We present a family of sharpness examples for Falconer-type single dot product results. In particular, for $d\geq 2,$ for any $s<\frac{d+1}{2},$ we construct a Borel probability measure $μ$ satisfying the energy estimate $I_s(μ)<\infty,$ yet the estimate \begin{equation} (μ\times μ)\{(x,y):1\leq x\cdot y \leq 1+ε\} \leq Cε\end{equation} does not hold with constants independent of $ε$. It is known (\cite{EIT11}) that such an estimate always holds with $C$ independent of $ε$ if $I_{\frac{d+1}{2}}(μ)<\infty$. Thus our estimate proves the sharpness of the dimensional threshold in this result and generalizes similar results (\cite{Mat95}, \cite{IS16}) established in the case when the dot product $x \cdot y$ is replaced by the Euclidean distance function $|x-y|$, or, more generally, ${||x-y||}_K$, the distance that comes from the norm induced by a symmetric convex body $K$ with a smooth boundary and non-vanishing curvature. Our constructions are partially based on ideas that come from discrete incidence theory.