originally Posted by Chris Hughes
Sadly he responded:Originally Posted by Conrad
For me no is no, and the reply from Chris was unnecessary, so sadly I joined in the name calling (as a point of interest, part of the intent of this reply was to give him a hint of the sort of investigation he should be doing before approaching someone. I strongly doubt he knows anything about our company):Originally Posted by Chris Hughes
Originally Posted by Conrad
And we all know he had to reply:
Originally Posted by Chris Hughes
At this point I decided I might actually be rude if I replied so left him with the last word.
As a point of interest, during the exodus, when a couple of trolls were trying to follow we had serious cause to investigate our traffic - it would appear the investigation leading to the initial request was to look at our front page and the feedback. Later in the day he checked out a few festivals and pubs pages, so I don't feel too bad about not taking him seriously .
The correspondence is provided in full, there were no other emails sent between us, and there is no implication intended in reproducing them.