Scams are usually from people who don't have results, or any skin in the current game. They just want to sell clickbank type infomercial programs for $39, and have a throw away customer. If you build a business like Epik, you want to build compliment products so your customers can do everything in house.
This is starting from the ground, and building into something if they have the vision, and drive, nothing wrong with that, Epik has all the tools if they find the education fitting to move forward. I think the one hook that gets us all is that we can take a $8 reg fee domain, and flip it for $500, $1000, $10000, $25000 etc... It took many of us years of trial, and error to figure this out. Like me personally I don't touch geo based real estate domains, because I know real estate people for the most part don't get it, and they don't want to invest the money, the names however always sell for a premium as people tend to think otherwise until they have to go sell them...so why put myeslf thru that trouble.
I have learned this the hard way like others, but I learned. Not wasting money on such industries, or domains can really help people be more successful, it takes time, but one day you can get to a point, and see a name, and you just know if it is worth the bid, or not. Another thing is trends, sell when the news is hot, self driving cars a year or two ago they were all the rage, people were paying a premium for the domains, and now? crickets....
Guys like Troy Rushton, gosh I don't know how many years back he started Protrada which let you bid in domain auctions if you couldn't watch them live, by placing the max bid you want to pay, and then it would place a min bid up to your proxy, or until you got the high bid. I think he also had a feature that let you bid at a set time etc... This is going back to 2011, when automated bidding was not at the level it was today, and godaddy had 2 min reset on each bid, These guys have a lot of knowledge of he industry as most people don't really know the name, but he has done a lot behind the scenes for over a decade, and probably had a lot of knowledge that went into his programs that comes with trial, and error.