I wanted to buy echo.com as they went out of business and I got a reply in the mail:

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:25:51 -0700

From: Neil info@echo.com

To: oo7 l33t t3singh@uwaterloo.ca

Subject: Re: domain [#9509]

Not for sale. By the way we paid $250,000 for it.

hmm…I think I see a flaw in the business plan…