You bring up a real good point, as it is costing a lot of sales.
Essentially they are worried about chargeback, albeit they lock the name down for 60 days upon push so you would think they get some protection here at which pint they could reverse the transfer, and debit you.
The time has come to push it to $10k, I think a lot of people tend to quote this $5k cap to avoid losing a buyer.
Uni charges one party the cc fees ontop also so really they are not losing in that department.
Uni would achieve much higher sales in this case, I guess they just have their own risk assessment in this case. Sedo I believe is still capped at that level, as is Escrow.
Probably trying to see if they will go to Dan is your best bet, some people trust in PayPal, others don’t.
Otherwise if a uni broker is already involved then they can structure it split over 2 months possibly, and make it a payment plan if they are willing. Tough situation in many cases some people would bite the bullet and lose the $1.5k to make the sale at $5k, but you are leaving way to much on the table, and are forced to look for other options.
I’m sure others have mentioned raising the limits to them in the past, as they have huge internal portfolio which probably goes thru these same pains with many potential customers.
Lack of self appointed payment plans, and lower cc limits will hurt them going forward, hopefully they can get ahead of this so they don’t lose valuable sales, and data such as the one you are partaking in.
@Rob Monster at Epik loves a challenge, so he will probably take this deal on, if you want a more personalized approach to it. I believe to achieve the higher cc limit you would have to push the domain at Epik so they can hold it for a bit there in case of chargeback.
All in all I hope your issue brings on a greater conversation, as we see people paying a lot more for names, they are going to face similar issues going forward on the sales side. I don’t see a uni rep here as of late, so hopefully you can bring up the issue with a broker, or on a ticket so they can at least realize they are losing customers because of it.