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Hi,

I have been using escrow.com as my sole escrow provider and 90% of all my domains transactions. I bought a domain in April from them recently ( didn't give much time to domaining due to other endeavours). I sold the same domain this week for around $2.5k and started escrow. The buyer already sent the payment the very first day which has been received by escrow but escrow is telling me to update my bank to remove Payoneer which i had already done an year ago. So i contacted them.

They then tell me that the bank payment is not acceptable to them ( they have been paying me out on this bank for over 3 years) since they don't accept bank payments in my country. I was fed up with this but thought I could use my Dad's bank account which i have used previously several times to add funds to my escrow account without any issues. This payment method has been verified fully.

So I try to add my father's bank account in my profile but couldn't due to it not matching my name so I contact escrow sales about this and this is the response I get:

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Escrow.com.

Please note that you can't add your Father's bank account as your disbursement method as you will need to use your own bank account for this transaction. In the event that you cannot add a different bank account under your name then we are not able to proceed with this transaction.

If you need further assistance, you can contact us via chat or call.

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Really fed up with them right now and it seems like I would have to end my service with them. Upon reading and discussing with other people, it seems escrow.com's service is really detoriating.


 
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@Jackson Elsegood @Matt Barrie

I understand @NetworkPearl is based in Pakistan. Transferwise works well there and pays out in PKR in a matter of hours. Amex FX also works fine there.

If you want to clear through Epik, happy to get this solved today. We believe the seller is legit. I understand the amount is ~$2500.

Thanks
Rob
 
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If you could short stock for escrow.com I would do it fast. It's a high repute and good support place offering excellent service for many years. However with that said, it sadly appears business can go nowhere but down because of registrars such as DAN.com and Epik plus others now or soon offering their own escrow and it can be a sometimes free service included in commission.

What could be better security than control of the domain name so I do not see a need anymore for 3rd party escrow (possibly with exceptions for high price transactions), imo.
 
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Escrow.com becomes one of worst escrow providers nowadays, especially after they started to provide outsource support to their clients, I used them almost 20 years and now switched to Dan.com even considering that they are more expensive.
 
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