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Bikini Tara said:

Great news for you! I don't focus on the ramifications. What I do know is that the Buyer informed me, quickly after sending the PP invoice, that he wasn't sure the PP payment would go through as they'd experienced difficulties before. I tried anyway. 4 times actually. Each time the Buyer attempted to submit payment, it would not process. When I contacted PayPal, they informed me that their organization did not support the address(South Africa) attached to the Buyer's payment method(Visa).

I had choices at this point. The Buyer suggested I wait until AFTER the holiday to receive payment from one of their other company execs(who was visiting friends in USA) within their Europe office(approved address, of course) or send via SquareUp as he'd begun using Square after countless PayPal/USA transaction issues. I like my cash in a jiffy, so I instantly setup Square and the problem was solved.

Days later, I called an attorney buddy of mine who works for PayPal and was informed that years back, there were numerous fraud practices deriving from not only residential addresses based in South Africa, but also internal crimes from financial institutions based in South Africa. Isn't Wells Fargo going through this right now??

So, the roadblock was likely from the address or vicinity of the Buyer's financial institution, who knows. Bcuz, the Buyer was attempting to pay me with their expense account card addressed to the South Africa office, which, as I found out by my close PayPal source, is 50% funded by the government. #BikiniProblems

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Bikini Tara said:

Many have messaged me asking all sorts of random questions, as you can imagine.
Two popular questions, though: You're a domainer? Do you wear bikinis when you meet people?
Yes to both.

First off, I'm just a beginner. I'm far from a Rick Latona or Rick Schwartz. But Rick Latona is the guy who motivated me to buy my first domain name more than 15 years ago. One thing Latona told me, "With the RIGHT domain name, profits will follow."

For those of you who know me, I like to surround myself around entrepreneurs I can ACTUALLY learn from, hence, I remain close to rich domainers who have made a ton of money flipping domains. Money is fun and I like money.. and fun, so why wouldn't I, right? Success inspires me.

Now for me, I don't spend much for domains. In fact, I've never spent over $9.17 for one. 99.9993% of my domains are hand-registered. Why? Quite-frankly, they're easier to flip (for me, at least). I don't like working too hard. Domaining is a hobby. Just something to do while in traffic, on the plane, or in the Whole Foods checkout line.

Just know, when it comes to investing, I don't enjoy using much of my monies. Not that I have a fear of losing. I mean, why should I? To me, it doesn't make sense. Every millionaire/billionaire I've had the pleasure of being around has reminded me of the importance of OPM(Other People's Money).

So hand-registering a domain every week for less than 10 bucks, then flipping for $500+ is pretty stellar ROI as far as I'm concerned. I never lose because my ROI for one domain outweighs the entire transaction.

While browsing NamePros pages back in June, I witnessed several 'drone' postings. Just so happens, I read a domain blog the day prior about billionaire Richard Branson and some dude named Bill Kimberlin(they're good friends now), who, at the time, I'd never heard of, hanging out on Nectar Island. Just google it, plenty motivational stories about their initial meet-n-greet. In 2000, serial entrepreneur Bill Kimberlin acquired Medicare(dot)com for a couple thousand bucks, then turned around and sold it for $4.8MILLION in 2015.

After reading a couple articles, I realized Bill's passion has always been in the media + film industries, especially drones. So with the profits of the mega domain sale, Bill set up a new venture, 500Below, developed a cool app, then purchased ParamountDrones.com.

What happens next? Yup, I secured paramountdrone.com.
For the TOTAL time it took me to buy the domain, set up a @paramountdrone email account and send 2 separate emails offering to sell the domain name: approx 25 minutes.

First, I sent Bill a one-character, helicopter emoji text message(this does something to ppl psychologically -- phenomenal tactic), then followed with my irresistible email. Have you know, Bill kindly rejected my offer a week later on July 4th weekend. Was it pride? Must've been pride. Who knows. He surely had the money. And knowing this, I moved on. I don't do too much negotiating. You miss out, you miss out.

And since I wasn't going to drop my asking price, I moved on to ParamountGroup(dot)com. They partner with federal military agencies, so not only do they have hella cash, but I read a press release on their website illustrating the implementation of drones in the near future. #Perfect

I emailed the Chairman/CEO (always go to the top, ALWAYS -- middlemen are a waste of time) on a Friday evening(the best days) and 8 minutes later.. a reply from the company's Communications head: SOLD.

PayPal doesn't support payments from South Africa, so I setup a Square account, emailed the invoice and was paid $1100 USD ten minutes later. #ImAlwaysOpenToLearn #ThinkBIG #AchieveBIG

Kicked my 4th of July weekend off by purchasing 11 godaddy domains for $100.87, 2 pair of black panties and a strawberry Nesquik.

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Pierre Barnard said:

South Africa....interesting.

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