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Is Sedo a CHINESE company? (UPDATE: It's not + PROBLEM SOLVED!)

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Can't believe what I'm seeing here. I'm just trying to purchase a Homepage Showcase listing for my domain currently pushed in auction and I can't even pay with my Card. And even though I don't have sufficient PayPal, there's not even an option for that. What the h*ll? Only Alipay and slow Wire?? And the irony: the previous page before this showed all the payment logos - Visa Mastercard PP etc only to end up with THIS huge disappointment. No way I'll use wire, by the time it reaches Sedo the auction will be over.

It's so ridiculous not to see any of the usual payment systems on such a HUGE, INTERNATIONAL site like this.

Just making a rant. Don't know what to do now. I don't even live in China. Do I have to start living in China and do some weird modern Chinese "ritual" of waving smartphones just to pay Sedo now?? (I only say this because of those videos-in-China I saw on Youtube...)

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What country exactly?
This theme is not about "terrorism"... it is mostly about various offshores and countries with high fraud rate...
The country that makes .my domains

Looks like our previous Prime Minister has caused the super high fraud rate with his very famous scandal... what a "great" gift to his citizens
 
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I wonder what would change for users if it was sold to a Chinese company. Most likely nothing.
The question is pointless.
 
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I am Chinese.
The ways how they are operating I don’t see anything like Chinese behaviors, if they are Chinese they will work 7 days a week, and when you purchase a domain with BIN it will transfer immediately direct to your account, mostly don’t need seller to confirm again.
 
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Can't believe what I'm seeing here. I'm just trying to purchase a Homepage Showcase listing for my domain currently pushed in auction and I can't even pay with my Card. And even though I don't have sufficient PayPal, there's not even an option for that. What the h*ll? Only Alipay and slow Wire?? And the irony: the previous page before this showed all the payment logos - Visa Mastercard PP etc only to end up with THIS huge disappointment. No way I'll use wire, by the time it reaches Sedo the auction will be over.

It's so ridiculous not to see any of the usual payment systems on such a HUGE, INTERNATIONAL site like this.

Just making a rant. Don't know what to do now. I don't even live in China. Do I have to start living in China and do some weird modern Chinese "ritual" of waving smartphones just to pay Sedo now?? (I only say this because of those videos-in-China I saw on Youtube...)

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Hey all

Thanks for your comments,

Just to clear things up, Sedo is a German company, with the headquarters in Germany and offices based in Boston USA, we also have 130 employees, you can read full information about our company here: https://sedo.com/uk/about-us/

With regards to payments, Sedo accepts Credit Card, Wire Transfers, PayPal and Alipay. Not all options are always available to customers, as it depends on the value of the payment, your country of residence or the status of your Sedo account.

Without seeing your Sedo account I could not tell you the reason why you do not see the options to pay via Credit Card or PayPal, but you can always pay via Wire Transfer by downloading the payment request under billing in your Sedo account. There are full details on the payment request on how to make a wire transfer.

So that we can look at your account and let you know if there is anything preventing you from seeing the options of credit card or PayPal, please just send us an email to [email protected] from the email address registered with your Sedo account. Our security team can help you activate these in your Sedo account or they will inform you why you are not able to use these payment methods.

Hope this clears things up.
Chris
 
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Just to clear things up, Sedo is a German company, with the headquarters in Germany and offices based in Boston USA, we also have 130 employees, you can read full information about our company here: https://sedo.com/uk/about-us/

Interesting to have 130 employees in 2019, whereas in 2010 Sedo had 340 employees:
http://www.equitystory.com/Download/Companies/adlink/Annual Reports/DE0005490155-JA-2010-EQ-E-00.pdf
The Sedo Holding group had a total of 340 employees as of December 31, 2010. The number of employees at the end of the previous year was 318. This is growth of 6.9%. The number of the employees in Germany increased from 222 at the end of the previous year to 235 in 2010. The number of employees in the foreign companies increased from 96 to 105.
 
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2010 - it was era of Tim Schumacher...
Since 2012 - new CEO(s) there.
 
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LATEST UPDATE:

Managed to pay now! Thanks @Sedo !!! Was going crazy when I saw only the China payment method on the checkout page at first!

I was surprised too when they ask me to pay for the auction via AliPay or Wire instead of CC

I had the same reaction like you @eternaldomains

@Shadeems if you haven't done it, try sending a mail to [email protected] . if you didn't do anything wrong to them I'm sure they'll be happy to help.


@ everyone else --- since everything's cleared, here's a little poll: "Thanks" this post if you want this thread locked and closed, "Like" this post if you want this thread open
 
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