Escrow.com just closed my account for public complaint on them

Are you sure, they did not discontinue their services in your country? I don't think they would close your account just because of your NP post.

Maybe this help you .

What countries are not supported by Escrow.com?
Escrow.com currently supports transactions from all over the world. However, there is a list of countries that we do not support. These include:

• Afghanistan
• Algeria
• Angola
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
• Cuba
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Iran, Islamic Republic of
• Iraq
• Kazakhstan
• Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
• Kyrgyzstan
• Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Lebanon
• Liberia
• Libya
• Moldova
• Myanmar
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Russian Federation
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Tajikistan
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan
• Venezuela
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Source: https://www.escrow.com/support/faqs/what-countries-are-not-supported-by-escrowcom

eurorealtor said:

Are you sure, they did not discontinue their services in your country? I don't think they would close your account just because of your NP post.

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No, I don't think so. My country is just at the center of Europe. And the fraud rate, although higher than in more developed European countries, still significantly lower than with those they are still happy to have business with. Besides doing wire transfers is essentially risk free...

Arthur IM said:

What countries are not supported by Escrow.com?
Escrow.com currently supports transactions from all over the world. However, there is a list of countries that we do not support.

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Thank you for the list - yes, this is new!

I was not aware they are closing away support for some countries, after all we were using them during the last 10 years several times(with two different accounts) and all was always fine, the last transaction(for the today closed account) happened 3 months ago.

Anyone knows is the list was recently updated? I'am still highly skeptic it is anything to do with a country i'am in though.

Besides is makes little sense: to promise sending me Invoice on Friday, then on next business day(Monday), instead of invoice sending me the Account Close Notice.

They updated the list recently I guess, this for me and many others means Escrow is no more an option.

Here I come DAN and other Escrow companies.

UmerK said:

Here I come DAN and other Escrow companies.

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I'am giving Epik.com a first try - so far so good - we sent a wire transfer today(the seller transferred domains to Epik in advance for our deal to happen). We are slowly buying good names mainly for web development, not to resell, so closed escrow.com account is of no big deal, just minor future inconvenience. I'am not even mad. :D

DmitrySV said:

I'am giving Epik.com a first try - so far so good - we sent a wire transfer today(the seller transferred domains to Epik in advance for our deal to happen). We are slowly buying good names mainly for web development, not to resell, so closed escrow.com account is of no big deal, just minor future inconvenience. I'am not even mad. :D

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@Epik.com is good and fast

If you are using wire to transfer funds... you get NP discount on epik

UmerK said:

Here I come DAN and other Escrow companies.

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I just wish Epik or Undeveloped, or better both, offered an escrow API like the one Escrow.com has.

Undeveloped has promised longer installment terms to come, but they don't have the proper price adjustment. For example, if I sell an expensive domain, say 100K, it would be the BIN price. For 24 months, I'd like to take about 110 total probably. 60 months? More like 130 or even 150... Epik seems to have some kind of support for this (although I haven't tried it yet), but I would very much prefer an ability to define such stuff on my own landing pages – offering the visitor a set of pre-configured transaction choices, which would initiate the transaction should (s)he proceed.

@Jackson Elsegood could you please clarify if
the list of unsupported countries was indeed updated recently?

There is escrow software available and if any of the marketplaces are interested please let me know.

Brandon Abbey said:

There is escrow software available and if any of the marketplaces are interested please let me know.

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Can the escrow software be called via our own marketplace via an API?

The software can be white-labeled for the marketplace and the marketplace can control the disbursements. You need to establish a relationship with a payments company to perform the AML/KYC requirements.

Brandon Abbey said:

The software can be white-labeled for the marketplace and the marketplace can control the disbursements. You need to establish a relationship with a payments company to perform the AML/KYC requirements.

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Would love to see efty integrate this. Brandon, we miss you in the domain escrow game.

Yet another thread title jumping the gun giving bad press before doing due diligence.

xynames said:

another thread title jumping the gun giving bad press before doing due diligence.

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yeah, sure, just watch out the countries you make business with through escrow.com "hi user" assholes to not be in the updated list now and in the future, so that their accounts will not be closed in the middle of the transaction like mine was and you'll be fine .. until the next possible update, that is..

Stay away from Escrow.com, worst escrow provider nowadays, must admit they are cheapest but worst.

I noticed Ukraine was added to the unsupported list.

Any ideas ?
Maybe the Escrow.com team can clarify the situation ?

And what about the Godaddy transactions for over $5k ?
https://godaddy.com/help/understanding-godaddy-auctions-payment-transactions-909

Thanks.


PS.

I remember there was a problem with OFAC.
When someone decided to add Ukraine to "their own" sanctions list because of Crimea region . Their own - means that official OFAC website returned sanctions for Crimea only but not for the whole country. Low-level education and fear makes people not to see details and the worst part is they don't want to see or understand. They just do their low-level job and that's it...
Another forum link /threads/escrow-com.545409/


So I'm pretty sure that a new list of unsupported countries which includes Ukraine was made by low-level educated people/person. Governments of US and Europe say - we support Ukraine but the Escrow.com includes Ukraine to the unsupported list. WTF ?

To solve the OFAC issue @Brandon Abbey helped a lot.

Who can help with the list of unsupported countries ? Why the Escrow decided to include Ukraine into this list and who can help us to overcome this mistake or misunderstanding ?

@keepsmile not just Ukraine, they added also Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan.
I just want to see who made such a stupid decision in Escrow.com management.

I remember there were always sanctions against Moldova. Payoneer handles many of the countries on the escrow list, but when Payoneer started doing escrow they stopped using them. Maybe escrow should rekindle that relationship.

Brandon Abbey said:

I remember there were always sanctions against Moldova. Payoneer handles many of the countries on the escrow list, but when Payoneer started doing escrow they stopped using them. Maybe escrow should rekindle that relationship.

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Hello @Brandon Abbey , thanks for your post.

But Ukraine is not Moldova.
And the main confusion for me is when US and EU say they support Ukraine but the Escrow.com doesn't.
How ?

Thanks.

You have to ask them. I haven’t been involved with the company since the Australians started running it.

In the past I used escrow.com without any problems from Ukraine.

So this is their NEW policy.

Forget...

Use Sedo escrow: https://sedo.com/us/services/domain-transfer-service/external-transfer-order-page/

Could be simpler : ) We - at banned countires - are just not worth the costs for Escrow : )