I got a serious of emails the other day on a domain name we own Hablamos.com
The offer came into us unsolicited and except for the amount which we quoted as in dollars, but for the purposes of the post is now referred to just being $xx,xxx; the emails are reprinted word for word:
This is the email we received from vicentecurto@gmail.com
“Hi, I’m Vicente Curto and I’m interested to know the price to buy this domain (www.hablamos.com)… Thank you and I hope you send me the info soon.”
Our email response:
“”This Highly brandable domain is priced at $XX,XXX
Thank you for your interest.
This offer is valid for 7 days and subject to all the terms and conditions listed on our site.””
Here is the response we got back from Mr. Curto:
“Ok, I would like to buy this domain. What’s the way to do it?
Thanks!!!”
Here is our response back:
“I will start a transaction at Escrow.com using your email address
Escrow.com will hold your payment until you have full control of the domain
You should be receiving instructions from escrow.com shortly”
Then a few hours later I get this response:
“”Sorry, at this moment we’re not going to buy this domain. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience””
Hum
Another deadbeat buyer, time waster, game player.
No excuse.
When I quote a price if its too low I have to eat it.
I once sold a domain and got an offer the following week while the domain was still in escrow.com for double the amount.
I still went ahead with the transaction which I agreed to.
I expect everyone would do the same but if they don’t expect to be called out.
So be on the look out for Mr. Curto using the email address of vicentecurto@gmail.com his website appears to be vicentecurto.com as he lists the same gmail address on the contact form on that site as he wrote me from.
Interesting enough check out the contact form on his site
The word on the top of the form
Hablamos.
We will continue to call people out as we find them or in this case as they find us.
Got another one cued up for next week one that started with an unsolicited offer of over $2 Million.
This is better than the shill bids from GoDaddy.com/SEDO where buyer never pays. Also, he did not tried to sell you a useless escrow service.
Here is how I stop time wasters… I get an immediate deposit on PayPal (100% refundable) after escrow transaction is completed.
so you can chose to keep the deposit or refund… you can work that out with the buyer.
It can be as small as $500 or even $1000 bucks depending on the domain.
Good luck next time!
– Alex
At least you didn’t waste too much time. Recently a Broker asked me what I wanted for two Geo’s (Nanuet.com and Nyack.com) after quoting, the potential buyer asked for Traffic stats, revenue, and other ridiculous data. I simply told the broker “knowing that 99% of (their) domain inquiries don’t end up in a sale, I don’t disclose data. I sell my Domains on Face Value”. Too many people waste your time and now know your business.
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I don’t agree with the practise of naming and shaming on this forum as a rule, well not in this case anyway. The guy sounded sincere and apologetic in his response, and he didn’t come across as a ‘game player’ to me. His circumstances may have well been genuine to have to withdraw from purchasing the name, but either way, without anyone here really knowing, his name is now out there for all to see. Alot of us have been let down during negotiations with non payment being a common occurrence, but expressing that annoyance online at the cost of somebody’s reputation is uncalled for in my opinion, unless there’s absolute proof somebody has been playing games.
Naming & Shaming is the only way, and this is not a sincere email, this is a email farm inquiry, I have been getting these for the past year. They email high quality .com domains, trying to get an uneducated owner to commit to selling for a few hundred dollars. When they get a educated owner, they go along with it, then plug the plug in hopes the owner will be distraught, and try to come down on price.
I even traced a fake Alex to a Easter European country, he was attempting to sell me a domain I owned shielded by proxy to myself, that had recently expired, I played along, got his phone number, he was wanting to use ecop, last minute I pulled the plug, and exposed him, and let him know I purposely wasted his time.
Tanglewood unless you are behind such activities you would not appreciate having your time wasted, and your escrow account filled with dead invoices. These people need to be traced, we need to find the money supporting their cause, and shame them out loud, and refuse to do business with anyone that supports them. I am sorry, if you are going to use fake names, and misrepresent ownership of dropping domains, you deserve to be outed.
this happens to me on weekly basis it seems. someone contacts me about a domain, we go back and forth, finally agree on a price and then that’s it. i never hear from them again. I will follow up once a week passes and still nothing. I don’t how these people manage to run businesses with such poor communication and organizational skills.
Can’t wait for the list of sellers who don’t honor their posted “Buy It Now” prices.
This is unfortunate and I am sorry that it happened to you.
@Tanglewood: There is nothing bad if you back out because the price is too high or whatever. Noone is forced to accept an offer, but first saying “yes, I want to buy it” after knowing the price, just to come up with some “sorry, made up my mind” later, is no way to do business. A deal is a deal, no matter if it’s a written contract, a handshake or an email reply. It’s not like you don’t know if you have a spare $XX,XXX in your bank account or not beforehand, circumstances rarely change that fast.