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The most you should pay is the $10 or so to get the same domain name but with a different TLD.

Once you're up and running and generating revenue, then you can worry about paying for the .com.

(The price that the "domainer" is asking isn't going to come down. It comes him practically nothing (<$10/year) to hold onto the domain name -- which he'll definitely do now that he knows someone is interested -- since he is your only option if you really want it.)

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I'd expect the "domainer" to increase his asking price if the different-TLD site seems to be doing well.

yea this is why I'm not eager to get working on a different TLD. I don't want to inflate my own market. Apparently Dropbox trademarked their name and filed a complaint against the dropbox.com owner so I could conceivably pursue that route but it's somewhat shady.

> The price that the "domainer" is asking isn't going to come down.

That's not really true - they don't ever make money unless someone buys it - so it's not like they're sitting on all their domains waiting for million dollars offers for them.

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