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Acquisition Offer

I’ve just received a most serious acquisition offer.   Given their domain, I can’t help but wonder about the strategic fit 🙂

Hi,

We are interested in possibly acquiring your website, www.zoliblog.com, as it
would be a good strategic fit for our web portfolio.
If you’re interested in discussing further please let me know.

A little about us -  we are representing a small and privately owned company
with a $5 million fund for investing in websites.
They are headquartered in Denver with offices in Philippines and India and a
workforce of around 100 people between all offices.  Please also note that our
due diligence process is painless – all we care about is *traffic* so when the
time comes we will need to see your Google Analytics
and then can submit a firm bid to you. We pay all cash — no "earn-outs" and
other gimmicks.

I hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks,
………..
Strategic Acquisitions Group
name@wankmedia.com

Comments

  1. Do you think your 5 readers would mind?

    🙂

    “Just say NO”

  2. Please, PLEASE TELL ME that they aren’t called ‘wank media’.

  3. Haha, I got the same exact email for one of my sites today. The lack of disclosing what sites they own is probably a bad sign. (in addition to the name that is!)

  4. I’m struggling to see the strategic fit but then maybe they know something ‘we’ don’t. 🙂

    I just took a look at the other sites on the whois.domaintools… erm, interesting, at least their name ‘fits’.

  5. And another version:

    —————————————————–
    Hi,

    We are interested in possibly acquiring your website, www.******* as it would be a good strategic fit for our web portfolio. If you’re interested in discussing further please let me know.

    A little about us – we are representing a small and privately owned company with a $5 million fund for investing in websites. They are headquartered in Denver with a workforce of around 100 people. Please also note that our due diligence process is painless – all we care about is *traffic* so when the time comes we will need to see your Google Analytics and then can submit a firm bid to you. We pay all cash — no “earn-outs” and other gimmicks.

    I hope to hear from you soon.

    Thanks,
    Cristina Cello
    Strategic Acquisitions Group
    cristina@toneworldmedia.com
    —————————————————–

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